The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-14
Woman Judge Gives
Address at Moline
Club ON Saturday

~Out of the suner1ngB and sacrl-
fees OF the women who went before
US we have our freedom and only
by our duty of putting into public
effect the responsibilities they laid
on US can we realize the desires OF
the fathers who left the country to
u.s." said Judge Florence e. Allen,
court of common pleas, Cuyahoga
county, Ohio, at the Moline Wom-
ans club meeting of Saturday aft
ernoon-
Judge Allen, the only woman
Judge in the United States who
tries both civil and criminal cases,
was introduced by Mrs. q. II. Hun
toon, who, against the wishes of the
speaker, told something of her Of
flee and the training she had re-
ceived for it.
Judge Aliens subject was THE
New Freedom and the New Respon-
sibility." She began by saying that
the wonderful thing about America
and the present age is not its me-
chanical advance, not its linking of
ocean to ocean by the Panama ca
nal, not the invention of automo-
biles and aeroplanes, but the seed
ing, Towering and fruition of the
woman movement, giving freedom
to one-half the human race.
I'VE take things for granted
our right to do what we choose, to
organize into clubs to discuss mat
tiers OF public policy, the right to
earn our own living, but 100 years
ago no such right existed. In our
country such rights were forbid
den by custom; in Europe they
were forbidden by law. Women
were not permitted to be educated
in the same sense that men were.
Boston, which considers herself
the hub of the universe so far as
education is concerned, did not
have public high school for girls
until 1926, and then it was closed
after two years because it was so
much of a success that the city ia
theirs found that so many girls
rushed to it that they feared that
when females had higher educa-
ton the homes would suffer. This
school was not reopened until after
1850
Free men and women have the
responsibility of choice and action,
because we own the government.
The fact that this nation is richer
than any other is of little matter.
What does matter is that America
is the spirit of freedom. BY our
constitution we own the govern
ment If anything is at fault with
what you own, you have to fix it.
If you live in a rented house and it
needs repair, you go to the owner,
but it is up to you to fix your own
property
Besides the usual routine bust
ness announcement was made of
the collection 70 supplying Thanks
giving baskets to be sent by the
philanthropic department and the
result, S77.65, the largest ever TAX
en-, showed that hearts of Moline
women still respond to the call of
need
The musical feature of the after
noon was delightful, Miss Marie
Heinemann presenting the High
School Girls Glee club in three
numbers, 20 Music" CWoaler); In
vitation of the Bells" (Planquette) ;
and Fairies" (Mattei). Miss Ger
aldine Hepburn played the piano
accompaniment and Mrs. Evlan I
Sargent the organ. !
After the program the large COM /
pany adjourned to the basement !
dining room room for refreshments, |
and the club members enjoyed .
meeting the speaker. Judge Allen
spoke in Davenport Saturday night
before Round Table members and
she left for Cleveland on the mid
night train.