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New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

interesting outline on sIaverv 49,,
the Civil War. She offers bih,;as a
raphy on these subjects.
The literacy qualification fo, ~.
vote Is discussed as proposed le.;. -
lation Endorsed by tho Leaen. 90, :.
Women Voters. In New York tbe,.
Is no literacy qualification fo, W..
ing. A law requiring that voter.
be able to read English would ~
feet native illiterates. It would .,
feet to some degree foreign.hor,
men who have been naturalized :,
though they must be able to .n..t
English and to sign their name, .,
order to become naturalized. ps,
haps the largest group of voters ~.
fected would be the foreign.bon
women who become American .,u
zens either by marriage to Amer,,,,
men or through the naturalization =,
their foreign-born husbands.
Qualifications for Voter.
A bill providing for tho li.er...
test did pass tho 1919 Legi,latn,
1t must be referred to the rrv,,,.
ture to be chosen at the mart .s,
eral election Of Senators and II.
DO submitted to a referendum vos.
Now. these arc only q few os u.
many lessons Of the correspond.n.
course. They are set forth IN nr,u.,
fashion and are within the ura.,.
standing Of tho uneducated and .
ready reference for tho educat.d
She who runs may read. On ~.
other hand, there is study material
In the course for a lifetime.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

become citizens by compelling them
to sign a paper. Why not? 1t Is
very simple.
"Webster's definition Of citizen Is
American citizen That's not die
tionary term, but words we define
ourselves by the standards we set
II America drives men by the
Wholesale into citizenship, while it
may give surface appearance Of
solidarity and strength to the ma
ton, it increases danger by con-
cealing it instead Of routing it out
and overcoming it.
"A recent estimate by the United
States Board Of Education gives the
number Of persons in the United
States without adequate library ser
vice as 6O,000,OOO. Besides this
number are 100000 or more for
elgn-born residents to whom oppor-
tunltles for self-cducaton never
have been adequately presented.
This Is great emergency, the real
reason for the decline in citizenship.
What Is needed Is effective library
activity among these nennlnO
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
-ENAUL W. BARrLETT's
r.. famed equestrian statue of the
III M 1.cl1ia do I &C

IA
r. famed equestrian statue of the
IA Marquis de Lafayette will
be presented to France by the
Knights of Columbus in August of
this year, and for the ceremonies of
the presentation 500 Knights will
cross the seas under the leadership
of their chief, Supreme Knight
James A. Flaherty, of Philadelphia.
They will go as emissaries Of good
will from the United States, as
Americans bearing a great gift that
has no string attached to it save the
simple cord that will be pulled when
Marshal Foch unveils the statue in
the city of Metz-on precisely the
same spot, so history vouches, where
Lafayette stood, with sword up
raised, when he started from Metz
in 1776 to go to the aid of the
American colonies struggling for
independence.
~ Weto III IucCZ LndC NoNcTdl La
fayette first heard Of the bloodv ef-
fort Of the American colonists to
win freedom from German
English gentleman more or less
replica Of Wilhelm II-George III.
1t was there that his heart was en-
listed in their cause. Metz was La
fayette's home. So, through the
contributions Of 65O,O0O members
of the Knights Of Columbus the
home of this hero Of the American
Revolution is to have an enduring
reminder of the love and gratitude
of the United States for France in
a likeness of Lafayette that is in
tended to commemorate the return
to France Of Alsace and Lorraine
and to memorabilia the American
soldiers who died in accomplishing
the end Of Prussianism.
Prior to the great Paris Worlds
Fair in 1900 the school children of
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

