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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

SO violently opposed is the ex-
Governor to the Anthony amend
ment that he made it the subject of
a special message to the Legislature
last week, at the expiration of his
term of office. In this message he
said that he saw in the Federal act
not an amendment, but the complete
overthrow of the Constitution. He
grew very eloquent on the crime
done the Constitution makers of the
thirteen original states in trying to
make it possible for the Federal gov
eminent to increase at its will and
without the consent of the several
states themselves the electorate of
the individual states.
This message was read before the
members of both houses, not to men,
ton the women lobbyists pro and
con, who were present when the
Legislature convened, without max
ing stir, but the honorable member
from Ouachita Parish, unable longer
to stand the combined pressure of
this argument and Miss Gordon's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

TRACE in Louisiana just before the
outbreak Of the European war.
"A bout that time, very slowly, like the
creeping out over the land of the
waters from the bayous in overflow
season, new element began to make
itself felt. SO gradually had it come
SO restricted was its early growth
that at first it was not RECOGNIZED at
all for what it was. But it kept on
growing, and suddenly it came out,
at meeting Of the Era Club, Miss
Gordon's own organization, that this
new element was demanding of
Louisiana suffragists that they unite
with their sisters of Northern and
western states and push suffrage
Tor women through the Federal gov
eminent.
The New Era
10 the strict adherents of state
rights this demand on the part of the
national suffragists was little short
OF treason to the state. A Southern
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

local committee. Free Czecho.s,.
vakia was 2 reality.
And to-day the Austro- Hungar;a,
Empire, Hapsburgs and Hobenzoi
lerns are evil memories. The two
emperors, William and Karl. lead .
parasitic existence in exile; and
Masaryk, the coachman's son, one.
time blacksmith's apprentice. is gov
erning the Czecho-Slovak republic
strongest and best organized Of CO.,
trail European countries and do.
tined to become a model democracy
of the Old World, from the sam.
Hradcany Castle where once ~.
Hapsburgs reigned over a third ~
Europe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

mention those of a few mill
ION men, are turned this
week on Lousiana's capital. There.
in the old statehouse that stands,
| like dilapidated fortress, on Baton
Rouge's one hill, overlooking the
murky Mississippi, is being fought
once more, and perhaps for the last
time, the old battle of state rights
against Federal control. That is
what they call it in Dixie. In other
states where similar battles have
been waged during the last year
they call it the contest over the ratj-
fication of the amendment to the
Constitution which would give suf-
frage to women.
Lined up with those who are
working for ratification are some of
Loulslana's most influential men and
women, including a United States
Senator and several members of the
State Legislature, and Martin Behr-
man, now in the latter half of his
fourth term as Mayor of New Or
leans. Mayor Behrman has devoted
his entire spring vacation at Biloxi
to the writing of letters and tele-
grams urging ratification.
The Rival Leaders
Miss Florence Huberwald, Mrs.
Lydia Wycliffe Holme and Mrs.
Philip Werlein, all New Orleans
women with national regulations as
suffrage and war workers, are pit
ting their forces for ratification
against Mrs. Ruhin G. Pleasant
wife of the Ex-Governor, and Miss
Jean Gordon, anti rattle tionists.
Not much help for ratification is
coming from non-residents OF Louis,.
ana, for it is the aim of the national
Democratic party, if the decision
should be in favor of the Constitu-
tional amendment, to make it a
Democratic victory for that state.
Louisiana has long had her pro-
suffrage faction, headed by Miss
Jean Gordon and her sister Kate.
For years the Misses Gordon raised
the only voice for suffrage that was
heard in the Pelican State. 1t was
purely soprano voice, without even
a suggestion of the deeper note that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

eloquence, went out and wired the
women who were petitjoning him to
get the vote for them in time for
the Presidential election that he'c
rather be guillotined than vote for
the damnable Susan B. Anthony
amendment" Those are his exaG
words.
Meanwhile Miss Florence Hube,.
wald, who has a mans outlook Oh
life, is addressing the members of
the legislative body in session as
senbled and every other way she
can get to them, and pointing out to
them what they can do for the fine
old party Jefferson fathered if they
viii make Louisiana the thirty-sixth
state to ratify. In this work she is
very ably assisted by the cohorts at
home, led by Mayor Behrman, who,
although he is mathematical by
Jean Gordon, is said 10 have been
responsible for even more Of the
Crescent City's real Improvement
and progress than Miss Gordon her
self.
And then, too, there is Mrs. Lydia
Wycliffe Holme, she who, in a re-
cent and memorable visit to Hart
ford, was astonished when Connect
cuts Governor did not rise to greet
her or any one of her forty-six SIS
ter workers from the North, West
and South, although he refused
their plea for women's equal rights
with men. She is working hard to
bring Louisiana into line as the
thlrty-sixth state to ratify, and has
good reason to believe that her work
will not be wasted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

