The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 20, 1920, Page 12

The Woman’s Question = - Box; Queries Answered Why Nonpartisan Clubsp Answering a Few Questions by _-Readers of the Woman’s Page ° ;] DITOR Nonpartisan Leader: Why are ‘Women’s Nonpartisan clubs .organiz- ed? Why not make the women mem- bers of the League, the Same as men? Equal suffrage means that political or- ganizations also ought to be open to both sexes, in my opinion. Await- ing an answer, = MRS. L. S. R. Glasgow, Mont. Women ARE members of the Nonpartisan league, the same as men. When the League was first started in North Dakota, fhat state did not have woman suffrage but many women who owned farms were admitted on the same ““terms as men. Two sessions of the legislature, controlled by the League, voted to give women of the state equal suffrage. When the League spread into other states where women already had suffrage, it was decided not only to admit women farm own- ers, but wives of farm owners on equal terms with their husbands and without the payment of any additional fee. This has been adopted as 2 na- tional policy for more than a year. Every League organizer is in- structed, when ‘Securing a new member of the League, to find out if he is married. If so his wife THE FARM WOMAN’S PAGE ™"l N - i . not be admitted, the enemies of the peuple always - resort to this same set of lies, Compare, for instance, the lies told against the League with those told . about the rising power of the Puritans in their con- test with the divine right of kings in the seventh century, The Puritans were fighting divine right of kings. The League is fightmg divine nght of profiteers. The injunction was born of the divine right of kings and thrived so well that eventually it brought about the downfall of the kings who used it. Orig- inally it was intended to be a sup- plement to the law. When the law failed to provide for emergen- cies that might arise, injunctions of the king were supposed to pro- vide for the welfare of his peo- ple. Royal injunctions under the Tudor and Stuart kings of Eng- land came to be anWoverriding of law. If the law &s made “by parliament did not suit the whim or the policy of the king, he set it aside with a royal injunction. The upshot was the Puritan revo- lution and the beheadmg of Charles 1. Instead of royal m]unctmns, we in the United States have court | injunctions. Rights of the people _ by law are contmually nullified by - action of the courts in issuing in- junctions. Especially is this dan- - gerous weapon ' directed against labor unions—their rights to or- | ganize, to strike, to picket and to k boycott. A GIRL STICKER .study the ballot and becomes a. member of the League and is entitled to a membership certificate, the same as her hus- band. > In some cases organizers may have failed to report the wife’s name. If the wife of any League member has failed to receive her certificate of membership, she can get it by writing League head- quarters. But whether she has the certificate or not, she is @ ‘When Minnesota Women’s Non- partisan Club No. 1 celebrated its first birthday at Eagle Bend re- cently it had a regular blrthday cake, with one candle. Miss Lily Anderson, former - candidate ' for state treasurer of Minnesota (left), and Miss Kate L. Gregg, national manager of the Women’s Nonpartisan clubs (right),. are shown in the picture. Both spoke at the birthday party. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am just going to write a few lines to-let you know what I was thinking about the League. The League is assuredly worth stick- ing to and is going straight ahead. Just like a rock, the-League can no doubt stand fit Here is hoping that many more farmers and laborers add themselves to the 'membership and make the- League the strongest ever known. member of the League in good. standmg, with equal rights with her husband, and is entitled to participate in all League caucuses, convenions and other meetings. The far as its own affairs are concerned, over a year ahead of the United States government. In every state in which women were entitled to vote at the time League conventionus were held, women have been nominated for state and congressional offices. The-purpose of the Women’s Nonpartisan clubs is to enable women to acquaint themselves with publie-questions, in which, as new voters, they are particularly interested._ Questions relating to edu- cation and legislation in the interests of children, women in industry and the home, are of especial in- terest to women. In addition many women, about to vote for the first time, desire and need informa- tion about civil government, voting laws and regu- lations; ete. THE “ANTI-RELIGION” CANARD; -WHAT IS AN INJUNCTION? Editor Nonpartisan Leader: * are opposed to the League say that we are against religion? I wish that you would