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GAIN
S IN UNITED STATES
SINCE JANUARY FIRST
Woman Suffrage Now in More Than Half The Area of U. S.
Woman Voting Strength Nearly Doubled Since
k. ne First f January. .
Nebraska's 77,520 square miles of territory, has raised the total
area in which -women may vote side by side "with men to a fraction
more than half of continental United States. Eleven of the fifteen
biggest states in the Union are now tinder the suffrage flag. The
total number of womenof voting age to whom complete, or near
complete, suffrage has been granted, is now 8,557,308; 48 per cent,
of this number has been gained since the first of January, 1917.
The total number of electoral college votes, which women- may par
ticipate in choosing at the next presidential eleotion is 172--out of
a total of 531.
NInteen states of the Union now
give women a right to vote for Presi
dent of the United States.
North Dakota led the whole pro
cession of 1917 suffrage victories the
first state into the suffrage fold In
the National American "Woman Suf
frage Association's drive for presi
dential suffrage. Ohio was the first
of the newly victorious states east
of .the Mississippi to come into her
own, and Indiana Is the first state
to let women vote upon their own
enfranchisement though the women,
of Wyoming territory did this In 1890.
On March 6, Governor Brough of
Arkansas signed a hill giving -women
a new and effective form of suffrage,
the right to vote in primary elections,
Arkansas helng the first state to pass
this measure.
Suffrage a War Measure.
Woman suffrage has hecome a war
measure in England, Canada, Russia,
and France. Rhode Island is the first
state in the Union to adopt suffrage
as a part of our national prepared
ness. On April 19 Wake Up America
Day the message ran forth to every
village and farm that Michigan wo
men were going to he free to vote,
in presidential elections, thus sound
ins the note of preparedness for the
national crisis In the Middle West
Then came Nebraska with its eight
electoral college votes and its addl-
tion of 318,903 women of voting age
to the suffrage forces.
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"EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST," BUT THE WEST. HAS, EQUAL!
SUFFRAGE.
Does Equal Suffrage "Feminize?"
Quoting from the recent govern
ment report as to the proportionate
recruiting for the regular army in
the various states during April, Mrs.
(Minnie J. Reynolds cites these
figures: "The average per cent
of their quota recounted by the far
western states, practically all of
which have equal suffrage, was 29.5
per cent In the Middle West, where
five states have given their women
The Woman With a Country
With Apologies to the Author mf
"The Man Without a Coxmtry."
By Helen Rowland
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L.VAYS,
They have said of her,
"Why shall she vote?
"In time of war, what could SliE do to defend her Country-sli shebad ome
"Poor, foolish, tender, clinging, helpless little thins!
"How she babbles of 'Equality!' -
"SHE who trembles in a thunderstorm,
And shudders at the booming of a jranset rani
"Why shall she vote? SHE cannot tigki, ifflPWll and ilelf-nseiibfc it
her Country!"
Well
It has come HER Hour! " ."!
And, with her ''lender, clinging, ktJjJfilV hands, 1
She is making munitions for Eli - S
With her sett white, useless fingH:A(Mij fahionin.sb,4i "y -:;. j. ? '
A hundrtd deaths In every one ofttSeijI vl T"'- 1$
.Everywhere, she is ploughing, planting; satheUn, "v K l'KA
.Sewfiif, jiapiar, harvesting, y :,i75 .?Ti39
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Besides the signal successes In
these seven states. North Dakota,
Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, Rhode Is
land, Michigan, and Nehraska, there
have heen legislative victories of mora
or less Importance In eleven other
states since January.
Bills for full suffrage by amend
ments to their state constitutions have
passed the 1917 legislatures of New
York, Maine, South Dakota, Iowa, Ok
lahoma and Michigan.
In. New York and Maine, the en
franchisement of women will he voted
on this year. In South Dakota, Ok
lftioma and Michigan it will he voted
on in 1918.
WHERE
THE SUFFRAGE
FLOATS
FLAQ
To recapitulate, the suffrage causo
has this year annexed 338,314 square
mlle3 of territory. Up to the end of
1916, suffrage extended over 1,205,
329 square miles, or 39 per cent of
continental United States, not includ
ing Alaska. On April 22nd of this
year, the suffrage flag floated over
1,543,643 square miles, or 50.9 per
cent Including Alaska, whero women
have suffrage on the same terms as
men, 2,134527 square miles, or 57
per cent of the total (possessions of the
United States, except the newly ac
quired Virgin Islands, are now under
the banner of freedom. This area is
a long way out of the "Half slave
and half free" type of democracy
which still prevails in the other 43
per cent of the United States.
presidential suffrage, the.per centjisas
18.9. and in eastern states, ifwas only
10.8. It would seem that the voting
woman has not 'feniiaized'vthe West
to any extent and it would seem
that the sort of men who respond
firBt to their country's call are the
sort who give their -women the vote.
