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Show ! Women Suffragists Arrive in Salt Lake -j jfi & j we Will Attend Conference of Utah League MRS. CARE IE CHAPMAN CATT. president of the National American Woman Suffrage association, shown he-low, he-low, and members of her party, who arrived In Salt Lake yesterday to attend a conference of the Utab j League of Women Voters. The women in the picture are. left to right. Mrs. E. Jean Nelson Penfield. represen-1 represen-1 tative of the national committee, organized by the Leaguo of Women Voters for securing standardized laws for 1 men and women: Dr. Valeria Parker, chairman of the social morality committee; Mrs. Catt- and Miss Marjorie :j Shulcr, one of the associate editors of "The Woman Citizen" and press representative in Washington, D. C, for the National American Woman Suffrage association. W:- ' v-r: uv . mm i nllMMIM B HNMHWB08B89HN IS I BSBB 98 jjesHn $ -' "-jS'sw mmmm i m i I Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Speaker at Services in Tabernacle. HERE In America together we must stand against intolerance intolerance intoler-ance in Industry. Intolerance In capital, intolerance in religion, intolerance in-tolerance in politic.-?, intolerance anywhere" said Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. president of the National Woman's Suffrage association, in an address at the tahcrnucle yesterday afternoon: Mrs. Can said In part: I 1 am sure we will all agree that we are living In one of the most-critical pe-i pe-i rlods in the world's history. We have a deep footing of dread : no one seems to J know just how there will come peace out of the present chaos. Appearances are deceiving. The world Is neither dt unken nor insnne. It Is only suffering from tho aftermath of a terrible war. And if one will hut watch carefully, there are many threads which arc miming straight and true through It all, and which teach us our own lessons of action. Peace Brings Uncertainty. I ".Many, many people have I heard say, 'During the war 1 knew exajclly what to I do. Our work was mapped out for us. i There was no doubt about It, but do not 1 know what to do now or whether what I 1 am doing Is the thing that ought to bo done. "We will ail agree, however, that one of the things that ought to be done Is that we shall unitedly, aggressively and strongly set our American shoulders against Intolerance wherever it raises its head. The grea t war was the result of many causes, but, after all, the great cause, the one behimi it all, was intolerance. intoler-ance. The war has revealed our own American weakness In this respect. It has been my one constant regret since tho war came to America that we have not had a better kind of Instruction ooh-ceming ooh-ceming these questions in our public schools." Mrs. Catt cited tho fact that religious differences were minimized during the war and thai religious tolerance prevailed. As an Indication that tolerance did not always extend during the wa r period to the aoHvitles of women In their own behalf, be-half, Mrs. Call said thai opponents of suffrage became aroused and raised a fund to flg'at the cause when they became be-came alarmed because the school teachers teach-ers In a parade of t housands of women In New Vorit curried on blackboards as their slogan: "The will of the majority ma-jority Taxation without representation la tj ranuy." Quotes Lloyd George, "No sooner have we gained one step of freedom than somn try to prevent the next step." continued Mrs. Catt. "Tho great lesson wo must learn, if we are lo continue to be a great nation, is, first of all, the fundamental principle Of tolerance. tol-erance. I will close with the words ot Lloyd I'eorgo, who said: 'Whatever else we do In the reconstruction after the war, we must be just to everybody. This must be everybody's world,' "Out of the conclusion cf the present let us unite upon that principle ami give our I effort' and our every thought and energy to matting -this everybody's world." 1 President Charles W. Penrose Introduced Intro-duced Mrs. Catt. "L'tah was one of the very first stales to grant SUifrag& to women, wom-en, and now we soo the fruition of their work." he said. World Union of Enfranchised Enfran-chised Women Predicted by National President. WHEN all discrrimminatlon against women as women is removed and not before will the efforts of the League of Women Voters cease, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president presi-dent of the National American Woman Suffrage association and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, said yesterday upon hor arrival in Sail Lake. "The league is opposed to the Idea of a women's party as aderse to a men s parly, and has no thought of letting the organization despond to such a level." Mrs. Catt said. "It Is opposed lo all efforts ef-forts to arouse sex antagonism, and encourages en-courages its members to enroll in political politi-cal parties." Movement is Explained. "The League of Women Voters is the biggest idea that has ever been sug-igested sug-igested to the world. Its motives, are pure, united patriotism and its object the making mak-ing of a better nation. If the women of the country will rally to its standard as generally as we believe they will, tho Lnitc:l Staf-s and the vtorld will acknowledge acknowl-edge that It has given a distinct contribution con-tribution to civilization. "Its committee on food will not merely make recommendations on judicious buying, buy-ing, but is endeavoring lo get to the very bottom of the reason for the high cost of living." Mrs. Catt expressed the opinion that the future would bring the establishment of a union of the womep voters of the world, although there are yet many re- ! forms to be accomplished in the I'nlted States and olher countries where women have been enfranchised. The war has given me more confidence in tiie ability and judgment of women, she said, and has given women an appreciation appre-ciation of themselves. Siic declared that the war speeded up the movemem for enfranchisement in many of the countries of the world. Mrs. Catt and her associates are touring tour-ing tho Western states with the aim of acquainting the women with the purpose of the League- of Women Voters. The league was organized last March at a convention In St. Louis, when the end of the long battle for national suffrage became be-came apparent. It is replacing the National Na-tional American Suffrage association as rapidly as the various State legislatures ratify the Susan 1. Anthony amendment, she said. Convention Opens Today. The visitors will speak before tho convention con-vention of the Utah League of Women Voters which will open at - o'clock this afternoon in Assembly hall. With the suffrage leader are Mrs. E. Jean Nelson penfield, representative of the national committee for securing standardized laws for men and women, of the Leagut- of Women Voters; Dr. Valeria Parker, cllr.lr-man cllr.lr-man of the Social moral! ly committee, and Miss MarjorU- Shuler, one of the editors of "The Woman Citizen" and press representative rep-resentative In Washington. L. C, of the National American Woman Suffrage as-soclat as-soclat on. MlSS Shuler, who Is to speak during the convention on I he subject of CO lid WeVarO, said yesterday that the prOtSC-tlon prOtSC-tlon o:' children In Industry Is an Important Import-ant part of tie program of the learnm. Among other things efforts will ps made to recure uniform lawn for men and women and to condool a campaign against Illiteracy, she sjnd. |