answer me, bnefly on this point. It’s a puzzle to me. Also what is an injunction? MRS. J. T. O. Ray, N. D. 7 History tells us why our enemxes say that we are against religion. Whenever a great economit force, born of the common people, meets an intrenched economic force opposed to the people and tries to overcome it, the opposition, fighting with all its might for the maintenance of its lold privileges, looks about for the accusations that will make the public most fear the new force. Eager to say the worst that can be said, it always says that the peo- ple’s cause is against all that men hold most dear— against the sanctity of the family, against the sanc- *fity of religion and against the sanctity of the fath- erland and its symbol—the flag. When the truth can eague has put equal suffrage into efi'ect T ‘Why do people who I, a girl of 21, am wishing you\ and the Leaguers best of luck and godspeed. Little Falls, Minn. SABINA R. OLSON. " 1 ¢ Fables That Teach Facts Kitherine Smith of the library school, UniVersity of Wisconsin, has sent the Leader an interesting bibliography of fables and fairy tales which show the benefit of working tégether to attain success, instead of depending upon individual effort. The list of stories includes many that are thou- * sands of years old, but which are just as interesting and truthful today as when they were first told to - the little children of ancient Greece, India, Ger-: amany or Britain. Among some of the best known are these: Father and sons (Aesop’sfables). The sons can not break a bundle of sticks but when the bundle is untied the separate sticks are easily broken. Lion and four bulls (Aesop’s fables). The bulls are safe as long as they remain together. When they quarrel and-separate the lion finishes tHem. Quarrel of the quails (Jataka tales). The quails carry off the fowler’s net as long as fhey co- operate but when they refuse to work together he catches them. -~ Town musicians’ (Grimm’s fau'y tales).\ An ass, a dog, a cat and a rooster, all cast off by their own- ers as useless, win a home-by uniting their talents. Teachers or others who want a complete list of these 'stories can obtain them by addressing the Iv,;brary School Umversny of Wlsconsm, Madlson, is. ; “START ANOTHER CLUB” “Start another club” is becoming a motto with ~ members.of 'Women’s Nonparhsan clubs in Minne- sota. As soon as one club is organized its members suggest another locality that needs one. One club has organized five others in the county. PAGE TWELVE a7 The Women Stick Too ‘Montana Vlctory ‘Was -~ Aided by Work of /- Clubs—Women Nommated PPONENTS of the Nonpartisan e hoped, when Tennessee ranfied the sufftage amen@ment, that the newly enfranchised women would help them by voting against ;the League and labor candidatés. ‘Montana was the first state to hold an election since Tennessee rati- ~ fied the amendment. And women and men, voting together, nominated the full League-labor ticket in the Democratic primaries, with two women on it for state office and others for the legislature. In the campaign the women vs'orked as hard as the men.” ‘Women’s Nonpartisan clubs, most of them only recently organized, held' meetings to eir members canvassed their neighborhoods thoroughly to get out the vote for ‘the farmers’ candidates. Everywhere that: a Women’s Nonpartisan club was active the vote for the League candidates was a whopper. | As a result the entire ticket was nominated, with majorities ranging from 12,000 to 18,000. The two women nommated for state office are Mrs. Ella Dorothy Lord, for state treasurer, and Mrs. Margaret A. Hannah for superintendent of public instruction. ; Mrs. Lord, whose picture is! presented herewith, was born at Albert Lea, Minn., was educated in that A state and worked for many years with large busi- ness houses in Chicago, Minneapolis and Billings. She has lived in Montana for 15 years 4and has a large acquaintance. She has been a member of the League for four years and has.been sfiiooster every minute of that time. Mrs. Hannah, a native of Nehmska, is a daughter of a Civil war veteran, who was also’ a fighting member of the old Farmers' alliance, and the wife of a former Montana state senator, whe. was a Spanish war veteran and a fighter for the farmers’ cause in the legislature. She has been engaged in teaching for many years and has brought up four children and.taken a prominent part in woman’s club work. . Two of her addresses at recent conven- tions attracted state-wide attention. -~ o Mrs. Ella Dorothy Lord, indorsed by the Nonparti- san league for state treasurer of Montana and nom- inated on the Democratic ticket by a big majority at the recent primary. The picture of Mrs. Mar=" garet A. Hannah, the League and labor -candidate - for superin dent of public instruction in Mon- / tana, willbe printed in a future issue. ’,.