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WAGE INCREASE- -TO MD WAR
INDUSTRIES
FOR SHOP MEN
New Schedule of Pay and Resources and Conversion
Hours for Ralroad Employes -Section May Find Oppor
tunities Here.
in Effect To-morrow.
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the
Bradford’ ‘D. Pierce, Jr., of Bridge
Thirty-seven men employed In
regional ad-,
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appoin
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port,
York;
New
n
local machine shop of the
as1 visor of the Resources and Conve
New Haven & Hartford railroad
Industries
I tion Section of the War
repair
car
akers,
Con
machinists, boilerm
the 3oard for the region comprising
men and helpers are affectedworking.! necticut and Western Massachusetts
and
wages
of
Bridge
le
of
r.ew schedu
i’ow,I and Charles E. Bilton,
hours which take effect to-mor re- port, has been appointed chairman
h a
Fair
ising
compr
id which came about throug
ion,
Mc- of the sub-reg
cunt order of Director-General day, field and Litchfield counties.
ng
wormi
may
rd
The standa
Danbury
Adoo.
eight’ J,t s-is possible that
commencing to-morrow, will befor all come closely in touch with this new
-ronnectiOn with the
hours, with the rate of pay
y a1 organization, in
e’yes increased approximatelSun- :.vork of introducing war industries
me,
Overti
D $1.50 a day.
paid’ in this’ city.
I -holiday work will be
18-19 a meetin-of repro
lf! On July from all of -the-t’WefltY
one-ha
and
one
of
“Lé’rate
es
ati’
chedu1ed rate. The ncw regions of the country’was:Thel at
of’
chairansh:p
to date from January 1 bet
‘\ ashington under the
and the back pay will
of Charles, -A. Otis, chief of:’eC
ted.
ofl
calcula
Ofl as it can be
‘at which time an ex,ties
ä.
the twa,.
the. ,rc
cases of men employed in
hO purposes of
In
$600.
ewas, a,de I
Ic-cal shop it will amount to fully will ant Converslon Section
y B. M. Baruch, c air
ft is expected that the back pay of a more ully
Chief, and
b- given the men at th ra same
in
rronth at each regular pay, the ntlir
Industrf’és Board.
as is being ‘done in the case of been
The primary object of the section
railroad employes ‘who nave
le
is to assemble as quickly as’ poSsIb
granted, h’içreased pay.
information
g
d
workin
detaile
and
been
lte
has
compe
shop
The 1oça1,
parts of
u!t..hours in two shifts of oiicerning industries in all
1 twenty
new1 th country
twelve’ 4ioUrs. each. Under the
Those not now engaged in war
schediilThree shifts will work, butundertaking I
e of
the local force has not yet been -work,’ but capabl
three
work.
uuch
the
in
work
to
arranged
B. Industries only’ partly employchanges.
work, but able to increase
The new schedule of wages, for ed on’ -war
production of necessary wr
employes in the machine shop is as thei” als, and
materi
C-fl
follows:
C. Industries nOw employed SOOn
“Machinists, boilernilakers, bl4ackwork, whose contracts will
war
mould
s,
worker
metal
,
smiths sheet
be completed.
ot
ers and first class electrical workers,
It is desired to enlist the aid
68 cents per hour.
ies and to bring
industr
of
classes
all
al
all
“Carmen and second class electric
this about, It is imperative that
should
wcrkers, 58 cents per hour.
industries of a given ihour.
per
cents
-ether
“Helpers, 4
be asked to participat
“Foremen paid on hourly basis, five they are now membI
cents per hour more than respective organizations or not.
llest
crafts.
It -was made plain thai
asis,
ly
the
“Foremen paid, on month
not only I
ne co-operation
g1ofl,
increase $40 per month, mini
different industries in each.
Jfl
-and
ve
fifty-fi
hundred and
between the regions of
...r to
two hundred and fifty.,
ry must be’ developed in
Il
,tes are retroa
‘further the prompt delivery of es.
uamaterials required for wal’ purpos of
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August
Representatives from several
departi- time
.e different governme’nt
wo”
Sunday
ents including the War Department
in
and the Navy Department were de
attendance, and expressed their
ces
sire to co-operate with the Resour
full
and Conversion Section to the Otis
est extent, by offering to Mr.
re
complete informatIon as to theIr
cjuirements.
al
Mr. Otis is to furnish each.r
e
advisOr wb copies -of
nd he in tu
CuireWe4f*.
-ttee,
sources
UPOfl
each
hairmen’ f
compose’d.”,
the
in
firms
ist of
sub-regio
of doing whatever
legion C&
work is called for.
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1iin1e ately by the regi
chief of section
in.
b’e understood
I
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no authority in
seto
any special
ter’-”öf allotting wrk to
con
nor in -the Ietting of
It
firms.
tracts to individuals or
ty,
capaci
acts merely in an’ advisory as
to
offering recommendations
and
easily
be
where work can
ickly done.
aid’ the
It is particularly desired to
especlafly
s]naL manufacturers, and
ma
war
those not nowproducing plants
to
terials, to convert their
in the
purpos,es corsidered essential
A large
of- the *ar,
pro,ión
sections
nunS, of plants in many
been:
already
douñtry have
t
f
tb war work, and many:
h conversions must neOes
This fact was
ke place.
ongy emphasized du’rlng the
very
meetings. held at Washiflgton. small
Allied to the ,desirê •to raid have
to’
manufacturers :5 the vish’
of a
all process of manufacture as far
out
completed article carried
In this
as may be In one locality.
Conversion
way the -Rourpes and
Section hopes-to save transportatiofl
als,
‘harges for both labor and materi
speed,
to produce goods with greater
ies of
iirid to’ keep ‘the sjnal industr ential
each regiofi supplied with
I work on sub-contracts.
an
It was pointed out that I -jsrces
niportant -‘funt1on of the Resóü
diecóur
and Conversion Section to
xc
age unnecessary building conHthde
IL’I
tkn while the war lasts.
avail
g
Fired to -utilize every buildin
war’
/able in any way for makin con
materials before planning neW
struction.
It ‘was ‘stated’ that this request of
might
Board
thc War Industries
later on have to b made manda
toy, unless it is generally complied
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It was learned that in order
of
shortage
great
make up the
ski]led machinists and tool makers
now existing throughout the coun
try, schools are being established n
Great
many of the ‘larger plants.
success has been attained by inten
sive training In the operation of ma
chines especially among women, who
increasingiy
are being employed in
‘Some of these worn
large numbers.
con
tors ‘have learned to
en. op
ma
complicated
tr
er a comparatively short
e,
ainlrg.
perk,,
rganization ofjie War
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ttee of’* No.
commi
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at
2 was” ected at a Thetl
n July 23rd.
.HartfO’
r.
eetiig Charlesi;’,
At th,
was elected chairman of thei
t
rnitteé, and Robert H. Schut
Hartford was appointed chairman of’
of
the Hartford sub-region, in place
Mr. Taylor has opened
Mr. Taylor.
street,
Asylum
‘rnces at No. 2,52
The chairmen of the oth
Hartford.
er sub-regions remain as- appointed
at the preliminary meeting.
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tho
‘a statement of the functions of
of:
of Conversion e
Rcsourc
an
dustries Bo
the W
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in the World War
By Anna Hornik
COPYRIGHT
1923
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Part I. What Danbury Contributed to the War.
Part II.
A f t e r t h e Wa r i s O v e r. T h e A m e r i c a n L e g i o n
Carries O
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Chapter II. The American Legion Auxiliary.
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Chapter III. The Department of Connecticut.
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Chapter IV. The Danbury Post, No. 6
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Chapter I. As aNational Organizatio
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I.
What Danbury Contributed to the War.
Danbury’s only defense before the war—The Eighth Company,
(8th Co., C.
Coast Artillery Corps, Connecticut National Guard.
A. C, C. N. G.)
R O S T E R , J U LY, 1 9 1 7 .
Captain,
Charles Lord.
First Lieutenant,
Anthony Sunderland.
Staff Of
Second Lieutenants,
cer.
Gus Holmgren,
C h a r l e s Vo e g e l e .
Sergeants
First Sergeant, Frank Stone
Supply Sergeant, Harold Lent
Mess Sergeant, Martin Green
Ivan
Frederick Schulze,
Willis Woodin
Renzo Gaia
Alton
Lord
Charles Regan
Clarence
Wildman
Joseph Wixted
O’Connor
Corporals
Buglers, Lloyd Sturges, Michael Peeler
Cooki
-Joseph Pawloski, Franklin Snow
M e c h a n i c s — Wa l t e r M e y e r s , J o h n B r o d i e
Kenneth Keeler
John Marsh
George Benig
Robert Betancourt
Alfred Connolley
Louis Deboben
John McCarthy
Avery Pike
Frederick Quaas
Paul Walsh
Anthony Favorinski
Dominic Hunt
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�Privates
Clarence Avery
Herbert
Clifford Baldwin
Clifford Banks
John Haugh
Lewis Hawley
Alvah Bishop
William Heady ^
LeGrand Benedict
Hand
Clayton Bennett
Joseph Bleckel
Ernest Boughey
Matthias Heinzelman
Marshall Huse
John Huss
Kenneth Hooper
Arthur
George Johnson
Brink
Floyd Comstock
Thomas Cassidy
Andrew Carlson
Martin Carrol
Clayton Knapp
Leo 'Kelley
Arthur Kelley
Stuart Payne
Michael Piccirille
William Phillips
John Renner
Frank Ridgeway
George Seaberg
Stephen Sedimer
Weber Schoening
William Scho eld
Charles Sherwood
Charles Schmidt
George Stott
William Lewis
Walter Silvernail
Frank Cleary
Irving Conley
Charles Churchill
Hanford Light
William Collier
Clifford Conklin
Miles Dickins
Herbert Durgy
Francis Dyer
Walter Martin
Howard Stryker
L e r o y Ta y l o r
F r a n c i s Va u g h n
R a y m o n d Wa l l i n g
George Emans
Daniel Mclnerney
Harry Miller
Karl Faust
Edward Foshay
Arthur Franklin
Robert Ferry
William Gabrielle
Arthur Gleave
Edward Goos
Carl Gustafson
Martin Lillis
Harry Lutes
Algie Mead
Paul Manacek
Frank Metcalf
Ronald McLean
Matthew Mitchell
Lyman Monroe
Edward Morris
George Myers
Joseph Norkin
Einar Olson
Louis Osborne
Albert
Walsh
Benjamin Washburn
Clifton White
Joseph Zarcone
Reserves
Charles Bachman
Gilbert Burns
Earl Gallagher
George Hinckley
Charles Schulz
Wilbur
Va l i n e
Order of Important Events in Danbury During the Great War,
Beginning With the Declaration of War, April 6, 1917,
and Ending With the Signing of the Armistice,
November 11, 1918.
May—Marked the rst enlistments of “Our Boys" in the service
of their country, in various branches.
June—The rst military registration was held and 1,895 men
between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one registered for
service.
Danbury contributed $16,950.38 to the fund raised by the Red
Cross Campaign. First Liberty Loan Campaign amounted to
$380,150.
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�August—Examination of 4I0registered men begins. Danbury
district’s quota being 165 men in the rst draft for National Army
Service.
September—During the month sixty-six registered men in the
rst draft leave for Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass.
October—Second contingent of sixty-nine men leave for Camp
Devens.
the
Walter J. Henebry dies of pneumonia at Camp Devens.
rst Danbury boy to die in the service of his country.
Danbury contributed $808 toward the War Library Fund.
He is
At the close of the Second Liberty Loan Campaign, Danbury
had subscribed for bonds to the amount of $1,183,00
5
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%
"over-the-top.”
November—Second draft call is issued. Atotal of one-hun¬
dred and seventy-six men have entered for service in the National
A r m y.
Danbury contributes $14,680 toward the Y. M. C. A. Drive.
December—Thirty-two men enlist in the Ordnance Corps.
Jewish War Relief Fund drive closes with acontribution of
$2,106.25.
Christmas Red Cross Roll Call brings in $8,855.
—1918
—
January—Knights of Columbus open drive for $10,000, but i irn stead reach the amount of $13,850, with 5,100 persons contribut¬
ing.
Nine men leave for Camp Devens, having been deferred from
the last draft on account of the in uenza epidemic.
February—The Salvation Army Drive shows areport of
$1,800.
Contingent of twenty-six men leave for Camp Devens.
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July—Orders were received for the Eighth Company to mob¬
the 25 th, for Fort Wright,
Fisher’s Island, prior to active service in France,
Afund of $1,1 00
was presented to the Company by the community.
ilize for Federal Service, leaving on
�March—A drive to secure reading matter for our sailors and
soldiers, results in 2,160 volumes of books and magazines being
contributed.
The rst roster printed, since the war began, show^ that Dan¬
bury had enrolled over 500 men. The following indicate the v a r ious branches of service to which they were assigned:
Regular Army—Medical department, four; Dental r e s e r v e .
three. Of cers’ reserve corps, eight; one in France,
Ve t e r i n a r y
reserve corps, one. Signal corps, eight. Ordnance department,
thirty-nine; one in France. Quartermasters' department, eleven;
two in France. Ambulance service, nine; four in France, two hav¬
ing already returned after six months' service. Transportation s e r vice, three; one in France,
Sanitary detachment. Coast defense.
eight. Home Guard section. Coast defense; ninety-nine. Rail¬
road corps, six; and all in France. Engineering corps, three; one
in France. Balloon unit, four including one in France. Aviation
A r corps, thirty-nine. Infantry, twenty-seven; twelve in France,
tillery, ten; ve in France. Cavalry, four. Marine corps, eight.
M u s i c i a n s , f o u r.
National Army—One hundred and thirty-six.
Canadian Army—Six.
Navy—Fifty-nine, including Captain, Commander, Lieutenant,
and Ensigns, also wireless operators, hospital apprentices, machin¬
ists' mates, yeoman, seaman and reserves. In this department also
appear the names of three young women who enlisted their services
as Uncle Sam's yeomanettes.
Three former Danbury men in the ministry have been assigned
to duty as chaplains in the National Army.
During the six months’ of the draft, two hundred and twentythree men have been accepted for service into the National Army.
April—The rst word that had been received of the safe arrival
over-seas of members of the Eighth Company, now of the 28th
Regiment.
Danbury goes “over-the-top” in the Third Liberty Loan Drive,
subscribing to $1,150,600 worth of bonds,
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received of the death in action, on April 20th, of
s
George C. Fairchild, of New Fair eld; the
rst man in this district
to lose his life on the battle elds of France.
May—A contingent of ninety-four selective-service men leave
for Camps Upton, N. Y., and Fort Slocum, Boston, Mass.
During the Red Cross Drive, Danbury contributed $2 7,000
toward the fund.
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�June—Men who have reached the age of twenty-one since June
5th, 1917, register for service.
Seven nurses graduating from the Danbury Hospital Training
School volunteer their
s e r v i c e s .
War Savings and Thrift Stamps Campaign closes with apledge
of $160,000
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July—One hundred and forty-seven selective-service men leave
^r
Camp
Devens,
and
eight
limited-service
men
leave
for
Syracuse,
August—Seven colored men; three limited-service, and fteen
selected-service men leave for camp. Thirty-six selective
leave for Camp Greenleaf, Ga. and six limited
leave for Camp Upton, N. Y.
m
e
n
s e r v i c e
-service
men
Thus far, reports just compiled show that 1,050 men from this
district are in the service of their country.
Our Boys of the old Eighth Company, now the 56th are on
the ring-line and in the thick of battle. Raymond Walling re¬
ported the rst member of the company to lose his life in the
w a r .
September—Men between the ages of thirty-two and forty- ve
register for service,. Eighteen selective
service
men
Upton.
leave for Camp
Local Red Cross sends 500 sweaters and 1,356 pairs of sox to
the men in service.
Fourth Liberty Loan far exceeds its quota, $1,746,050 was the
amount pledged by the people of Danbury.
October—Thirty selective-service men leave for Fortress Mon¬
roe, Va., and ve limited-service men leave for Fort Slocum, Mass.
The women of Danbury send two tons of jam to France.
November—During the United War Work Campaign, $55,000
was contributed by the community.
shows apledge of $1,160,300, while the
1918 Red Cross Roll Call amounted to $6,120.
The grand total raised for war purposes amounted to the
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of nearly six million dollars.
The total number of men and women in service from Danbury
was thirteen- hundred;
of t these
112
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49
in
the
Aviation Corps; 20 in the Marine Service; 24 in the Student Army
Training Corps (S. A. T. C.;) 12 in Special Service, the remainder
were in the Regular Army. A1
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News received of the safe arrival overseas of the 56th Regiment,
Battery E, formerly members of the Eighth Company, C. A. C.
�women
who
served as Army Nurses and Yeomanettes.
One hundred families gave two members of their family to the
family gave four
eighteen families gave three men;
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to the service of their country.
s o n s
The number of men who lost their lives during the war were
thirty-six; eleven in the United States, and twenty- ve in France.
Fifty men were reported wounded on t h e b a t t l e
while many more were gassed and shell-shocked.
elds of France,
The total number disabled from the effects of the war were
sixty-one veterans.
How Deuibury Stood Back of the Boys.
$380,150
1,183,800
1,150,600
1,746,050
160,000
1,160,300
16,950
First Liberty Loa
Second Liberty Loa
Third Liberty Loa
Fourth Liberty Loa
War Savings and Thrift Stamp
Victory Loa
Red Cross National Drive, 191
Red Cross Roll Call, 191
Red Cross Roll Call, 191
6,120
14,680
13,850
1,808
1,293
Y. M. C. A. Drive, 191
Knights of Columbus Driv
Salvation Army Driv
Jewish Relief Fun
Library Fund
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8,855
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Danbury; ten Physicians and Dentists; eleven young
55,000
87,439
G r a n d To t a l ,
$5,927,264
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N o v e m b e r 11 , 1 9 1 8 - 1 9 1 9
“Our Boys” who were killed in action on the battle¬
elds of France, or lost their lives on foreign soil, in the
service of their beloved country:
Private George C. Fairchild, 102nd Infantry, killed
in action, April 20, 1918.
Frank A. Morgan, Co. M., 102nd Infantry, killed in
action, June 20, 1918.
Private Albert Smith, Co. A., 101 st Infantry, killed
in action, July 23, 1918.
Private Emil Marasco, Co. K., 326th Infantry, killed
in action, August 4, 1918.
Private John Gilbert, Signal Corps, 327th Infantry,
died of wounds received in action, August 12,191 8.
Private Raymond Walling, Battery F., 56th Artil¬
lery, died of wounds received in action, August 3Ist,
1918.
Private Iver Holmes, Co. G., 307th Infantry, re¬
ported killed in action, September 15, 1918.
Private Joseph Russo, 116th Supply Co., Quarter¬
masters Corps, died in France, September 19, 1918.
Private George H. Wood, Co. B., 307th Infantry,
died from wounds received in action, September 20th,
1918.
G . W i n t h r o p S t a n d i s h , C o . H . , 1 0 7 t h I n f a n t r y,
killed in action, September 29, 1918.
Corporal George W. Hyatt, Co. A., 327th Infantry,
died of wounds received in action, October 3, 1918.
Private George B. Hawley, Headquarters Co., 307lh
Infantry, died in France, October 7, 1918.
Private Joseph T. Cassidy, Co. I., 115th Infantry,
killed in action, October 8, 1918.
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�Corporal Charles A. Schoonover, 305th Infantry,
killed in action, October 10, 1918.
Private Phillip Tomanio, Co. A., 11th Machine Gun
B a t t a l i o n , d i e d i n F r a n c e , O c t o b e r 11 , 1 9 1 8 .
P r i v a t e To b y A z m a r, 3 2 5 t h I n f a n t r y, k i l l e d i n
action, October II, 1918.
Private Gustave Streibig, Co. L., 325th Infantry,
died of wounds received in action, October 17, 1918.
Private Martin E. Brennan, Headquarters Co., 138th
Field Artillery, killed in railroad accident in England,
October 26, 1918.
Musician Avery N. Hinckley, 77th Field Artillery
B a n d , k i l l e d i n a c t i o n , N o v e m b e r 11 , 1 9 1 8 .
Private James DePaolis, Battery F., 10th Field Ar¬
tillery, died in France, November 26, 1918.
Private Fred G. Lyon, Sanitary Detachment, 56th
Artillery, died in France, December 3, 1918.
Private Edward N. Street, Co. B., 4th Military
Police, died at Thier, Germany, December 10, 1918.
Private James Cantoni, Co. I., 304th Regiment, died
in France, January 6, 1919.
Corporal Anthony Mancuso, Co. L., 325th In¬
fantry, died of wounds received in action, January 10,
1919.
James F. Kelley, Merchant Marine Service, drowned
at Rotterdam, Holland, August 2, 1919.
Died in Service in the United States
Private Walter J. Henebry, 304th Infantry, died at
Camp Devens, Mass,, October 14, 1917.
Seaman Ronald Luke, U. S. Navy, died in Brook¬
lyn, N. Y., May 17, 1918.
Cadet George Byrnes, Merchant Marine Service,
died in Brookline, Mass., September 21, 1918.
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�Private Paul Manent, 37th Co., 151st Depot Bri¬
gade, died at Camp Devens, Mass., September 24th,
1918.
P r i v a t e J o h n E . L o b d e l l , 7 4 t h I n f a n t r y, d i e d a t
Camp Devens, Mass., September 30, 1918.
Private Alfred Layman, Radio Department, died at
Ebbert's Field, Ark., September 30, 1918.
Private Joseph McHugh, 24th Co., 152 Depot Bri¬
gade, died at Camp Upton, N. Y., October 4, 1918.
Private Stephen J. Feeley, Engineers Corps, died at
Washington, D. C., October 4, 1918.
Private Philo J. Hawley, Engineers Corps, died at
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., October 11, 1918.
Private Reuben J. Knapp, 24th Co., 152nd Depot
Brigade, died at Camp Upton, N. Y., October 13,
1918.
Private Terrence Coffey, Co. F., 74th Infantry, died
at Camp Devens, Mass., January 25, 1919.
Bodies of “Our Heroes” Returned Home
Private Martin E. Brennan.
P r i v a t e G e o r g e B . H a w l e y.
Private James F. Kelley.
