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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
eminent, to set the parties Compel
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, cleo
ton 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
ultimate 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 GU
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| 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
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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-
ton 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
rotary 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.
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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 SEES
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
Resale 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.
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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
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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 suffrage 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 Of
the dining car.
Into this cheerful noise ant
glitter there passed baldheade(
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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 UNI
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
once. The most influential Of these
three is probably Nine. Gabrielle
Balicka, who is from Warsaw. I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Bv EMMA BUGBEE
FRS. FRANK A. WANDER

y FRS. 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
hing; 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. Resale 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
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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
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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, Dian
Gopal Mukerji, of India; DR.. Yamei
Kin, Of China; Frank A. Vanderlip,
Granville Barker and William But
Ter Yeats, Of Dublin, are some of the
lecturers for the 1920 season.
"At one time. when our struggle
for members was at it's height, I or
gained 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.
! Eva are reaching great NUMBER
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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
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~ QUILL never believe US, but
there was time, and not a

Y 7 QUILL never believe US, but
there was time, and not a
thousand years ago at that,
when only queer, little, advanced"
old women, with no other interests in
life, went to the meetings and lect-
ures and knew anything about what
was going on outside the four walls
Of their homes. But in those days
not so very long ago, as W. -
o'prked, there were broader inter-
ests in the home itself and more
10 do.
Surely there are some persons
who remember the old pre-war
Jokes about the henpecked husband
and the man whose wife spent too
much time at the literary" club.
The turn in the tide of public at
ttude on this came before the World
War. The flow was slow at first, but
'or the last few years it has been
coming in with all the rush of the
Narrows. 1t seems perfectly natural
70 US nowadays for women to go to
all the up-to-the- minute entertain
ments and educational affairs. Most
y US have forgotten how short
.line 1t was since we ourselves be-
heved the only women who wanted
sunrage were few exceedingly in
crown spinsters and few old mar
s.s0 women who had to have some
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had the opportunity Of talking with
her, both at the Diet and at her
home. She is a little woman, with
soft fair hair turning gray, doctor
Of science and a graduate of the
University of Geneva. She also
studied Two more years in Munich,
and under Professor Bauer at the
Academy of Science in Berlin. Her
speciality has been the heredity and
philosophy Of plants, and she has
published books on the subject, also
been attached to a prominent phys;-
cal laboratory at Cracow, the his
toric capital Of Poland.
Women in
Politics
Nine. Balicka has always inter
ested herself in politics, as her hus-
band was in politics, but since his
death two or three years ago she
has been head Of a normal school
for teachers. All this experience
has given her a wonderful store
house of knowledge and reputa-
ton for intellect.
She belongs to the party of the
National Democrats-the conserva-
tive party-and is Il member Of the
Commission on Education of the
Diet, but, more important still, she
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
To Meet
Livestock

The same spirit seems to guide the
women's organizations. Their leaders
are members of the leisure class
who seem to be working unselfishly
AS an example, take the Women
Landowners Association, which is an
important organization in Poland.
1t is made up Of women who are the
mistresses of estates employing
peasant women, and of peasant
women themselves. They are doing
unusually practical work. For in
stance, one of the officers told me
that she was about to go to the sta
ton to meet two hundred hens which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

learn her letters and say "cow," her
mother became interested in the
Montessori method. Forthwith she
engaged Montessori teacher, built
a little stucco cottage on the grounds
of the Vanderlip estate and estab-
lished The first Montessori school in
this country. For 4 Montessori
school, however, schoolmates were
necessary. The English system of
educating children in solitary con-
finement with a governess is at the
opposite pole Of the new schools, in
which children learn from play. So
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tivties Of Polish Women in Affairs Of Their Count

represents the mobiles and conserva-
tives. Pilsudski, the Socialist
President of Poland, who, though a
general, wears a private's uniform,
and who entered the Presidency in
Belvedere Palace with all his pos
sessions in a small trunk, saying,
This is what I come in with and
this is what am going out with
represents the Socialists and popu-
lar parties. The two are working
tremendously to weld together a
strong Poland.
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is a member of the Diet commission
framing the new constitution Of
Poland
Nine Irene Kosmowska is also
a member of this commission
This is the first time in history that
women have helped to draw up the
constitution of a country. Nine
Kosmowska is a representative in
the Diet from Lublin and was a
teacher. She belongs to the Parti
Populaire, the Popular or Peoples
party. In addition to her place on
the Constitutional Commission, she
is secretary OF the Diets Commits
sion for Foreign Affairs.
Nine. Sophie Moraczewska, from
Cracow, is from the Socialist party.
She is a member of the Labor Com
mission and is secretary of the Com
mission on Public Health. Outside
she is president Of a woman's league
At present she is working on chill
dren's bill which she is expecting to
bring up before the Diet before long.
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Mrs. Vanderlip opened her school to
the children of her friends and
neighbors, and as such it has exist
ed for ten years, while the oldest
Vanderlip has grown from sand let
ters to Latin, and five other little
Vanderlips have sat in the tiny kin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

