Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-06
PENCILS
FOR VOTING WOMEN

When Gov. Roberts of Tennessee
put his o. X. upon the ratification of
the suffrage amendment. which gives
27.000.000 women the right to vote,
he little thought that he was auto
matically entering an order for TWEEN
ty-five carloads of paper and mil
lions of lead pencils.
The American Forestry Association
which welcome the women voting
and says their right will be felt
stronger than ever for a national
forest policy, makes some estimates
of few of the details that go into
such a jump in the registration fig
ures. At that the associations fig
ureS on trees used up are as nothing
compared to the billions of matches
that are used every year, mostly by
men.
When one considers that if half
the number of lead pencils will have
to be put in to meet the extra cleo
tion day business that means 49,
100000 pencils. at cost. of not to ex-
coed cents per pencil-and pencils
have gone up like everything else
there, the association figures. is a
little bill of $675,000 for the election
boards to o. X.
Associations Paper Figures.
The associations paper figures
mean that about 1900 reams of
100000 pounds of paper will be
penciled by the women either with
the ticket. Careful estimates of the
association show the paper will cost
$50. 900, and that the press run on the
ballots will figure 100000. The total
cost including cutting and wrapping,
at $1,000, will be 100000. The COM,
position and the plates for such a
big run. were it all done in one shop,
make up the rest of the associations,
estimate.
Their figures do not take into con-
sideration the fact that tons of paper
will be used up in registering the
women in order that they may vote
The association has made estimates
on the presidential election. and the
average size of ballots in such a case
IS sixteen by twenty-five inches. The
association says the registration.
which is done in books. will probably
use as much more paper.
Questions PropOunded.
Here are the questions the women.
will have to answer under oath:
and whether more than one
family lives in the same house; party
utilization, if they wish to vote in the
their age; their nativity
place of birth: their color; the time
they have lived in their precinct. leg
slative district and state; if they have
been naturalized or were born in this
country; the date of their naturaliza-
ton and the court where it took place.
After each name is a blank space
Tor remarks to be made by the judges
whenever they see fit to do so.
Welcome to the women" says
Charles Lathrop Pack, president of
the American Forestry Association.
for the women of the country can
now be actively enlisted in way
-hey can make that enlistment felt
tor a national forest policy. Paper is
made from pulpwood and the news
paper publishers know all about the
cost of that. but none of us
are against the women voting because
.hey are going to use up twenty-five
carloads of paper to exercise the fran
,hise.
Women as Tree Planters.
The great tree planters are the
The woman members of the
American Forestry Association are the
great workers for conservation of
,ur natural resources. and now that
hey can Note'we will hear much more
n a positive way for a national
policy.
Additional use of paper for voting
$ nothing when compared to some of
he uses into which the products of
,ur forests are going at a rapid rate;
Thousands of men are at work and /
Millions of dollars invested to put
90 billion matches on the market |
very year. l do not believe that
quite all of them go to lighting gas
toves for heating the husbands cof- !
ZEE every morning. l believe goodly |
hare goes toward lighting his even |
ng pipe. One match CONCERN alone |
Uses 100000 feet of yellow pine logs |
md sugar pine every day in this /
treat match industry. So you see /,
he extra burden on our forests be- /
ause of the woman voting will not !
re a great load. The big thing is .
hat, now the woman can vote, we are ,
ust so much nearer a national move |
nent that will conserve our forests. /
which are being depleted or destroyed !
" fire nearly three times faster than
We are replenishing them"