P r i v a t e P h i l l i p To m a n i o .
P r i v a t e F r e d G . Ly o n .
Private Edward N. Street.
Private
Private
Private
Private
Anthony W. Mancuso.
John F. Gilbert.
Joseph T. Cassidy.
James Cantoni.
Private Emil Marasco.
Private Gustave Streibig.
Cadet George A. Byrnes.
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11, 1919, or After Honorable Discharge.
James O’Hara. December 17, 1919.
E m i l D i t t m a r, F e b r u a r y 3 , 1 9 2 0 .
Charles Michael, February 8, 1920.
Andrew Kelley, June 9, 1920.
Joseph Bates, July 30, 1920.
Frank Tomaino, August 6, 1920.
Roy Webber, September 8, 1920.
Frederick Berardi, January 9, 1921.
Lowell Starr, August 7, 1921.
George Mitchel, October 13, 1921.
Alfred Belot, January 30, 1922.
Joseph Wochek, August 28, 1922.
William Euvrard, September 27, 1922.
Charles Rice, March 19, 1923.
John Falvo, May 28, 1923.
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II.
After the War is Over The American Legion Carries On,
PREAMBLE.
National Constitution of The American Legion.
For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the
following purposes:
To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of
America: to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a
one hundred per cent. Americanism: to preserve the memories and
incidents of our association in the Great War; to inculcate a s e n s e o f
individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to com¬
bat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right
the master of might; to promote peace and good-will on earth; to
safe-guard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, free¬
dom and democracy: to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship
by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.”
CHAPTER
I.
After the War is Over—The American Legion Carries On
As aNational Organization.
Hardly had the thrill of Armistice Day ceased when aVeterans’
organization began to be discussed. That great organized body of
ex-service men and women who served our country in the Great
War found its birth on the soils of France. The original vision of a
small group of men who met and planned the Paris Caucus has not
been lost sight of in the Legion. Their dream of agreat soldiers’
organization, moved by an impulse for continued service to Ameri¬
ca, and held together by the ties of comradeship in the World’s
greatest adventure has come true.
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�ization adopted and the work of getting the great movement started
assigned to those present. They were undecided whether to initiate
the movement in France or wait until they were all back home and
After much discussion it was determined to estab-
out of service,
lish the tradition of having the organization formed in France, the
s c e n e
of America’s bitter tragedies and glorious victories.
The committee decided upon March 15 th for the Paris Caucus
and sent noti cations to representatives of every overseas division
to attend. Nearly 1,000 of cers and enlisted men were present.
An executive committee of 100 was chosen, aconstitution outlined,
and the name “The American Legion” given the new organization.
The high purposes which moved The American Legion from its in¬
ception were embodied in the rst draft of its Constitution. Since
then the immortal preamble which now proclaims the Legion’s pur¬
pose has developed to take its place as one of the great documents
i n A m e r i c a n h i s t o r y.
To get word of The American Legion into the minds and hearts
of every eligible man and woman in France was the task at hand.
All sailors, soldiers and marines were entitled to membership, while
the details of enrollment were to be undertaken in the United States.
The high requirements which were decided upon then, still prevail;
that is:
“Any person shall be eligible to membership in The American
Legion, who was regularly enlisted, drafted, inducted or commislioned and who served in active duty in the Army, Navy, or Marine
S I
Corps of the United States at some time during the period between
April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, both dates inclusive, or
who, being acitizen of the United States, at the time of his entry,
therein, served on active duty in the Naval, Military or Air Forces
of any of the governments associated with the United States during
the Great War; provided that no person shall be entitled to mem¬
bership (a) who, being in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps during
that period, refused on conscientious, political or other grounds, to
subject himself to military discipline or unquali ed service, or (b)
who being in such service, was separated therefrom under circums t a n c e s amounting to dishonorable discharge and has not subse¬
quently been restored to an honorable status.”
On April 7, 1919, at another meeting in Paris, acommittee of
fteen was appointed to begin operations in America.
Acall to the St. Louis Caucus to be held May 8-10, was sent
broadcast.
Delegates went from every State in the Union. Henry
Lindsley was elected National Commander.
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Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., the father of The American Legion,
rst called together the original group of twenty founders to meet
in Paris on the evening of February 15th, 1919. It was at this
meeting that the Paris Caucus was decided upon, apolicy of organ¬
�The Paris and St. Louis executive committees met in New York,
on May 23rd, and formed The National Executive Committee which
was responsible for the organization work.
Acongressional charter was granted on September 16th, in¬
corporating The American Legion.
November 10, 11, and 12, the
rst anniversary of the Signing
of the Armistice was chosen as a tting date for the
rst National
Convention, held at Minneapolis, Minn. Frank D’Olier was elected
National Commander; apermanent constitution was adopted:
Indianapolis was chosen as the permanent Legion Headquarters: the
second convention to be called at Cleveland, Ohio, September 27th
to 29th. 1920.
At this convention important resolutions were adopted; policies
reaf rmed, and it was also voted to bend all efforts toward securing
justice for the disabled ex-service men. The Shirley Poppy was
adopted as the of cial ower; Frederick W. Galbraith, Jr., was
elected National Commander; the third National Convention to be
held in Kansas City, Mo., October 31st, and November 1st and 2d,
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1921.
June 9, 1921, National Commander, Galbraith, was killed in an
accident at Indianapolis, while on aspeaking tour in the interest of
the ex-service men, especially the disabled. John G. Emery suc¬
ceeds, him in of ce.
October 31—The Third National Convention opens at Kansas
City. Four foreign renowned heroes representing o u r a l l i e s i n t h e
Great War were in attendance. Marshal Foch, of France: General
Diaz, of Italy: General Jacques, of Belgium, and Admiral Beatty, of
Britain. General John Pershing was also present.
Hanford MacNider was elected National Commander. It was
voted to continue the Legion’s stand for the Adjusted Compen
s a -
tion Bill, and to ght for its earliest enactment. It was at this Con¬
vention, November 2nd, that the National American Legion Aux¬
iliary came into being.
The Fourth National Convention of The American Legi
ion
held in New Orleans, La., October 16th to 19th, —
1922.
was
Athous¬
and delegates representing every state in the Union attended. Gen¬
eral Pershing was again present.
Alvin Owsley, of Texas, Director of the Legion's Americanism
Commission was elected Commander..
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�The voice of the Convention declared among other policies,
that; it is the unanimous will of The American Legion that the ght
for Adjusted Compensation be pressed until it is won; eight amend¬
ments to the Constitution were adopted; it recommended uniform
state laws to prevent abuse of the right to wear the Legion emblem
and decried the commercial use of same; it authorized astudy of
plan to establish aNational Home for destitute and orphaned child¬
ren of deceased Legionaires. It also recommended that the Friday
prior to May First, each year, be set apart as Americanism Day; the
next National Convention to be held in San Francisco, Cal.
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�II.
The American Legion Auxiliary.
The Women’s Auxiliary of The American Legion (that great
body of ex-service men and women who served America in the
Great War) was established by an act of the First National Conven¬
tion of The American Legion held at Minneapolis, Minn., November
10th to 12th, 1919.
The temporary national organization of The American Legion
had received many requests for recognition from representatives of
several women’s organizations prior to the holding of the conven¬
tion. The committee felt that they were not empowered suf ciently
to grant recognition of this character, and advised these representa¬
tives to present their arguments to the proper committee at the con¬
vention. The permanent organization provided acommittee to
handle the question of an af liated woman’s organization. This
committee received representatives of all women’s organizations
present and in every instance gave careful consideration to their
many arguments favoring the acceptance of their respective organi¬
zations and the committee recommended that the new organization
might well be known as the ’’Woman’s Auxiliary” of The American
Legion.
The name having been decided upon, the committee further
recommended to the constitutional committee the present eligibility
clause which appears as Article Xlll in the National Constitution of
The American Legion and reads as follows:
Section 1.
The American Legion recognizes an auxiliary or¬
ganization to be known as ’’The Woman’s Auxiliary of The Ameri¬
can Legion.”
Sec. 2. Membership therein shall be limited to the mothers,
,sisters and daughters of the members of The American Legion
and to the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of all m e n a n d
w i v e s
women who were in the military or naval service of the United
States between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, and died in
the line of battle or after honorable discharge and prior to Novem¬
ber 11, 1920.
3. The Auxiliary shall be governed in each department of
The American Legion by such rules and regulations as may be pre¬
scribed by the National Executive Committee and thereafter
proved by such Department.
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Any person related to any member of the Legion
either by birth or law under the name of mother, wife, sister or
daughter is entitled to membership in the Auxiliary.!
The Second National Convention of The American Legion held
at Cleveland, Ohio, September 27th to 29th, 1920, approved the
followint’ report of the Committee on Womans Auxiliary hat1
fully°realize the importance of the Woman's Auxiliary and hope
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this organization may
be completely perfected, in state and
nation.
It was recommended that when twenty (20%) per cent, of
State Departments have organized Auxiliary Units, the National
Commander shall call aConvention for the purpose of forming a
National Organization: it was also recommended that the National
Constitution be so amended as to permit achange of name and to
select any name at the First National Convention of Woman sAux¬
iliary It was further recommended; That it be the policy of 1he
American Legion in dealing with its Auxiliary to accept without
question the policy and management, without ^y reservations whatso-ever,
so
are upheld,
long as the ideals and purposes of The American Legion
Also that ade nite outline of suggested activities be
submitted as afoundation upon which acooperative prograrn
c
a
n
be established that will tend to unite Posts of the Le^on and Units
of the Auxiliary, as well as to develop the social and economic life
of our several communities and that such program be established by
each Department Commander for his respective state.
The rst National Convention of The American Legion Auxil¬
iary was held at Kansas City, Mo., November 1st, 1921. National
Commander, John Emery, of The American Legion presided. Gen¬
eral Pershing and Marshall Foch, of France, were present and each
addressed the gathering.
On Wednesday, November 2nd, reports were made by the fol¬
lowing committees: Credentials, Rules, Finance, Permanent Organ¬
izations, Resolution, Unit Organization and Activities, Welfare and
Hospitalization, Constitution.
The preamble adopted is similar to that of the Legion Constitu¬
tion, with the clause added
“To participate in, and contribute to
the accomplishments of the aims and purposes of The American
Legion, to consecrate and sanctify our association by our devotion
to mutual helpfulness.
The following of cers were elected P r e s i d e n t , M r s . L o w e l l
Hobart, Cincinnati, Ohio; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Clarence Edwards,
Westwood, Mass., Mrs. Madge Johnson, Aberdeen, S. D., Mrs.
Carrol Marks, Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Edward Murray, Houston,
Texas; Secretary, Miss Pauline Curnick, Indianapolis, Ind.; Treas-
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The Second National Convention of The American Legion Aux¬
iliary was held in New Orleans, La., October 16th to 19th, 1922.
About ve hundred women delegates, representing every state in
the
Union, besides, the Canal Zone, Hawaii and France were repre¬
sented.
The Auxiliary showed its utmost con dence in The American
Legion and pronounced itself one hundred per cent, with the Legion
its demand for adjusted compensation. It announced its symi n
Legion in its desire for improved conditions for dis¬
abled veterans: it passed resolutions endorsing the Legion's stand on
immigration, law and order. In away it was are ection of the
Legion Convention which was held in the same place and at the
same time.
The Auxiliary went out of its path to help all the veterans of the
world, for it laid the foundation for an international society of
Veteran's Auxiliary.
A c o m m i t t e e w a s appointed to consider with the Legion the
adoption of the same National Flower for both organizations,
passed requesting that future articles of cloth¬
ing sold by the army be dyed before sale to civilians, so that nonex-service men could not appear in guise of veterans and seek
c h a r i t y.
Many resolutions were read on hospitalization. Several schemes
tor the advancement of the interests of disabled soldiers and sailors
were brought forward but the nal resolution provided for ajoint
departmental hospitalization drive in the Auxiliary.
Dr. Kate Barrett, of Virginia, was elected National President
and has the distinction of being one of the ve women from the
United
States who were privileged to attend the signing of the treaty
o t Ve r s a i l l e s .
The following Vice-Presidents were elected Margaret
Mrs.
Colorado; Mrs. Jennie Neely, Washington; Mrs. Donald
MacCrae, Iowa; Mrs. Flora Spalding, New Hampshire; Mrs. Frank
Heming, Georgia; National Secretary, Miss Bess Wetherholt; Treas¬
urer, Miss Izetta McCoy; Historian, Mrs. Belle Nye; Chaplain, Mrs.
F. O. Burdick.
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Nye, Albuquerque, N. M.; Chaplain, Mrs. F. O. Burdick, Wichita
�CHAPTER
III.
Department of Connecticut.
The
rst Connecticut man to hear from the leaders of The
American Legion was James Moody, Jr., of Hartford. Hardly two
weeks had passed (March 27, 1919) since the Paris Caucus, when
Mr. Moody received atelegram from Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., stat¬
ing that aCaucus would be held in May, at St. Louis, and asking
him to send the names of those whom he thought would represent
Connecticut as delegates. Within afew days Mr. Roosevelt ap¬
pointed Mr. Moody State Chairman and Alfred Phillips, Jr., of
Stamford, State Secretary.
On April 16th, 1919, both chairman and secretary met in New
Haven, and made arrangements for astate organization, by senat¬
orial districts. Four days later, Mr. Roosevelt called on Mr. Moody
and requested him to proceed with arrangements for adelegation
from this state to attend the St. Louis Caucus, May 8th to 10th,
1919.. Two delegates were allotted for each congressional district,
allowing this state ten.
At the State Caucus held in Hartford, May 1st, the following
delegates-at-large were elected to St. Louis Caucus
Hiram
Bigham, New Haven; Walter Makepeace, Waterbury; James Moody,
Hartford; Alfred Phillips, Stamford. Thirty out of thirty- ve dis¬
tricts were represented by delegates. Vincent King represented
D a n b u r y.
It is asource of satisfaction to note that William Malone, of
Bristol, wrote the major part of the Constitution as presented and
accepted at that time. Connecticut’s representatives also served
various committees including, executive, constitution, organization,
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convention, resolution, and
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nance.
The rst rneeting of the Connecticut delegat es, after the Cau¬
cus, was held in Hartford. Authorized by the National Legion they
resolved themselves into the rst state executive committee. James
Moody was elected Chairman; William Malone. First Vice-Chair¬
man; Francis Carrol, Second Vice-Chairman; Alfred Phillips, Sec¬
retary; Frank Butterworth, Treasurer.
Each member of the committee was appointed organizer in his
district. Under the guidance and leadership of such men, the
Connecticut Legion grew to amembership of seven thousand in ve
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�Charter Posts of the State.
On June I2th, 1919, acerti cate of incorporation was
led with
the Secretary of State. ACharter and By-Laws were adopted
at the second meeting of the State Executive Committee.
Bernard Matthies, of Seymour, was elected State Historian and
thorized to write ahistory of the Connecticut Legion.
The rst State Convention was held at Hartford, October 11th,
1919. Philo Calhoun, of Bridgeport, was elected Chairman; James
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Hurley, of Waterbury, First Vice-Chairman: Paul Sampsell, New
London, Second Vice-Chairman; Thomas Bannigan, Hartford, Sec¬
retary; Frank Butterworth, New Haven, Treasurer.
An executive committee of two from each district was elected.
The Convention was informed that Connecticut was entitled to
eleven delegates to the National Convention.
[Not Connecticut furnished 50,069 men for the United States
Army during the Great War, ranking twenty-eighth in the list of
states. ]
The second State Convention was held in Bridgeport, August
21st, 1920.
John Pickett, of Ansonia, was elected Department Commander.
Vice-Commanders, James Cannon, Windsor Locks; Dr. J. A. Get¬
ting, New Haven; Adjutant, Thomas Bannigan, Hartford; Treas¬
urer, Frank Butterworth; Chaplain, Rev. Hal Kearns, Bridgeport.
The third State Convention was held in New Haven, September
17th, 1921.
C l a r e n c e S e y m o u r, o f H a r t f o r d , w a s e l e c t e d C o m m a n d e r. V i c e -
Commanders, Paige Seaton, Torrington; Edwin Gill, Terryville;
A d j u t a n t , C l a r e n c e G u i n a n , N e w H a v e n ; Tr e a s u r e r, F r a n k B u t t e r ¬
w o r t h , N e w H a v e n : C h a p l a i n , R e v. J o h n L a n d r y.
The fourth State Convention was held in Waterbury, September
8th and 9th, 1922.
Edward Kelly, of Bridgeport, was elected Commander.
Vice-
Commanders, Oliver Elsworth, Portland; Frank Hurley, Southing
ton; Adjutant, Clarence Guinan; Treasurer, Clarence Scarborought,
New Haven; Chaplain, Rev. Gallaudent, Waterbury.
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short months.
�C H A P T E R I V.
Danbury Post.
Colonel Vincent M. King might be called the father of the local
American Legion, as it was he, who was instrumental in obtaining
the charter for the Danbury Post, No. 60. The others who signed
the charter were Dr. \V. Frank Gordon, Francis Haynes, Anthony
Sunderland, Charles Sco eld, Dr. D. Chester Brown, Thomas Set¬
tle, Herbert Durgy, Herbert Blackman, Henry Wilson. Morton
Shepard, Thomas Keane, V'^alter Smith, Algie Mead, Gus Holmgren,
Charles Lord.
Ten months after the
rst meeting in France of the “original
twenty, who started The American Legion, Danbury Post was organVincent King called the meeting which
ized, December 18, 1919.
After announcing the
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held in K. of
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receipt of the charter, he gave the purpose of the meeting, and in
and carry on the business it was necessary to elect
order to organize
of cers.
Walter Smith was elected Chairman and Francis Haynes, Secre¬
tary. Acommittee of ten was appointed to secure new members
and bring in to the next meeting sugge,sted names for the newly organized Post, as follows:
George R. Hooper, Chairman; Emil
Pauli, Joseph Platt. Frederick O’Connor, Herbert Blackman, Squire
Romans. Charles Lord, John McLean. Anthony Sunderland, Gus¬
tave Pauli, Martin Green.
At the rst regular meeting, the following committee on ByF r e d e r i c k O ’ C o n n o r, B e l a H o r n i k , H e n r y
Laws was appointed:
Wilson.
Anominating committee of ve members was appointed to pre¬
sent alist of names for the of ces of Commander, Vice-Command¬
er, Adjutant and Tre.asurer.
D r. D . C . B r o w n , A n t h o n y S u n d e r -
land, Martin Green, Charles Sco eld and George Hooper consti¬
tuted this committee. Charles Sco eld was named recruiting of cer.
At the second regular meeting of the Post, January 12, 1920,
the above nominating committee
reported the following of cers:
Commander, Walter Smith: Vice-Commander, Dr. Gordon; Adju¬
tant Francis Flaynes; Charles Sco eld was later elected Treasurer.
Executive Committee consisted of Morton Shepard, Herbert
Blackman, James Biggs, Patrick Dellamonica, Paul Walsh. As there
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other nominations the of cers were declared elected for
1920.
At the following meeting Commander Smith made the following
appointments
Membership Committee, Charles Sco eld, Joseph
Platt, J. White, Gustave Pauli, Emil Pauli, Anthony Sunderland,
Bela Hornik, Squire Romans, Frank Stone, Ezra Edmonds, Gus
Holmgren. Publicity Committee
D r. B r o w n , A n t h o n y S u n d e r ¬
land, John Horan. Entertainment Committee
Anthony Sunder¬
land, Gustave Pauli, Joseph Platt, Bela Hornik, Squire Romans.
In February, afund committee was appointed, consisting of
Vincent King, Herbert Durgy, Harry Dolan, Frank Falvo, Otto
Stietzel.
The
"Danbury” was unanimously agreed upon as appro¬
priate for the newly organized Post.
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Five new members were added to the Executive Committee:
Plerbert Durgy, Gustave Pauli, Frank Stone, LeGrand Benedict and
Kenneth Hooper.
Frederick O’Connor was voted Second Vice-Commander.
W i l l i s To m An Athletic Committee was appointed as follows
linson, Harry Dolan, Herbert Durgy, F. C. Van Deusen, Bela Hor¬
nik.
To cooperate with the G. A. R- and to celebrate Memorial Day
ttingly, the following Memorial Committee was appointedknarF
Stone,Anthony Sunderland, Herbert Durgy, Squire Romans.
It was voted to extend ageneral invitation to all ex-service
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and women, to participate with the Legion in the Memorial Day
exercises.
The delegates elected to attend the State Convention to be held
in Bridgeport, August 20th, were ●Second Vice-Commander, bred-
erick O’Connor and Adjutant Francis Haynes.
On November First, the Post moved into its new quarters-
four rooms over the K. of P. Hall, in the Hardware building.
November11,1920.ThesecondanniversaryoftheSignmg
of the Armistice was celebrated by the Post
crress
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held in the State Armory. The occasion was such
sdnu f
was voted to make it an annual affair, as ameans orai
to help carry on the welfare work of the Post.
Roy Webber, was the
rst member of the Post to
having been killed in an accident, near Brook eld, September ,
1920.
At the end of the rst year, the roster of Danbury Post, No. 60.
shows amembership of one hundred and thirty-nine ex-service men
and women.
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�jutant, Francis Haynes: Treasurer, Charles Sco eld.
Executive Committee Phillip Sunderland, Bela Hornik, Paci-
co Natale (for one year): Frank Cleary. Frank Stone. Louis Gar(for two years) :Harold Brundage. Linder Smith, Ralph Rey¬
r i s o n
nolds (for three years).
Legislative Committee:
Vincent King, Frank Stone, Squire
Romans, Charles Sco eld.
Publicity Committee :
George Hamilton, Dr. Brown, John
Horan.
Memorial Committee:
P a u l i O t t o R o e m e r.
Louis Garrison, Herbert Durgy, Emil
Entertainment Committee:
Herbert Durgy, Reuben King, Phil-
lip Sunderland. Frank Cleary, Joseph Barry.
House Committee James Knick. Thomas Atherton. Donald
Tweedy, Ralph Reynolds, Alton O'Connor.
Ralph Reynolds. Martin Lacava. Squire
Athletic Committee:
Romans, John McLachlan.
Sergeant-at-Arms, Harry Miller.