It would he Interesting to know how
many of the men who are cure that
women ought .not to vote becauso
they cannot fight hate responded to
the call to arms."
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0 (Xh New Yoifc ErtnlnjTP
( Ru$Sia Will Not Quit Unless She
is MarvecL
Russia will not quit unless she
is starved into submission.
This is the opinion of Ralph
Dawson, who for two years has
represented Gaston, Willian &
Wifcmore, Inc., of No. 120 Broad
way, in Petrograd and other
Russian cities. He left Russia
April 24
"America is needlessly appre
hensive," said Mr. Dawson yes
terday. "Reports of chaotic
conditions have been grossly ex
aggerated. The Romanoff party
is dead and no tears were shed
at its passing. The freedom of
Russia is assured and all she
needs to continue a successful
warfare against Germany are
supplies, amnuition and railway
transportation to the battle lines.
"When you consider that the
Russian is heroic and devoted
enough to fight Germany, armed
only with religious images, sticks
and stones; when you recall that
he has done this three years on
cabbage soup, black bread and
tea, you must conclude he is not
a quitter.
"A Socialist revolutionary
movement can be formed only
when there is a strong industrial
proletariat. The vast majority
of the lower classes are small
peasant proprietors, whose lands
have been divided down since
the abolition of serfdom in 1861,
until now each owns little more
than a foov of earth.
"None is so conservative as
the Russian peasant proprietor,
and any movement that is at
tacking his property rights as a
principle wiil be resented and
squashed by him as soon as he
is able to understand it."
Relative to recent agitations in
Russia. Mr. Dawson said the
Russian were enjoying free
speech for the first time, and
any one who had something now
to say stood up and said it fear
lessly. He said exaggerated re
ports were reaching America,
and credence was being given to
alleged agitation not half so pro
nounced as some of those occur
ing almost daily in this city.
"It is the policy of the tem
porary Government," he added,
"not to use measures that would
smack of the old regime. They
think it better to let the people
blow off steam, and to permit
the crazy intellectuals to prate
of idealism to audience, 90 per
cent., of whjch, being illiterate
do not understand them.
"All wars, in the final analy
sis, are fought by Uhe masses,
and we must realize the hardy,
patient, devoted character of the
Russian peasant, who is accus
tomed to a rigorouB policy of
self-denial, to understand that
he 13 the soldier who will walk
baiefooted to Palestine or die
fighting on the battlefields.
"As I crossed on the Trans
Siberian Railway soldiers from
Siberian regiments were stymd-
ing in and upon the roofs of the
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coachesi None had been on fur
lough since they wete fitst called
and most of them had been fight
ing since the outbreak of war.
One had been in the army three
years before the war began and
had not seen his family in six
years, yet he and all his com
panions were enthusiastically
declaring they were going back
soon to 'see it out.'
"Beyond a doubt, when there
is a reorganization of Russian
railway traffic under American
guidance the food question will
become insignificant,
"System is rapidly becoming
evident under the new regime
and autocracy is a thing of the
past, and will be forever."
New York World.
Bread in Two Cities.
That high prices of food in
this country are largely arbitra
ry has been convulsively illus
trated by Mr. Gompers at Wash
ington. Bread which in Detroit
sells at 13 cents a loaf is sold in
Windsor, across the river, for 9
cents.
Windsor is practically a suburb
of Detroit. Economically the
two cities are subject to the
same conditions. Except as they
may be manipulated, wheat and
flour cost no more in one than in
the other. There is little differ
ence in the wage scale or in the
price of such real estate as
bakers usually occupy or in the
methods and expense of distribu
tion. But Windsor is in the Province
of Ontario, Canada, and Canada
has a Food-Control Law, whereas
Detroit isin the United States,
where no such legislation has
yet been enacted. The excess
of 4 cents a loaf charged in De
troit amounts to a levy of millions
of dollars a year upon the people
of an important city, and indi
cates how colossal must be the
impositions practiced upon the
country at large.
On Roof of Theater.
New York, One of the most
powerful wireless telegraph out
fits seized on the American con
tinent since the declaration of
war against Germany an in
strument capable of sending
messages hundreds of miles and
receiving at practically unlimit
ed distances was discovered on
the roof of a Broadway theater
by United States Marshal Mc
Carthy and a raiding party of
his dep uties and Secret Service
operatives. The instrument was
dismantled and three men who,
it is alleged, had caused it to be
erected and had operated it, an
engineer and two chemists, were
arrested and at once sent to the
detention camp at Ellis Island.
Never Neglect a Cold.
A chill after bathing, cooling off
suddenly after exercise and drafts,
give the cold germs a foot-hold that
may lead to something worse. Safety
requires early treatment. Keep Dr.