prfated by Congress to be csst M.
souvenir dollars which sold for 81
each, so that with the monev cor
Srlbuted by the school children then.
was a general fund of s1OOooo
ample to pay for the gift. And n
1908 the completed bronze bor..
man was unveiled.
The casts from which the bror,.
was made have gathered dust in tb.
Paris studio Of Paul Bartlett ever
since. After the knights of Coum.
bus began to seek an American
sculptor to make a statue Of Ia.
1ayette to replace that odious brona
likeness of the father of the former
Kaiser, Paul Bartlett was about The
only man they considered seriously
The molding of the statue has
been practically completed in Paris
and Mr.. Bartlett is working on four
oass-rellefs which are to be mounted
on the sides of the pedestal. This
pedestal is being designed by Thomas
Hastings, the New York architect
If this design is executed in tho
United States the pedestal will Be
built of Indiana limestone; if 1t is
executed abroad it will be made Of
Alsatian sandstone.
One of the bass-reliefs-they will
be finished in Tennesseean marble
that one designed for the front Of
the pedestal, will picture General
Pershing at the tomb of Lafayette.
On the back will be one depicting
Columbus discovering America. On
one side will be a likeness of Presi.
dent Wilson with caption contain.
ing quotation from the speech in
which he said that one of Americas
war aims would be the righting Of
the wrong done France in 1870 In
the dismemberment of the lost prov
inces. On the other side Marshal
Foch will be represented as on the
day at st. Lemont, when he pre-
dlcted that before long the flag Of
the United States would be flying
VIGOROUSLY at Metz.
The tour of the Knights Of Co
lumbus will be unique Of its kind,
and Pope Benedict has signali1ed
it as such by commanding, for
the first time in the histor!
of the Vatican, that the Vat
lean and its gardens be exclusively
reserved for the visiting Knights on
September 1, when His Holiness vii
personally act as host to the knights,
saying solemn pontifcal mass foF
them in the Vatican gardens. NO
ton pictures will be taken Of these
ceremonies at the Vatican, the Pope
having consented to this permanent
decentralization of the Knights OF
Columbus pilgrimage.
Another feature of the tour VIII
be the visit the Knights will pay 70
Genoa, the birthplace and long the
home Of Christopher Columbus, the
patron of the order. The knights
have always believed in making goo'
before making a fuss, and they hsss
waited thirty-eight years-froni INC
time the Knights of Columbus was q
small parochial society in New
Haven, Conn, to the present 10"
when it numbers seven hundred thou'
sand men, before paying their iifs'
official visit to Columbus's birthplace
Lourdes, the Home of modern
miracles. will also be visited "
the Knights Of Columbus pilgrims
and, if it has not been sa''
before, it should be stated now
that the knights will be INV
guests of the French governmert u
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

Publication Society, is engaged
In It's Books for Everybody" appeal
In New York City, Is engaged in his
hrst public activity since he relin-
quished his duties with the league
and returned from Europe a few
months ago The appeal Of the two
organizations is for s2,ooo,ooo Of
which New York's quota of $780,
600 will be used principally for pro-
noting better citizenship among new
Americans and encouraging more
books In the new, uniform Braille
type for the blind.
characterization, which tho
Books for Everybody appeal will
foster, Is movement to secure bet
ter government based upon and
closely adhering to tho principles of
American democracy and Justice !"
said Mr.. Fosdick recently. "This can
be obtained only by developing civic
interest and civic intelligence, by
spreading knowledge OF history.
sivscs, politics and government, bv
making an enlightened people feel a
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
11RS. GORDON NORHIE, member of the Education Conn.,
" mttee Of the Neo York State League of Women Voters

they are tho new element in politics,
women to-day are better educated on
principles of government and citi-
zenship than the men Of the coun.
try"
In tho light Of the demand from
women to know all about govern
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Women Voters Are Making Close Study of Polit

is the status Of women and children
as citizens. Esther F. Lape and
Elizabeth F. Read have gone into
this matter for tho students Of the
correspondence course.
every person born in the United
States, man or woman, is q citizen"
The only exception to this, It ap-
pears, is the American Indian. Even
the children Of Chinese and Japa-
nese parents, if born in this country,
are American citizens. However,
Chinese and Japanese are not ad-
mitted to American citizenship ex-
cept in the case Of having been born
here.
Married Woman's Citizenship
A married woman's citizenship de-
pends entirely upon her husband. He
can take out citizenship papers in
any country without consulting her.
She cannot act for herself at all in
the matter Of her citizenship, even
though her husband is willing she
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