Color Guards, Phillip Sunderland, James Knick.
Of cers elected for 1922:
Commander. Herbert Durgy: Senior Vice-Commander. Alton
O'Connor: Junior Vice-Commander, Reuben King; Adjutant Al¬
fred Lawson: Treasurer, Charles Sco eld; Chaplain, Arthur Lake.
Dr. Gordon, Francis Haynes, Phillip
Executive Committee:
Sunderland (for three years.)
Legislative Committee: Dr. Gordon, Francis Haynes, Charles
Sco eld, Frank Stone, Vincent King.
Publicity Committee: Herbert Durgy, John Horan. Arthur
Lake.
Memorial Committee
Francis Haynes, John McLachlan,
Squire Romans. Harold Brundage. Herbert Durgy. Edward Valliere.
Activity Committee: Arthur Lake, Reuben King, Joseph Baary,
Waldo Hyatt, Frank Sandusky, Harold Sco eld.
House Committee Harold Brundage, James Knick, Louis Gar¬
rison, Vincent King, Donald Tweedy, Frank Falvo.
Arthur Hall, Bela Hornik, Henry RoAthletic Committee:
cano, Louis Wiedl, Frank Cleary.
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The following of cers were elected for 1921 :
Commander, Dr. W. F. Gordon: Senior Vice-Commander.
Frederick O'Connor: Junior Vice-Commander, Herbert Durgy: Ad¬
�Mayor ’s Committee D o n a l d T w e e d y,
Anthony Sunderland.
Ralph Reynolds,
State Fund Committee: Frank Stone, Francis Haynes, Herbert
Durgy, Joseph Gilliotti.
Sergeant-at-Arms, Otto Roemer. Color Guards, Louis Garrison, John Visny.
Ahandsome silk banner bearing the name and number of Dan¬
bury Post, No. 60, American Legion, was presented to the Post, as
agift from the Boosters Club of this city, Friday evening, April 28
1922.
The presentation was made by Mr. Arnold Turner, who in the
course, of his remarks, read the Preamble to The American Legion
Constitution, which expresses the ideals for which the Legion stands.
He also said The Boosters are striving for the same abjects and
standards and that they are with the Legion in all its undertakings.
O cers elected for 1923:
Commander, Lieutenant Samuel Smith, U. S. A.; Senior ViceCommander, Louis Garrison Junior Vice-Commander, Harold
Ruf es; Adjutant, Harold Sco eld; Finance Of cer, John McLachlan; Chaplain, Charles Sco eld.
Executive Committee: (for three years) Herbert Durgy, Alfred
Lawson, Alton O'Connor.
Thomas Atherton, Eliot Parmelee, Morris
House Committee:
Downs.
Activities Committee:
Harold Ruf es, Alton O’Connor, Morris
Downs, James Knick.
Memorial Day Committee: Harold Brundage, Alton O’Connor,
Alfred Lawson.
Legislative Committee:
Vincent King. Alfred Lawson Harold
Sco eld.
Civic Committee:
Samuel Smith, Louis Garrison.
State Fund Committee:
Frank Stone, Herbert Durgy, Carl
Goos.
Membership Committee:
fred Lawson.
Publicity Committee
Reuben King. Kenneth Wilson; AlJohn Horan, Herbert Durgy.
Sergeant-at-Arms, Willis Woodin.
Color Sergeants James Knick, Thomas Atherton.
Guards:
Robert Healey, Orano Capellaro.
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�Veteirans of the World War Who Have Joined the Danbury Post
Since Its Organization, December, 1919.
George Allingham
Thomas Dyer
Vincent King
Thomas Atherton
Potiti Anciello
Ezra Edmond
Kenneth
D r. R . M . E n g l i s h
Charles Kittle
Charles Balser
Clifford Banks
Robert Fairchild
Frank Falvo
Carl Faust
Wilbur Ferguson
Vito Ferrando
George Klinzing
George Barhite
Joseph Barry
A. L. Bartlett
Sam Baz
Clifford Baldwin
LeGrand Benedict
Alexander Berardi
T. H . B e r n d
John Fitzgerald
Arthur Foster
Arthur Franklin
Louis Garrison
Chauncey Gilbert
James Biggs
William Gildea
Herbert Blackman
Vernon Blaku
John Giglotti
Joseph Gillotti
Harry Boughton
Phillip Bowers
Carl Goos
D r . W . F. G o r d o n
Harold Grant
Martin Green
Frank Borodenko
Eugene Bouteiller
Clinton Braunfeldt
Dr. D. C. Brown
Percival Brown
William
Brown
Arthur Brink
Harold Brundage
Guiseppi Bupivi
Edward Burns
Charles Butt
George Graef
George Griggs
James Grimshaw
Edward Grolljahn
Herbert Hand
Arthur Hall
George Hamilton
Francis Haynes
Orano Capellaro
Robert Healey
Gus Holmgren
Louis Casini
Benvenuto Castrucio
Kenneth Hooper
Nicholas Hooper
Paul Cavanaugh
Reginald Hooper
Cicero
Clark
Frank Cleary
Arthur
Cresci
Alfred Connolley
Henry Cornell
Arthur Covill
Nile Curtis
Leslie Davis
John Deakin
Anthony DeJulia
Salvatore DeJulia
Patrick Dellamonica
Harry Dolan
C. D. Downing
Morris Downs
Peter Durkin
Herbert Durgy
Patrick Dyer
Herbert Hopkins
John Horan
Bela Hornik
Edward Howard
John Hudson
Dominic Hunt
Waldo Hyatt
Lester Ives
Allan Johnson
Carl Johnson
Leroy Jones
Albert Kammler
Perry Katz
Francis Keane
Thomas Keane
Kenneth Keeler
Savas Ke an
Reuben King
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James Knick
Andriance Knif
n
Domonic Kudorowsky
Martin LaCava
Arthur Lake
George Lane
Alfred
Lawson
Reginald Lewis
Wadsworth Lewis
Charles Lord
Samuel Loshin
Roderick Luttgen
John A. Lynch
J o h n J . Ly n c h
J o s e p h Ly n c h
E d w a r d Ly o n s
John Madden
Anthony Magliaro
Adolf Malaspina
Fred Morasco
Louis Marasco
Benjamin Maynard
Harold McCarthy
Harry McLachlan
John McLachlan
John McLean
Ronald McLean
Thomas McNally
Leon Meaney
Harry
John
Miller
Mitchell
Frank Montesi
Raymond Moore
Joseph Mortola
George Morton
John Murphy
John Murray
Paci co Natale
Lea Newton
Alton O’Connor
!Joseph Poliak
Salvatore Parille
Elliot Parmelee
Norman Parrott
George Pattison
Emil Pauli
Gustave Pauli
�Harold Peffers
Phillip Peffers
John R- Perkins
Alexander Pizzo
Charles Platt
Joseph Platt
Bronok Plaski
Arthur Quaas
Fred Quaas
Donald Queeney
Henry Rau
John Rener
Ralph Reynolds
Thomas Reynolds
R. C. Richard
Harold Rickert
William Rider
Otto Roemer
Squire Romans
Henry Rocano
Stanley Rubenstein
Harold Ruf es
Felice Ruggiero
Basil Russell
Frank Sandusky
William Temple
Benjamin Scully
Adolf
Robert Settle
Thomas Settle
Joseph Shakeen
John Shakra
Morton Shepard
John Singer
Lawrence Smith
Linder Smith
Lieut. Samuel Smith
Walter Smith
Franklin Snow
Dr. W. M. Stahl
Frank Starr
Kenneth Stevens
Sylvester Stevens
Mike Sacco
Otto Stietzel
Frank Stone
George Stott
Antonio Strumolo
Anthony Sunderland
Phillip Sunderland
William Sunderland
Louise Sands
Charles Susnitzky
Phillip Russo
James Ryan
John Ryder
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Anthony Sanuik
Joseph Scheanblum
Charles Sco eld
Harold Sco eld
I r v i n g Ti e r n e y
Fernand Thetion
W i l l i s To m l i n s o n
To u d r i c k
Donald Tweedy
E d w a r d Va l l i e r e
F r a n k Va l l u z z o
John Visny
Constantine Vournazas
Albert Walsh
T. J . W a l s h
Paul Walsh
Conrad Ward
William Ward
Joseph White
William White
Louis Wiedl
Abraham Williamson
Henry Wilson
Kenneth Wilson
Leroy Woolard
Roy Webber (deceased)
Joseph Wochek (deceased)
Myrtle Woodman
Clifton Wright
Benjamin Young
Merrick Zucca
�CHAPTER
V.
Dauibury Auxiliary, Unit No. 60.
January 17, 1921, might well be called the birthday of the local
American Legion Auxiliary, for it was on that date the rst gatherg of mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of ex-service men was
called, at the invitation of the Danbury Post, About thirty women
responded.
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The meeting was called to order by Mrs. D. Frank Stevens, who
gave the purpose of the gathering. Alton OConnor, Vice-Com¬
mander of the Post, outlined brie y the ideals of the Legion as ex¬
pressed in the preamble of the Constitution: also the aims and pur¬
poses of the Auxiliary Units, discussing eligibility to membership,
dues, nances and of cers. In behalf of the Post, Mr. OConnor
offered the use of the Post’s rooms for all future meetings of the
Unit.
Mrs. D. Frank Stevens was elected President pro-tern and Mrs.
Alton O’Connor, Acting Secretary. They were also appointed as
Delegates to the rst State Convention, to be held at Bridgeport,
Before adjourning, twenty-four members signed
pplication for aUnit Charter, as follows:
Mrs. Catherine Hager, Mrs. Nettie O’Connor, Mrs. May Brooks,
February First,
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Mrs. Florence Rooney, Mrs. Nellie Lawson, Mrs. Lillian Smith, .Mrs.
Gene Brundage, Mrs. Jennie Stone, Miss Louise Stone, Mrs. Louise
Roth, Mrs. Nellie Thompson. Mrs. Minnie Wilson, Mrs. Kathryn
Woolard, Miss Eda Woolard. Mrs. Gertrude Davis, Mrs. Hattie
King, Mrs. Maude Parmelee. Mrs. Louise Walling. Mrs. Lena Giar-
dina, Mrs. Louise Sturges, Miss Eloise Parmelee, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hand, Mrs. Mabel Stevens, Miss Anna Hornik.
At the rst regular meeting of the newly organized Auxiliary, a
report of the delegates to the State Convention was given.
Governor Everett Lake was present and encouraged the
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in their new undertaking and referred in glowing terms to the great
aid they rendered the men who fought in France.
National Commander, Frederick Galbraith, gave astirring ad¬
dress describing the neglect from which the disabled veterans of the
war are now suffering. “The purpose of the Auxiliary is to aid The
American Legion, and to look after the welfare of the ex-service
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�men, especially the disabled, just as the Women’s Relief Corps has
been aiding the Grand Army of the Republic. In time the Legion
Auxiliary will succeed the Relief Corps and become the greatest
patriotic organization in the country.
The result of the election for State Of cers was as follows:
President, Mrs. Fannie Crosby, Bridgeport: Vice-Presidents. Mrs.
F. G. Carpenter, Wethers eld; Mrs. Raynham Townsend, New
Haven: Secretary, Miss Helen Brock, Plainville; Treasurer, Mrs.
William Bristol, Stratford; Chaplain, Mrs. Mary Higgins, Clinton.
To celebrate February 22nd, Mrs. D. F. Stevens gave aWash¬
ington Birthday Party at her home. This was the rst social affair
held by the Auxiliary and was well attended by members of both
the Post and the Unit.
Amusical program was rendered, dancing
was enjoyed, and dainty refreshment were served during the
e v e n ¬
ing.
Two members of the Auxiliary have represented the Unit at the
funerals of those heroes whose bodies were brought back from
France.
On March 9th, we mourned the loss of our charter member,
Mrs. Louise Walling, our gold-star mother whose son, Raymond
Walling was killed in action and in whose memory the local Veter¬
ans of Foreign Wars was named.
The State President, sends the following greeting to Auxiliary
Units, “We have not chosen this work, but were chosen for it,
that day when the nger of God touched us, and the seal of grief
was pressed on our brow. On that day when we knew for asurety
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that our loved ones were going out over the threshold, from the
warmth and light and liberty of home, to pass under the cold, hard
yoke of army discipline and endure the terrors of amost brutal
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That chapter of our lives was not closed when those who re¬
mained of our men returned from the winepress of ’17and ’18, and
it will not be closed until the last sick and disabled soldier has all
the aid that medical and surgical skill and kindly nursing
can
give
him, and all ex-service men have had asquare deal from the country
for which they put their lives in jeopardy.”
The election of of cers of Danbury Auxiliary, Unit No. 60, took
place March 21st. Mrs. D. F. Stevens was elected President; Mrs.
Minnie Wilson, Vice-President; Mrs. Nettie O’Connor, Secretary:
Mrs. Gene Brundage, Treasurer.
The Executive Committee consisted of the following members
elected
Miss Anna Hornik and Mrs. Kittie Ruf es to serve three
years; Mrs. M. P. Reynolds and Mrs. Nellie Lawson for two years;
Mrs. Charles King and Miss Kathryn Lane, for one year.
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�tting exercise.
On March 29th, the Danbury Post tendered areception to its
Auxiliary, and also had as guests members of the Grand Army of
the Republic and the Women’s Relief Corps. The boys served
supper "Army style.” Amusical program was rendered during the
evening.
The President of the Unit made ihe following appointments:
Membership Committee: Mrs. Leroy Woolard, Mrs. Maud Parme-
lee, Mrs. J. P. Peffers, Mrs. Gertrude Davis, Mrs. May Brooks.
Entertainment Committee
Mrs. Nettie O’Connor, Mrs. Christine
Reynolds, Mrs. Florence Rooney, Miss Alice Ruf es, Miss Eloise
Parmelee, Miss Eda Woolard. Card Committee: Mrs. Charles King,
Mrs. Gertrude Davis, Mrs. Kittie Ruf es, Mrs. Nellie Hawley, Miss
Anna Hornik, Miss Woolard. Publicity: Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Haw¬
l e y.
The Auxiliary Unit sent to the Senator of Connecticut aresolu¬
tion adopted April 25 th, indorsing the program of legislation asked
by The American Legion for the relief of the disabled ex-service
m e n .
The Unit later received areply from Senator McLean, stat-
ing it shall be presented to the Senate at an early date, giving the
same his careful consideration.
Aletter was also received from National Commander Galbraith
in appreciation of the resolution calling for the relief of disabled
v e t e r a n s .
The Auxiliary Unit purchased and presented ahandsome silk
American Flag to the Danbury Post, with tting ceremony, on May
27th.
Commander Gordon accepted the colors, which will be carr i e d i n t h e p a r a d e o n M e m o r i a l D a y.
The exercise was witnessed by the G. A. R., Women’s Relief
Corps and the Spanish War Veterans.
Memorial Day, May 30, 1921.
With ceremonies reverent and patriotic, Danbury paid tribute
to the memory of the men who served America, and whose bodies
rest in local cemeteries, or lie in distant lands, perhaps unknown o r
unmarked graves. This probably will be the last Memorial e x e r cises to be conducted by the G. A. R., whose ranks have become s o
thinned that only sixteen Civil War Veterans took part in the parade.
The day was observed as ageneral holiday. The National
colors were displayed on all buildings and people everywhere wore
poppies, the National Memorial Flower, and sold by The American
Legion and its Auxiliary, for the welfare of the disabled.
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The "old-star members (those who lost either, father, husband,
son or brother in the war) were presented with emblem pins at a
�Donald Tweedy, member of the Danbury Post was Chief Marsh¬
al of the parade. His staff consisted of Commander Gordon, Ad¬
jutant Haynes, Dr. Brown and Vincent King, of the Post; also Ira
Wildman of the G. A, R., and John Haugh, Commander of the
Walling Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The
rst division comprised the military units, acting as escorts
to the veterans of the last three wars; Battery D., C. A. C., Civil
War Veterans, Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
The American Legion, and its Auxiliary Unit, all in uniforms, also
the Junior National Guards.
Ira Wildman presided during the
exercises at the monument.
R e v. J o h n D e y o
The ritual of the G. A. R. w a s
Rev. John Kane was the speaker of the occasion,
read Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech. _
conducted by the members and at its conclusion taps was sounded
by Bugler Pauli of the Post; the Flag upon the liberty pole was
lowered; asalute to the dead was red by the Battery Squad. _T h e
raising
o fthe colors and the playing of the national anthem con-
eluded the exercises.
The usual gathering of the veterans took place in the rooms of
the Women’s Relief Corps, where dinner was served to about one
hundred and sixty former soldiers, sailors and marines. T h e R e l i e f
Corps which has faithfully carried on this work for more than ahajf
century was assisted this year by the Danbury Auxiliary Unit, No.
60.
The Danbury Post and Auxiliary Unit went on record as expres¬
sing their deep sorrow at the untimely death of our late National
Commander, Galbraith, on June 9th, 1921.
The Legion Charter was ordered draped and atelegram sent to
Mrs. Galbraith expressing the sympathy of the members.
On June 27th, the Auxiliary Unit attended the Annual Flag Ex¬
ercises of the Women’s Relief Corps. An excellent patriotic pro¬
gram was presented, and thoroughly enjoyed.
In August, National Commander, John Emery, sent an appeal
to every Post and Unit to try and double its membership. The
members of the Auxiliary made an extensive "drive” for new mem¬
bers for both Post and Unit. The results proved satisfactory.
At ajoint session of the Post and Auxiliary Unit in October,
National Vice-Commander, Claudius Pendell, who happened to be
East on abusiness trip, gave an interesting talk on what the Legion
was doing out West especially
October 31st—November
of The American Legion was
King represented the Danbury
an interesting report upon his
in his district.
2d—The Third National Convention
held at Kansas City, Mo, Vincent
Post for the second time,
He gave
return from the Convention.
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�November 11, 1921.—Armistice Day was celebrated by the
Danbury Post, by holding its second annual military ball in the
State Armory. Remarks appropriate to the occasion were made by
Commander Gordon. The gathering paid amoment’s silent tribute
to the soldiers dead, as they stood with bowed heads. "To the
Colors" was then sounded followed by "taps” and the singing of
the "Star-Spangled Banner." Following the “grand march” led
by Commander Gordon of the Post and President Mrs. Stevens of
the Auxiliary, dancing was enjoyed the remainder of the evening.
ACard Party and Christmas Bazaar was held in December,
which was well patronized.
The Auxiliary presented the Post with asubstantial check as a
Christmas gift, while the members of the Unit presented their Pres¬
ident with ahandsome plant, as atoken of esteem in which she is
held.
During the rst year of the life of the Auxiliary the membership
had increased to sixty-nine members.
On December 29th, the election of of cers for 1922 took place,
the result of which was as follows:
President, Mrs. Minnie Wilson; Vice-President, Mrs. Hattie
King: Secretary, Mrs. Mary Fairchild; Treasurer, Miss Mildred Wil-
lianTs; Chaplain, Mrs. D.‘ F. Stevens; Historian, Miss Anna Hornik;
Executive Committee (to serve three years) Mrs. Nettie O’Connor,
Mrs. Gene Brundage, Mrs. Lillian Smith, Mrs. J. P. Peffers.
1922
To celebrate the rst anniversary of the organization of the Dan¬
bury Auxiliary Unit, No. 60, the members held abirthday party on
January 20th. Members of the Danbury Post, G. A. R,, Women’s
Relief Corps and K, of P., were guests of the evening.
At the rst regular meeting of the Auxiliary, the President an¬
nounced the following committees for the year 1922:
Publicity, Mrs. Kittie Ruf es: Membership, Miss Anna Hornik,
Chairman; Mrs. Louise Roth, Mrs. Lillian Smith, Mrs. Florence
Rooney, Mrs. Rose Civetti, Mrs. May Brooks. Welfare and Sick:
Mrs. Nellie Lawson, Chairman; Mrs. Mabel Stevens, Mrs. Hattie
King, Mrs. J. E. Woolard, Miss Eda Woolard. Entertainment:
Mrs. Nettie O’Connor. Chairman: Mrs. Gene Brundage, Mrs. Mary
Fairchild, Mrs. Vernon Blake, Mrs. James Knick, Miss Helen Gil¬
bert, Miss Alice Ruf es, Miss Eloise Parmelee. Cards: Mrs. Stev¬
ens, Chairman: Mrs. Hattie King, Mrs. Maud Parmelee, Mrs. Smith,
Mrs. M. P. Reynolds, Mrs. J. P. Peffers, Mrs. Nellie Hawley, Mrs.
George Sco eld, Mrs. L. W. Durgy, Miss Hornik and Miss Gilbert.
Refreshment: Mrs. Hattie King, Chairman: Mrs. Maud Parmelee,
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�Mrs. Lawson. Mrs. Ruf es, Mrs. Rooney, Mrs. Katherine Stahl, Mrs.
Harriet Baker.
February 22nd being an annual occasion, the Auxiliary cele¬
brated it with aWashington’s Birthday Party and had as guests,
embers of the Danbury Post.
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On the evenings of February 27th and 28th, aMusical Comedy,
"All Aboard” was presented at the Empress Theatre under the aus¬
pices of the Danbury Post. Without adoubt it was the largest pro¬
duction of its kind ever staged by local talent; about one hundred
„nd fty taking part in the chorus, including several members of
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both Post and Auxiliary.
ACard Party and Dance under the joint auspices of Post and
Auxiliary, was held at the Hotel Green, April I7th, and
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The Unit served an elaborate supper to aFair eld County dele¬
gation which met in conference with the Danbury Post Executive
Committee, April 27th.
Beginning in May, the Auxiliary will hold sewing gatherin<^s
twice
a
month. The articles to be made will be sold at aTanzaar to
be held in the fall.
Sunday, May 28th, the Danbury Post participated in the Mem¬
orial Parade and Exercises held in Bethel. The Auxiliary witnessed
the exercises and sold poppies to help the disabled
veterans.
thousand poppies were disposed of for Memorial Day.
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Memorial Day, May 30, 1922.
