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Show Suffragists From "Seven Seas" Sound Mother Note At Geneva Congress J I American Women Get Sympathy Sym-pathy From "Free German Women. Says U. S. Delegate M v HI I i n RING ROBIN80S . olorado State Senator. GSnTKVA, Switzerland. July .V Ii feel so sympathetic with vou." said a German delegate to an American dH-eicate dH-eicate at the eighth International WO-1 , ,,,, v iffmcf .-..ncn-.v b"ld In 'it,-mvi. 'it,-mvi. Swltxerland. June 6-18. Thank you. madams." answered the American woman, but for all hr politeness there was a note of lnuw in her monncr. For we German women are free, and you are not. vou American women." wom-en." continued the delegate from Stuttgart. Stutt-gart. Just a little later at a preliminary . onference of the congress the American Am-erican WOman offend S resolution plainly in the interest of speeding up routine business only to call forth flew denunciation from a Cr.echo-Slo-j vaklan delegate because her resolution resolu-tion wss so undemocratic." i.eneva the historic old eltv, the baen of Calvin, the cradle of the Red Cross society was a' fit place for this greatest feminist gathering of all times. prom Old and New. The great gathering of women, the first international suffrage OOngTeSS since 1912. was worthy of its setting and Its 0C .islon. ! There were women representing old rich civilizations; there were women representing nations pnli In their voung vigorous making There was a delegation from Iceland Ice-land and a delegation from South Africa; Af-rica; there were women late from the purdah with the flowing garments of India, and women in trim tailored suits from America, women from Palestine, Pal-estine, their faces reflecting the mys-l tery of the Bast, and there were the pi. i. Heal features of German hnua-fraus. hnua-fraus. There were clergy-women, ph-siclans ph-siclans and doctors of law. There wen- wonum members of parliament par-liament from England, Germany, Denmark Den-mark Finland, Luxembourg and other oth-er countries. It was considered unfortunate that the only woman member of a national cabinet. Hallb Edlb, minister of edu-cat edu-cat Ion in Turkey, could not be present, i-. itii i legates, For t'"4 r,rs: time In the history of suffrage 12 women sat as the .speciul delegates sent by their governments: .Mrs. .loscpnns nanieis. si-ni oy inc liilted Slates; Great Britain sent LadS A.xtur. Germany sent Frau Mail.. Ma-il.. Strltt, and Mile plamlnkovs rep-tesented rep-tesented Caecho-Slovakla, both municipal munic-ipal councillors; Norway sent Frau Quam; Uruguay, Dr Paulina Lulst; Ureeca alms Negropontes. with Latvia. Lat-via. Luxembourg, Serbia and Turkey also represented. liver t Ilex- nal I oils .l .-.-ni. d the k en Wit, COOl Judgment and Infinite resourcefulness re-sourcefulness of an American woman, Cm lie C hapman Catt, president oi Ihe International suffrage Alliance and president of ths American Suffrage association With her were o group Of vv hlle-haii ed pioneers of the sul- frage movement In England) America Scandinavia Snd Holland But most of the delegates were younger worn sn who have not known the long waiting wait-ing Women horn to the VOtlng-purple In the slates of America and Australia, Austral-ia, countries won u, lieedoii! hv these gallant White-haired pioneers. Mot her n ote. The remarkable thing about this gathering of vvonien. so very, very new,' i. that they sounded Incessant-ly Incessant-ly the r.ld, oKI note--the Mother note The .unrvin'? children of the worio must be fed. the congress declared And the ilcleg-iles put deeds back of the words while the American del-sgation del-sgation sppolntsd Sirs. Arthur Ryer-son. Ryer-son. wife of the Bishop of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, to go Into the famine districts arid then tell Americans the awful truth. Women must go into parliament. In Order to write ".Mother" Into the laws of the land, suid an ardent woman M P Then getting down again to legislative legis-lative details the congress declared unequivocally for the economic endowment en-dowment of motherhood to the extent at least of sparing mothers from the fai tory for the cradle. Always the mother cry! The call of the home |