an eXchequer-supported chiefly by
assessments and voluntary contribu-
tons Of the Czecho- Slovak organiza-
lions in the United States; it main
tanned an army in Siberia, and mill
tary units in France and Italy. Vi
emma still scorned, but the signs of
panic became visible behind the
sheer, for meanwhile the passive re-
sistance, the "silent revolution of
the Czecho-Slovak people at home
continued, impeding the war activi-
ties Of the Dual Monarchy at every
step.
Took Over the Government
Allied recognition of Czecho Slo-
vaSia as d beiligerent power and the
Czecho- Slovak National Council as
its de facto government came in the
summer Of 1918, and on October %
Of that year governmental author
lty at Prague was taken over by it's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
Newly Adopted Constitution Makes
Special Provision for I lis Con-
tlnuance In Office

Czecho- Slovak National Council in
Paris. This body assumed the role
of provisional government Of a
country embedded in the very center
Of the power of the victorious en-
envy. Vienna cursed, but did not
take Masaryk too seriously. Step by
step the government without a
corhtry" advanced; it came to have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
Prof. Masaryk Has Life Job President of New Matt
Czecho-Slovakia Pays High Com
pliment to Its Great Leader
and Statesman

Masaryk continued, "is not the pro.
gram of weak pacifism and supine
yielding. 1t is true that our Chel.
cicky, and in modern days Tolstoy
identified humanity with non-resist.
ance to evil. That is not correct.
recall how / had a controversy sew.
eral times with Tolstoy on this point
because | drew the deduction from
the program of humanity that it is
just the love Of neighbor, love of
nation and of mankind which COM
mands us to defend ourselves with
all energy, to resist evil everywhere,
always and in all things"
This philosophy of resistance to
evil has guided Masaryk in his
career as a fighter and practical
statesman, and though he has been
regarded for decades as the leading
scholar of the Slavonic world, has
written a number Of highly i'm
portant. treatises on ethics and soci-
ology, and published, among other
things, the best and most exhaustive
work on Russia available in the
English language, it is chiefly as a
practical statesman and a fighter
that the world outside his own coun-
try knows him.
Long in Politics
His political career antedates the
World War. He was one of the
prominent figures of the old Aus
trian Parliament, where he led a
group Of Czech Deputies called, char
acteristically, the Realist party
Many years back, when most of the
Czech leaders still hoped to achieve
their national purposes within the
framework of the Austro- Hungarian
monarchy, and did not devote much
attention to foreign politics, Masaryk
recognized that the growing inf1u-
ence of Germany in the Austrian
government would inevitably work
against the interests of the Czech
nation, and he concentrated on re-
lentless campaign against the i'm
perialistic program of the German
Austro-Magyar alliance. AS a poll
tician he achieved European fame
by his stand in the famous affair of
fifty Serbo-Croat Deputies, who,
back in 1909, were accused by the
government of plotting with Bel
grade against the Austro-Hungarian
state.
Masaryk proved at the ccle-
brated Friedjung trial in Vienna
that the Austro-Hungarian Legation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