Danbury pays homage to the men who served their country
uponthe eldsofbattleandwhonowlieintheirlastrestingplaces^
The chief feature of the day was the annual parade. Ralph Rev
nolds, of Walling Post was the Marshal, and had as aides. Arthur
Wood, Linder Smith, and Leslie Davis. Herbert Durgy, Com¬
mander of Danbury Post, No. 60, was in command of the rst divi¬
sion, followed by Battery D., C. A. C., then the survivors of the
Civil War, riding in automobiles. Next came Walling Post, Veter¬
ans of Foreign Wars, with their Auxiliary; The American Lecrion
Danbury Post, with their Auxiliary in uniforms.
The exercises were held at Wooster Cemetery and
sive. Flowers were scattered about the soldiers’
were impres-
monument
to
typify the laying of owers upon the graves of all soldier dead,
wherever they may be. “Taps” was sounded from adistance after
the squad from Battery Dhad red three volleys, and the
were ended.
exercises
At the conclusion of the return march, the veterans of the three
wars, numbering over one hundred, cissembled in the banquet hall
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Women sRelief Corps, assisted by the Legion and Walling Post
Auxiliaries.
Acommittee consisting of members of the Sons of Veterans,
Spanish War Veterans and those of ihe late World War, marked
with Flags, the graves of all the ex-service men who have died since
the Civil War, numbering in all about 576.
In honor of Flag Day, the graves of the deceased World War
Veterans were decorated by acommittee of the Auxiliary Unit, as¬
sisted by George Floyt, Sons of Veterans, and Reuben King, Amer¬
ican Legion. "The generous response of the school children for
requests for owers made it possible to place two bouquets (one of
roses the other daisies) upon each grave. Twenty-eight graves wefre
decorated in all.
T h e
s e c o n
dDepartment Convention of The American Legion
Auxiliary was held in Hartford, September 14th, 1922. Mrs. Wil¬
son, Mrs. Fairchild and Miss Williams were delegates from Dan¬
bury Unit, who attended the Convention, with Mrs. Stevens, and
Mrs. Rooney as alternates. Mrs. Stevens was elected rst delegate
to the National Convention to be held in New Orleans, October
16th to 19th, 1922.
The State Of cers elected at the Convention were:
President,
Mrs. Emma Carpenter, Wethers eld: Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Grace
S t r a t t o n , B r i d g e p o r t ; M i s s M a r y C o y l e , Wa t e r b u r y.
S e c r e t a r y.
Miss Helen Brock, Plainville; Treasurer, Miss Grace Merry, Hart¬
ford; Historian, Mrs. Grace Gill, Terryville; Chaplain, Mrs. Mary
O r r, M e r i d e n .
The third Annual Military Ball of the Danbury Post, was h e l d
Over 600 attended the
i n t h e S t a t e A r m o r y, N o v e m b e r 1 0 t h .
event.
Commander Durgy made brief remarks and i n t r o d u c e d
State Commander, Edward Kelley, who delivered astirring address,
reviewing in memory the events of the war and the days following
the signing of the Armistice.
Fie also spoke of The American
Legion, giving its aims and purposes as an organization of ex-service
men
a n d w o m e n . A t t h e c o n c ll u s i o n o f h i s r e m a r k s , t h e N a t i o n -
Dancing was enjoyed the
al Anthem was played by the orchestra,
The refreshment booth was in charge
remainder of the evening,
o f t h e A u x i l i a r y.
November 11, 1922.—The fourth anniversary of the signing of
the Armistice was observed by amilitary parade and the unveiling
of the Memorial Tablet. The plan for the parade was in charge of
The American Legion, with Commander Durgy, as Marshal, having
a s
his aides. Lieutenant Samuel Smith, U. S. A., Anthony Sunder¬
land, of Danbury Post and Ralph Reynolds of Walling Post.
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where the bronze tablet is erected as apermanent memorial to the
men of Danbury who gave their lives in the service of their country
during the World War. Inscribed upon the tablet, in addition to
the names of thirty- ve men who made the supreme sacri ce, are
these words
“In Honor of the Men and Women of Danbury, Who
Served in the World War, 1917-1919, and im
Who Made the Supreme Sacri ce for Liberty.”
Memory of Those
Colonel J. Moss Ives, Chairman of the War Memorial Com¬
mittee presided. The principal speakers were. Rev. Joseph Twitchell, formerly of this city, who served as Chaplain with the 303rd
Artillery, and the Rev. John Ryan, of St. Peter’s Church. The
Community Chorus sang “America" and the “Star-SpanHed Ban-
unveiling of the Tablet by Mayor Gilbert, “Near¬
er My C^d to Thee was sung. Immediately after, asquad from
Battery D. red three salutes, followed by the sounding of “taps.”.
At the conclusion of the exercises, the Legion Auxiliary had a
large wreath with the words. “We Did Not Forget” inscribed therem, placed at the base of the Tablet. In the afternoon and contin¬
uing for two days, seven members of the Auxiliary served on the
Ked Cross Membership Drive.
The Annual Bazaar of the Auxiliary was held December fourth.
The articles the members had been sewing on since May were dis¬
posed of as well as home-made candy, cake and canned fruit.
To mark the third Anniversary of the organization of the Dan¬
bury Post, the Auxiliary invited the members to aBirthday Party,
December 18th, in celebration of the event. The Unit took this
occasion to announce that as agift it had set aside asubstantial
s
u
m
of money to be used as afoundation for abuilding fund for the Dan¬
bury
Post. The Commander thanked the Auxiliary for its generosity and cooperation.
The last meeting of the year. December 28th,
to the election
p. ofI of cers, forf o1923.
llowing
elected :
c: -.
Vice-Presidents,
was
given
over
were declared
Mrs.
Lillian
n,1thandMrs.GeneBrundage;RecordingSecretary,Mrs.Harriet
Baker; Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. May Brooks; Treasurer, Mrs.
Floren^ Rooney; Chaplain Mrs. Mabel Stevens; Historian. Miss
Anna Hornik; Sergeant-at-Aims, Mrs. J. E. Woolard. Executive
Committee
(for three years) Mrs. Wilson. Miss Williams, Mrs.
Parmelee; Mrs. Fairchild (for two years); Mrs. Clara McLachlan
( t o r o n e y e a r. )
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Charter Members
Mrs. Catherine Hager
Mrs. Nettie O’Connor
’‘Mrs. George Hawley
Mrs. Mary Hand
Mrs. Katherine Sunderland
Miss Isabel Sunderland
'■‘ M r s . M a y B r o o k s
Mrs. Florence Rooney
Mrs. R. M. English
Mrs. Margery Haynes
Mrs. Nellie Lawson
Mrs. Lillian Smith
Miss Florence Hand
Mrs. Arthur Hall
Mrs. Gene Brundage
Mrs. Jennie Stone
Miss Louise Stone
Mrs. Louise Roth
Mrs. George Scoheld
Mrs. Margret Murphy
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
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Mrs.
Mrs.
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Mrs. Nellie Thompson
Mrs.
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Mrs. Kathryn Woolard
Miss
Eda
Woolard
Mrs. Gertrude Davis
Mrs. Hattie King
Mrs. Maud Parmelee
^Mrs. Louise Walling
Mrs. Lena Giardina
Mrs. Louise Sturges
Miss
:l:Mrs.
Mrs.
Miss
Fred Marasco
James Knick
Katherine Stahl
Maud Ellis
Alfred Lawson
Harriet Baker
James Civetti
Hazel Foster
Mildred Williams
Vernon Blake
Mrs. Emily Cornell
Eloise Parmelee
Elizabeth Hand
Mabel Stevens
Anna Hornik
Mrs. Basil Russell
* M r s . F r e d Ly o n
Mrs. Frank Warren
Mrs. William White
M r s . L . W. D u r g y
*Mrs. Ivan Fairchild
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Miss Helen Gilbert
’’'Mrs. Nellie Hawley
*Mrs. Belle Hyatt
Mrs. Martha Falvo
Mrs. M. P, Reynolds
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Miss
Christine Reynolds
Marguerite Biggs
Margaret Haviland
Kathryn Lane
*Mrs. Georgiabel Peck
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs. Bertha Romans
Mrs. Kittie Ruf es
Miss Alice Ruf es
M r s . J . P. P e f f e r s
Mrs. Irene Malaspina
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Mrs.
Mrs.
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Mildred Smith
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John Miller
Albert Kammler
Andrew Woodman
Mrs. Harriet Grimshaw
Mrs. Olga Connors
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Christine McLean
Anna Rocano
Gertrude Rocano
Julia Sunderland
Millicent Sunderland
Jeanette Sunderland
Clara McLachlan
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James Edmund Dyer, graduate of Western Connecticut State College and politician, was born in Danbury, Connecticut, on September 20, 1946. His papers span the years 1900 to 2008, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1970 to 1990, primarily documenting his work as Mayor of Danbury, Connecticut. Information regarding his activities at Western Connecticut State College, his two terms as Trustee of the Connecticut State Colleges, and State Representative for the 110th District is also included. The collection consists of biographical materials, legislative and trustee files, citations, correspondence, fliers, greeting cards, membership cards, newsletters, news clippings, scrapbooks, petitions, photographs, posters, postcards, press releases, printed materials, proclamations, resolutions, writings and campaign materials such as bumper stickers, campaign pins, sample ballots, and mailing lists.
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Danbury and our boys in the World War
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Lists of soldiers and American Legion activities and membership.
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1923
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World War, 1914-1918--United States
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NUMÉRO &1
PRIX DU NUMERO -
DEUXIÈME ANNÉE
Élastique, de zéro à l'infini· (prière aux revendeurs
de ne pas dépasser
JUILLET 1916
cette limite)
LALIBRE
BELGlllU
J'ai foi dans nos destinées;
un Pays qui •• dél•nd s'Lmpos• au
respect d• tous · ce pays 11• périt pas! Dieu sera avec nous
dan• celle cause juste.
ALBERT. Ro, oes BeLoes (4 aoa1 1914).
AcceP.l3ns provisoirement les uc.rillces qui nous sont imposés.
el altendons patiemment l'heure de la réparation.
A MAX.
FONDÉE
LE Jer FÉVRIER 1915
BULLETIN DE PROPAGANDE PATRIOTIQUE -
Envers les pe;sonnes qui dominent par la force militaire notre
pays. ayons les igards que commande l'intérêl général. R.ea•
peclons les règlements qu'elles nous Imposent aussi longtemç,
qu'ils ne portent atteinte ni à la liberté de nos ronsclencc·1
chrélieQnes ni à notre Dignité Patriotique.
"MoR MERCIER
RÉGULIÈREMENT IRRÉGULIER
NE SE SOUMETTANT A AUCUNE CENSURE
BUREAUX ET ADMINISTRATION
ADRESSE TELÉGRAPHIQUE
ne pouvant être un emplacement
de tout repos, ils sont installés
dans une cave automobile
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VERS LA GLOIRE (d'après J.-F.
PoRTAELS).
ANNONCES : Les affaires étant nulles
sous la domination allemande, nous avo'ls
supprimé la page d'annonces et · con•
seillons à. nos clients de réserver leur
argent pour des temps meilleurs.
�21
JUILLET
!
Dans sa premiere et mémorable
lettre pastorale, notre grand
Cardinal écrivait cette phrase que l'on peut lire clans la manehette
de chacun de nos numéros:
" Respectons
les règlements rie l'occupant aussi longtemps qu'ils ne portent atteinte à notre Dignité
Patriotique.
>>
Or, au mép~s de tout droit - puisqu'il reconnaît lui-même que
le 21 juillet est déclaré jour férié pat· une loi Belge - ; au mépris
en outre d'une déclaration
solennelle
dans laquelle l'occupant
atlirmc ne jamais vouloir froisser nos sentiments de Belges, notre
gouverneur
gènéral, honteux sans cloute de l'ignominie
qu'il va
commettre et n'osant pas en prendre lui-même la responsabilité,
a fait signer par un de ses valets un placard où il nous défend de
célébrer d'une façon quelconque nos fêtes nationales
et d'arborer
nos couleurs.
Pourrait-on
nous blesser plus profondément
dans notre dignité
patriotique
<>l mieux s'y prendre
pour nous exciter à la révolte?
C'est de la veri table provocation
!
Mais c'est ai1ssi un râle d'impuissance
exhalé par un peuple qui
agonise. C'est pourquoi nous engageons nos concitoyens,
qui seraient en droit cependant de passer outre à cet ukase inique, de
demeurer calmes et de penser que, du fond de sa prison et de son
exil, le Bourgmestre
de Bruxelles nous exhorte à la patience et
nous demande d'accepter provisoirement
le sacrifice que l'on nous
impose.
Toutefois, si entre deux trains von Bissing a fait revenir du front
des mitrailleuses
pour nous terroriser
en les promenant dans nos
rues et sur nos places publiques,
il n'a pas encore osé nous défendre de nons rendre dans nos églises et d'y prier pour nos morts,
pour nos soldats, pour notre Roi, pour la Patrie: le 21 juillet les
églises du pays - et à Bruxelles notre collég·iale principalement
où à 10 heures se célébrera une grand'messe
solennelle - seront
trop petites pour contenir la foule qui demandera à Dieu de protéger la Belgique.
Et quant à nos couleurs, si un <léeret brutal peut nous défendre
de les arborer à nos balcons et à nos boutonnières,
il ne peut défendre à « LA LIBLlE BELGIQUE » de les arborer dans ses colonnes. C'est avec !ierté que nous les déployons,
c'est avec émotion aussi: car quel est le Belge qui ne se sente la gorge serrée en
revoyant
après deux ans sou drapeau - drapeau qu'un ennemi
veut nous ravir pour le remplacer
par le sien, drapeau pour lequel eombattent
et meurent tant de héros.
Couleurs sacrées de. la Belgique, c'est les yeux mouillés que
nous vous portons à nos lèvres .•. Nous vous avons dressé un autel
dans nos cœnrs, jamais l'Allemand ne vous en arrachera.
VIVE LA BELGlQUE 1
VIVE LE DllAPEAU !
VIVE L'AH~IÉE 1
VIVE LE HÜl !
LA
Vers
LIBRE
BllLGIQUE,·
la Gloire.
En ce jonr de fête nationale, à l'heure où le pays tout entier
battant d'un même cœur se sent animé du même él-an de foi
patriotique,
nos pensées se reporrent
deux ans en arrière au
2i juillet de l'année tragique.
Comme chaque année, la Belgique célébrait ce jour-là l'anniversaire glorir.ux de sou indépendance._ Et tandis 9ue dans tous nos
sanctuaires,
dans nos plus humhles eg!tses de village comme sous
les voûtes majestueuses
de nos cathédrales, résonnaient
les acc,mts
joyeux du Te l)eum; tandis que dans nos villes et dans notre
capitale la fonle acclamait
l'armée déti\ant dans nos rues aux
accords entraînants
de marches d'allégresse,
de l'autre côté de la
frontière,
lè Prussien, ennemi marqué â jamais du stigmate de la
plus honteuse forfaiture,
foulant aux pieds les lois de l'honneur
les plus inviolables,
c!Pcidait_ froideme~t d'écraser ~ous sa lo~rde
botte le sol aimé de la Belgique en revaut annex10n. - Qumze
jours plus Lard, le crime était consommé.
Sous l'élremte
d'une émotion profonde, mais se cabrant sous
l'insulte, !ièrement, la tête haute, l'œil décidé, avee dans l'âme la
résolution de défendre au prix de leur sang le cinglant outrage,
de leurs mâles poitrines les enfants de la petite Belgique bal'l"èrent
la roule :nt colosse allemand. et aujourd'hui,
après deux ans de
luttes et de combats sans répit, là-bas, à l'Yser, le drapeau belge
flotte toujours ...
C'est v~1·s ces supPrhes héros qne nous tournons nos regards,
maintenant
surtout qu'un envahisseur despotique mais impuissant
veut réduire notrr patriotisme
au si.lence ; c'est vers eux que
s'envolent plus qu(' jamais nos espoirs, c'est dans un hommage
commun quP nousl "·ir adressons noti·e admiration reconnaissante.
Déjà le jour se lève où nos tiers soldats nous reviendront
au
son des marches triomphales;
où nos femmes iront au devanl
d'eux semant les lieurs sous leurs pas; où le peuple enlier, ivre
de joie débordant<', se ruera sur eux pour le~ s_errer, les écraser
contre lcnr cœur; où tout le pays, dans la folte de son entl1ousiasme, se disputera
l'honneur
de porter en triomphe
le lloi,
l'Armée et le Drapeau.
Prière
Ce jour-là sera la fête de la gloire.
Fière et noble Belgique, tu es glorieuse par ton Iloi qui, t'aimant
jusqu'à l'héroïsme le plus sublime, a tiré l'épée pour venger l'insulte faite à ta loyauté; tu es glorieuse par ta Reine, ange de
douceur el de consolation,
qui passe ses jours aux chevets de nos
chers blessés et leur dispense maternell(nnenl
des trésors de bonté
et de tendresse;
tu es glorieuse par le digne héritier de ton grand
Roi qui, hien qu'enfant encore, a revêtu l'uniforme
du soldat et
avec une belle énergie, tandis qu'autour
de lui le canon crachait
la mitraille,
a juré devant le drapeau de le défend1·e jusqu'à la
mort; tu es glorieuse par tes enfants qui, superbes lions, se battent
avec une vaillance, un courage, une ténacité indéfectible pour le
maintien de ton indépendance
et de tes plus chères libertés; tu es
glorieuse enfin par tes morts dont le sang a rougi le sol sacré de
la Patrie et sur les tombes desquels des mains pieuses et reconnaissantes,
en attendant
qu'elles leur élèvent plus tard un monument, déposent aujourd'hui
la couronne de l'immortalité.
HELBÉ,
Fidélité.
Vingt-et-un juillet, fête nationale 1
On n'a pas oublié comment ce glorieux anniversaire
fut célébré
l'an dernier, à la barbe de l'occupant
ahuri et furibond. Sans
accord préalable,
sans mot d'ordre et sans programme,
par la
seule force du sentiment
qui s'était spontanément
emparé de
toutes les âmes, le peuple belge trouva le moyen d'ailirmer plus
haut que jamais sa foi patriotique
et son indomptable
fidélité aux
institutions
nationales.
Il ne s'agita pas, ne manifesta pas. Tous
les règlements
édictés pour la circonstance
par la balourde et
pédantesque
minutie de la police allemande furent observés avec
une ostentation
de ponctualité qui était un redoublement
d'ironie.
Mais derrière les façades des maisons muettes et closes, les envahisseurs sentirent g1·onder et frémir le sentimenl dont ils avaient
inutilement
étouffé la voix et proscrit les emblèmes. Avec une
assurance
méprisante,
il leur signifiait que leur présence était
non-avenue,
et que le peuple belge n'avait pas cessé pour si peu
de se croire indépendant.
Une année a passé sur ce jour, une longue année, pleine de
deuils et de souffrances, où les heures d'angoisse n'ont pas manqué. Et aujourd'hui,
quoi qu'ils inventent et quoi qu'ils osent, nos
maitres dévoreront encore une fois l'humiliation
d'entendre l'âme
de la foule leur crier son indestructible
confiance dans la résurrection de la patrie. En vain réaliseraient-ils
le miracle de la
réduire au silence et à l'immobilité.
Est-il besoin de signes et de
paroles pour traduire la conviction qui règne maintenant
au fond
de toLts les cœurs? Les événements
ont marché;
l'heure de la
justice se rapproche.
La délivrance qui, l'an dernier, ne s'apercevait que par un acte de foi, dans un avenir <'ncore obscurci de
trop certaines épreuves, est maintenant
devenue évidente à tous
les yeux, on la sent dàns l'air, et les pharamineuses
atllches de
la Kommand,,ntu,·
n'en sont pas le signe le moins éloquent à
qui veut les eomprendre ou seulement se rappeler les airs qu'elles
chantaient
autrefois.
Rendons celle justice à nos maîtres:
ils ont largement contribué, pour leur part, à soutenir la fidélité du peuple belg·e. Bien
malgré eux, sans doute, et au rebours de leurs intentions, mais
par l'eflet direct et fatal de lenr politique lmltivée. lis ont persévéramment el méthodiquement
travaillé à enraciner au cœur de la
nation le besoin de croire à la libération de la patrie et l'indomp•
table résolution
d'attendre
la victoire finale au prix de tous les
sacdlices.
Il n'est pas un seul esprit sincère qui ne se soit parfois demandé
avec inquiétude
à quelles tentations
la bonne foi des classes
populaires aurait pu se trouver exposée si l'administration
du pays
occupé avait été remise à un pouvoir digne d'une telle mission.
Oh! nous n'imaginons ici rien d'absolument
impossible à trouver
en Teutonie, un idéal d'honneur militaire et d'humanité renouvelé
d'un Albukerque
ou d'un Boucicault. Supposons seulement à la
tête du personnel
d'occupation
quelques hommes de cœur et de
sens droit. Ils auraient essayé. de pénétrer l'âme du peuple dont
ils étaient constitués les gardiens. Ils se seraient étudiés à le bien
persuader qu'ils comprenaient
la noblesse et la légitimité du sentiment qui l'avait jeté, malgré lui, dans une lutte héroïque; ils ne
lui auraient
parlé de son Roi, de son gouvernement
et de sa
généreuse armée qu'avec le resrect dû à un adversaire
chevaleresque et malheureux;
ils auraient forcé son estime par leur modération et par la sincérité de leurs efforts pour lui adoucir les
maux de la guerre et de l'invasion;
ils auraient su rendre hommage à sa !idélité patriotique,
même quand ils étaient obligés de
la contenir ... Qui peut songer sans crainte à la séduction qu'aurait
exercée la modération
d'un tel pouvoir. jointe au prestige de ses
armes en apparence victorieuses et irrésistible$?
Le sachant incapable de mentir, on aurait cru ses proclamations,ct
elles n'auraient
eu besoin que d'être sincères pour faire peser,c:l un poids écrasant,
sur le peuple déçu dans ses espoirs prémat,1rés, la morne longueur du temps qui passait sans amener de changements heureux
dans la situation militaire. Que serait-il advenu si les populations
de faire circuler
ce bulletin.
�NUMÉRO 81
PRIX DU NUME~
DEUXIÈME ANNÉE
JUILLET 1916
Élastique, de zéro à l'infini (prière aux revendeurs de ne pas Jépasser cette limite)
LALIBRE
BELGIO.U
J'.al fol dans nos destinées; .u11 Pays qui se défend s'impose au
respect de tous : ce pays ne périt pas! Dieu sera avec nous
dans cette cause juste
ALBERT. Roi o,s BELOES(4 aoOt 191~).