King's New Discovery on hand. This
pleasant balsam remedy allays inflammation,-
soothes the cough and repairs
the tissues. Better be safe than sorry
Break up the cold with Dr. King's
New Discovery before lb is too late.
At Pauil Drug Co.. 50c and $1.00.
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Hogwailow NeWS.
Attention cows! Yam& Simi
has another straw hat.
Only about fifteen more shop
ping days and the June bride
will be ready.
Atlas Peck emptied out his
pockets this week and found a
lot of things that were no good.
The storekeeper in the Calf
Ribs neighborhood has a sack of
flour on exhibition this week.
In dry states a preponderance
of suspicion accompanies each in
quiry concerning the where
abouts of a corkscrew.
As an officer of the law the
Deputy Constable has just add
ed new laurels to his brow by
catching the Tickville train.
Atlas Peck has been clearing
up his throat this weeks as he
hopes to sing louder than all oth
ers in the choir next Sunday.
Mrs. Columbus Alsop was in
Bounding Billows Wednesday
and looked right hard through
her eyebrows at a cigarette
smoker.
Cricket Hicks, who has been
shooting at a crow on Musket
Ridge for a day or two, , has re
turned home for more ammuni
tion. Atlas Peck was a visitor in
the Calf Ribs neighborhood this"
week, and started to wave at
the train but his mule got to cut
ting up.
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Miss Fruzie Alsop will devote
the balance of her life or at
least the rest of the spring and
summer, to art, and has already
painted the ocean.
Poke Eazley's chickens come
home to roost every night now
tired out and broken down, as
they have six or fseven gardens
on their circuit.
Jefferson Potlocks is able to
be up and look out the doors and
windows after being laid up for
two weeks. The weeds had
grown so he hardly knew them.
Under our present system of
commerce the cost of a thing is
regulated generally by its size
and weight, but a small, slim
wife still costs as much as a
large fat one.
Clab Hancock grew tired of
hearing the Dog Bill Methodist
doctrine so much and went over
last Sunday and let his mind re
verse by listening at the Hog
Ford Baptist minister.
The Deputy Constable will
take in a magic lantern show at
the school building in the Calf
Rib neighborhood tonight. He
gets in free, as he will keep or
der and start the applause.
Mrs. Tobe Moseley has been
very sick with rheumatism for
the past few1 days and several of
her neighbors have called to re
mind her that they had an aunt
to die of the same thing.
The other morning, while let
ting his mind rest, Dock Hocks
wondered at what a scrub lot of
people there would be in Amer
ica today if the good ship May
flower had got submarined.
Washington Hocks thinks that
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whos eVef business it is to get
up things to happen wiil have to
arrange for some more new ones
sirice everything that is any
thing has already happened.
Everybody gets along some
how. For a year or two there
have been a lot of persons who
did not see how in the world
they were ever going to make it
through, but today they look
ju3t as well and healthy and hap
py as ever.
Cricket Hicks was seen to
stick his head out of thp church
window during services at
Bounding Billows last Sunday.
This ought riot be tolerated as it
caused several others to do the
same thing to find out what
Cricket was looking at.
Jefferson Potlocks, who play3
the lead fiddle in the Excelsior
Fiddling Band, has been some
what criticised by his action dur
ing the last entertainment at
the school house, when he stop
ped during the middle of a senti
mental classic piece and looked
to see what time of night it was
Frisby Hancock's shoes are all
run down at the heels and need
half soling. His wife says she
never knew before that a man
could wear out his shoes by
merely whittling on goods boxes
and telling how far he marched
during the Civil War.
Sidney Hocks says it is. re
markable how little things grow
into big things as they travel
from tongue to tongue, especial
ly if news is scarce in the vicin
ity. The other day he was sit
ting out there in the shade by
the blacksmith shop enjoying
life and happened to make the
remark that he
was satisfied with life and ex
pected to live and die right here.
Miss Gondola Henstep happened
to be passing at the time and
when she heard him say some
thing about dying she went over
and told the Calf Ribs Widow
she heard Sidney say he wished
he was dead. The Widow then,
she went over on Musket Ridge
and told a woman who couldn't
hear very well, that Sid Hocks
was about to kill himself, and
this woman went over to the
store and scattered it around
that Sid had tried to commit sui
cide. Things that are repeated
get bigger or. littler as they cir
culate. If it is something good
about a person, it gets littler and
if it's something bad it gets big
ger. Attempted evasion of the prof
it taxes has been disclosed by
Federal authorities of munition
manufacturers to the amount of
$150,000,000.
While 8,000 women are al
ready engaged in making shirts
for the Quartermaster's NDepart
ment at Jeffersonville many
more are needed.
Both the Senate and Housa
began the consideration of the
Administration food bill to con
trol the price of all necesalties
dtritig the war.