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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08
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by Drew's Band. was attended by a
large number.
Edgar Warren has gone to Ply
mouth on a business trip.
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y novel hut really not so foolish ex-
PLANTATION of the unusual number Of
large brook trout being caught this
spring is given by local fisherman
who said: Simple enough. Most Of
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the army and navy and the trout
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For beam lovers: Boston
For tobacco chewers: Spitz.
For bald persons: Hairless.
For lazy persons. Setter
For colored people: Black and tan.
For crooks: Shepherd
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boast Of being liberal in their views.
but that is as far az their iiberality
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How did you find the medicine
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md vet are we not supposed 20
have entered on a new ideal in which
postwar will be much greater thing
than pre-war"
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Hughie Jennings says the Tigers
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pitching. The trouble with that is.
the other side has yet to come to bat.
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Sheepshead Bay. L. l.. will stage
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and September so.
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' S7ar'Tsr School League
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

is most in need Of replenishment.
Getting an audience for our
speakers has not been an easy un-
dertaking.
"The telephone has been my
greatest aid. l soon found that from
8 to $50 in the morning was the
best time to talk with women over
the telephone. Before that hour
they were not available; after that
time they had gone, to return no
man or woman knew when.
"After I had run the gamut, by
telephone Of course, Of half dozen
maids and buffers, sometimes I
would reach the woman herself.
"Would she become member of
the League for Political Education?
Would she come to our lectures?
"Sometimes she would, and then
again she would not.
"Our very name was against US.
Patiently explained that the
League for Political Education had
nothing to do with partisan politics; ;
that we held brief for neither the
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
e ~Mystery" Of Woman as Political Force

man of the cath and eBth districts
and in the victory election we car.
ried Westchester, Orange and Rock
land counties for suffrage"
Then the war came, and Mrs. Van
derlip took her energy into che
Liberty Loan and various other war
activities. She was chairman for
Westminster County of the Wom-
ems Committee of the National
Council Of Defense and helped man.
age the census, the food conserva-
ton campaigns and anything else
that came along. Last spring she
went to England with her husband
and as a member Of, the Liberty
Loan Committee held many confer
ences with English women leaders.
"The organization Of American
women is something the English
lust cannot comprehend" she said.
"They never heard of such thing
as our nationwide organization for
the Liberty Loan, their own organi-
zations seldom extending beyond a
city or county. Although the Eng
lish women are said to be more IA
rniliar with politics than Ameri-
cans, l believe that is true only OF a
limited circle-the wives and rela-
tives of candidates for ofice-and
they are interested in politics from
a more or less personal and selfish
point of view."
Just at present, II one checks up
on Mrs. Vanderlip's activities, the
list stands as follows:
Executive Committee member Of
the National Child Health Organiza-
ton;
Executive Committee member Of
the Women's Joint Legislative Com
ference;
Chairman Of the Recreation Com
mittee of the Community Councils;
Member of the Key Committee of
the Girl Scouts Drive.
The best example, perhaps, of her
energy in carrying out the schemes
which she considers worthy is the
famous Scarborough School. When
her oldest girl was Just beginning to
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

any other women in the world. To-
day they have such a civic conscious
ness. For years the league trained
them, and then came the franchise
to the women of this state, and the
war, and to-day women are awake.
To-day they know.
"In 1907, when we first had
meetings in an Office room in the
Hudson Theater, our audiences were
so small that sometimes we sent
our office staff in to help swell the
numbers. We carefully set up the
camp chairs before the auditors
arrived and then breathed a prayer
that the chairs would not collapse
and disturb the speaker, to say
nothing of those who sat upon them.
''F>rom the start we have been in
terested in helping the school teach
er gain information.
Belief in
Teachers
eve have a particular interest
in the school teacher, for she is a
person who gives all the while and
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
By CONSTANCE DREXEL
Waysaac, Poland (by mail

4 CONFERENCE recently
II held in Warsaw with the
n officers of the principal
women's organizations revealed the
political status of Polish women
end the comprehensive way in
which they have taken hold of their
duties and privileges in the state.
Polish women are eager to align
themselves with their sisters in
western Europe and America. They
showed deep interest in the efforts
OF women at the Peace Conference
m Paris and in the opportunities
offered women in the league of
nations through the insertion of the
clause in the covenant that "All
positions under or in connection
with the league, including the
secretariat, shall be open to men
and women Paragraph 8 of
Article VII of the covenant of the
league of nations Incorporated in
the peace treaty..
In Poland titles have not been
abolished, and there are many
mobiles. They seem to be working
IN the interests of their country,
hand in hand with the less fortunate
classes. Paderewski, Prime Minister.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Mrs. Kanderlip Believes in
Non-Partisan Organ
izutiOnS

