South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-09-05

VICTORY BRINGS MORE
YORK FOR SUFFRAGETS
(By international News Service.

(By international News Service.)
NEW YORK, Sept. with ma
tionAl suffrage achieved. and over
joyed over the victory which has al
last come TO the forces OF suffrage,
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait. president
OF the National American Woman
Suffrage association. soberly points
out that with the victory comes add
ed responsibility and opportunity for
more work.
On her triumphal return from
Nashville, Nenn-. TO this city. she was
given ovation after ovation with sew
eral big jubilee meetings. and TO all
she pointed out that the women must
now be ready for the work ahead
The suffrage victory means OPP
portunity for more work and added
responsibility. says Mrs. Gait.
The suffrage triumph 10 too be-
lated for Il TO come with any shook
OF surprise. We have long been
ready for Il. We are ready for the
work that lies on ahead of us.
Since votes for women Is now an
accomplished fact. what are the
women going to do with the vote?
Are they going 70 draw back their
skirts in disdain from all interest In
politics on the ground that il is cor
lupt7
Are they going to join the army
OF kid-gloved men slackers whom I
ha' heard proudly boast that they
would not touch politics with a ten
foot pole7
"Or are they going 20 be OF those
who will help swell Americas army
OF voters who put conscience and
thought into the scales with party
politics and party candidates?
TN order 70 help the new woman
voter flnA her way through the maze
OF these besetting questions there has
been formed the Ma uonal League Of
branches are forming out ofthe old
suffrage associations. This league
is not partisan, IT is pan-partisan. all
Isrtisan. A woman can be a mem
Der Of IL and yet be a member Of any
political party she may choose, eX
actly as she may be a member of II
and be a member OF any church she
may choose.
The League Of Women Voters is
not encouraging women 70 leave
their parties. for II is through the
political parties that we must work.
They furnish US with the machinery
through which we are enabled 10
reach the public, keep the public in
u
consciousness IS created. Get into
the parties was the slogan adopted
ty the league ar the Chicago conven-
ton
Neither state nor nation should
temporize with the problems Of SOW
eminent before them. Lgnchings,
compelling the kissing OF the Ameri
can rag, deportation are not meeting
the situation. The nation is suffer
ing from having so long kept the
tools Of government from women.
Home means more TO woman than II
ever can to man. Since the earliest
forms OF civilization, when a dug
out with its wood fires was the center
OF the home, woman with her chill
dren has been the defender Of that
spot, and she will continue TO defend
it 70 the last.
I'VE must set our strong American
shoulders against intolerance where
ever Il may be. Intolerance any |
where will cause the crumbling Of |
any foundation. The great war WAS |
the result OF many causes, but after |
all the one great cause was tntoler- |
ance. No sooner has one step OF |
freedom been gained than those who |
suffered from intolerance themselves |
become intolerant and try 70 prevent |
the next step. Let Us unite upon |
that principle and give our efforts, |
our every thought and energy 10 |
making this everybody's world"