Acceptons provisoirement les sa cri fi ces qui nous sont imposés ..·
et attendons patiemment l'heure de la réparation.
A. MAX.
BULLETIN DE PROPAGANDE PATRIOTIQUE NE SE SOUMETTANT
ADRÉSSE
intéressante.
Berlin, le 2 juillet
i916.
(De notre envoyé spécial.)
CnBR
RÉGULIÈREMENT IRRÉGULIER
CENSURE
ANNONCES : Les affaires étant nulles
sous la domination allemande, ·nous avons
supprimé la page d'annonces et conseillons à nos clients de réserver leur
argent pour des temps meilleurs.
ne pouvant être un emplacement
de tout repos, ils_sont installés
dans une cave automobile
KOMMANDANTUR -- BRUXELLES
MON
A AUCUNE
BUREAUX ET ADMINISTRATION
TÉLÉGRAPHIQUE
Une lettre
Envers les personnes qui dominent par la force militaire noire
pays. ayons les égards que commande l'intérêt général. Respectons les règlements qu'elles nous imposent aussi longtemps
~u'iis ne portent atteinte ni à la liberté de nos consciences
chrétiennes ni à notre Digniti Patriotique.
FONDÉE
LE Jer FÉVRIER 1915
DmBCTBUR,
La mission dont vous m'avez chargé a parfaitement
réussi. J'ai
en effet eu la bonne fortune de trouver auprès des collectionneurs
Cette carte a été retirée de la circulation
défaite de l'Yser.
Agréez, mon cher Directeur, etc ...
après
la première
CALAMO.
La Libre Belgique ayant entendu parler de ce document et ne
reculant devant aucun sacrifice pour intéresser ses abonnés et ses
lecteurs, a envoyé à Berlin un de ses collaborateurs
- dHective
en renom - pour essayer de le découvrir. Elle est d'autant plus
heureuse de pouvoir donner ici la reproduction
de celte pièce
Oas nene belgifcf.,e tvappen.
~ur <l:rinnernng an bte .finnal?me 0011 8clgie-n,
2luguft l914
<l'outre-Rhin le fameux document introuvable
que nous rêvions
de posséder. Je vous l'envoie sous ce pli.
Ainsi que l'indique la mention de dessus, il s'agit bien des
nouvelles armes de la Belgique. Elles représentent, vous le voyez,
le lion de Belgique monté par un soldat allemand, le tout coiffé
du casque prussien. Au-dessous, notre devise nationale.
Des cartes postales reproduisant
ce blason ont été mises en
vente dans tout l'empire aussitôt après l'envahissement
de notre
pays par les hordes teutonnes ; au bas de la gravure vous lirez
cette inscription : En sozweni1· de la conqnêle de la Belgique.
Août 19u;.
Prière
suggestive que depuis août i9H, les Allemànds ont eu le temps
de s'apercevoir
que le lion de Belgique n'est pas prêt d'être
dompté.
" Je puis dormir
Son Excellence von
qu'il a accordée il y a
qu'il vient ùe réserver
Daily News.
Nous ignorons s'il a
du journal américain
de faire circuler
ce bulletin.
la conscience
en paix ,,
Bissing aime les intcrvieuws.
Après celle
deux mois à notre collaborateur
EGo, voici
la même faveur au reporte1· du Chicago
accueilli aussi amicalement le représentant
que nous-même, n'ayant pas eu l'occasion
�de voh• notre confrère étranger après son entretien avec notre
illustre gouverneur, ruais ce que nous savons c'est que, pas plus
que lorsqu'il nous a reçu, il n'a ménagé les coups J'encensoir à
sa propre et auguste personne. Se rengorgeant
dès que l'envoyé
du Chicago Daily News lui déclina ses nom et qualité, von
Bissing lui énuméra en effet les mille et un biens dont nous lui
sommes redevables.
Ce plaidoyer pro domo que la feuille américaine va claironner
urbi et o,·bi est la digne récompense de la haute sollicitude avec
laquelle notre gouverneur veille sur nos intérèts, de l'unique souci
qu'il a de se faire aduler par les Belges. Car n'est-ce pas pour
procurer des ressourct>s aux humbles el soulager leur détresse
qu'il a essayé de contraindre les ouvriers de nos arsenaux à travailler pour les Allemands? N'est-ce pas pour qu'elles aient du
pain à donner à leurs enfants qu'il a fait appel aux femmes de
nos soldats pour la fabrication de sacs à ciment destinés à protéger les Allemands dans leurs tranchées? N'est-ce pas d'un cœur
essentiellement
compatissant aux misérables que d'avoir vendu, à
ceux qui travaillaient
pour compte des autorités allemandes, des
pommes de terre, fruit dél't>ndu pour tous les autres ouvriers? Cc
sont de méchantes langues celles qui osent prétendre qu'en prenant ces arrêtés notre gouverneur n'a eu en vue qu'une chose:
forcer la Belgique à équiper et armer l'ennemi contre ses propres
fils.
A côté de ces mesures de prévoyance
sociale en faveur des
ouvriers et ouvrières, il a aussi ~olutionné la question agricole.
N'est-ce pas à l'intervention
de von Bissing que" les campagnes
sont bien cultivées et llorissanles,
que de vastes troup<'aux de
bétail paissent dans les pâturages, que l'avenir du cheptel national,
grâce à des réquisitions
bien ordonnées, peut être envisagé avec
confiance? »
Et que d'autres préoccupations
encore ont été_ les, si~nnes, que
de fois les intérêts de notre cher pays ont fait I ohJel de ses
rêveries ! Tantôt il songeait au meilleur moyen de casser des
juges, des professeurs,
des fonctio~naires
d'é:ite ,~rop Hers ~ue
pour se faire ses laquais el ses courllsans;
tan lot c etai L aux rmlle
et une manœuvres
hypocrites
employées pour exciter les uns
contre les autres, les 'Wallons de Franchimont et les Flamands des
Eperons d'or ; tantôt c'était au sysl~rne l_~ plus ~llicace pour
accroitre de plus en plus les charges fmancieres, sort sous forme
d'impôts directs, soit sous forme d'emprunt.
Que pourrait-on
vouloir d,e plus ? C'est vr~i, il y ~ e~_core
l'hygiène publique qui a fait I obJel de ses atlenl10ns parllcuheres,
_ la police des m,eurs entre. aul_i:es, - " d_o~aine_ dans lequel
les Bel"'eS ne s'étaient pas particuherement
distmgues ».
Eh bien malgré tout cela, malgré toutes ces preuves réitérées
ù'affection'
" l'œuvre des Allemands n'est pas appréciée à sa
valeur pat: les Bel.,es ", ajoute avec un véritable chagrin notre
bienveillant
gouve~neur. Chaque fois qu'un décret n'a pas l'heur
de plaire, l'on accable les Allemands el l'_on doute sur_t~ul sur_ ma
personne. Certes, il m'arrive de temps a autre de faire fusiller
quelques trop zélés patriote~, mais c~·oyez ~ien que c'.est à co~1,trecœur. Oui, j'ose dire que Je ~e devoue ~ la Belgique, " Jose
ùire que je puis dormir la conscience en paix ~. .
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Dormir en paix, quand sous le couvert de dispos1t10ns edictees
dans l'intérêt du commerce et de l'industrie, on multiplie les
obstacles à la reprise des affaires; - dormir en paix, quand on a
procédé à tant de réquisiti_ous qu'_il n'y a guère moyen de la
saigner davantage;
- dormir en paix, quand o~ _agite le spectre
de la faim pour tenter de nous arracl~er de ver1_tahles acte~ de
félonie• - dormir en paix, quand on Jette en prison les nwres,
les jeui:es filles r1ui ont écrit à lenrs lil_s, à leur_s fian('és que leur
unique pensée est pour eux i - ~lorm11· ~~ paix, qua_nd on ma~·tyrise les épouses coupables d avoir envoye ~ leur mari le porlra_it
du petit bébé rose, fruil de l~ur amour et ne quelque~ mois ap_r~s
le départ à la «uerre, portraIL que le rude soldat brule du des1r
ùe recevoir pot~r y apposer, tandis_ qu'une douce larme de bonheur
mouillera sa paupière, son prenper el long baiser paternel ; dormir en paix enlin, quand on signe de_s ~rrêts ~e 1?orl " sans
trembler ni bésilcr ", le mol est de von B1ssrng lu1-meme, el que
l'on f 11sille jusqu'à des frmmcs,. sublimes_ d'héroïsme, de~anl _lesquelles les plus tristes fr?nl~ memes se decouvrent avec emol1011,
avec respect el avec adm11·a~1011.
.
« Je puis dormir
la conscience en paix », quand tous les actes
que l'on a posés devraient vous bourreler de rem~rds ! Qu'est-ce
doue que la conscience allemande et quel. crmsme elle ose
allicher·? Voici deux ans 11ue nous avons tale de la fameuse
kulture germanique, cl nous •~e parvenons pas encore à concevoir
tant d'iwpudence el d'aberrat10n.
Que dire alors des Belges qui consentent à diriger les journaux
contraints de tresser des couronnes à l'occupant, qui llagornent
l'ennewi « en rneltaul en relief les préoccupations
dominantes
dont 1\1. von .Bissin" s'est inspiré » pour le plus grand bien de la
Belgique, el qui dis~nt, eux aussi: " Je puis dormir la conscience
en paix 1 ,,
C'est là un spectacle qui allrisle l'esprit autant qu'il soulève le
HnLen.
cœur.
Prière
Grande
histoire
d'une petite
affiche.
L'histoire dont il s'agit n'est pas inédite. Elle n'est plus même
actuelle. Elle est de plus fort loin d'être unique en son genre; mais
elle est instructive, el il importe d'en tirer la morale avant qu'elle
ne tombe en oubli. C'{'sl l'histoire d'une affiche bleue.
Dans la polychromie
oflicielle du Gouvernement
général allemand, le bleu est la couleur des grandes occasions, le blanc étant
laissé aux mensonges ordinaires et quotidiens, et le rouge, réservé
aux affiches sincères. celles où nos maitres annoncent leurs meurtres juridiques. Blanc et rouges se partagent les rôles principaux
dans la grosse psychologie de l'intimidation
teutonne; mais c'est
encore le bleu qu'elle arbore avec le plus de satisfaction. Papier
bleu, conte bleu; nous convenons volontiers qu'ils auraient pu
plus mal choisir la teinte de leurs bulletins de victoire.
Donc, le 2 juin dernier, la Kommandantur nous informait - sur
papier bleu! - que la marine allemande venait de remporter sur
la flotte anglaise une victoire colossale. A en croire l'affiche, la
vieille puissance rnal'Îtime de l'Angleterre était anéantie, ou peu
s'en faut, tandis qne la jeune flot.te allemande, irrésistible et invulnérable, n'avait subi qne des pertes insigniliantes.
A en croire l'alliche I Seulement, personne ne la croyait, sauf
quelques alarmistes professionnels. Le lendemain, nouvelle affiche,
reproduisant un avis ofliciel de !'Amirauté anglaise,qui avouait une
liste de pertes, en effet assez impressionnante.
Cela devenait plus
grave, el une vague inquiétude se répandit, dans la partie du public
dont la force de résistance n'est plus eniière, nous voulons dire
celle qui s'est laissée intoxiquer, à son insu, par la lecture des
journaux censurés. Seuls, les esprits calmes remarquaient
que le
communiqué britannique
était visiblement amputé de sa tête et de
sa queue, et que c'était sans doute au p_rix _de celle opération, qu'il
paraissait s'accorder avec le commumque allemand, lequel dans
sa teneur première n'avait ni queue ni tète. lis discernaient aussi
qu'un son insolite se mêlait déjà en sourdine au concert triomphal
que la presse boche cl embochée menait de toutes ses voix, de
toutes ses cordes et de tous ses cuivres, avec un vacarme endiablé.
Le RPichsla« était alors en session.Chose bizarre! L'organisateur
de la viclofre l'auteur responsable du plan heureux qui avait assuré
à l' Allemagde l'empire des mers, parut médiocremen L soucieux
d'aller cueillir à la tribune les palmes du triomphe. Déléguant à
une façon de sous-secrétaire d'Etat, la mission d'annoncer au pays
la glorieuse nouvelle, le ministre de la marine, amiral von Cappelen,
était parti en hàte pour Wilhelmshafe?,
où_ l~ flot~e v~nai,t de_rentrer. Ce n'était pourlanl pas sa modestie qui 1 empechall d offrir sa
personne aux applaudissements
el aux acclamations du Heichstag.
Un Prussien! Prévoyait-il déjà les ratures pitoyables qu'il faudrait
bientôt faire dans ce singulier document historique?
Craignait-il
que l'assemblée, éclairée_ dans son d~lire d'un~ soud~ine lueur ~e
bon sens, ne lui demandat comment 11 comptait prohlet· de sa victoire? Toujours est-il qu'il préféra endosser à son subalterne le
soin d'accorder l'annonce otlicielle de la victoi1·e avec le postscriptum qui allait suivre.
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.
Le sous-secrétaire
d'Elat pour la manne expliqua
donc au
Reichstag que la flotte al l_cmande venait _de re':fipor_te~ m~ ~ros
succès. Elle avait rencontre la flotte anglaise, l111avatl mflige de
lourdes pertes et s'était ensuite ... retirée. Il va de soi qu'une opération de celle nature ne se passe point sans quelques accidents.
La flotte impériale avait été éprouvée, oh! beaucoup moins que
l'ennemi mais tout de même assez pour que la joie du triomphe
ne fût pa's sans mélange. L_eLota~ des perles all_~~ani,les n'était pas
encore parfaitement
élabh; mais on sav~1l dep q~• elles se montaient à un cltiffre assez douloureux de vies humaines. Beaucoup
des unités en"agées dans la bataille avaient subi des avaries sérieuses. Néan~oins on avait l'assurance que la majeure partie de
la floue, était rentrée. Le moral des équipages était cxcellen L.
Pertes sérieuses, - Jlolle revenue en majeure partie, - moral
excellent ... Si quel11ues députes songèrent à peser ces expressions
inquiétantes, les hoch ! dont l'assemblée en délire salua _cediscom:s
durent être ponctués de certains l10_quels symplomal1~u_cs. l\la1s
sur le moment, la clique pangermamste
et la claque olhcielle emportèrent tout.
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Cependant les notivelles du d_ehors co~mençaienl
a pe?~t~er.
Les journaux danois el hollandais racontaient avec une prec1s10n
impitoyahle des épisodes qui dérang~aient d'étrange s?rl~ la version de l' Amirauté allemande. On avait notamment repeche sur les
côtes danoises, le capitaine et quel11ues matelots d'un croiseur allemand l' Elbing, coule par un co~Lre-loq~illeur ~ussi allemand que
lui. Or le bulletin olliciel de Berlm n'avaIL avoue comme perdu que
le petit croiseur Wiesbaden_ et le_cuir~ssé Pomm~l'n,, coulé, ~n le
sait dans la Baltique depuis huit mois. Par le tewo1gnage mattendu que la presse neutre ~enait de_1:évéler _si bie~ à propos, il
se trouvait donc déjà convamcu de reticence mtent1onnelle.
Le rapport anglais survint là-dessus .. Avouant avec une b_elle
franchise Ja liste de pertes que les afltches allemandes avaient
déjà exploitée en la dénaturant, _il établissait dans un ré_c1Lclair,
circonstaucié,
parfaitement
coherenl, en toutes ses pa_rt1{'S,et de
la plus évidente sincérité, les différentes phases et l'issue de la
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FREEBELGIUI
I have failh in our Destiny: a Country which is defending
itself compels the respect of al!. That country cannot
perish l God will be with us in our just cause.
ALBERT, King of the Belgians. August 4" i9!4.
Let us accept for the time being the sacrifices which are
forced upon us; and let us await patiently the hour of
reparation.
A. MAX
(Mayor of Brussels).
FOUNDED
FEBRUAR,Y1st , 1915
Towards the persons dominating our country by military
force we should pay such regard as is demanded by the
public interest. Let us respect the regulations that they
impose upon us. so far as fhese do not infringe upon the
liberty ol our Christian conscience, or on our Patriotic
Dignity.
M•• MERCIER
(Archbishop of l\lalines).
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= GermanMilitary
Bureau)
being no place of repose,
a cellar on wheels has been
found more convenient .
REGULARL Y IRREGULAR
ADVERTISEMENT:
Business
being
at a standstill
under German
domination, we have suppressed
the page of
advertisements,
and advise our readers
to save their money for better times.
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VERS LA GLOIRE (d'après J.. f. PoRTAELS).
(TO GLORY [aller J.-F. PowrAELsl.)
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�"Ego " two months ago, here we have him granting the same
favour to tlle reporter of tlle Chicago Daily News.
Not having had the chance of seeing our foreign colleague afler
his interview
with our illustrious
Governor,
we do not know
whether the latter received the representative
of the American
paper with as much friendliness as he did ourselves. But what we
do know, is that as on the previous
occasion, he was lavish
enough wilh fiattery's incense for bis O"\Vnaugusl person.
Bridling up as soon as ever the representative
of the Chicago
Daily News had told him who he was and what he had corne for,
von Bissing proceeded to enumerate
the thousand and one blessings for which we are beholden to him. The wide publication
which the American journal will give to all this self-praise will
doubtless sufficiently reward our Governor for the exalted solicitude with which he watches
over our inlerests,
and for his
single-minded
care to make himself an object of worship by the
Belgians. For surely it is in order to procure resources for the
humble and to relieve their distress, that he has endeavoured to
constrain
the workmen
of our arsenals
to labour
for the
Germans·?
Is it in order that they may have bread Lo give to their children
that he has appealed to our soldiers' wives to make sacks for
cernent to be used to protect in their trenches - the Germans ?
To sell potaloes to those who work for the German authorities
while making them a forbidden
fruit for ail other classes of
workers,
is surely the proof of a heart which feels for the
sorrows
of the unhappy ? Those were unkind longues indeed
which should venture to affirm that by the publication
of these
decrees our Governor
aimed at one thing and one thing only,
namely to compel Belgium to equip the enemy and to arm 'tüm
against her children.
Side by side with these provident
social
measures, designed to assist our men and women of the working
classes, has be not also solved the agricultural
problem?
Is it
not thanks to von Bissing's intervention
that the country districts are "well cultivated and fiourishing " that great herds are
grazing in our paslures,
and that owing to his well devised
requisitions
we can look forward with confidence to the future
of our national farming industry ?
Oh ! and how often have other preoccupations
been his ; how
many limes have not the best inlerests of our dear land been the
object of his dreams?
Now he was thinking
out how best he
could remove judges, professors and officiais of the highest type,
who were Loo proud to become his lackeys and courtiers.
Now he was turning over in his mind the thousand and one
hypocritical
manœuvres
by which lie might sow discord between
the vValloons of Franchimont
and the Flemish of the Golden
Spurs ; or again, he was considering
what would be the most
effective syskm of increasing
more and more the financial char!l'es on Belg·ium,. whether in the form of direct impositions
or in
guise of a loan.
ls further proof necessary ?
True, there was in addition the question of public health, tu
which he had given bis attention;
and also tfi.e inspection of
morals, a sphere in which - according to him - "The Belgians
had not particularly
distinguished
themselves 1'.
Well, well, in spite of all this - in spi te of all these repeated
proofs of affection-"
the work of the Germans is nol appreciated at its true value by the Belgians" says, with real sorrow, our
benevolent
Governor.
Every time that some decree unluckily
displeases
them the public fall upon the Germans
and suspect
my motives.
No doubt I do from time to time order a few
over zealous patriots to be shot ; but believe me it goes sorely
against the grain. Yes, I venture
to say that I am devoted to
Belgium. « I venture
to say that I can sleep with an easy
conscience".
Sleep in peace indeed, when under the cloak of safeguarding
the interests of industry and commerce your edicts multiply obstructions to the resumplion
of business;
- Sleep in peace ! wllen
the number of your requisitions
has made it impossible to bleed
the country any further; - Sleep in peace ! wl!en you raise before
our .eyes tlle spectre of starvation in order to drive us to acts of
treason to our Country;
- Sleep in peace ! when you cast in Lo
prison mothers
and young girls for wriling to their sons and
sweet-hearts
to say that their one thought is for them; - Sleep
in peace ! when you torture
wives for the crime of sending to
their husbands
the portrait of the little pink baqy, the iirst fruits
of their love, born a few months aflher its falher's departure for
the war - this portrait which the rough solclier was longing to
receive, and wilh tears of joy to press upon it his first long
paternal kiss.
Sleep in peace lastly, when you sign death-warrants
•· without
tremor or hesilation"
(your own words, von Bissing !) and when
you shoot even women of a heroism so sublime that before theLll
the very worst of men ,vould bow with emotion and reverence.
'' I can sleep with an easy conscience"
- when all your deeds
should be plaguing you with remorse !
The German Conscience ! - of what stuff is it? and heavens !
the cyr,icism which it is not afraid to show.
Please to circulate
For two years now we have tasted the celebrated
German
"Kultur ", and even now we cannot rise to the full conception of
such impudent folly. What is one to say of certain Belgians who
are willing to manage newspapers
compelled to glorify the invader, and who fawn on the enemy, "calling
special attention
to
M. von Bissing's
principal
preoccupations"
all for the greater
welfare of Bdgium ! and who can say, as he does: "We can sleep
with an easy conscience".
Traly a sight to sadden and disgust !
HELBÉ.
Great Story of a Little
Poster.
This story is not made known for the first lime, it is no longer
even a new one. It is moreover far from being-unique,
but it is
instructive
and it is important
to point its moral before it falls
into oblivion. lt is the story of a blue poster.
ln the ollicial colour-scheme
of the German General Government, bluc is the colour for great occasions, white being reserved
for the daily and ordinary
posters which tell the truth-, namely
those in which our masters
announce
their judicial
murders.
vVhite and red <livide between them the principal roles in the
clumsy psychology
of teutonic intimidation
; but the blue it is
that they show with the greatest satisfaction.
