The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-10
WOMEN VOTERS In
this COUNTRY NOW
NUMBER 100000
The Number Over Fl Years
of Age Eligible to- Vote
for President
CAN VOTE IN % STATES
Have Bureau of Suffragist Propa-
ganda That is Biggest in the
World

NEW YORK, Mar. ION ore than
100000 women in the United
States over 21 years of age are eli
gible to vote for the next president
in % states where women may vote,
according to an estimation by Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president Of
the National Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation and president of the Interna-
tional Suffrage Alliance.
This estimate was given in a call
to the women voters Of the United
States to join forces with the Nation
al American Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation at it's Golden Jubilee Con-
vention to be held in St. Louis,
March 24-29. Fifty delegates from
each voting state are invited to join
the delegations at St. Louis from the
100000 members of the National
American Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton.
: "The National American Woman
Suffrage Association has invited wo-
men voters to National convention
in order that they may organize ma
tionaliy and unite their forces with
those of other lands" said Mrs. Gait.
''.There is an obviously important
snational program for women voters.
The great diversity Of laws which
/. concern women and children in our
several states is a continual menace
ito, the safety and welfare of the un-
fortunate and uniformed.
"The laws of the states could be
unified and improvements added even
in the states more liberal in their
laws, If women voters would agree
upon proper constructive program.
1t is a fact so obvious that it needs
no demonstration that if one section
of the country is much behind the
times in education and legal protec-
ton to women and children, it's civil
ization is bound to prove deterrent
influence over the whole nation.
Therefore, it becomes the duty of all
forward looking people to see that
the laws of the whole nation are
unified and that the standard by
which to measure the proper program
for each state is the code of laws of
the most advanced states.
"Women voters should contribute
more to their nation and to the world
than they do when acting from a
localized viewpoint. Those who live
in the valley do not know what is
to be seen from the mountain top.
The opportunity to climb the noun
| tain and to view all humanity in its
struggle upward toward permanent
democratic institutions and conse-
quent permanent peace is here. The
opportunity to extend a helping hand
to those who are likely to find the
path rough and thorny is here. The
: woman voter with the vision of COM
ing freedom for the race in her soul
will not hesitate to offer her SER
vice." continued Mrs. Gait.
The biggest Bureau of Suffrage
Propaganda in the world has been
organized by Mrs. Gait with funds
she was bequeathed by Mrs. Frank
Leslie, widow of widely known edi-
tor and publisher. When Mrs. Les
lie died few years ago she left the
bulk of her fortune to Mrs. Gait to
be used for the advancement of the
suffrage cause. The actual figures
are in the neighborhood of $750,000
Mrs. Gait who has an abiding faith
that the only reason anybody opposes
woman suffrage is because of lack o1
knowledge of its fundamental signi-
ficance, decided that the most effec-
tive way to advance the suffrage
cause was through the further edu-
cation of the entire public on tbs
subject of suffrage.
She formed the Leslie Woman Suf-
frage Commission, the members OF
! which were to serve with her in the
supervision of the expenditure of the
Leslie fund. On the commission arr
Mrs. Raymond Robins, president Of
the National Woman's Trade UnioT
League, Mrs. Percy v. Pennybacker
| former president of the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, Miss Mary
Garrett Hay, chairman of the Woman
| Suffrage Party of New York City
Mrs. Arthur Livermore, and Mrs
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