SUFFRAGE PLANS
WELLTHOUGHTOUT
If Victorious. Women Will Con
tinue Their State Association
As An Educational organiza-j
tion
ARE WATCHING POLITICIANS
Will Fight Any Who Use Their
Power to Defeat the Suf
frage Amendment
There are two answers to the ques- j
tion as to what the suffragists of Penn ,
eylvania will do after election day this '
year. The fate of the suffrage amend i
ment will decide them. If the majority
of the voters agree with President Wil
son that the time has come to extend
the privileges and responsibilities of
the ballot to the women, and pass the
amendment, the suffragists of Penn
sylvania will continue their State-wide
organization but will use it as an edu
rational organization rather than a
political one.
If, on the other hand, the amend
ment is defeated, the organized suf
fragists of the State will devote their
energies to removing the political ob
Btacles from their path before continu
ing any active propaganda work.
A brief but pointed presentation ol
the probable post-election plans of the
suffragists was given out at their
State headquarters in Harrisburg re
cently by Miss Hannah J. Patterson,
State Chairman of the Woman Suf
frage Party. In answer to the ques
tion. "What are the Pennsylvania suf |
fragists going to do if they win their
campaign," Miss Patterson said:
"That is a question which every
woman should answer for herself. As
a member of the State Association,
however, I may say that the opinion of
the majority of the suffragists is that
our State-wide organization should be
continued, but as an educational or
ganization rather than as a political
one. In other words, there is no in
tention upon the part of the women to
segregate themselves into a political
party. Each woman will choose her
own political affiliations, the same as
the men voters, and will work in the
way she sees best to bring about the
betterment of cor. it ions that affect
the daily lives of herself and her fam
ily. To assist the individual women
and also the individual men who are
keenly alive to their responsibility as
citizens, we shall probably convert our
State headquarters into a great educa- i
tional clearing house from which
every thinking citizen in the State will
be able to secure timely and accurate
information on all the big vital prob
lems of the day.
"In this way we believe that we can
be of real service to the entire elec
torate of the State."
"But supposing the suffrage amend- ,
ment is defeated at the polls on elec
tion day?"
"We are not willing to concede
that," she said, "because we have too
much respect for the intelligence and
fair-mindedness of the men of Pennsyl
vania. Moreover, we have good reason
to believe that unless crooked methods j
are used and every bit of machine
pressure in the State is brought to
bear against us, we shall win by a
comfortable majority. If We should be
defeated, however, we shall still con
tinue our State organization and its
various local branches. And then,
because it will be the logical thing to
do, we shall start the work of remov
ing the obstacles from our path."
"Just what do you mean by that?" *
"The situation is this," explained
the State Chairman. "If we are de
feated, our amendment cannot come
to a vote for five years. It would be
folly to push active suffrage propa
ganda work immediately. We have an
THE FIRST CITIZEN VOTES
President Wilson: "I believe that the time has
come to extend that privilege and responsibility to the
women of the State."
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4* State. But I shall vote not as the 4
4- leader of my party in the Nation 4*
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4* the State to express his convic- 4
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4* Jersey will be greatly benefited 4*
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organization, however, that is big
enough and strong enough and respon
sive enough to eliminate any obstacles
in our path, whether they are individ
uals or organized interests. Therefore,
our first task for the next two years
would be a semi-propaganda campaign
which we would put into operation
through entering actively into the de
feat of any individual candidate for
office or any organized interests that
have opposed us. In that way, our
situation would be made infinitely bet
ter when we start our straight
suffrage campaign two years
Our women are eager for work, they
now know how to campaign in the
political districts, and they know how
to use the power which they have, but
up to this date it has been concern
trated solely upon the issue of suf
frage. They are in this fight to win
and a defeat this year would only
serve to weld them closer together
and make the organization even more
powerful than it is today."
"Does that mean that you will fight
the politicians?"
"Any politicians that have been
fighting us and using their power
against us —yes. Our position is that
no man who is unwilling to see all the
people directly represented in govern
ment is qualified to hold public office."
"If men must be accorded repre
sentation in government so that taxes
may be imposed upon them, what
good argument can be advanced
against women being accorded the
same privilege as a matter of right?