Blue paper - the familiar
blu-e of the fairy tale ; and we
readily agree that they have cllosen qui te prop· rly this colour
for theil- reports of viclory.
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Accordingly,
on the second of July last, the Kommandantur
informed us - on blue paper ! that the German Navy llad just
gained over the British Navy a Colossal victory. If one was to
believe the poster the ancient naval power of Britain had been
annihila Led or ncal'iy so, while the young German Fleet, irrisistible and invulnerable,
had merely ~ustained insignificant
losses.
This if one was to believe the poster. But nobody did believe it
except a few professional
alarmists.
The next day cornes a new
poster reproducing
an official British Admiralty
report which
owned to a series of losses which appeared iLllpressive enough ;
in effect things were hecoming· more serions, and a vague uneasiness began to spread in that section of the pubHc whose powers
of rejeclion were no longer complete, namely L11at section which
had allowed itself to become drugged by reading the newspapers
censored l.Jy Gerrnany. Calmer spirits on the olher hand noticed
that the British Communiqué
had been docked of its head and
tail and that it was doublless due to this uperation that it seemed
to agree with the German Communiqué
which in ils original
form was equally without
beginning
or end. They noticed too
that a discordaut
note was already
inserting
itself into .the
triomphant
concert which the German and Germanised Press were
conducling, a concert in which every voice, every string and ail
the l.Jrasses were working up Lo a most infernal uproar.
The Reichstag was in session. But, strange to say, the organiser
of Victory, the responsible
author of thy happy plan which had
assured Lo Germany the Empire of the Seas appearecl but little
anxious to claim from Parliament
tue palms of triumph.
Delegating· Lo some kind of Under-Secretary
of State the mission of
announcing
to the country this glorious news, the Minister of
i\Iarine, Admirai von Capellen, had started in haste fol" vVilhelmshafen whither
the Fleet had just returned.
\Vhatever
it was
that stopped him submitting
hirnself to the plaudits and acclamations of the Reichstag it cerlainly was not modesty - for be was,
a Prussian ! Was il tlwt he already foresaw the pitiable alterations which would have to be made Lo this singular historical
document?
Did he fear that the delirious as~embly would have a sudden
lucicl inlerval and ask him how he proposed to profit by his
victory?
What is qui le plain is that he preferred to throw unto
his subordinates
the lask of making the official announcement
of
viclory agree with the post script which was about to follow.
Accordingly
the Under-Secrelary
of State for the Navy explained to the 11.eichstag that the German Fleet has just achieved a
great success.
lt had encounlered
the British Fleet, had infiicted heavy losses
upon it and had then proceeded to ..........
retire !
.
It went without saying that an operation of this nature dit not
take place wilho11t a few accidents. The Imperia! German Fleet
had been severely lried Oh ! not nearly so much as th<: enemy,
but yet enough for the joy of triumph to be mingled wllh some
regrets. The total of the German losses was, so far, nut fu~l,Y
established
; Lut it was already known that the loss ~f hfe
amounted Lo a painful figure. Many of the units engaged m the
fight had suslained serions injuries. Nevertheless
he cou,ld assure
them that the g·realer part or the Fleet had returned.
11..te moral
of the crews was excellent.
Serious losses ! The grealer part of the Fleet returned -. mo1:al
excellent ! If a few rnembers thought of weighing· these d1sqmeting expressions
the delirious « Hochs" with whicll the assernbly
greeled the discourse must have been puncluated b;J:' some ttJI ..
tale murmers. But for the moment the Pan-German clique and the
official claque had it ail tlleir own way. Meanwhile news began
to fil ter ll1rnugh from outside. The Danish and Dutch papers were
this
bulletin.
�NUMBER 81
SECOND YEAR
JULY 1916
PRICE OF NUMBER - Elastic, ranging from nothing at al! ad infinitum (the vendors are requested not to exceed this limit)
FREEBEL-GIUI
I have faith in our Destin y: a Country which is defending
itself compels the respect of ail. 'rhat country cannot
perish ! God will be with us in our just cause.
ALBERT, King of the Belgians. August , '" i9ll>.
Let us accept for the time being the sacrifices which are
forced upon us; and let us await patiently the hour of
reparatwn.
A. MAX
()Iayor of Brussels).
FEBRUARY1st, 1915
LEAFLET OF PATRIOTIC PROPAGANDA
ALL CENSORSHIP
TELEGRAPHIC
Dignity.
=
RESPECTFULLY
July 2°• 1916.
SIR,
The mission with which you entrusted
me has been quite successfully accomplished.
I have had the good fortune to discover in
Angusl
REGULARLY IRREGULAR
DECLINED
read this inscription
letter.
Berlin,
(From our special correspondent.)
l\f,c MERCIER
(Archbishop of Malines).
DATES OF ISSUE -
THE EDITORIALESTABLISHMENT
being no place of repose,
a cella1· on wheels has been
found more convenient.
ADDRESS
KOMMANDANTUR
BRUSSELS
(KommandanturGerman
MilitaryBureau)
An interesting
Towards the persons dominating our country by military
force we should pay such regard as is demanded by the
public interest. Let us respect the regnlations that they
impose upon us, so far as these do not infringe upon the
liberty of our Christian conscience, or on our Patriotic
FOUNDED
ADVERTISEMENT:
Business being
at a standstill
under German domination, we have suppressed
the page of
advertisements,
and advise our readers
to save their money for better times.
: To commemorate
This card was withdrawn
from
man dekat on the Ys&.
Believe me, Dear Mr. Editor,
The
the conquest of Belgiiim.
1914.
Editor
of the
The Free
circulation
after the first Ger-
Yours,
Bel!(Ïltm
etc.
having
CALAMO.
heard
of the
Oas nene belgifcl,e Wappen.
lue lfrinnerung
an bie .finna~me
1:10118clgim,
Uu9uft 1914
the hands of collectors on the other sicle of the llhiHe, the celebrated document which we were unable to tind and which we
were so anxious to possess. I enclose it herewith.
As is shown by the inscription
on the top it has for its subject
« The new coal _of arms of Belgium
"· These are made to represent. as you w1ll see, the Lion of Belgium ridden by a German
soldier, the whole surmounted
by the Prnssian
helmet. Underneafn is our national motto.
Picture postcards
reproducing
this Crest were placed on sale
throughout
the German Empire immediately
after the invasion of
our country by the Teuton hoardes. Beneath the picture you may
Please
to cireulate
existence
of this document
and being determined
to spare no
effort~ in proYiding interesting
matter for their subscribers
and
readers, sent to Berlin one of their correspondents,
a well known
detective, for the purpose of discovering it. They are most happy
to be able to reproduce
it here in ail ils suggestiveness,
in as
muchas
the Germans have had time to find out that the Lion of
Belgium is nowhere near the moment of his subjugation.
" 1 can sleep With an easy conscience "
His Excellency
von Bissing is fond of interviews.
Following
the one which he was good enough to give to our correspondent
this
bulletin.
�T.HE 21 st OF JULY
!
In his first and never to be forgotten
pastoral
letter our great
Cardinal wrole this sentence - which you can read in the I.Jeadline of each of our copies - •· Let us respect the regulations
of
the invader, so long as they do not infring·e upon our Patriotic
Dignity."
But, disregarding
all rig·hts - (sinee he admits himself lhat the
21"' of July is declared a holiday by the Belgian lawJ - in spite
of a,solemn
declaration
in which the occupant
aflirms that he
would never hurt our feelings as Belgians, our Governor General, ashamed probably of the meanness of what he is about to do
and not daring to take the responsibility
upon himself, makes one
of his varlets signa placard in which he forbids us to celebrate
in any way our national Feast and to fly our colours.
Could one wound us more deeply in our Patriotic Dignity, and
take better sleps to drive us Lo a revoit ? It is real provocation
!
But it is also the roar of helpless rage emitted by the German
people in pains of death. That is why we urge our fellow-citizens,
·
justified
as they mig·lü be in ignoring
this iniquitous
order,
nevertheless
to remain cairn, and to think that from the depths of
his prison and his exile the bnrgomaster
of Brussels exhorts us
to patience, and asks us to accept temporarily
the sacrifice imposed upon us.
Nevertheless
if von Bissing
has rushed back a few machine
gtms from the Front in order to terrorise
us, marching
them
through our streets and our squares white their train is waiting
for them, he has not yet dared to forbid us to enter our Churches
and to pray there for our Dead, for our s.,ldiers,
for our King
and for our Country. On the 21"' of July the Cb.urches throughout
the land and our cathedral
in Brussels in parlicular
(where at
10 o'clock a solemn High Mass will be celebrated)
will find
themselves
too small to contain the great crowds who will cal!
upon God Lo protect Belgium.
And as for our National Colours, allhoug-h a brutal decree can
stop us from displaying
them on our bàlconies and in our dress,
it cannot stop tb.e FREE BELGlUM from flying them in its columns. \.Vith pride we unfurl lb.ose colours. We unfurl them witb.
emotion.
'½'hat Belgian can see his Flag again after two years
without
a lump rising in his throat?
The Flag that our foe
would tear from us, to replace it by his own - the Flag for wich
so many heroes are fig·hting and falling.
0 holy Flag of Belgium, tearful we press you to our lips ... We
have builded you an altar in ou,· heurts. Never shall the German
tear you down !
LONG LlVE BELGIUl\1 !
LO;_\TGLIVE THE FLAG !
LO;_\TGLIVE THE All111Y
LONG LIVE THE KING !
FREE
llELGIUM.
To Glory.
On the day of National Celebration
when the whole country
beats with one heart-throb
of patriotic
faith, our thoughts carry
themselves
back OYer these last two years to that 21"' of July of
the tragic year.
As she llad clone year after year, Belgium was celebrating
on
that day the glorious anniversary
of her Independence.
ln all our
sanctuaries,
in our humhlest village churcltes, no less than under
the majestic Yanlts of our cathedrals,
pealed the joyous note of
tlte Te Deam ; in our towns and in our Capital our people were
acclaiming
the army as it iiled through
our streets to the allcompelling
strain of its jubilant
music.
Over the frontier. the Prussian,
the enemy, branded for ever by
the foulest act of treachery,
trampling
under foot the mosl sacred
laws of honour. was resolving
in cold blood to crush under his
heavy heel the beloved
soi! of Belgium,
and revolving
in his
dreams the malter of its annexation.
A fortnight la ter the crime
had been committed.
Deeply rnoved but erect under
this insult;
proudly,
with
unbowed head, clear-eyed but firm at hearl to aYenge with their
blood the sting of this outrage,
the children
of little Belgium
blocked with their bodies the path of the German colossus. And
to-day after t,vo years of struggle and ceaseless fighting,
there
on the Yser the Belgian Flag continues
to fly. . . It is towards
these splendid heroes that we turn our eyes, and especially now
when a despotic but impotent
invader
wishes
to reduce our
patriotism
to silence. It is to them more than ever that om· !topes
fly, and it is with a sense of universal
respect that we tender
them this expression
of our grateful admiration.
Already the day
is dawning when our proud soldiers will come back to us to the
sound of triumphal
marches
; when our women will go to meet
them strewing
flowers on Lheir path ; when the entire people intoxicated with joy, will fling· themselves
upon them to embrace
them and press them to their hearts ; when the whole country in
a wild enthusiasm
will fight for the bonour of bearing in triumph
the Ki'ng, the Army and the Flag !
Glory's great FestiYal !
Please
'
Proud and noble Bel,rium, glorious art Thou for Thy King who
loving Thee with heroisni the most sublime has drawn the sword
to a venge the insult done to Thine honour. Glorious art_ Thou for
Thy Queen, Angel of gentleness and consolation,
who passes her
days at the bedside of our dear wounded
and pours motherlike
upon them the treasures of h-er kindness and tenderness ; glorious
art Thou for Thy great King's worthy
heir, who though but a
child yet donned the soldier's uniform and with a fine enthusiasm,
the cannon booming round him, swore before the Flag to defend
it to the death; glorious art Thou for Thy children who brave as
lwns are figb.ting with a valour, a courage, and an unwavering
tenacity for the maintenance
of Thine Independence,
and of Thy
dear and consecrated
liberties
; and especially Thou art glorious
for Thy Dead, whose blood has staineLI with red the sacred soi!
of their country, and on whose graves pions and grateful bands,
anticipating
the day when it shall be in their power to erect some
earthly memorial,
have laid already the crown of immortality.
HELBÉ.
Loyalty
21" July, our National Feast day !
Everybody
remembcrs
how titis glorious
anniversary
was
celebrated
last year, in the very face of the German invader,
astounded
and furious.
Without
any previous
arrangement,
without any watchword
or programme,
by the sole force of that
feeling which spontaneously
took possession
of al! minds, the
Belgian people found the means of alfirming more strongly
than
ever their patriotic
faith and indomitable
fidelity to tbeir national institutions.
There was no disturbance,
no outward manifestations. Ali the orders issued for the occasion by the clumsy and
pedantic
minuteness
of the German police were observed
with
a show of exactitude
which d.oubled the irony. But the invaders
felt that behind the walls of closed and si lent bouses that strong
sentiment whose voice they had muzzled and whose emblems tb.ey
had proscribed
was now fuming and fretting.
Contemptuously
enough it showed them that their presence was·considered
ofno particular
significance,
and that the Belgian people were not to be
stopped by so small a thing from regarding
themselves
as independent.
Since that day a year has gone by ; a long year full of mourning and suffering, whose hours of anguish have been many. And
to-day,
whalever
they contrive
and whatever
the y dare to do,
our masters must swallow the humiliation
of hearing the soul of
the public
cry out to tllem its indestructible
conlidence in the
resurrection
of the Country. Even should tltey be able to perform
the miracle of reducing it to silence and immobility
they would
perform it in vain. Is there any need of signs or words to express
the certainty
which
now reigns deep in every lteart? Events
have taken place, the hour of justice is drawing near. The liberation which last year could only be seen by the eye of failh and
in a future still d.arkened by many trials, has now become plain
to al!. You feel it in the air, and the boastful posters of the
l{ommandantur
are not the least eloquent sig·ns of it, for anyone
who can read between the lines, or who merely recalls the songs
they sang in days now gone by.
Let us do our maste,·s this justice;
for their part they have
materially
helped in maintaining
the faith and loyalty of the
Belgian people. No doubt much against their will and contrary
to their intentions,
but by the direct and fatal effect of their
public policy of" Kultur ". They have worked perseveringly
and
methodicatly
Lo implant in the heart of the nation the necessity
for believing
in the liberation
of the Country, and the indomitable resolution
to await the final victory whatever
may be the
sacrifice.
Every honest man has asked himself with anxiely how greal
wo.uld have been the temptation
to which the simple faith of the
masses would have been exposed supposing
that the administration of the occupied country had been J?laced in hands worthy
of so great a trust. Oh ! we do not imagme ourselves finding in
Teutonic
lands, anything
so utterly impossible
as the renewed
ideal of military
honour
and humanity
of an Albukerque
or a
Boucicault.
But let us merely imagine at the head of the authorities in power a few men of human feeling and a sense of justice.
They would have tried to understand
the soul of the people of
which they had been made the guardians.
They would have studied Lo persuade
the people that they understood
the nobility
and the Jawfulness
of the sentiments
which
had flung them
unwilling
into an lteroic strugg·le. They would never have spoken to the!ll of their King, of their government
and of their selfsacriticing army except with the respect due to a chivalrous
and
unfortunate
adYersary;
they would have claimed their respect by
their moderation
anù by the sincerity of their efforts to mitigate
the hardships
of war and invasion;
they would
have shown
their appreciation
of tlieir palriotic loyalty even when they felt
themselves
oblig·ed to keep it wilhin bounds. '\Vho can contemplate without grave uneasiness
what might have been the seduction excrcised
by a power so used, coupled with the prestige
of l11eir arms, Lo ail appearances
viclorious
and irresistible?
Bad
to circulate
this bulletin.
�WAR CURIOSITIES
The
Forbidden
secret
Press
inoccupied
Belgium
TwomoreFac-similes
of " LaLibreBelgique
"
The Libre Belgique (Free Belgium), the forbidden paper
which for the last two years has succeeded in escaping the
investigations of the German police, in spite of the extraordinarily high rewards offered to anyone wbo will betray
it, continues its patriotic publication under the German
occupation.
With this leaflet are sent facsimiles of the two first
pages of two separate editions of this remarkable newspaper, which so clearly shows the irrepressible spirit of
patriotism wbich animales the Belgian population, in spite
of the hardships of the war.
N• 83 was pÙblished as a special anniversary nurnber
on the occasion of the celebration ofNationallndependence.
which by traditfon is held on Jul :nst.
ln N° Sr, published in the Edme rnonth, is reproduced
an illuslrated German correspondence card, distributed in
Gerrnany at the beginning of the war, and syrnbolising
Gerrnany's political intention of annexing and taking
possession of Belgiurn.
This insulting production contains the words: "The New
Arms of Belgium. In remembrance of the conquest of
Belgium August I9U:i ". lt represents the Belgian Lion
ridden by a German soldier, Lhe whole shield being surmounted by the German military helmet.
·
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Karolik, Martha Catherine Codman
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La Libre Belgique: BULLETIN DE PROPAGANDE PATRIOTIQUE - REGULI REMENT IRREGULIERMENT
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Mercier Press
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Free Belgium propaganda from the First World War
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1916
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FAREWELL DANCE
GIVEN BY THE
CREW OF THE
U. S. S. BRIDGEPORT
OCTOBER 24, 1919
AT THE
ROYAL PALM COURT
WEYMOUTH . ENGLAND
�'1
��ORDER OF DANCES
1
ONE STEP
2
FOX TROT
~
WALTZ
4
ONE STEP
5
FOX TROT
6
WALTZ
7
ONE STEP
8
FOX TROT
9
WALTZ
EXTRA
�ORDER OF DANCES
10
ONE STEP
11
FOX TROT
12
WALTZ
13
CIRCLE ONE STEP
14
FOX TROT
15
WALTZ
16
ONE STEP
17
FOX TROT
18
WALTZ
EXTRA
�DANCE COMMITTEE
F . H. BENJAMIN
ROY COOK
T. J . EISENLA
P . J . LENNERT
A. L . LEVEZ
C . B . MITCHELL
RECEPTION COMMITTEE
ROY COOK
P . J. LENNERT
A . L . LEVEZ
FLOOR COMMITTEE
F . H. BENJAMIN
R . D . BREWER
E. E. HESS
MUSIC BY THE BRIDGEPORT
JAZZ BAND .
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Dance card booklet for a dance in Weymouth, England after World War I. Includes note from Bill regarding his lack of preferred partner. "The crew of the Bridgeport gave a dance in Weymouth but I did not go and did not have the partner I care for with me, you know what I mean. Bill."
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FEBRUARY, 1917
Published -M onthly by the
NATIONAL·AMERICAN·WOMAN ·SUffRAGE ·ASSOCIATION
171 MADISON AVE.
VOLUME III
NEW ·YORK CITY.
NUMBER 2
�r
~ATIONAL
Page 2
SUFFRAGE NEWS
NATIONAL SUFFRAGE NEWS
Continuing the
HEADQUARTERS NEWS LETTER
A printed attempt to maintain intimate contact
between the N ational American Woman Suffrage
Association and its thousands of membe·rs throughout
the country.
_,
__
Published once a month by the National American
·w oman Suffrage Association, at 171 Madison Ave.,
New York, N. Y . Subscription price per year, 25c.
Entered as second class matter Oct. 6, 19ltl, at Post Office, New.York, N . Y.,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
RosE YouNG, Editor
National Amerlcan Woman
Sutlra~e
H onOt'ar y President
DR. ANNA H owARD SHAW
M RS. FRAN K J. S HULE R
Presidenl
Treasurer
M RS. C ARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
M Rs. HENRY WADE RoGERS
Fir3t Vice·President
First A uditor
MRs . WALTER M cNAB MILLE R
MISS HELOISE M EYER
Second Vict ·Prtsidtnl
Seeond A uditor
M Rs . S TANLEY M cCoRMICK
M RS. P ATTIE RUFFNER JACO BS
Third V ice· President
G. O GDE N
•
1 626~g~~·{:{;~~ Ave.,
RecordinJ Secrelary
Washington, D. C.
MRS . TUOMAS jEFFE RSON S MITH
EDITORIAL
[
..1-----~
Salutatory
With its hand on its heart, and the one-time Headquarters News LetteJ' behind its back, the NATIONAL
SuFFRAGE NEWS assures the suffragi st reading public
of its desire to serve and to please.
As the official organ of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, it should surely be able
to do the one. As suffrage news for 1917 promises to
be uniformly good news, it may hope, by the mere
exercise of its chronicling fun ction, to do the other.
* * *
Keeping up with Suffrage
On the next page will be found what is, at the
moment of going to press, the latest suffrage map for
1917. But no guarantee is given that it will be the
latest by the time this book is opened. Keeping up
with suffrage is a precarious undertaking in this
auspicious year 1917. Hardly was the ink dry on
the new map which added North Dakota with her
five electoral votes to the suffrage column, when word
came over the wires, "We Win Ohio." And that nice
new map is out of date before it is in circulation.
However, it can be borne. It's worth a new map
to get the twenty-fou r electoral votes of the great
commonwealth of Ohio. The Illinois victory planted
the suffrage banner fairl y in the Middle West. Ohio's
triumph carries it on into the North Central States.
Count East from West, the Yukon to Lower California, and you find the Pacific Coast tier of states,
from Alaska through British Columbia, Washington,
Oregon, and California, white for suffrage. The next
*
Some are saying, "If the United States becomes
involved in war, we stand ready to serve our country."
Others are saying, "Utttil the United States becomes
involved in war, we will not by thought or promise
heighten the tension."
On these two conjunctions have hung vivid differences of opinion during the present national crisis.
Violent militarists would keep the country steeped in
preparedness thought and galvanized with preparedness activity the year round. Violent pacifists would
so subordinate preparedness that preparedness ceases
to be the word. Defense becomes the word. With
the passivist defense ceases to be the word, submission
becomes the word.
There is hardly a suffragist who is not a pacifist.
But pacifism knows many degrees of self-commitment.
