Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-11
FIND WOMAN EAGER
TO Be REAL CITIZEN
Mrs. Nancy M. Schoonmaker
Addresses New League on
Work in Connecticut
STUDENTS APT IN WORK

Teaching citizenship to women is
rather like having to hold the baby's
nose to feed it medicine. according to
Mrs. Nancy Schoonmaker, who today
addressed the Pennsylvania League OF
Women Citizens, in convention at the
Bellevue Stratford. on citizenship
Yesterday this same body of women
composed the Pennsylvania Woman
Suffrage Association. Today that or e
ganization has ceased to exist and the
new league is established. Mrs.
Schoonmaker. who is director of citi-
zenship in Connecticut. explained how
women have been educated there for
their new duties and privileges.
women she said. don't care a
snap for civics or laws not connected
with the vital problems of the day. They
are the most practical of human beings
ana their desire is to actually help. Our
courses in citizenship failed to attract
them so long as they were merely alb
stract lessons. When we began to con-
meet these things with current prob
lens they were eager to know more.
From having to force our citizenship
lessons on the public we have come to
the point where we cannot furnish
enough teachers to give our courses"
Explains Duty to Home
In answer TO the old argument that
woman's place is in the home. that
these citizenship lessons were taking
her further adrift. Mrs. Schoonmaker
said: "Woman's place is in the home
But the home Is the whole wide world
We are losing nothing by trying to
spread the ideals of our individual
home and home cities.
Polls were open at 2 80 o'clock this
nonrpinU for thn waiting On nHtpprg for
the State League of Women Citizens.
Voters were allowed TO substitute any
names they wished for officers. but the
ticket bore the names of Mrs. John o.
Miller. Of Pittsburgh, for chairman !;
Mrs. Lewis l.. Smith, vice chairman:
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot. secretary Miss
Martha L. Thomas. treasurer, and Mrs.
+. Z. Herman. Mrs. r. S. Quigley.
Miss II. 3. Lyon. Mrs. f.. o. McCauley
and Mrs. +. II. McCandlcss as direc-
tors.
Mrs. Charles II. Brooks. national
chairman of the League of Women
Voters. gave an outline of the national
organization. with which the Pennsyl
vania league will be affiliated. She ex
planned it was all partisan. rather than
non partisan. as it hoped to work
through and with all parties She spoke
OF Cne particular no'U lOT women 10
interest themselves in educational
matters.
To Take Uncle Sans Job
Uncle Sam" she said. "is like a
widower with large family. He
doesn't know how. to take care of all his
children. And the National League of
Women Voters is going to help him.
The Pennsylvania organization will
institute courses in citizenship, with
competent teachers in all the counties
of the state where sufficient women en- =
roll. There will be six lectures in each
couse, beginning January /. Text books
have been prepared and women are
urged to prepare themselves for vot-
ing.
DR.. Thomas +. Finegan. state com
missioner of education Mrs. Antoinette
Funk, of the womcn's Democratic com
mittce. and Mrs. Fletcher Dobyns. of
tho women's Republican committee.
were speakers this afternoon.