The women are asking for a right, a
principle inherent in our form ol
government. We cannot deny it to
them without ourselves repudiating
the our national institu
tions." —Yorl^Gazette.
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SAUCE FOR THE GANDER
They say if mother had a vote,
The same as father, why,
She couldn't be a lady, quite,
No matter how she'd try.
Because she'd have, day after day,
To be a-thinking how
She then would run the government
The same as Pa does now.
Yet, though my father casts a vote
Once every year, to me
He seems as nice and kind and good
As any man can be.
Yet if the ballot, as they say.
Would work my mother ill.
Perhaps without it, father, too,
Would be lots nicer still.
—Nixon Watermau
WOMAN'S PLACE
Among unthinking citizens, the
anti-suffrage slogan. "Woman's place
is in the home," is regarded as a
clinching reason for not giving her
the vote. When one stops to analyze
that catch phrase, however, the fact
which it sets forth—that woman's place
Is the home—makes it one of the
strongest possible reasons for giving
her a voice in the government. For
during the past fifty years the home
interests have been projected into pol
itics in so many different ways that
to deny woman the protection of the
ballot is to deprive her of the most ef
fective weapon that exists for pre
serving the home and defending it
against the onslaughts of the corrupt
and the vicious.
There may be those who will deny
that there is any direct association be
tween politics and the home, but they,
again, are the unthinking ones. Every
sane and fair-minded citizen knows
that politics comes into our homes
every hour of the day and every day
of the year. Let us consider just
a few of the ways that politics en
ters :
Politics comes in with the butcher
when he brings the meat for dinner.
This meat, instead of being butchered
and cured on our own property, as
was done in the days of our great
grandparents, has been prepared for
us by the big "beef trust," under con
ditions controlled by politics, and if
politics are corrupt or careless the
chances are that we are getting taint
ed meat that will bring sickness to
some member of the family.
Politics comes into the home with
every pipe line of water. When we
turn on the water spigot a whole
stream of politics flows into our
home. Having no voice in politics the
women cannot say whether it shall be
a clean stream or a dirty stream, but
If it a dirty stream and brings typhoid
?erms to the children, it is up to the
mother to nurse them through the
fever —and sometimes to see them die.
But that is not all.
Politics comes into our homes with
every ready-made garment manufac
tured in some city factory and possi
bly finished in a tenement sweatshop
by some child suffering from scarlet
fever, measles or even tuberculosis.
If there be those who consider that
this danger is exaggerated it may be
interesting for them to learn that the
United States Public Health Service,
which lias just finished an investiga
tion of conditions in New York shops
where garments are made, found only
two per cent of the 3,000 workers ex
amined free from physical defects or
disease.
Are mothers not vitally interested
l n such matters?
Why, then, continue to deny them
a voice in the making of the laws that
control such conditions?
A final word, Mr. Voter. On No
vember second you will have a chance
to give the woman of the home the
right to protect that home with her
vote. And your vote on the suffrage
amendment will show whether you
stand with the intelligent, fair-minded
citizens of this State who really want
to protect the home and the condi
tions that affect it, or the unthinking
citizenry who £0 around prating plati
tudes at the expense of the home and
ill that it stands for.
DO YOU TRUST YOUR WIFE?
There are men who permit their
wives to direct the education of their
children, and who make wills placing
the family fortune in the hands of
the wife and mother, feeling confident
that it will be capably cared for —yet
they hesitate to give them franchise.
That it is impossible to defend the
logic of such a position most of them
will admit. It is a matter of preju.
dice, pure and simple.
But is it common sense, or fair, to
impose such burdens upon women and
withhold from them a voice in public
matters? Women with families and
estates on their hands are as much
at the mercy of their environment,
legal and social, as are men similarly
situated, and they should be accorded
equal voice in determining what that
environment shall be.
This is the crux of the suffrage is
sue which will be determined at the
polls in this State in November, and
it is upon this basis that men should
determine how they shall vote upon
it. No man who is willing to give
his women folk a full share in the
management of family affairs —and
the man who is not is a rare excep
tion —should hesitate to permit them
to have equal responsibilities in pub
lic affairs.