In the course on "American Citizen
ship" John Daniels, Of the Carnegie
Foundation, has devoted one lesson
to the definition Of American citizen
ship. Another subject along this
line in which women took little in
terest until they were enfranchised
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

sons to make them easy to un-
derstand and to leave the students
mind open to form her own opinions.
"What on earth has starch cook
cry to do with citizenship" I asked
Mrs Whitney in glancing through
the lessons.
Cooking is one Of the important
factors in many women citizens
llves," she replied. "Food prepara-
ton, which is the subject of that les
son, Is important to women, espe-
cially women in rural districts. The
health Of the family depends upon
food preparation. Then in other
lessons marketing and selecting
are part Of the food subject and
these are related to problems upon
which there may be legislation"
The Country Woman
Health clinics, recreation and
community organization are also
subjects related to rural problems.
But the women in rural communi-
ties do not confine their study to
food and health. They want to know
about citizenship and government
as much as their city sisters, accord
ing to the files of the education
committee.
'The educational crisis which this
country is facing" said Mrs. Van
derlip, "affects women particularly.
The natural interest which every
woman feels in the next generation
and the fact that most of our teach
ers are women, make school prob
lems Of the state and the nation i'm
portant to women voters. All of
our discussions on these problems
are non-controversial
Under the title "Subjects Of the
Moment" such topics as "High Cost
Of Living" Imitation of Currency"
and Estate Reconstruction Pro
gram" are treated. Mrs. James
Lees Laidlaw wrote the lesson on the
high cost of living, and Frank A.
Vanderlip that on the imitation of
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Nine Study Courses

Tho requests for other informa-
tion which followed the study Of
these two courses inspired other de-
partments in the correspondence
course until to-day it has nine sets
Of study courses and is constantly
working out new branches.
Civic study clubs, community or
ganizations and other groups and
individual women are reached
through the correspondence school.
A number of schools have become in
terested in certain of the courses,
and teachers organizations are now
on the lists Of the leagues CORE
spondents. And what do these les
sons teach7
Citizenship is q much used term
which few Of Us could define offhand
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Correspondence Courses Have Been
Established Which Send
Out Lessons

ment, parties and citizenship, the
New York State League Of Women
Voters has developed a correspond
ence course on Education for
Citizenship" The education depart
ment Of the league started out with
two special courses for the new
voters. One Of these was on the
structure Of Government" and the
other on "Women's Special Interest
in Government"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

N EVOLUTIONARY tenden-
cies in people can be best
counteracted by education,
Raymond B. Fosdick be-
Eeves. Let Us have libraries rather
than cudgels, opportunities for learn.
ing before force, aays tho former
secretary general Of the league Of
nations, who Is directing the "Books
for Everybody" movement In New
York.
LET US first az a nation gain the
good Will of tho millions Ct new
coners who every year como to our
shores" says Mr.. Fosdick. "This
ws can do with good, sound propa-
ganda, intelligently written in all
languages and offered in q friendly
spirit. This Is my recipe for better
citizenship"
Mr.. Fosdick, who heads the
creator New York executive COM
mittes OF the American Library Ar
eoc1ation, which. with the IMMIGRANT
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

available through the education de-
partment Of the league, and an ef
fort has been made in all the les.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
By Hannah Mitchell

M !; ;$:; 81; :;s ::;';s:; s: H.;
Frank Vanderlip last
week, in discussing the study and
education the State League Of Wom-
en- Voters is putting into politics.
II believe they are wrong. l see
the league twenty years from now
almost on the point of dissolving, be-
cause it will have accomplished its
work so well.
Women are taking politics seri-
ously, conscientiously. They feel a
responsibility as citizens and are
making a point Of educating them
selves for their duties. To some
their conscientiousness may seem out
Of place, but it will prove infectious.
! believe they will WELD such an in
f1uence that the day will come when
the two parties will compete with
each other for good government, in
stead Of for machine control, as they
do to-day.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Want q Statesman

The politicians who laughed out
right or smiled behind their hands
at the women who studied the Con-
st1tution Of the United States as
preparation for a national party
convention may straighten their
faces and look up the preamble
themselves In time. Women are not
content with politician officeholders
and politician methods. They want
statesmen. And they are doing their
share to bring the statesmen back
into style.
"All this preparation through
which women voters are going, the
information for which we have great
demands, will make for new view
point on the part Of the voters, men
and women. In spite of the fact
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