who carried out orders, and ! shalt
continue to regard myself as the
lieutenant of all the women Of the
state"
Mrs. Vanderlip regretted that she
could not confess to having been a
suffragist at the age of three, or
having been converted by Susan B.
Anthony at ten. She never thought
much about women voting, she said,
until she was the mother of children.
al read an article in a London
0aper," she said, "about a man who
had recently become the father of
twins and was asking lawyer
whether or not he could collect two
maternity benefits. I was so in.
censed at the notion of the fathers
getting any maternity benefit that
took my stand then and there for
women's rights.
II studied the whole question of
childhood and motherhood and de-
cided that women should have more
power in determining the conditions
under which their children are
brought up, and this could come
about only through the vote.
~ began quietly enough in 1913
when l organized the Civic Study
Club in Scarborough. 1t was really
a suffrage club. The Sitle was just
camoufage.
"In 1915 we came out boldly and
admitted the suffrage, calling our
selves the Woman Suffrage party
Of Scarborough. l was captain of
my election district, and in that
humble capacity did house-to -to-house
canvassing, addressed envelopes, got
up parades and meetings and did
everything that every other village
captain was doing all over the state
In 1917 I was Congressional chair
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

Of the women's welfare bills, she is
not forgetful Of the chief purpose of
the women voters organization,
which is to imp, I'VE the political and
legal status Of women, not only in
New York State, but throughout the
nation.
"The chief value of nonpartisan
organization like the League of
Women Voters lies in it's power to
arouse public interest in good gov
ernment, to set the parties compet-
ing in the struggle for good candi-
dates and good issues" she said
"Woman's power is her mystery
always. It used to be so in the good
cid days Of coquetry, and is now true
in politics. The men will be a lot
more interested in US when they do
not know how we shall vote. This
is our opportunity to get what we
want in the way of political re-
forms.
"The League of Women Voters
has a program for the coming yea,
which should inspire US all, ant
which we will follow with perfect
&C .lfidence through our trust in the
great national leaders of women
who have mapped it out for US.
Each state in the union, as fast as
its women are enfranchised, is to
organize according to the plan out
lined by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
Of the National League Of Women
| Voters. There is to be a national
chairman of child welfare, Amer
icanization, women in industry, elec-
tion laws, food supply and demand,
and so forth. Each state is to ap-
point chairman to carry out tn
plans of the national chairman.
"The committee on citizenship
will deal with the education Of the
new voter, native and foreign-born
Many Of our oldest families neec
this sort of education most. We
shall undertake, too, to conduct {
survey into the methods of the
political parties in dealing with
foreign women to ascertain if lille
gitimate influences are at work will
women who understand neither thu
language nor the political ideals O.
America.
Gin our committee on food sup
ply and demand we shall cooperate
with the fair price committee AM
ether national and state depart
ments. We shall distribute bulle
tins and carry on a campaign TO
economic education among ou
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

| Union, the volunteer extension de-
rartment at Harvard University,
who was then, as to-day, the director
of the league, persuaded Miss Cleve-
land and Miss Shutters to join the
league. Christine Munger had
already been member Of the staff
for four years and is now complet-
ing sixteen consecutive years in the
leagues service.
At that time the league had eigh-
teen members who paid membership
fees of $25. To-day it has 1900
members who pay $25 yearly, and a
total membership Of 4,70O.
Berkeley Theater and the Hudson
Theater followed as meeting places,
and to-day Carnegie Hall is scarcely
large enough to hold the women who
throng to it for each lecture pro-
vided by the league. 1t is estimated
that 100000 persons are in touch
with the league yearly, counting
relatives and friends,
Creating a civic consciousness
in New York women was a hard
task" declared Miss Shutters, the
membership secretary of the league,
who has gone into the apartments
along Riverside Drive and the man.
sions on Fifth Avenue to recruit
members.
"Yet New York women have more
leisure. money and opportunity than
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