The family is the unit upon which
our civilization is built. Upon its
welfare depends the welfare of the
state and nation. It is not qecessary
to advance an elaborate argument
to show that the welfare of the
family cannot be assured if it is un
represented, or only partially repre
sented. inVhe councils of the com
munity. This is a proposition that is
as clear and as simple as the rule of
addition.
A Canine Feat.
A blind man, guided'by a large and
athletic dog. went down the street the
other day. Just as they turned a cor
ner the blind man's dog saw a dog it
knew and darted forward in away
that threw the sightless mendicant to
the ground. He was speedily assisted
to his feet, however, by a waggish
passerby, who remarked that he bad
heard some remarkable stories of the
feats performed by dogs, but this was
the first time he had ever known one
to pull down the blind.—Exchange.
NO INCONCLUSIVE PEACE
FOR ENGLAND POSSIBLE
Photo by American Press Associatior
King George declared in a recent
Interview with Premier Asquith that
the war must be fought to a success
ful conclusion. He complained bitter
ly that the restrictions imposed on an
English king made him practically a
figurehead.
VILU REGIMENTS
DESEBT TO CARRANZA
Madero Brothers Say They Will
Not Follow Bandit Chieftain
El Paso, Tex., Oct. 12. —Andreas
Garcia, the Carranza consul here, de
clared that he had advices of whole
sale desertions of the Villa army
mobilizing at Casas Grandes. one
general, he said, had left there with
800 men during the last week to
march to tlie nearest Carranza post,
and another general, backed by 2,000
men, was on the point of revolt.
These statements were scouted by
Villa representatives in Juarez. Re
ports from the Carranza consulate
stated that an engagement had been
fought Sunday at Villa Ahumada,
forty miles below Juarez, by General
Bracemonte, commanding Villa forces,
and a Carranza force, were also de
nied by Villa officials.
A report that the force commanded
by General Luis Hernandez was en
gaging the Villa force near Parral was
denied by the Villa authorities.
Colonel Hippolito Villa, financial
agent of the Villa government at
Juarez and brother of General Villa,
issued an official denial of recent dis
patches that General Villa, because of
the recognition of the Carranza gov-
ernment, felt himself absolved from
all responsibility for the lives and
property of foreigners.
"General Villa said just before he
left here," said Colonel Villa, "that
Americans and all foreigners in this
territory would continue to receive all
the protection in his power to give
them. My brother continues to feel
himself obligated to protect and help
people in his territory."
Advices outside Carranza sources
state that there are 4,000 Villa sol
diers at Villa Ahumada, commanded
by General Rudolfo Fierro. Advices
to the Carranza consulate indicate a
revolt of some of these troops.
Official relations between the Unit
ed States and Juarez, the Villa-con-
trolled town across the border, were
unchanged by the recognition of Car
ranza. At the international bridges
only the usual guard was stationed.
Juarez itself was tranquil. Stores
were opened and .Americans and for
eigners mingled freely with Mexicans.
General Emilio Madero stated that
neither he ner General Raoul Madero
would follow General Villa in a
guerilla warfare. "I resigned from
the Villa army ten months ago," he
said.
FIRST CHIEF SURVEYS FIELD
Recognized Abroad, Carranza Begins
Triumphal Tour.
Vera Cruz, Mexico, Oct. 12. —Gen-
eral Carranza sailed from here for an
extended trip through the northern
states of Mexico. He is accompanied
by J. W. Belt, special representative
of the state department.
The itinerary will include Tampico,
Saltillo and Monterey. Tampico
General Carranza will be met by Gen
eral Obregcn. An important confer
ence is expected between the two gen
arals.
Embargo Placed on Arm*.
Douglas. Ariz., Oct. 12.—An im
partial embargo on shipments of arms
and ammunition into Mexico has been
put into effect here.
Supp®es consigned to both Villa
and Ote&nr. r vera held up-
Two Belts.
"The belt worn by Napoleon at the
battle of Waterloo shows that his girth
was forty-two inches. Some belt, eh?
"Yes, but not a circumstance to the
belt thar Wellington gave him."—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
[ News From the Balkans j
The Balkan states, they hold debates.
And swing from side to side.
Historic Liteece is now tor peace—
A moment—that's denied.