Pacifism is an ideal toward which we are all struggling. The essential point about an ideal is the point
of application. Pacifists are in no sort of unity on it. ·
Witness the inability of the peace societies to get together on any constructive program. In spite of
which, one is glad to concede that if pacifism's great
leverage is not, as yet, inherent in the ability to work
out these practical adjustments, it does inhere in the
creating of a mind for peace, the will for peace. Its
surest point of application lies in prevention.
Women are averse to war. They are averse to the
creation of a war psychology in advance of the event.
They deprecate ill-considered war talk in the name of
patriotism. They want peace. They· work for peace.
They pray for peace. If peace can be compelled, they
will compel it. But suffragists have shown that women
will rally around America's need, if war can no longer
be averted.
Suffragists are not usually considered precipitate
in patriotism. Indeed, the burden of accusation has
always come the other way around. Of all people,
wordy jingo-ism has left the suffragist untouched. The
fact that suffragists the country over deem the moment
fitting for discussion of, and action on, the crisis which
the nation confronts is distressing evidence of the
imminence of the crisis.
I
I
I
*
"If" Or "Until"?
Congressional Committee
MISS ESTH ER
]
Association
CorrtsPoltding Stcrtlary
tier from the Northwest Territory, through Alberta,
Idaho, Utah and Arizona, is likewise solid suffrage
land. Saskatchewan, Montana, Wyoming arid Colorado keep the ranks intact down to New Mexico. In
the fifth tier, Manitoba, North Dakota and Kansas
hold the balance against South Dakota, Nebraska,
Oklahoma and Texas. There is not a suffrage state
in the sixth tier. But in the seventh tier stands Illinois, and in the ninth is now Ohio. How is Indiana
in the eighth tier, with Illinois on one side and Ohio
on the other, to resist the pressure? It is not believed
that she will.
The Ohio triumph brings the number of electors
whom women have a voice in choosing to 120. Equal
in importance is the fact that Ohio, the fourteenth
state to be listed in the suffrage column, has become
the new salient, or wedge, pushing eastward.
Who can doubt that the thin black line of Atlantic
States will soon be penetrated by the new democratic
faith? By referendum or by legislative enactment
some state is sure soon to let the light break through.
\i\1ill it be New York?
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PRESIDENTIAL SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN
DATES BACK TO 1873
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With two single victories already scored in the presidential suffrage campaign, the "big drive" goes merrily _on. Legislatures seem almost uniformly favorable
to the presidential suffrage idea. Probably this .is because of the obvious justice of the proposition. What
a legislature can pass, it can repeal. If presidential
suffrage does not prove expedient in any State, the
legislature of that State can set the matter right by
taking away the measure of franchise it has bestowed.
In Ohio that measure varies somewhat from the measure granted in the two other states that have presidential suffrage. In both Illinois and North Dakota
women have municipal suffrage under the provisions
of their presidential suffrage bill. In Ohio they will
get presidential suffrage only.
The determination of what citizens may possess the
right to vote for presidential electors rests with the
legislatures of the several States. Any legislature may
· extend that privilege to women. Members of those
political parties which in National and State platforms
have endorsed woman suffrage by State action cannot logically withhold support to the extension of this
form of suffrage to the women of their respective
States. This proposal was first introduced in the Indiana legislature in 1873 and several States have had
the measure under consideration since that time. It
has frequently passed one House or the other, but
hesitation upon the ground of the possible unconstitutionality of the law and the non-support of political
parties has delayed its establishment. A bill containing
a presidential suffrage clause passed both Houses of .
the Illinois legislature and became a law in 1913 and
has since become known as the Illinois Woman Suffrage Law.
The question of the constitutionality of the Illinois
Law has been raised in the courts several times and
every time it has been sustained by the Supreme Court.
One of these cases tested the constitutionality of the
section of the law permitting the women to vote for
presidential electors and the Supreme Court upheld
the constitutionality of the Jaw. It was held by some
persons that the vote of Illinois would not be counted
in the presidential election of 1916 because women
had shared in the election. The election passed and
no question of throwinJ:!' out the vote of the women
or the State has even been proposed. The prompt
passage of a presidential woman suffrage bill bv the
legislatures of North Dakota and Ohio is an indication of the changed attitude of public sentiment toward this form of suffrage for women and is unquestionably the beginning of a movement which will
end only when the law has been passed by all State
lej:!'islatures.
The Constitution of the United States provides:
Article II, Section I. II-Each State shall appoint
in such manner as the legislatttre thereof mav direct.
a number of electors, equal to the whole number of
Senators and Representatives to which the State may
be entitled in the Congress . . . ,
The source of this power of the State legislatur!'s
beinl! the United States Constitution. the word "male"
defininl! the qualification of the usual electors of a
State does not preclude the vote for presidential electors being extended to women, for, according to Article VI, Section II-This Constitution ... shall be
the Supreme Law of the Land.
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SUFFRAGE WEEK AMONG THE
NEWSPAPERS
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Plans for the gigantic, many-in-one special suffrage edition of newspapers are maturing rapidly
under the direction of the National American W oman Suffrage Association. Thanks to the interest and
good will of editors and newspaper proprietors, there
will be enough papers in line to plaster the country
west to the Rockies and south to the gulf with a
huge suffrage sheet. The week chosen for this
demonstration is February 19th-26th, though some
papers will not have their special editions until during the first week of March. Four pages of suffrage
features have been prepared by the "National" for
the use of plate-usmg papers and various special
features are at the command of the large dailies that
are to give special space to suffrage during February
and March. Among the dailies as now listed are the
Baltimore American, the Detroit Journal, the Providence, R. I., Journal, the St. Paul Daily News, the
Minneapolis Daily News, the Duluth Herald, the
Nashville Tennessean, etc. Oklahoma newspapers are
pledging special support in view of the imminence of
suffrage as a campaign issue in that state. North
Dakota suffragists find editors very hospitable to the
idea of the special editions because of the great
suffrage victory just won in the state (presidential
suffrage). There will be sixty-five special suffrage
editions in this state during newspaper week. Minnesota will have about thirty, Michigan about twentyfive, New Jersey about sixty-eight; Tennessee hopes
to· have forty. Georgia, South Carolina, Nebraska,
Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts, Indiana and
Missouri will have special editions. It would seem
from present indications that every section of the
country will be covered.
"Mister, are you going my way?"
(Lavery in the Cincinnati Pan)
HE WAS!
Ohio Women will vote for the next President
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"THE ILLINOIS LAW"
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Now that presidential suffrage is a popular political
issue, there is a constant swirl of interest about "the
Illinois law." As the first state to put a presidential
suffrage bill into effect, Illinois has given its name to
this highly potential measure.
The full text of the Illinois law is given below. It
specifies the offices for which women are empowered
to vote under it.
(Senate Bill No. 63. Approved June 26, 1913.)
AN ACT granting women the right to vote for presidential
electors and certain other officers, and to participate and
vote in certain matters and elections.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the peopl e of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That all women
citizens of the United States, above the age of 21 years, ha ving resided in the state one year, in the county ninety day s,
and in the election district thirty days next preceding any
election therein, shall be allowed to vote at such election for
presidential electors, member of the State Board of Equalization, clerk of the Appellate Court, county collector, county
surveyor, members of Board of Assessors, members of Board
of Review, sanitary district trustee, and for all officers of
cities, villages and towns (except police magistrates), and
upon all questions or propositions submitted to a vote of th e
electors of such municipalities or other political divisions of
this state.
Section 2. All such women. may also vote for the follow ing township officers: supervisors, town clerk, assessor, collector and highway commissioner, and may also participate
and vote in all annual and special town meetings in the town ship in which such election district shall be.
Section 3. Separate ballot boxes and ballots shall be provided ·for women, which ballots shall contain the names of
the candidates for such offices which are to be voted for and
the special questions submitted as aforesaid, and the ballots
cast by women shall be canvassed with the other ballots cast
for such officers and on such questions. At any such election
where registration is required, women shall register in the
same manner as male voters.
PRESIDENTIAL SUFFRAGE TALLY
BY STATES
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There are nine states in which a presidential suffrage bill is now pending. They are : Indiana, Connecticut, Minnesota, Missouri, Rhode Island, New
Hampshire, Nebraska, New J ersey and Tennessee. In
six Southern states suffragists have taken the initial
steps toward presenting presidential suffrage bills.
These states are : Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Mississippi, Florida and Arkansas ; Wisconsin also may have a presidential suffrage bill introduced. Arkansas and Texas have bills pending giving
women the unique right to vote in the primaries.
(
Mrs.
Catherine Waugh
McCulloch
who drafted the
Illinois Suffrage
Bill.
(She is the mother
of four sons.)
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THE BRIEF FOR PRESIDENTIAL SUFFRAGE
OPINION OF JUDGE HIRAM LT. GILBERT, OF THE
ILLINOIS BAR
Clause second of Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution of the United States provides as follows:
"Second. Each State shall appoint, in such manner
as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of
electors equal to the whole number of senators and
representatives to which the State may be entitled in
the Congre~s; but no senator or representative, or
· person holdmg an office of trust or profit under the
United States, shall be appointed an elector."
Presidential electors perform only duties pertaining
t~ the government of the United States. They are provtded for, not by a State law, but by a United States
law, to wit, the Constitution of the United States.
Therefore, in providing for the appointment of presidential electors, the legislature of the State does not
act under the authority and constitution of that State,
but solely under the authority of the Constitution of the
United States; and the latter instrument has placed the
matter of appointing presidential electors in the hands
of the State legislature and has given the latter full
discretionary power with respect thereto.
It. would be w~thin .the power of the legislature to
provide that prestdenttal electors should be appointed
by a vote of a majority of its own members, or it
could delegate the power of appointment to any class
of persons whom it might see fit to select for that
purpose. In fact, its power is plenary. For this reason, it is very clear that it has power to provide that
presidential electors shall be appointed by means of a
majority or plurality vote of such residents of the
State, whether male or female, as it may designate for
that purpose.
The only bearing the State constitution might have
up?n the q~testion would be with respect to those provisions which regulate the manner and form of legislative acts. So long as the provisions of those sections are complied with, no valid objection can be .
taken to any act of the legislature regulating the appointment of presidential electors.
ABSTRACT OF AN OPINION BY MR. CHARLES LEROY
BROWN OF THE CHICAGO BAR
In a review of judicial decisions and pertinent facts,
Mr. Charles LeRoy Brown, of the Chicago Bar, shows
the history and practical construction of that clause
of the Constitution that bears on the right of State
legislators to determine the manner of appointing presidential electors, and from the showing he argues that
"if the source of the power of the State legislature
to establish qualifications of voters is exclusively in
the Constitution of the United States, then no provision in a State constitution with respect to suffrage
has any bearing and a legislature is unhampered
thereby. The second clause of the first section of
Article II of the Constitution of the United States is
as follows :
"Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the
legislature thereof may di1·ect, a number of electors,
equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress ; but no senator or representative, or person
holding an office of trust or profit under the United
States, shall be appointed an elector."
In an historic case which came to the United States
Suprem.e Cour~ from the State of Michigan in 1891,
Mr. Chtef Justice Fuller delivered an opinion that was
concu~red in by all the other members of the Court.
He satd:
"The Constitution does not provide that the appointment of electors shall be by popular vote, nor that the
electors shal~ b~ voted for upon a general ticket, nor
that the maJonty of those who exercise the elective
franchise can alone choose the electors. It recognizes
that the people act through their representatives in the
legislature, and leaves it to the legislature exclusively
to define the method of effecting the object."
Mr. Brown goes on to. say that the early operations
under the Federal Constitution make it plain that the
State legislatures were universally regarded as having
complete power to select presidential electors in any
manner they saw fit. Various modes of choosing the
~l~ctors were pursued, as by the legislature itself on
JOtnt ballot; by the legislature through a concurrent
vote of t~e two houses; by a vote of the people for a
gen~ral ticket; by a vote of the people in districts; by
chotce, partly by the people voting in districts and
partly by the le~islature ; and by choice of the legislatu.re from candidates voted for by the people in distncts.
Mr. Brown sums up as follows:
"The people in adopting the Federal Constitution
took away from the States, as such, all control over
the manner of appointment of presidential electors.
They provided that the electors shall be appointed in
such manner as the legislature may direct. The
words, 'In such manner as the legislature thereof may
direct,' have been held by the Supreme Court of the
United States to be a limitation upon the power of the
States. As those words are a limitation upon the
power of the States, nothing in any State constitution
can divest the legislature of the power to determine at
any time the manner of selecting presidential electors.
In so far as provisions of a State constitution attempt
to limit the right of suffrage to men in voting for
presidential electors, such provisions of a State constitution are void.
"The legislature of each State has supreme and
plenary power over the manner in which electors shall
be chosen. That power necessarily includes the right
to prescribe the qualifications of voters when the appointment of presidential electors is ordered by the
legislature to be effected by a popular election. Any
State legislature may itself retain that right of appointment or it may give it to all of its citizens, women as
well as men, regardless of any provisions in the State
constitution."
WOMEN HAVE llO ELECTORAL VOTES
(Fourteen States)
Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
California ...... ... . 13
Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Illinois ... . ..... . ... 29
Kansas .. .. .. .. . .. .. 10
Montana . . ......... 4
Nevada .... . ....... 3
North Dakota .. . . . . . 5
Ohio ............... 24
Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Washington . . . . . . . . 7
Wyoming .. .. .. .. .. 3
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. d i l l - - - - - By Anna Howard Shaw - - - - - .
The month of February always brings to the
thoughts of older suffragists one name and one annual
event-the gathering at Washington in National
Convention during the week of February 15th-Miss
Anthony's birthday, on which day funds were subscribed for carrying on the two principal lines of
work-the Federal Amendment to the national constitution and propaganda and state campaigns.
The name of Susan B. Anthony is synonymous with
the Federal Amendment, which was introduced in
the Senate through her efforts by Senator A. A.
Sargent of California, January 10, 1878, and has been
persistently and constantly urged by the National
Association in every Congress since. Though Miss
Anthony's name will always be linked with this
amendment, it is but one of the many lines along
which she traversed, all tending toward the same goal
-the full enfranchisement of women citizens of the
United States.
One of the characteristics of Miss Anthony was her
far-sighted and clear vision by which she discerned
that, though the goal was one and unchangeable, there
were many paths which led toward it, all of which,
like the branching streams that swell the water of a
mighty river, increasing its force, are helpful in determining 'its power.
So, while many different
methods of work were employed, they all tended toward the final recognition by the National Government of the political equality of all its citizens.
Miss Anthony's genius of initiative was remarkable,
and no event or opportunity, however trivial, which
could focu s attention upon the cause of woman suffrage, was allowed to pass unnoticed.
Once, at a convention held in Omaha, Nebraska,
the discussion was upon the medical service of the
Army during the Spanish War, and the lack of intelligent treatment and adequate preparation for the
care of sick soldiers. Miss Anthony made a thrilling speech, pointing out the need of women not only
as nurses, but women who could use their experience
as housekeepers and caretakers of the family 'in arranging for its comfort and by right of this knowledge could prepare for the comfort of the ill and
prevent the vast amount of unnecessary sickness
among the men.
Boys and Bugs
One woman, a strong partisan, thinking the criticism
reflected upon the Republican administration, interrupted Miss Anthony by exclaiming: "Dr. S--, at
the head of the Medical Department, is one of the
greatest bacteriologists of our time." Miss Anthony replied: "That may be; he may know all there is known
about bugs, but he does not know anything about the
care of boys." The lady turned to me in great anger,
saying: "Miss Anthony will find a suffrage argument
in anything." " Yes," I replied, "even in the red tape
and prejudice which allow brave young men to die,
rathoc than recognize the value of woman's knowledge and experience. That is why people who profit
by ·ignorance, cowardice and self-seeking fear her."
The Crime of Voting
The single incideqt in her life, which is strangely
little known even to suffragists, but which was of
the most vital importance in its results, shows her
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ability not alone to seize every opportunity to push
woman's cause, but her willingness to sacrifice and
suffer for it. This is the incident of her voting at
the general election in 1872 and her arrest trial and
sentence by the Federal Court. This, as ~ith every
act of Miss Anthony's life, was not an act of bravado;
she believed the 14th Amendment of the National
Constitution recognized that women citizens as well
as negro men were entitled to the full rights of
citizenship, an opinion still held by many suffragists.
The only way to settle the question was to bring a
case to the courts, and she offered herself as the sacrifice.
By Way of Thanksgiving
On Thanksgiving, a very appropriate day for such
a purpose, when, by the proclamation of the nation's
chief executive, the people assembled at their various
places of worship to give thanks for freedom, justice
and equality, a warrant was served upon Miss Anthony, and she, an American citizen, was arrested for
the crime of voting.
The officer conducted her to the court house in
a street car, but, evidently disturbed at the situation,
knowing Miss Anthony was greatly beloved in her
own community, seated himself in the car as far away
from her as possible. vVben the conductor demanded
her fare, she said: "Oh! That gentleman is conducting me to court; I am a prisoner and am riding at the
expense of the National Government-ask him for my
carfare."
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Miss Anthony was tried, found guilty and sentenced to one month's imprisonment or to pay a fine
of one hundred dollars. When asked by the judge
if she had anything to say, her words revealed her
sterling honesty, her indomitable courage, her unflinching purpose, and she ended her remarks by holding her hand aloft and declaring: "I will never pay
one C€nt of your unjust penalty, and I shall earnestly
and persistently continue to urge all women to the
practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim
that 'Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.' "
Fearing the result if Miss Anthony were imprisoned,
the judge hastily remarked: "Madam, the Court will
not order your commitment until the fine is paid."
No suffragist should fail during the month of February, or on Miss Anthony's birthday, to read the full
account of this trial and the unexcelled address delivered by her, in every school district in the country.
This trial, and scores of other occasions when Miss
A,nthony stood almost alone in her struggle for women's freedom, makes February 15th a sacred day to
suffragists throughout the world.
For Humanity
Other leaders whose birthday occurs in this month
were supported by public sentiment and popular applause. George Washington led an armed force of
men of indomitable courage and fierce determination
who rallied about him. The whole world recognized
the right of men to fight for their principles, be they
what they might. Abraham Lincoln was backed by a
nation of patriotic citizens and a vast army of men
in his magnificent struggle. to preserve the Union ;
but Susan B. Anthony, in the beginning, and for
years, was the butt of misunderstanding, misstatement and ridicule, with all the prejudice and ignorance
of ancient custom, with both church and state against
her. But with unflinching fortitude and consecrated
purpose she never faltered from the stt:aight line of
service and sacrifice which led to the ~oal of freedom
-not for a sex, nor for a race, but for humanity.
SANDS AT SEVENTY
.
Who that saw her does not remember the spirited
figure, gay with the immortal gayety of the ever young
at heart, trudging up Fifth Avenue, carrying the palm
of victory in that mighty suffrage parade of 1915!
Now she is telling us that she is seventy years old.
And we are not believing her. Yet, after all, seventy
years is a short time in which to have amassed the
wealth of esteem, love and reverence that are hers.
Among the many messages of congratulation that she
received during February was one from President Wilson, which said:
MY DEAR DOCTOR SHAW:
May I not wish you for your seventieth birthday not only
a return to strong health, but the happy anticipation of many
more years of useful service? You certainly have many years
of self-sacrificing work to look back upon with pride and satisfaction, and I want to join with your other fnends in wishin&" you many returns of your birthday and an increasing
happiness as they come. Cor d'tally and smcerely
·
yours,
WooDROW WILSON.
When Dr. Shaw began her fight for woman suffrage
nearly a half century ago there were only a few small
voices to support her. Last year suffrage was the
dominant element in a national election. Fifty years
ago equal suffrage was an academic theory. It is now
a fact in fourteen states.
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THE LESLIE WOMAN SUFFRAGE
COMMISSION
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One of the activities of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association that is commending itself
highly to conservative people is the chain of suffrage
schools that are interlocking the country.
Concerning the work of the suffrage school in the
South, one southern newspaper, the Raleigh News and
Observer, has been moved to say :
"We believe in the value of systematic organization. 'vVe know of no army that could ever
hope to obtain victory which was not organized
and directed. That political party which goes into
the field of contest without any plan of campaign
is pretty apt to be driven to the wall.
"So we think that wisdom is being shown by
the advocates of 'votes for women' in their program of giving instruction in the matter of equal
suffrage to those who are seeking to obtain the
ballot. That such instruction is given the name of
a suffrage school is only as a matter of distinction,
all that is sought being to give to the suffragists
the arguments held to be needed and instruct them
in the plans for securing the approval of the
people for their cause.
"This morning there begins in Raleigh a suffrage
school. We believe that the instruction given at it
will be of value not alone to the women, but likewise to the State. It might as well be recognized
by the opponents of woman suffrage that we are
in the midst of a thinking age, and that women
are taking steps to put their arguments before
Legislatures and the voters in the best form shows
their wisdom. Indeed it shows that they know the
worth of the ballot, and are equipping themselves
to secure that right for which men have yielded up
their lives.
"Vve commend the suffrage leaders in the program of study and preparation and organization
which they have arranged. And we believe that
the results will fully justify all the effort that they
have put into this plan of campaign for the ballot."
Among the instructors who have been sent out by
the "National" are Mrs. Frank Shuler, of Buffalo,
Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson, of New York, Mrs. T. T.
Cotnam, of Arkansas, and Miss Anne Doughty, of
Manhattan.
THE CARDINAL AND THE SUFFRAGISTS
Cardinal Gibbons, who has long been actively opposed to woman suffrage, was recently waited on by
a delegation of such representative Catholic women
as Mrs. William Prendergast, wife of the Controller
of New York; Miss Janet Richards, the lecturer, and
Miss Sarah McPike, President of the St. Catherine
Welfare Association, of New York. His Eminence
said that it was hard for an old man to change his
mind, but that he was open to conviction and would
give the subject earnest thought.
Cardinal Gibbons's opposition to suffrage is about
the only argument left the antis. If he forsakes their
campaign, they will be bereft indeed. A large number of devout Catholic women and many eminent
Catholic divines are ardent suffragists and they are
diligently furthering the suffrage cause with such dignitaries of the Church as remain unpersuaded.
Under a recent court ruling, an order of distribution of a portion of the Leslie fortune, left to Mrs.
Catt for use in suffrage work, has been issued. This
does not mean, however, that the bulk of the Leslie
fund has been released, such release being contingent
upon the many delays incident to court procedure.
