Show EMILIE EMILIE- GO GOURD URD PILOTS PILOTS' SWISS WOMEN TO VOTE GENEVA GEl May 14 AP AP U If women Women Wo so men ot voted d in Switzerland and were asked to cast their ballot ballo for the most eminent In their cont confederation i there doubtless would would-be would be a flood of ot votes for Miss 1 Emilie G Gourd urd who personifies dynamic activity in lri all nIl movements for the public welfare Miss Mss Gourd of ot Geneva Genea is editor of ot The Feminist Movement the official official cial organ of ot the national l alliance of or Swiss feminist societies Women of ot Switzerland permitted are to vote only in is certain municipalities on I questions touching religion and nd edu edu- cation callon Hence they are ate waging a 1 persistent campaign to obtain UT th the general franchise right THe leader in this movement does not expect the new Swiss p parliament parliament parlia parlia- ment to play plat an important m role in suffragist history but the struggle will wUl go on Our tactics are to win over to the cause caUle o of womans woman's suffrage first one canton and then another canton can can- ton Miss MIs Gourd said Which canton canton canton can can- ton will come to Us S first I know not The big test will come when hen the theo o voters rs as a whole as a federation body will be asked to decide whether er et women are to tb vote in Switzerland Switzer Switzer- r- r land MI MiSs s Gourd was born in Geneva in 1879 the d daughter of 7 J. J J. J Gourd well known philosopher r and r I SOl sor atthe at the University t of Geneva Geneva At Atan an nn ea early IY age she herself hedell b became c me a professor in the private high schools i and later was made secretary and I Ithen then vice president t of the Union of i Women of Geneva Va In 1914 she founded and personally directed a sewing circle for women whom the great STeM war rendered homeless and workless workless-a. a circle which continues its usefulness to this day by provid providing ing lag employment for nee needy women Miss MIllS Gourd has directed several se investigations into social problems affecting th the welfare re of ot women presided pre pre- sided aided over the Geneva exposition which was devoted to showing what Geneva women are achieving in h practical production and was fore m most st In in 1 Insisting that that t two tO O wone women should be appointed d as as as' assistant police po po- lice Bee officials at Geneva In 1908 she became secretary of t the national alliance of ot Swiss women women women wo wo- wo- wo men societies s and later as president ent of ot the Geneva association for tor women women wo wo- wo men suffrage launched a popular movement ment in favor tavot of ot extending the franchise to women Then followed election as secretary of the International international Alliance for Woman Suffrage and for it organized at lit Geneva Genera the eighth internal woman suffrage con con- gress greslI Sh She is ia now the r representative tive the of or this organization to thel the l league ague of at nations and th the international international labor otil office e on all il subjects of ot Int interest rest to wom women n. n |