Bulgaria her area
| Considers too compact;
She aches to dirk the Germo-Turk —
Let's verify that fact.
Roumania. too, is sure her due
Is all that sne can take;
She's hip hurrah for the white czar!
Wake up' That story's faked.
The Balkan slates are fixing rates.
And inight> wise are they;
They'll tempt their fates and pass their
plates
When sure that it will pay.
—O. C. A. Child in New York World.
NATION STARTS WORLD
INDUSTRIAL INQUIRY.
Data Will Be Used In Efforts to Ex
tend Country's Foreign Trade.
Instructions to American consular
and commercial representatives in for
eign countries calling l'or exhaustive
reports on industrial organization and
the relations between industry and
government have been transmitted by
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce.
The reiKU'ts will form the basis for
a thorough investigation of industrial
and business systems throughout the
world undertaken by the federal trade
commission, with w hieh the bureau is
co-operating. The trade eommission
also plans to conduct a supplementary
worldwide inquiry through squads of
special investigators.
Commercial attaches in foreign capi
tals. as well as the consular officers of
the state department, have been in
structed to covet* in their reports busi
ness organizations, manufacturing and
producing efficiency. merchandising
methods, business and industrial laws,
and particularly the relation between
business organizations and govern
mental authority. Instructions were
preiared separately for each of the
various countries.
Special instructions have been issued
calling for reports on the so called
"cartel" system of business organiza
tion, as developed in Germany, under
which great combinations of capital
' are fostered.
The reports also will be available for
use by the bureau and the commission
in their efforts to extend the foreign
! trade of the United States. The com
| mission already has held numerous
hearings in this country on this sub
' ject.
Crapping Baboons.
Hagenbeck in his book says that bab
oons are caught in traps made much
like the huts of savages. Food is put
Into the huts, and once the baboons go
Inside a trapdoor closes behind them
Outside baboons make a great to do
and urge the prisoners to escape.
When the trappers come the captured
baboons are terror stricken and try to
force their heads through the walls
of the huts. One baboon was caugh*
' three times In the same trap, and sev
eral wheu turned loose got back into
the same trap a second time. When
the baboons are carried away all their
comrades thereabout climb Into trees
and scream out to the prisoners, who
answer in sad. mournful voices. On
one occasion some big Arabian baboons
were trapped, when 2.000 or 3.000 bab
oons hurled themselves upon the trap
pers, who had bard work to save them
selves with firearms and clubs. As the
trappers were forced back the victori
ous baboons tore up the trap and turn
ed loose the captured baboons.
The Exception.
"If at first you don't succeed, try,
| try again."
"That's good theory, but it isn't al
ways wise practice."
"Why not?"
"I once tried to paper a room myself.
! I didn't succeed, but I assure you that
my experience taught me never to try
It again."—Detroit Free Press.
Advice.
Let no man persume to give advice
to others who has not first given good
counsel to himself. —Seneca.
Killed by Fear.
Frederick I. of Prussia was killed by
fear. His wife was insane, and one
day she escaped from her keeper and.
dabbling lier clothes with blood, rushed
upon her husband while he was dozing
in his chair. King Frederick imagined
her to be the "white lady" whose ghost
was believed to invariably appear
whenever the death of a member of
the royal family was to occur, and he
was thrown into a fever and died in
six weeks.
A Henpecked Bird.
The male rhea, a feathered inhab
itant of South Africa, is very much put
upon, for four or five hens combine to
gether and lay their eggs in one nest
! Mil the total reaches twenty or more,
when the females depart, leaving a
male bird to sit on the eggs and attend
to the wants of the young birds.
Mean Retort.
"He says he intends to be the archi
tect of his own fortune."
"I predict a terrible stagnation in the
Imildirg line."—Judge.
Good Reason.
Indignant Customer Barber, why
did you drop that towel on my face?
Barber—Because it was hot. sir."—Bos
| ton Globe.
——
Prejudice squints when it looks and
i lies when it talks. —Abrantes.
GERMANS LEAVE
B,OOOJN FIELD
Attack at Loos Is Costly to
Teutons
ALLIES FORMING IN SERv'IA
Bombardment In Champagne Is Ince
cisive—More Troops Landing at
Salonika to Cneck Teuton Rush,
Preparing Defence South of Moun
tain hangc—-..tun Says Advance
Into Servia U Proceeding.