She is member of the Labor and
Public Education commissions.
Maria Mocrydtowska, from Czest-
ochava, of the Popular Alliance
party. She is a former teacher and
is on the Labor and Public Educa-
tion commissions.
Sophie Sokolwicka, from Mogibin,
in the Grand Duchy of Posen. She
was teacher, belongs to the Ma
tional Democratic party and is
member of the Diets commission or
Public Education.
Polish women, though seeking in
forma ton from the rest of the world,
are going ahead ION their own" and
setting a good example Of the posi-
cilities of a nations womanhood in
the politics Of their country.
Among the organization women
whom ! met in conference were the
presidents of the Women Land
owners of Poland, of the Circle of
Polish Women, of the National
Union Of Catholic Women, the sec
retary general Of the White Cross
(of which Nine. Paderewska is pres
ident), the vice-president of the
Warsaw Children's Aid Committee
(the Polish committee which is help
ing the Hoover administration to feed
100000 Polish children), and the
three women members of the Diet.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Extensive Program 0fLeague
of Women Voters
Discussed

little man. It looked as if he were
in hurry, but then the train was
almost in the Albany yards-why
shouldn't man hurry? Mrs. Rosa
lie Loew Whitney was at the last
table, and he was almost gone when
her sharp eyes fell on the seek back
of his head. "It's Mr.. Sweet" she
cried. "Catch him, somebody,
quick"
Several "somebodies" sped after
him. Through three parlor cars
they fastened, as fast as the de-
corum necessary to officials of
great state organization would per-
NIT. But in vain. Mr.. Sweet was
nowhere to be found.
"Now, l wonder what is up in
Albany, that he should come down
before the beginning of the ses-
sion?" pondered the women.
Perhaps he read the morning
papers," suggested one, with the
joyous reference to the recommen-
dation figuring in the days head
lines to the effect that the women
would fight Mr.. Sweet in the AS
sembly this year, striving to curb
the power of the Speaker in order
TO make it impossible that he should
again hold in committee the vel
fare bills whose passage was de
sired by the women last year. It
was Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, the
new president of the organization,
who initiated the. attack on the
Speaker. And that was why Mrs
Rosalie Loew Whitney mourned,
wickedly, II wanted to introduce
him to Mrs. Vanderbilt"
But the train was numbering
across the Albany Bridge and Mr.
Sweet could not be found for any
purpose, political or diplomatic.
He will get his introduction later
in the winter, when things begin to
happen in Albany as a result of the
energy Of this new young person in
politics. In the mean time, if he likes,
he can read all about her right
here.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

thing to manage when their children
had grown up.
In those dark, dead days, about
twenty-five years ago, the League
for Political Education started to
work in New York. Its object was
to arouse the civic consciousness Of
women.
For years the League for Politi-
cal Education, striving to present
the topics of the hour to women,
found scant audience. Women were
not informed, and, what is more,
many of them did not want to be
informed.
knowledge is power" persisted
the League for Political Education.
Growth of
The League
The old Berkeley Theater on West
Forty-fourth Street, just off Fifth
Avenue, was the meeting place of
the audiences of 1894. 1t was quite
large enough to hold the advanced
leaders of their sex who sought
knowledge. The late Eleanor But
Ter Sanders was the founder of the
league.
In 1907 came to the Carnegie
peace conference in New York Mary
B. Cleveland and Evelyn L. Shul-
sers, of Chicago. Robert Erskine
Ely, formerly head OF the Prospect
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

women. The national association is
studying the problems of the packers
and the high cost of living, and we
stand ready to assist whenever
called upon.
Another interesting department
Of our work is the cod.fcation Of
laws relating to women and children
in all the states of the union. At
present each state is making a study
Of its own laws and possible rene
dies for existing abuses. When the
Federal amendment is finally rati-
fed and all the women of the coun-
try are actually voting we shall
begin a campaign in every state to
have the laws made uniform.
"These are only some of the
things in which the women voters
are interested, and which l as their
chairman will endeavor to carry out.
First, however, is the ratification of
the amendment. My first sugges-
.ion as state chairman is that
every suffragist in the state write
10 her friends in the states where
the ratification is pending. If
every New York suffragis wrote to
!, ten friends and these ten friends
Urged their governors to call spe-
cial sessions for ratification, we
should have all the women voting
in the 1920 elections"
AIN of this was said and done while
the Empire State Express was near
ing Albany on it's eastward trip a
week ago last Wednesday night,
covered with snow and icicles with
out and sizzling hot within, hot
with heat and hot, too, it seemed,
with the energy generated by fifty
or sixty exuberant women delegates
Of the New York State League OF
Women Voters who were letting of
steam after a strenuous two-day.
convention in Utica. Their tongues
wagged fast, and jest and laughter
relieved the usual heavy silence o1
the dining car.
Into this cheerful noise ant
glitter there passed baldheade(
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

