Connecticut western news., 1920-06-03
WOMEN VOTERS
 HAILED BY WOOD
Their Advent in Politics Will Brino Wholesome Effect, He
 Believes.

Leonard Wood has welcomed bearti
 ly the advent of women to active par dcipation in our political life. He has been impressed, in the course of ca. reer that has shown him many varied phases of the modern widening of wo. mans influence, that the coming of the so called gentler sex into public affairs Is gain for civilization and will re- suit in renewed hope for the world at large. Wood has endeared himself to American women for his humanitarian achievements in various fields of en- deavor, in which he was enabled to bring vastly improved conditions to the homes, schools, hospitals and char. itable institutions under his influence.
 In connection with this subject Wood says: @t .:.
 women are bringing an eievating Influence into public life that will tend to correct many of the evils to which our present unrest is due. One of the reasons for the growth of undesirable tendencies In our country has been the regretable fact that countless men, qualified by education and character for public service, have wantonIy neg lected their civic duties. ,.t fs~ |"
 "Wtth the coming of women to the polls, these men will be ashamed to disregard the political duties they for merly shirked. man who spends election day at his club while his wife was at the polls is sure to forfeit the respect of the community.
 "I believe woman suffrage will have a vast and uplifting effect upon our na- tonal life. Public morality will be in- creased, housing conditions improved, the problems of child labor satfsfactori- ly solved, sweat-shop evils minimized and the training given to children in our schools purged of its present de- fects.
 "Our women must take up the ques- tion of the social evil. To that and to other of our vital problems they now come with the power of the ballot. Women realize that our American civ flization can never be what 1t should be until we give as much care. to the upbringing of our children as we do to the breeding of our cattle.
 Women's Great War Service.
 'In short, the difficulties that ap- parently beset our national future would confront us as immensely more insuperable if we could not look for ward to overcoming them through the assistance of voting women. The granting of suffrage to women gives us the promise of an amazingly better world in the years to come.
 'There is one field into which the women are coming that can be called the big field. It is the field of national politics. Personally, having seen what the women did during the war, both at home and abroad, I feel very confident that the entrance of American women into the field of American politics is going to have a very helpful and good influence. I think they are going to bring healthy influence, one which will make our politics cleaner and in- troduce better spirit into the political field.
 "We have reason to be proud of the American women during the war do not know of any part of the country where American women did not take hold of the situation with keen energy. I know from personal experiences in the Middle West and neighboring states the women did everything hu- manly possible to send our men over seas sound in body and clean in soul They looked after the men in the towns near the camps; they maintained ex- cellent conditions of public morality; they looked after the men when they were en route to the sea they were at the ports of authorization to give the last help they could give and when the men arrived on the other side they found American women scattered at various points of activity from the ports of debarkation up to the fighting line. We found the women of the Red Cross, the women of the Salvation Army and others actually in the battle area doing work Tn fact, the work of women in all kinds of war activities T .e..1