Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-27
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xSsctsd 70 Oppose Resolution
4 vr1ing Y. 9. Acceptance
oseors votsrs' League
LADY AsToR SPEAKS

Baltimore. Aprii 27.--Amons the
tescMtlons and ,recofnmen dations upon
which the Committee on Resolutions
was expected to report at today's scs-
elou Of the convention of the Nstiona,
League OF Women Voters, was ono urg-
Mg the Government to. accept the offer
~ Henry Ford 10 buy the Muscle Shoals
nitrute and power plant.
1t was presented In the report of the
I Committee on Food Supply and De.
mAnd yesterday and IL was understood
the Resolutions Committee would rec
ommend Its adoption by the convention.
While the women Of the South were
reported to be lining up solidly In favor
OF the resolution. n was the talk in
convention circles that considerable op-
position 10 II was developing among
{ Northern delegates, led by Pennsylva-
MA. The Northern element were against
the resolution as one on which the vot-
ing would represent snap Judgment"
& was said.
The Resolutions Committee was not
expected to report until the afternoon
session. after the adoption Of the bud
get and "a plan Of work.
Election of officers was the last thing
on today's program.
given over to the discussion and adop-
tion Of committee programs.
IL took Lady Astor TO interest Bal
timcrc aud Maryland In woman suffrage
IN her address last night. The people
who wouldn't ratify the Nineteenth
Amendment and fought its legality in
the courts crowded into the Century
Theatre roof before delegates who had
come from far-of Texas and California
could get to their seats. They were
TANNED in the streets outside.
Lady Astor was brought In through
the FIRE escape.
% leave the hall to make room for
quests standing in the street. but no
I. one seemed to rise In the huge audi.
ence. Everybody was staring at the
gracious figure in simple pearl grny
dress with orchids at her belt. LORD
Astor, tall and dark and handsome.
eat In an inconspicuous place on tht
g platform. but where he, too, could
watch his charming wife.
Lady Astor took the big audience by
Storm with her impromptu additions
''Ideafism took America into the war,
but II didn't take America out Of the
war! =.
.'It's just rs bad to work only for
Oelf. We need League Of Nations or
!, q League of Peace.
'sYcs, yes. it's all right to applaud,
6ut you'll have to dol something more
( than that before you'll have League Of
Nations, or whatever you want to call
And then she said in part:
The League of Nations was started
" America or an American. Some seem
h % think only Of the starter and forget
I Il IVES the high purpose Of his people
\ Who save the impetus which brought
4 ~ league from America to Europe.
Il ~ the ideal. and not Tor the idealist
z It's Z principle We should follow, 'ant
n H0t be side -fracked b. . personality
But nave not come here as ,
Z, foreigner to tell any One-be 1t man
4 Senator or woman votcr--what to do
"You are right not to make a new
s political party. You are equally righ
. try and lift and raise and impr0v,
4 the platform of both the big politica
Dorties BY joining them. See that you
Send neither windbags nor carpet bag
GERS TO represent you. That's the thini
= do.
Urged to Raise Moral STANDARD
The big contribution you can max,
. politics and nationa: life is to fac,
and tackle the moral standards. Insis
upon the single standard of morality
not by lowering our standard, but b,
raising the mems standard to that o
women. Do that in America. We ar,
working for 1t and we are going to d,
1t IN England. If America and Eng
4 land do It, then all countries must fol
low.
A - GA
Always WAYS remember st, IT, Paurs words words
7 God hath not given us the spirit o
fear, but OF. power and of love and o
\ sound mird.'