called Lwow pronounced Lvolf) and
paid visit to the women soldiers in
their barracks just outside the city.
With us went Colonel Linda, mill
tary commander of Lwow. There
are now $50 women III the battalion,
wearing soldiers uniforms with the
exception of short skirts instead of
trousers) and carrying guns. The
battalion was formed last November,
when there was fighting in the city
between the Poles and Ukrainians.
The women helped save the city,
fighting with small boys in streets
and houses. Now they are still un-
der arms, doing sentinel and guard
duty. A bright, attractive woman,
Captain Aleksandra Gagsorsk, is
their leader.
This is the tribute Colonel Linda
paid to them: "This battalion Of
women is the most efficient under
my command. l can always depend
upon them, whatever they are
ordered to do"
But Of more consequence than
these women soldiers are the six
women members Of the Polish Diet
the Polish National Assembly.
Three of them were in the confer
orcc. The most influential Of these
three is probably Nine. Gabrielle
Balicka, who is from Warsaw. I
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Bv EMMA BUGBEE
rRs. FRANK A. WANDER

y ERS. FRANK A. WANDER
NJ LIP, the newly elected
chairman Of the New York
State League of Women Voters, is
ane of those people whose names
are always on committees, and who
is apparently always doing some
sh.rg; but it is generally behind the
scenes and never with much personal
publicity attached. Time and time
again she has refused interviews,
even when demanded by the "press
rirls" in moments of suffrage storm
and stress.
So it was with some curiosity that
we dragged her away from Mrs.
James Lees Laidlaw and Mrs. Cor
don Norrie and Mrs. William Bel
knap and Mrs. Frederick Edey and
Mrs. Rosalie Loew Whitney and the
others who might have got in the
way of an interview, and sat her
down in q remote corner.
She laughed at us, then.
"lt's the third degree for me,
suppose" she said.
And she got it, too.
We found her a slim, pale little
person, with quiet face, save when
the eyes light up in a quizzical smile.
She looks like a person whose sense
of humor is always lurking there on
the upper stairs, but is not allowed
to come down when there is COM
pany. She wore one of those straight
dark blue dresses with a small string
Of pearls around her neck, and a
small, dark hat, just like everybody
else.
"The organization lost a wonder
ful lieutenant when it made me
chairman she said. "All through
my suffrage career l have been one
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

stock coming into the country. The
two hundred hens from England were
their first consignment. They were
to be received with eclat and
exhibited at Warsaw before their
distribution into the country. Such
procedure was quite an American
stunt. The women complained,
"But nobody pays any attention to
us! l advised them to get their
doings into the newspapers the way
American women do. In Poland,
however, newspapers are little
read. The most important, the
Courier of Poland," published in
Warsaw, city of a million popula-
ton, has a circulation of about
10000.
But, though Polish women may
feel themselves shut away from the
rest Of the world not only because of
the war but because they have only
begun to exist again as a nation, in
at least two directions they are sur
passing all other women.
Still Under
Arms
We heard much in America Of the
Women's Battalion Of Death in Rus
sia, but in Lemberg to-day q WON
ans legion is still under arms. |
went to this capital Of Galicia, now
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

Kellor for the Bull Moosers and Miss
Helen Varick Boswell for the Re-
publicans.
"This winter the list Of lecturers
reads like a Who's Who of Genius
from the entire world. Maurice
Maeterlinck, poet and mystic; Sir
Johnston orbes-Robertson, the act
or; former President Taft, Dhan
Gopal Mukerji, of India; DR.. Yamei
Kin, Of China; Frank A. Vanderlip,
Granville Barker and William But
ler Yeats, Of Dublin, are some of the
lecturers for the 1919-'2O season.
"At one time. when our struggle
for members was at it's height, I or
ganized a meeting in Yonkers. I
went there upon the invitation Of a
woman who realized what it was
that the league was trying to do for
women Up and down the hills Of
that city I tramped, literally ped
ding literature from door to door.
Wherever | found woman at home
| talked about the league"
Here Miss Shutters paused.
To-day If you examine our mem
bership list you will find that prac-
tica!ly every public School teacher
of Yonkers is enrolled. For years
Yonkers has responded to the call
FOR an awakened civic conscious
ness.
! "Wa are reaching great NUMBER
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

Republican nor the Democratic
party.
"Back of all that we did was the
political equality of women We did
not disclose this, however. We gave
our audiences an opportunity to
hear the pros and cons of suffrage
and Of other controversial subjects.
eve wanted the women Of New
York to think. To-day they are
thinking every waking hour of the
day, and they are thinking straight
about many things. The nations
welfare, the future of their children
and other women's children, the i'm
provement of the conditions which
surround the average citizen, the
problems of the poor and weak all
have their consideration.
Some of the
Courses
"Julia Culp made her American
debut under the auspices Of the
league. Great painters, great
writer's, all have been heard. Dur
ing 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt
was forming new political party
women representative of the Demo
cratic, Progressive and Republican
parties told the league members
something of each party.
"Mrs. j. Borden Hartman talked
for the Democrats, Miss Frances