1t as her own particular creation,
and unless she can have it as she
first advocated it, she won't have
anything to do with it. For this
reason, in the three-cornered, free
tor-all battle that is now being
Waged on the floor of both houses at
Baton Rouge she is using some of
the same arguments to defeat rati-
flcation that the anti-suffraeists
are using to defeat suffrage. Hav-
ing prevented ratification, she ex-
poets to have her own bill passed
which will put woman suffrage in
the state constitution, provided the
people of the state will cast a ma
jority vote for it.
Working with her, as leader of
the "anti-rats" and doing many of
the odd jobs that Miss Gordon has
not time to turn her finished hand
to, is Mrs. Ruffin G. Pleasant, wife
OF the Ex-Governor. While Mrs.
Pleasant has but lately stepped into
prominence on the suffrage question,
his lately retired excellency opposed
woman suffrage, state as well as ma
tlonal, when the matter was put be-
fore him as Governor two years ago.
He has shifted bit in his views
now, as becomes all young statesmen,
and is an advocate Of suffrage as
urged BY Miss Jean Gordon, but very
bitterly opposed TO the Susan B. An
thony amendment. Indeed, shortly
after Congress passed the Nineteenth
Amendment Mr.. Pleasant circular
lied all the governors in the South,
urging upon them to stand together
as one man in opposition to ratifca-
ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

OF the Allies, and, fleeing from Aus
trla, he proceeded to convince states
men and public opinion in the En-
tente countries.
At the outset the task seemed al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
me Louisiana Suffrage Fight REEVES Old States Rights Issue

might come from a masculine throat
and this Notwithstanding the fact
that Miss Gordon conferred her Of
forts for the women upon the men
OF the Democratic party, predeter,
INNING the present policy of the ma
tlonal Democratic committee toward
ratification in Louisiana.
With her frequently expressed pur-
pose to "make the Democratic
donkey bray Votes for Womenr "
as her slogan, Miss Jean Gordon or
her sister Kate visited everv town
and hamlet in Louisiana where there
was a man old enough to vote. and
everywhere she put before the mon
in groups, in pairs and singlv. the
advantage to their party in coming
out openly for suffrage, but most
particularly did she labor in her own
home city of New Orleans to build
up an organization of women that
would stand for suffrage.
An Uphill Fight
Ihls was not at all easy work at
nrst, for it was begun before she
had made a national name for her
self in her child welfare work and
her undertakings to better the cond;-
tlon OF factory employees in gen.
eral. After she had so far mo-
crossed that her power was being
recognized, making converts to the
cause Of suffrage among Louisiana
women became easier, and the Era
Club, where Miss Gordon's reign WAS
long unquestioned, and to which vir-
tually all the leading women of New
Orleans belonged, was officially rec
ognlzed as standing for woman suf-
trage, There were still manv con-
servatlve women, however. who
while they admired Miss Gordon. and
were ready to laud her for the good
work she had done for the children
OF the state, were not ready to saw
they wanted to make the Demo
cratic donkey bray Votes for Wom-
en-" or that they were even inter-
ested in the subject of suffrage.
And every time the Legislature
met some sort of an attempt would
be made to amend the state consti,
tuition so that women would be al
lowed to vote, and every time the
Legislature adjourned without max
ing any such amendment.
This was the status of woman suf-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

newspaper man called it beautiful
row." which closed the club to all
newspaper reporters for a consider
able period. The final result was the
complete disintegration Of the Era
Club and it's reorganization by the
Gordon faction with new set of Of
flcers guaranteed to run true to
form and with all the trouble MAX
ing membership banished to outer
darkness, along with representatives
of the press.
The national suffragists then
formed their own organization. Miss
Florence Huberwald, who is spon-
sorlng the Susan B. Anthony amend
ment at Baton Rouge, was the leader
then as she is now, but there were
associated with her some of New
Orleans ablest business and pro-
fessional women. This was about
seven years ago. In f919 the ratifi-
catioll OF the Nineteenth Amendment
was r:Dt to the popular vote and de-
feataf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
OF Unflincling Courage

Unhinching courage characterized
Masaryk's career as a member of
the Austrian Parliament. But in
the Relchsrat trays he at least could
feel the backing of his people be-
hind him. That he never hesitated
to fight, even singlehanded, for what
he conceived to be right, to face un-
popularity and even social ostracism
for the cause Of justice, he had
proved by two significant episodes
Of his early life.
AS a. young university teacher
Masaryk investigated two celebrated
manuscripts, treasured by several
generations of Bohemians as pre-
clous relics of their earliest culture
Masaryk found the manuscripts
were forgeries and said so. He
proved his contention, but for years
ne was denounced as an iconoclast
and traitor to his people.
Again, back IN the COS, when
a wave of intense anti-Semitism was
sweeping Bohemia, Masaryk cham
ploned the cause Of the Jew Hilsner.
convicted by the courts of ritual
murder. Public opinion was prac-
tcally unanimous in denouncing the
Jews; Masaryk was attacked bitterly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
THE ANCIENT CASTLE
IN Prague noW the resi-
1ence of President Masoryk