Paris, Oct. 12. —The only news, ac
cording io ; ic 1 Touch official an
nouncement. made public is that of
fairly severe be oarUiiuais ou the
pan of the Lk.. ...... near '.a Scarpa
in the Chan. , i.t u-strict and In the
region of .-ou.iu. Y.:e Front h bat
teries ev\ A*V acre replied elLv lively.
Later nuormation coitnrrneu prev
ious reports that the German e>-u..ter
attacks or recent days in iron' of
Loos have resulted only in a seriou*
and costly check. the Germans left
in front of the allied lines between
7,000 and 8,000 dead.
One hunureu and fifty thousand
Austro-German troops have crossed
the Save and Danube rivers into
Servia, according to reports in diplo
matic circles in Berlin, says the cor
respondent of the llavas agency.
These troops were stopped by Servian
artillery before they could penetrate
beyond the border, it is asserted, and
Belgrade is the only point at which
they have gained a foothold on
Servian soil.
Germans in Athens are credited
with having circulated a report thai
the entente allies have been unable
to send a sufficient force to help
Servia and have renounced tlie expedi
tion. but the forwarding of Anglo-
French troops from Salonika con
tinues uninterruptedly.
Allies Confident of Victory.
London, Oct. 12. —The Austro-Ger
man armies which, with the help of
their giant "05 milimeter guns, have
crossed the Danube and Save rivers
and occupied Belgrade, are meet
ing with stubborn resistance at the
Servian defenses, but have not yet
come in contact with the main Servian
forces.
The Servian plan of campaign de
pends considerably upon the amount
of assistance tiiey will receive from
allied troops, but it is not believed
that they v%*.l Attempt, in any event,
to make a decided stand north of the
mountain range near Mraguyevau
which they nave proved offers superb
facilities lor deleave.
Telegram. ..o e Balkans, though
not minim.Zu.fe t..e seriousness of the
Servian n-.ti a lone of
cheerful confidence in the ability of
the aii.es uutmaieiy to check the Aus
tro-Gerinans mvu. ton and successfully
meet any further attack from the side
of Bui o rti.c. The national danger,
say these u.egrams, has united Servia
as never Uf.oie ixd throughout the
country m*.. pay.-.cully unut lor tne
regular army and women and old men
are arming lor the detense of their
country.
The population of Macedonian
Servia has gathered into bands with
the object ci repulsing a possible Bul
garian alia. k. la addition to 300,000
soldiers, a million Servians of both
sexes and all ages are said to be ready
to dispute all attempts at Austro Ger
man-Bulgarian conquest.
Proceeding, Say* Berlin.
Berlin, Oct. 12. —Attacks by the Aus
tro-German forces invading Servia are
proceeding south of Belgrade, it was
announced officially. The announce
ment adds that the crossing of the
Danube by the invading forces ha*
been completed.
Servians Forming For Defense.
Sofia (Via London), Oct. 12.--
Servian troops that had been occupy
ing the Albanian towns of Shiak and
Krya have been withdrawn and are
being rushed northward.
Seven divisions of the Servian array
which had been concentrated along
the Bulgarian frontier also have been
hurried to the north to meet the Aus-
offensive.
Thou, Too, Roumania.
Milan, Oct. 12.—"1t is impossible
for Roumania to stay out of the war,"
said Take Jonescu, former Roumanian
minister of the interior. He affirmed
Ws "absolute certainty" of the defeat
of Germany and her allies, and con
tinued: "I shall use all my strength
to induce Roumania to throw her
sword into the balance, i can state
that this is the nation's greatest de
lire."
PRESIDENT READS NOTE
Careful Consideration to Be Given
Protest o"! Shipping Interference.
Washington, Oct. 12. —A draft of the
note prepa. -d at the state department
for transmission to Great Britain in
protest against British interference
with American trade was submitted
to President Wilson Monday by Sec
retary of ate Lansing.
That the note will be sent this week
is now the expectation here. It Is
thought that the president will find f
opportunity to go over the not© and
make such • \p_nges in it as he may
think nee try within the next few
days. I