Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 30, 1918, Page 11

» right here 'a’s By o / AL JQREIOLER g OW soon are ydu going to France?” “They keep the sailings pretty secret,but it won’t be before next Tuesday, I'm glad to say!” “Why? Submarines?” “No. Suffrage!” “Suffrage? Oh, you want to vote.” “Yes, and [ want to be right here where I can help them get it!” [11 Wh 0? ”” “Why, the women of the United States! I want to help them get it by casting my little old vote for a Representative from this town who will vote at Hartford next winter for the Ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment.” “You don’t mean you, a soldier, - are in favor of suffrage.” “Say, listen! Do you know that the Canadian troops voted for it a little while ago? No spots on those boys —except medals.” “That’s all right —but things are different in Canada.” “Sure, Canada is part of a mon- archy. Welive in a republic.” “Say, that’s so, isn’t it?” “Besides this war has shown us where we were wrong about it.” “ About what?” “We’ve always said women weren’t liable for service to the State.” “Well, they aren’t now,are they?”, “Look at the women in Serbia who went singing into the trenches! And right here and now—in every kind of war service—" “Oh yes! I know—rolling band- ages, and so on.” “Yes, and selling Liberty Bonds —and organizing Red Cross units —and working onfarms—and helping recruiting — and keeping the boys abroad warm and cheered up—and carrying the load of this Food Administration idea!” “They’ll probably get the vote sooner or later as a reward.” ” ANalive! Thewomenaren’t asking the vote as a re- ward for war service or anything else. They are going right ahead working harder than women ever worked before. But they know, as you and I know, how much more they could do with the vote.” it does to " &% MAN ' FRANCE “Why would that make any-dif- ference?” “Ask England and France and Italy. They’ve been in this war three years longer than we have. They - know!”’ “You feel pretty strong about it, don’t you?” “Why, we actually coaldn’t fight this war a week without them!” “What decided. you;so positive- - ly?n ELL, when'l get ower on the other side, 'm going to feel a whole lot better if I know that every ounce of ‘my coun- try’s strength is backing us up. It - will be, too,if women vote. And that means as much to you at home as it will to me in France! But there’s another reason.” “What'’s that.”’, “I'm going away for a while. - Maybel’llbealong time ‘overthere.’ And all | want is to make certain that two people are going to help run the country right, anyhow — while I’m gone.” [ wh ) ? ” “Why, my mother and my wife. I want them to vote, while I'm away—and to keep right on voting —especially, if I don’t come back. That'’s all.” CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, 55 PRATT ST, HARTFORD, CONN. e A R B Lt BB R N R i i s 5 A e <o st e g AP e et S Ay A -