for his stand. The story is told
that once, on entering his classroom,
the students staged a violent demon
stratlon against him and the Jews,
whereupon he, without saying
word, stepped to the blackboard and
wrote on it, "Work." He meant, of
course, that the way to combat
Jewish influence and competition in
Czech life was not by yelling and
Misunderstanding, but by doing ones
particular job better.
Masaryll himself told the writer,
on one occasion, Of his role in the
anti-Semitic warfare, and said:
IL fought for the Jews because |
thought they were in the right. Per
sonally, God knows, l don't like
them"
The War and His Mission
The World War gave Masaryk the
opportunity to fulfill the mission OF
his life, the liberation of the Czecho.
Slovak people from Hapsburg rule
What he had foreseen has come to
pass. German imperialism, in its
trend toward the East, was to alb
soro the moribund organism of Aus
trla-Hungary; the Czecho- Slovak
people was doomed; Prague was to
be the first in the series of stepping
stones of Prussian power: Vienna,
Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, Constan-
tlnople, Bagdad, the Persian Gulf.
He recognized that the cause Of the
Czecho-Slovak people was the cause
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
On the Napoleonic Code


To understand fully the reason for
this defeat it is necessary to take
into eolvideration not only the fact
that Louisiana is a Southern state,
but that it differs from all it's sister
states in that its laws are based upon
the Napoleonic Code instead Of upon
the common law of England. 1t is
even more important, perhaps, to
take into consideration Miss Jean
Gordon and the splendid things she
has accomplished in the way of civic
Improvement and better laws for
children and working women.
Jean Gordon has advocated
woman suffrage for more years
than it would be polite TO saw.
since she is still an attractive and
young looking woman, but her de-
mand has always been upon the
respective legislatures of the in
dlvldual states, and upon the in
80
dlvldual electorate of the states.
Never for a moment has she been
IN sympathy with the Susan 3.
Anthony amendment. She is a
woman Of marked personality and
because of the things she has done.
and still more because, through the
newspapers, she was made the fash
ion in Louisiana, she is, and has
been for a long time, power to
be reckoned with in that state.
Miss Gordon is a born leader and
good deal of an autocrat. She
wants what she wants the way she
wants it, and if she can't get it that
way she's ready to reject it alto
gether. Suffrage in Louisiana is
to her what the league of nations
is to Mr.. Wilson. She looks upon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
ROF. T. G. MASARYK,
Il practically chosen Presi-
dent of Czecho-Slouakia

in Belgrade forged the evidence by
means of which the accused Deputies
had been convicted. This exposure
made Masaryk the most hated man
in the imperialistic- militaristic cir
cles of Berlin, Vienna and Budapest,
but neither it nor the continued at
tacks delivered by him in the Aus
trian Reichsrat against the Foreign
Minister, Count Aerenthal, awaited
to turn the ruling circles from their
mad policy to crush Serbia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
By Jean West Maury

NHE eyes of women in every
part of the nation, not to
mention those of a few mill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
BY Eugene S. Dagger

TT F EVER a nation or a state was
made by one man, that nation
is the Czecho- Slovak republic.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
A Moral Ideal

The program of humanity is a
moral ideal-to be truly man."
Masaryk said. "The program of
humanity further signifies faith that
humanity is not mere abstraction.
but reality Dostoievsky
wass right when he argued that ma
tons and individuals have a desire
for pan-humanity; that every nation
desires to go beyond it's national
boundaries and join. the body of
humanity
The program of humanity"
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01
ASK FOR FUNDS FOR
STATUE IN FRANCE
Lynden School-Children and Citizens
Urged To Contribute To Gift To
People Of France