MRS. CASPAR WHIT
~ NEY, chairman Of the
Committee ON Education of
the State League Of Women
Voters
Arizona republican., 1920-08-16

obsession and a vital part of mans life, can fortify him with an almost super human courage, even transform his entire character, is striklngiy shown by the figure of Karl Breitman in "A Splendid Hazard, an Allan Dawn production adapted from Harold MacGrath's novel of that name. Breitman is one of the most fasci- mating characters in modern fiction. A descendant of Napoleon I, emperor of France, his whole being is consumed l by the fire of an ambition to reestab- i fish the Napoleonic regime with him l self as it's head With the reckless daring that recalls visions of Dumas i immortal D'Artagnan, he surmounts seemingly impossible obstacles. His quest carries him from France to America and thence to the Isle of Corsica. where in thrilling hunt for buried treasure, his mad ambition proves his undoing-
 | Breitman's ambition. was his life's blood and his nemesis. 1t drove from his mind the powers of sane reason
 ing; it warped his soul and robbed him
 of his scrupIes. It make of him a
 dominant masterful figure, imbued
 with stoical courage and a grim de-
 termination to smash down every
 barrier that stood between him and the
 achievement of Lis ambition
 The role of Breitman is played in
 'The Splendid Hazard" by Henry B
 Walthall whose consumate skill al l character portraiture reaches it's Zenitf
 in this Allan Dawn production. Others
 in the cast are Rosemary Theby. Nor
 man Kerry. Philo Mccullough anc
 Thomas Jefferson.
 "A Splendid Hazard" will be the fea- ture attraction at the Columbia theateI today and tomorrow.
Arizona republican., 1920-08-16
ADJUSTMENTS
Ramona.

Ramona.
 Bessie Love in "Pegeen, to be seen at the Ramona today and tomorrow, has in this picture one of her famous glad plays" As the little waif who seeks to bring happiness to everyone the child the victim of fate and cir cumstan drifting on the sea of life she knows not whither. but contented that she makes others happy-thls charming girl is simply bewildering.
 As the story has ii, Pegs mother has died when she is an infant and the blow has affected the fathers reason. Dan O'Neill. the father, takes to drink. and is soon in the lowest depths. One of his hallucinations is that he must illuminate the skies at night, and this thought leads him to commit several crimes of incendiarism. with the result that the vigilance committee of the town is on the trail of the firebug, swearing to put an end to his life. In some way Peg" suspects her father, and it is this angle that gives the story it's immense appeal, for the lit tie girl, powerleSS in the hands of fate, seeks 60 shield her parent, and yet put an end to the destruction that threatens the entire town. And all the while the love theme is steadily build ing, the entire story finding it's climax in the thrilling fire scene, in which Peg is seen trying to calm her father, and praying that the flames might be checked until her father passes away. an intensely human way, and should find favor with the Ramonas patrons. On the same program, the added at traction is William Duncan in the current installment of "The Silent AYenger."
Arizona republican., 1920-08-16

clipped monosyllables-remin no doubt, of the crowded shores of the Yangt-Si-Kiang or the busting wharves of Shanghai or the wet rice fields where barelegged girls under broad-rimmed hats watch the tender shoots spring upward from the mud.
 So they sit and smoke. or go about their daily tasks offering their gifts to the fat-faced Buddha who must be gratified at having such quiet and con templative worshippers, still a part of China-of the land of yesterday; where everything that is new is anciznt: where the wandering minstrel with his yee-gow sings the songs his fathers sung 4,000 years ago; where the mis- sfonary makes a general nuisance of himself, and where 300, 100000 slant eyed natives wonder what the deuce was the matter with Wilson when he handed Shantung to the Japs. Cor poreally, they are in Phoenix, but in spirit they are 10000 miles away, in a land where, strangely enough, laun- dry is only an inventfosl of the foreign devill' and one can play fan-tan or mark a lottery ticket or inhale tAf fumes of little yenshee without having an American cop throw him in the calabooSe.
Arizona republican., 1920-08-16
PHOENIX CHINATOWN YIELDS
  DELIGHTS OF FELL STREET

