Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-23
CROWD CLAMORS
To HEAR SPEECH
Of LADY AST0R
Other Speakers Are Given
Scant Attention When
ViSCounteSS Appears on
Platform at Baltimore.

Baltimore, Md, April 22.-Al-
most all the young ladies and
younger ladies attending the Pan
American conference of women
seemed to quit listening attentively
to the speakers as soon as Lazy
Astor appeared on the platform
this afternoon, less than ten min
utes after she had stepped off a
train from New York. This vivaci-
Gus Virginia girl, who became the
first woman member of the house
of commons, had hardly taken her
seat when she began making com
ments of approval on the state
ments of Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, the suffrage leader, who was
then addressing the delegates.
Hear, hear" or that's right"
Lady Astor would say from time to
tine, and nearly everyone appeared
to be interested. more in her re-
marks than in those OF the speak
ers.
Mrs. Gait Pounds Table.
Finally after two South Ameri-
can delegates had spoken, Mrs. Gait
pounded the table, and said:
Lady Astor, l have presided
over many meeting but | never
had so much trouble in my life as
L have had since you came in this
room. None of these reporters is
interested in woman suffrage but
only in you, So, we'll have to let
you talk some and then you can
leave and give the reporters their
interview, and | want everybody
else to stay in their chairs"
She formally introduced Lady
Astor as the "best known woman
in all the world today, and one
whom everybody loves that knows
her.
I'm here because the women
have the vote" said Lady Astor.
think what disaster for the
world if | had been hidden in a
two room cottage instead of the
house of commons" she added
with a laugh Of mockery.
"My accomplishments are entire
ly due to the work the women did.
1t is through the labors of those
who have gone before that l can
now carry on my work for the
reconstruction of the world, You
see, Lady Astor didn't have TO
smash windows and go to Jail
fighting for suffrage. That was
done by others.
Busy Populatins World.
During the great suffrage move
ment l was busy populating the
world" she explained, referring to
her six children.
"I understand some of these
South American delegates are no;
she said. well, what
are they here for? I'm sure they'll
go back home as sLffragists."
Mrs. Gait had just remarked that
South America, a Catholic land, is
the only continent where woman
has not yet achieved suffrage.
"I can't for the life of me see
what having the vote has to do with
religion. Why, | think the creed
that all men and women are equal
is the saving grace of religion"
Praises Conference.
"I have been quoted as saying |
didn't think much of the Washing
ton conference, think much of
the Washington conference?
she repeated emphatically. Why,
I think it was the beginning
Of civilization. The whole world is
looking to Washington, and the
whole world is going to keep look
ing to Washington. think the
whole world ought to be grateful
10 President Harding, Secretary
Hughes and the administration"
Then Lady Astor went to the press
room to see the correspondents.
Immediately about 800 women
posed as reporters and circled
around her with the several scores
of newspaper representatives at the
us that your house of commons
1ress?" girl said to Lady Astor.
Lord, no child. This is the best
lress I've got" she replied.