Of women, but we are still working
under difficulties. Our lectures take
place on Saturday, Monday, Tues
day and Thursday mornings each
week at Ia o CLOCK from November
10 April hach time We are onllged
70 PACK our once equipment IN a
suitcase anu 80 from our onlces on
"es' ro,'S-lour'n o'1eee 20 oar-
nes'e Tall iou can Imagine thaS
Inc issuing OF 4'ooo 1lcKets Tor iec-
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we're being sent from England to
Poland. The Ministry of Agricul-
ture is asking this agrarian women's
organization to cooperate and had
charged it to distribute certain live
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Other Women
Members of Diet

The other women members Of the
Diet are: Hedvig Dzurbinska, a
representative from Utoclaweh, near
Torn. She is also former teacher
and belongs to the Popular party.
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ten, but start right in with the first
grade of school,"
Although Mrs. Vanderlip is bel
ligerent in such causes as curbing
the power Of the Speaker Of the AS
sembly, and gives promise Of an
active campaign in Albany in behalf
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|hergarten chairs. The Montessori
method, however, was long since
abandoned.
1--WE found that a method devel.
oped to meet the need Of the peasant
type Of Italy was not at all suitable
for the quick minds Of normal Amer
lean Children" said Mrs. vanderlip.
"Our children were bored to death
with the material. The sand letters.
for example, were supposed to &C.
cupy them for year. Our children
were done with them in q week.
Now we have not even a kjndergar-
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-09-20
PROPOSALS. FOR sUPPLIEx

Colorn,o Soldiers and Sailors
Hone, Hotieiake. Colo. September.
IL. 1919.
Scaled proposals. will bc received
hy tho Commnn liant Of tho Colorado
State Soldiers and Sailors Home.
un'il l.. o'clock neon. mountain
timc. October -. 1919 for articles
enumerated below for tho period Of
s.y months. beginning December !.
1919 and cndin: May II. 1890.
both inclusive.
Bidders will tender their oRora
and state prices with tho under
standing that they are .or more or
less OF each article than stated IN
schedule. and nhouid yore or less
than IL enumerated oc needed. the
article shall te supplied at the price
nance, In tho hid.
Schedule and information will b
furnished on application to the
Quartermastcr.
Bids to bc nled In duplicates.
sealed and marked "Proposals for
Supplies" and addressed to the Com
mandant OF tho State Soldiers and
Sailors Home. Hcmelaks. Colorado.
Bids must be on goods delivered
Mt Monte Vista. free from freight or
other charges and articles sold by
weight must he full weight whom de-
iivered to purchaser. The privi-
lege Is reserved to reject any and
all bids. The awards will be made
to the lowest responsible bidder on
or after October IL. 1919.
by order Of the Board Of Commis-
soners. Colorado State Soldiers
and Sailors Home.
JOHN CONK1E. Commandant
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-09-20
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
CALLS NEW MINISTER

The congregation of the
Presbyterian church have
unanimously voted to call DR..
A. c. v Skinner Of lndianapo.
hs. Ind, at their pastor.
Dr.. Skinner will come TO
Monte Vista with his family
the last week In October or
the first week In November.
Rev. Lilies. who has been
here the past six months. has
many friends who regret his
decision to leave Monte Vista.
The Monte Vista journal., 1919-09-20
OF INTEREST TO MINERS

A Joint resolution has been
passed by congress and ap-
proved by the President sus-
pending the provisions Of the
law requiring 800 worth Of
labor to be performed upon
mining claims during the cal
endar year 1919. II provided
that such suspension shall not
be granted to any one claimant
for more than five claims and
every claimant of any such
mining claim. in order to OBJ
tain the benefits thereof, shall
file or cause to be filed in the
Office where the location notice
or certificate is recorded. on or
before December 81, 1919. a
n notice provided that this res
olution does not alter or modi-
fy q former joint resolution
ITO relieve the owners of min
ing claims who have been mus
tered into military or naval
service of the United States as
officers or enlisted men from
performing assessment work
during the term of such SER
vice approved July II. 1917"
Yours Cordially.
GUY U. HARDY