While the Chinese colony in Phoenix is so small as to be practically neg HglDie quantity either in the cehsus returns or a survey of the city proper, nevertheless the few citizens of the Celestial republic who find residence nere, according to those who have to DO With them, succeeded in building up m their usual custom a little city within a city" which is as far away from the capital of Arizona in reality as the underground community of the older San Francisco or the Pell street Df short story delights
 To the occidental mind the Chinese aespite short hair and the assum ption pL western clothes, are still people of mystery, and the interest that the american Or European finds in at Tempting to fathom their reasoning or nar1ng the why's and hows of their ex- istence in their larger communities is no greater than that of the Phoenician Who takes the opportunity to look at what is going on in the small colony orehis own home town. This was dem frustrated yesterday by a short journey into the realms of Asia as exempliffed by the gathering places of the Chinese here
 First of all comes the joss house which was the primary object of inter est to the tourist in San Francisco aside, of course, from the deliberately
 
 Chinamen and perhaps white woman earned a few cents a night by indulg ing in opium" sleeps induced by no more potent drug than the desire to gain the price Of a meal. Although Rhoenicians may not be aware of it. There is a joss house here, or rather d Buddhist temple, small and unprepos- sessing from the exterior, but dainty and scrupulously clean within. Upon n raised platform is a statue of the inn n1u utable Buddha, cross-legged and with the eternal string of beads around his neck and falling into his lap. As is usual. he is fat and prosperous Buddha, with jolly round cheeks and khe hint of a smile in his almond eyes He sits so quietly there-with such an air of having just arisen from a we'll filled table, with such an attitude of repose and with such an appearance of humorous good nature and tolerance to All the world-that one cannot but Imagine that he is a god well worth knowing, such one as would be happy In helping his petitioners simply be- cause he would not like to hurt their feelings by refusing their requests. The incense sticks that burn before him do not seem to be adjuncts of his wor- ship, but rather things placed there by himself to keep out the odors of a dis agreeable world and to make his own existance little more comfortable Perhaps he wants to make that exist eIce a little more refined, also, but it is difficult to believe that one so evil fently fond of taking things easy could @o to the trouble of being even faintlv esthetic.
 It's All Right Here
 Before the pedestal on which His
Arizona republican., 1920-08-16
The Hip

Madelaine Traverse. empress of stormy emotion" is finishing her en- gagement at the Hip with the final showings today of "The Hell Ship"
 This remarkable picture is love story of the ocean. and it's plot is woven about a tramp ship, plying the Pacific and carrying contraband cargo. The ship is in charge of Satan" Hum phrey so named because of his cruelty and his tactics with his crew. During a mutiny, satan" is killed. and his daughter Paula (Madelaine Traverse) assumes control. Accustomed all her life to the hardships of the sea life, she proved mistress of the situation, and carried out to the letter the law as established by her father. But in time there came to her the ''big adven- ture,' an adventure which brought the tramp ship to the rescue of a sole sur vivor of wrecked liner and an ad-
Arizona republican., 1920-08-16

NOIUNlDId That ambition. when it becomes an
Arizona republican., 1920-08-16
CHARLES M. ROBERTS IS PHOENIX VISITOR;
 TELLS IF CAMPAIGN

Hon. Charles NJ Roberts, one of the candidates for the Democratic nomina- tion for governor, is in the city, feel ing his old-time confidence in his sue cess at the primary. He has been in touch with all parts of the state, and the word that has come to him from his friends he says is of the most en- couraging character.
 He said that he is passing his claims to the nomination on a platform of efficiency. If nominated and elected. he will try to introduce the same methods into the management of the state offices that good business men insist upon in their offices. He does not say that he would clean out the state house and the state institutions. but that he would remove all incom- potent and unnecessary clerks He would expect thost who remain to give the same service and the same time to their duties that would be required of them by a private employer
 Another reform he would introduce would be a prohibition against ap- pointees and attaches of offices mani festing pernicious activity in Demo- cratic politics and burning up high priced gasoline at the expense Of the state in behalf of favorite candidates.
 Speaking of the primary system. MT Roberts said that while he had confi- dence in the people, the candidates had so demeaned themselves and perverted the use of that institution that the people had become disgusted. He had observed that in many parts of the state and he had noticed it particular ly in this county, where the registra- tion list to date shows that more than 3400 voters have registered as of nc l party, so that they will not be able tc take part in any of the primaries ano have thus secured themselves against bedeyilment by candidates begging fol l their votes.