Lynden people are being given an
the fund to erect a colossal statue
ON the banks of the Marne River near
the little French village of Meaux,
where the first German advance on
Paris was stopped on September 6,
1914, less than twenty miles from
Paris.
This memorial will be the gift of
the American people to the people
of the French republic. in return for
the beloved Bartholdi Statue of Lib
erty, erected on Bedloe's Island in
New York Harbor in 1885 by the cit
liens of France, with money raised
by popular subscription, to commem-
crate the hnndredth anniversary of
American independence.
The statue will be the work of the
distinguished American sculptor.
Frederick MacMonnies, whose art is
we'll known in both France and AM
erica. 1t will represent the Spirit of
Liberty as woman, struggling
against her enemies. The central fig
ure will be reinforced by others which
will probably represent the Allies of
France, the group taking the general
form cf 4 pyramid. which signifies
defensive strength to Mr.. MacMon-
MES.
II is estimated that total OF ap-
proxinately S256,000 will be needed
to design and construct this giant
statue, to transport it to France, and
to erect it at Meaux on a site to be
selected by Marshal Foeh and Marsh
al Joffre.
A special appeal is being made to
the 100000 American school
children fer contributions, but any
one may subscribe to the fund. DON
ations from one cent up to any
amount, Elay be left with Miss Elsie
Sweet. who has charge of the cam
paign in the Lynden district. or at
the Tribune office.
There will be no canvassing or SOL
letting; all contributions will be pure
ly voluntary.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01
CIVIL WAR VETERAN PASSES
AWAY AT AGE OF SEVEN

John II. Smith. Civil War veteran,
died at his home in north Lynden ear
ly Monday morning. His death was
caused mainly by old age and by
heart trouble, resulting in shortness
of breath. with which he had been
suffering for more than a month.
Mr. Smith died at the ripe old
age of eightv-seven years, six months,
and eighteen days.
Mr.. Smith was born September l {.
1892 in Bartholomew County, Indi-
ana. After removing to Woodford
County Illinois. at the age of three,
and to the Miami Reservation at the
age of twelve, he came to the State
of Wisconsin, where he resided until
the Civil War broke out. He enlist
ed in Company B, goth Wisconsin
Volunteers. During the War he re-
ceived three gunshot wounds, and
took part in four battles. He came
to LINDEN from Wisconsin FIVE years
ago, and was member of the Lynden
G. A. Il.
His passing is mourned by a large
circle of friends. He is survived by
three daughters, Mrs. Sarah ingalls,,
Mrs. Ella Foster. and Mrs. Lena VIII
son, all of Lynden. one brother, Jas.
NJ. Wilson, and one sister, Annie Nor
ris, both of LIE Fargo, Wisconsin,
five grandchildren. Henry Wilson, in
the L. s. Marines. at present in Gu
ba, Mary Benson of Alger, Washing
ton, Mrs. Frank Booman, of Wiscon-
sin. and Joe and John Wilson. of Lyn-
den, and four great grandchildren
The regular G. A. r. funeral ser
vices were held in Knapp's parlors
Tuesday afternoon in the presence
of a large number of sympathetic
friends of the bereaved relatives. In
terment vas in the Lynden cemetery.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01
WILL ASK FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
TO AID STARVING ARMENIA

Beginning Easter Sunday, April
4, and continuing a week a special
campaign for contributions to the
Armenian relief fund will be con-
Quoted throughout Western Wash
ington by the Near East Relief.
In each Of the nineteen counties
west of the Cascades volunteer work
ers. spurred by the appalling con-
ditions among the Armenians report
ed in cable dispatches by press cor
respondents and government officials.
will solicit contributions to the fund
being raised in America to enable
these unfortunate people to live un-
til their crops are harvested next fall.
Every dollar donated will be used
to provide food and shelter for the
Armenians. in an effort to save the
nation iron. determination by fam
inc and disease All necessary ex-
penses in connection with the CAM
paign for funds are borne by a few
Eastern men of means. In an urgent
appeal FOR a generous response from
Western Washington, Robert Carey
of Seattle, representative of the Near
East Relief in this district, said this
week:
THE situation among the Armen-
ians is growing more desperate every
day, as the result of fresh atrocities
by the Turks, by whom they have
been prosecuted for centuries. Near
East Relief agents in Asia Minor re-
port To- 900 of these defenseless peo-
pie killed during the wholesale mas
sacres at Marash between January
90 and February 10. How many
have perished in the outlying dis
tricts of the province of Cilicia can
only be coniectured. The survivors
are in pitiable condition and are dy-
ing by the. hundreds from starvation
and disease. With their homes and
crops destroyed, every bit of proper
ty confiscated. even their clothing
they are huddled together in refuge
camps exposed to the hardships Of the
bitter Caucasus winter"