A corporation, to be called the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, has been established under the law
of the State of New York. Mrs. Jean Norris, Attorney, had the matter in hand. Mrs. Leslie's will
made the following provisions:
"All the rest, residue and remainder of my
estate, whatsoever and wheresoever situate whereof I may be seized or possessed, or to which I
may be in any manner entitled at the time of my
death, including the amount of any legacies hereinbefore given which may for any reason lapse
or fail, I do give, devise and bequeath unto my
friend Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, of the City
of New York. (It is my expectation and wish
that she turn all of my said residuary estate
into cash, and apply the whole thereof as she
shall think most advisable to the furtherance
of the cause of 'vVoman Suffrage to which she
has so worthily devoted so many years of her life,
and that she shall make suitable provision, so
that in case of her death any balance thereof remaining unexpended may be applied and expended in the same way; but this expression of
my wish and expectation is not to be taken as
creating any trust or as limiting or affecting the
character of the gift to her, which I intend to be
absolute and unrestricted.")
Mrs. Catt will turn over to the Commission the administration of the fund and share with other members of the corporation the responsibility of making
plans for the disbursements and carrying them into
effect. There are five incorporators who by vete
will add to the membership of the Commission until
it numbers fifteen. These incorporators are: Carrie Chapman Catt, New York; Alice Stone Blackwell,
Massachusetts; Harriet Taylor Upton, Ohio; Mrs.
Winston Churchill, New Hampshire; Mrs. Raymond
Robins, Illinois.
The Commission will establish a National Bureau
of Suffrage Education as its chief work. The
methods employed for the development of this Bureau and other lines of work will be determined at
the first meeting of the Commission.
Campaigns within States will continue to be conducted by the State suffrage associations, and the
Federal campaign will continue to be conducted by
the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
In other words, the Commission will not conflict with
the work of present organizations by attempting to
conduct campaigns, either national or state.
It will under no circumstances contribute to · the
overhead or necessary running expenses of the National or State Associations. If the money should be
used as a substitute for money which is now raised
and expended through the regular channels, the Leslie bequest would in no sense aid the cause.
Any contributions which it may make to National
or State campaigns will be in the form of rewards for
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WOMEN CALLED TO THE COLORS-1914-1917
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"The determination of State policy and the making
of !aw should be left to that part of the community
whtch may be called upon to support the policy or to
enforce the law with arms."-MoNROE SMITH.
Since the outbreak of the European War we have
not had to go back to Boadicea to find the woman
war~i<:>r, nor do we single out a peculiar and unfemmme type when we name the women warriors
about whom the press despatches tell.
It was or.dinary women who fought by their own
doorsteps wtth any weapon they could lay their hands
upon in the streets of Liege in Belgium and of Mulhausen in Alsace, in August, 1914. We never shall
know how many other women fought in other towns
to repel the invader, but out of the thousands who
have fought come the names of a few of those actually
enlisted in the ranks.
Mercy Ivanovna, who received the cross of St.
George, died in storming the enemy's position at the
head of a Russian Company ; Alexandra Bashkireva
who received a medal of the same order, and Sophi~
Ivanovitch are other Russian soldiers whose names
we know.
Three anonymous Russian girls quietly took their
places in the ranks until wounded and their sex was
found out; another escaped from the hospital and
re-enlisted. A Russian husband and wife fought side
by side, and a daughter followed her father who had
been killed in battle. Seven German women in uniform were found among the captured wounded in a
hospital in Petrograd. Mlles. Dutrieu and Marvingt
and Mrs. Buller are among the allies' aviators.
In August, 1916, Emilienne Moreau, a Normal
student of 17, confronted in her own town of Loos
in Northern France by siege and occupation, nursed
the wounded in her own house, went out under fire to
get wood for her dead father's coffin and won French
and English medals for courage on the field of battle.
The story of Edith Cavell does not need to be told.
From her death one anti-suffragist at least got light.
"We know now that there are thousands of such
women. A year ago we did not know that they existed," said Lord Asquith.
Three women are named among the military architects of Germany, and in like manner, in work essential
to the carrying on of the war, women were employed
in the garrison of the 36th Infantry at Calu, and the
French Minister of War issued a circular early in
1916 to all military officials instructing them to employ women as often as they could instead of men.
Women in great numbers have worked in the military
campaigns in every helpful capacity besides fighting.
French women in the occupied territory have held
up the courage of their fellow townsmen and organized them to take up life again after a siege. When
the · mayor of devastated and . occupied Guillemont
broke down under the strain his wife took over the
duties of his office. Mme. Cheron, a teacher, took
charge in Buffignereux during a bombardment.
Mme. Macherez, a citizen of Soissons, on the approach of the Germans took over the duties of the
sick mayor, managed the hospital and carried the
town through a bombardment. Mme. Fiquemont is
another who became deputy mayor in a town besieged.
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"Nameless heroism," says one despatch, "is displayed by the women every day." These women did
not set out to be heroes or to exercise masculine
virtues; they simply did the work which the exigencies
of war thrust upon them.
One woman stands out for her courage in the defence of her own sex. We hear of a Mme. F-- in
the despatches-her town is not named-who hastened
the youn~ girls <?ut before the approaching enemy
and remamed. behmd, herself, to explain to the German general JUSt what peril-a peril peculiar to all
women and to women in all wars-she wanted to save
them from.
Between those who fought and those who maintained the institutions of peace during bombardment
and occupation stand those women, the largest body
of women on the field of battle in this war who
went upon the field to save life.
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I_'irst of these should be recorded the peasant girl
Jalma, whom we are told of in a single line in the
new~papers, who went amc;mg the wounded under fire
to gtve water to those dymg on both sides.
When the war began strangers who were in German:y saw a r~markable sight. They saw the whole
nursmg force m the German hospitals which are all
organized in the Red Cross, sent to the field or to
the base hospitals for the wounded. In the hospitals
for the sick were left only a few midwives and some
nurses in training.
In this war Dr. Crile* tells us that the field haspitals are for the most part within range of the guns
and nurses and doctors are sometimes shot down at
their work. Schwester Marga Von Falkenhausen
struck by a bomb in the hospital at Sissone, was th~
first of many German nursing sisters killed or
wounded. Schwester Elfriede Scherhaus was the first
to receive the Iron Cross.
~n March, 1916, the French Academy awarded its
pn~es, and this year th~ recipient organizations were
mamly those engaged m war work. The most important was the Red Cross and the award makes
special mention of many women. Among them are
Mme. Fontaine, Mlle. Crosse and five Sisters of
Mercy killed. The award quotes a hundred army
orders referring to women. Of the Comtesse de
Gormas and Mme. Gay Lussac one order says: "These
ladies remained at their post with the same valor as
soldiers in the firing line." Mme. Gay Lussac died
from nursing infectious cases. Six nurses of the
Societe de Secours carried away the wounded under
bombardment. Of Mlle. Germaine Sellier and Mlle.
Sivon the surgeon general says : "They showed a most
magnificent example of military courage."
Nursing sisters of the Holy Saviour, St. Vincent
de Paul, and many other orders are found everywhere
on the field and in the base hospitals. Nursing sister St. Pierre was wounded at her post. Marie Messin was shot tending soldiers. Sister Bertine conducted an ambulance during the bombardment of
Arras. The Nurses of Noyon remained at their posts
during bombardment.
Mlle. Marie Rosnet, superior of the hospital at
Clermont en Argonne, remained in her village after
*G. W . Crile, Mechani stic Theory of War and Peace.
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occupation and prevented the Burning of the town.
Sister Sainte Susanne of Arras and Mlle. Marie
Gilles were both killed by shells at their post of duty.
At Luneville another nurse was killed in the same
way. Mme. Gouin of Rheims is one of many nurses
in many towns who transported the wounded to cellars when the hospitals were under bombardment.
Mlle. Eugenie Antoine of Vailly sur Aisne was decorated by the English . for her .care of the wounded
under fire. Mlles. Cuny, Bertrand and Marie Pierron
nursed under fire, the latter making it her task to go
out into the woods and search for the wounded.
The work of French school teachers comes in for
mention again and again. Miles. Fouriaux, Lanthiez
Cavorrot and Mme. Fiquemont of Rheims were reported to the French Minister of Education for gallant condnct. Another school mi stress turned her
MISS HENDERSON OF THE ROUMANIAN UNIT
school into a lazarette. Mlle. Marcelle Semmer, also
a teacher, received the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
The Nurses of St. Charles at Nancy had to their
credit at the beginning of 1916 over a thousand soldiers nursed under heavy fire. Their superior Sister
Julie was given the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
This is a partial list of those mentioned in army
orders and in despatches from France. Every day
adds to the number, and for one mentioned there are
a hundred as anonymous as the soldier in the ranks.
This is a war in which the operations are so scattered, the numbers so vast, that we know little or
nothing of the exploits of individual men and women.
But we do know that the part taken by their women
has been the wonder of the nations at war.
"The Crimean War," says an article in the Common Cause, organ of the National Union of Woman
Suffrage Societies, "created the war nurse. This war
has created the woman war doctor."
The woman war doctor is the peculiar contribution
of England. The history of English women on the
field in thi s war has been of hospitals staffed from
the head of the medical staff to the lowest orderly by
women. There have been literally thousands of these
women. Of nurses alone 10,000 are spoken of at
one time and there is no public record of how many
there have been since. Besides the staffing of the
hospitals women have gone out as cooks and to work
in other capacities in the camps. In the list of almost
5,000 persons named by Sir Douglas Haig last summer for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field
are many women, and in recognition of their numbers
the King ordered that in future the military medal
be given to women.
Like the French and German nurses the English
nurses and doctors were killed at the post of duty.
Nurses in hospital ships torpedoed by the enemy responded gallantly to the order "Women first" by
claiming their privilege and duty of seeing the sick
and wounded taken off first, and so, many nurses lost
their lives.
To men in the hospital service military titles are
given. For the most part the women doing the same
work do not have this recognition, though a few do
bear the title of Colonel or Captain. The titles were
g rudgingly given, and indeed the services of the women were grudgingly accepted at first by the British
war office . It was not till the French accepted the
English women's hospital units that the English authorities learned th eir value.
At the beginning of the war the Scottish branch of
the National Union of Woman Suffrage Societies set
about raising funds for hospitals. A district teacher
gave £10 from her savings. This was the first donation; since then thou sands of pounds have flowed in.
The first hospital went to Calais under Dr. Alice
Hutchinson and Dr. Mary Phillips. Dr. Hutchinson
served in the Balkan War a few years ago and her
experience made hers the model for other women's
units which were established at the request of the
French military authorities at Royaumont, Troye and
other places. The fine Royaumont hospital had as
its medical chief, Dr. Frances Ivens, and Mrs. Harley,
sister of Sir John French, as administrator. Mrs.
Harley is one of many who have received the French
Croix de Guerre. She had charge of the transport
column, one o( whose duties was to pick up the
wounded on the field.
The Woman's Hospital Corps is another English
enterprise. This group first began work under the
French Red Cross in Paris.
Early in 1915 the English military authorities awoke
to the value of these medical women and their equipment, so eagerly made use of by the French. They
made them a part of the British Medical Service and
put Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson in charge of a large
hospital at Boulogne. Subsequently a base hospital
at Endell Street, London, became one of the Scottish
Women's Hospitals. Of Dr. Anderson's hospital, a
medical official said: "You have set a standard which
is quite unknown even among the auxiliary hospitals."
In most of these hospitals the whole staff, housekeeping, ward service, business and medical, are women. Among the doctors in this group is one of the
few women bearing a military title, Captain Everett.
McClaren, of the 3d Scottish Military Hospital.
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In December, 1915, the first beginning of what is
known as the Millicent Fawcett Hospitals was made.
Two women were sent out to Petrograd to take care
of maternity cases among refugees in Russia. From
the care of these poor mothers the work spread to
cover many other cases. There are now, under Drs.
May, King-Atkinson and other women, 5 hospitals
from Petrograd to Kazan, and from Kazan to Galicia.
They include an infectious hospital for children and
another for soldiers at Volhynia in Galicia. In the
latter place the doctors ferreted out concealed cases
of smallpox and prevented an epidemic.
One enterprise of the Scottish Women's hospitals
group which has been surrounded by danger at every
step has been their work with the Serbians. The
first of their Serbian Units was sent out by the French
military authorities at the end of 1914 under Dr.
Eleanor Soltau, to take care of surgical cases at
Kragujevatz. Let the Common Cause tell this part
of the story:
"The Unit found, on its arrival, that it had a far
more serious work before it, for the typhus epidemic,
which had begun in the disgracefully dirty and overcrowded hospitals left behind them by the Austrians,
flowed over Serbia like a flood. No one will ever
know what the mortality was from that terrible outbreak, but this we know, that more than a quarter
of the Serbian doctors died, and two-thirds of the
remainder had the disease, a fact which speaks volumes for the devotion of the Serbian medical profession , and is some indication of what the ravages
must have been among the general population. T o
Dr. Soltau's everlasting credit, she took over, with her
small staff and, for such an increase of work, her inadequate equipment, No. 6 Reserve Hospital for typhus cases and No. 7 Reserve Hospital for ordinary
medical cases, in addition to her surgical hospital,
which was full. The Committee hurried out reinforcements and equipment. For three long months
those women worked there, facing the hard work and
the long strain with indomitable spirit. There were
three deaths among the Unit, young lives given in a
great cause, and nine cases of illness, and still the
effort never relaxed.
"The British Government sent out a Commission
under Colonel Hunter, which did invaluable sanitary
work outside the hospitals. There was also a French
Commission, and an American one which came out
with all the wealth of the Rockefeller Institute at its
back. Other units-French, Russian, American and
British-took their share of the work-notably Lady
Paget:s Unit under the Serbian Relief Committeeand at last, by May, the epidemic was over.
"It is a strange, dark, gruesome time to look back
on; but one marked by many brave deeds and much
unrecorded heroism. It will always be a proud fact
in the story of the Scottish Women's Hospital that
we took our share, too, in that great battle. At the
end of the time Dr. Soltau herself fell ill with diph ··
theria and was invalided home. After that the Fever
Unit, which had had .charge of the typhus cases, was
sent to Mladanovitz to open camp hospital behind the
Second Arm."
The hospitals remained until the invasion of Serbia.
"There is no space to tell of the horrors of the retreat," says the Common Cause. "One hospital after
another was evacuated, a field ambulance was formed
in conjunction with the Serbians, called the Second
Serbo-English Fi~ld Ambulance, Dr. Chesney and Dr.
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Laird, the British Medical Officers. This field ambulance trekked over half Serbia during the retreat, always trying to form hospitals, always arriving to find
the town they came to evacuated. The hospitals all
came down to the West Morava Valley, bringing in
every case their full equipment with them, not to any
great purpose, for eventually it was all seized by the
Germans. Dr. MacGregor managed to put in a fortnight's excellent work at Kragujevatz, where she
opened a hospital of 600 beds in the artillery barracks
and a big dressing-station, 1,000 cases a week passing
through her hands."
Part of the staff of this hospital remained behind
at its work, in two parties, one of which, under Dr.
H utchinson, was taken prisoner.
"The last Unit, caught at Salonique, and unable
to advance into Serbia, took up the work at that end,
and under Dr. Mary Blair, cared for the train-loads of
refugees escaping southward, passed them on to the
ships, and eventually arrived with some 5,000 of them
in Corsica, where they have opened a general hospital,
DR. ELSIE INGLIS
an infectious diseases hospital, where they are doing
all the medical work, supervising the sanitation and
supplying medical aid to the Serbians in all the villages. Their work not only bears fruit now, but means
great things in the future."
In August, 1916, Dr. Elsie Inglis went out with the
newest enterprise, to the Roumanian front at Dobrudia. They had to retreat almost immediately, but
in the very act of evacuating the doctors treated over
2,000 wounded. The hospital staff was the last group
to leave and they passed through burning villages with
bombs bursting around them. In this retreat the transport column of eight ambulances, kitcl;ten and supply
and repair cars, which is part of the equipment of
every Unit, was invaluable.
Miss Henderson, the administrator of the Roumanian Unit, commented on the women's indifference to
danger.
"We had German reroplanes over our camps," says
she, "but our girls showed the utmost disregard of
danger. I heard one girl orderly, lying on her back
so as to get a better view of one, say quite calmly: 'It
looks exactly as if the bomb might fall into my mouth
if he dropped it.'"
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WOMEN VOTERS AND ELECTION EXPENSES
If argument were made to-day to exclude any
group of male citizens from the electorate, on the
ground that their admission would increase the cost
of election expenses, the proponents would be consigned to ignominous oblivion without a day's delay.
Yet anti-suffragists officially make appeal to this most
mercenary and anti-democratic of motives as grounds
for denying votes to women. Not only do they do
this, they adduce figures that warp the facts almost
beyond recognition. For instance, the cost of election
expense in a "little election" year-no gubernatorial
vote--is compared invidiously with the cost of a "big
election" year, when a whole national and state
ticket is in the field. They take a year like 1913which, for reasons unknown to gods and men, was an
off-year in election annals in Illinois, a phenomenally
small proportion of voters going to the polls-and
compare its election expense, more or less vaguely,
with the election expenses of 1916. Women were not
voters in 1913. They were in 1916. The horizon
must be made to gloom and glower during the interim.
"In Chicago the cost of election has increased three
times as a result of adding women to the electorate."
It takes an anti to make the connection. The clerk
of Cook County can't do it. He says that adding
women to the electorate has added one-third to the
election expenses. In this connection it is of interest
to note that the cost per registered voter in New
York, where women don't vote-yet-was, in 1914,
2.29; in Chicago, where women do vote, it was 1.84.
In 1915, the cost per voter in St. Louis, where women don't vote, was 2.12; in Chicago that year it was
1.095. That is to say, in 1914 at a cost of one and
one-half million, one-sixth of the population of New
York voted. In the same year at a cost of one and
one-sixth million, seven-twelfths of the population of
Chicago voted.
Again, anti-suffragists pick a fastidious way among
facts, eliminating all those that don't prove what they
want proved with a dexterity that is fairly violent.
For instance, by selecting state and county "governmental cost payments" as a basis for calculation, they
are able to show that the cost of government in a
group of non-suffrage states, New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, is less than in a group of suffrage
states, California, Oregon and Washington. What
that means is that the big item of governmental
cost payments-the expenditures of incorporated
places-is lifted out of anti-suffrage consideration
quietly but surely. New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania are full of incorporated places-the
"city States" of the east. Ad their cost payments to
the state and county cost payments and the total goes
sky-rocketing far beyond the ken of California, Washington and Oregon. Take just one example-New
York's State and County expense is only about
$85,700,000. The incorporated places' expense is
$306,000,000!
The subjoined table institutes a comparison of the
cost of elections that is illumining.
COST OF ELECTIONS IN VARIOUS YEARS IN CHICAGO
(From Board of Election Commissioner's R ep ort-I9IS)
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
Cost
$617,854.89
443,781.27
604,998.22
476,326.64
618,827.63
519,573.18
908,015.98
404,276.74
1,136,976.76
785,069.00
Per Vote
.70
.74
.660
.83
.74
.56
.79
.97
.79
.57
Per Capita
.31
.22
.29
.22
.28
.23
.40
.17
.47
.32
In 1906 there were 1,259 precincts; in 1915 there
were 1,587, which is an increase of only 328 and not
a "doubling" of precincts as the antis claim.
Note the high cost of the male election of 1912 and
its enormous per vote cost, because fewer voted in
that year than in any election since 1906. The year
1915, women voting, has the lowest per vote cost except 1911-one cent lower-and its per capita cost is
not high. Complete 1916 figures are not available.
It is easy to say, as the antis do, that "doubling the
electorate will double the election expenses." Easy to
say, but hard to prove.
Telegrams from the states that now enjoy the benefits of woman suffrage, with none of the disasters
attendant upon increased election expenses and increased taxes, are now on file at the headquarters of
the New · York State Woman Suffrage Party. In
every case the telegrams are signed either by the Gov. ernor ? r by the Secretary of State.
WYOMING: " Woman suffrage has not increased taxes
in this state nor cost of elections."
CoLORADO: "Only increase in cost of elections what
naturally accrues from added number of electorate."
IDAHO: "Added election expense infinitesimal."
W ASI-IINGTON : "Election expenses only increase by
slight cost caused by effort to keep voting precincts under 250 voters."
CALIFORNIA : "Increased cost of elections because of
women voters very little."
OREGON: "\Voman suffrage has increased election
expenses only so far as naturally they would
increase proportionately to increase in number
of voters."
ARIZONA: "Increased cost of elections through women voting not worth considering."
KANSAS: " Increased cost of elections insignificant."
NEVADA: "Slightly increased cost of printing additional ballots and compensation for election
clerks."
ILLINOIS: The city clerk from Springfield writes:
"The increase of election expenses thus far has
been nominal and due only to expense incident
to printing additional ballots and furnishing
extra booths."
MoNTANA: "The argnment of increased taxation because of woman suffrage is absurd."
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. - - - B y Emma Winner Rogers, Treasurer - - - . J
Every State suffrage assoctattOn ts sp~c ially e~
gaged just now in a money-raising campatgn, or m
planning for such a campaign. To do this efficiently
is of first importance. The National Treasurer has
suggested methods and plans for money-raising campaigns both through the NEws LETTER and in correspondence with State Treasurers and members of
the National Finance Committee, and must continually
remind these officials and all F inance Chairmen of even
smaller suffrage divisions that "Where there's a will
there's a way."
The determination to raise ample funds to carry
through either State or local suffrage plans is the first
essential. The selecting of finan cial chairmen deciding on suitable methods and the enthusiastic pressing
of financial campaigns will succeed in the measure
that determined purpose to accomplish these results
is present. vVise suggestions and efficient methods are
sure to be seized on by zealous State and local Finance
Chairmen to forward the interests of their treasuries.
The National Treasurer is sure that valuable help
will be found in the following quotations from the
forthcoming efficiency booklet on "How to Raise
Money for Suffrage," which the National Woman
Suffrage Publishing Co. now has in press, written by
Henrietta W . Livermore of New York. The booklet
will cover:
A Money-Raising Campaign, Budget and Pledges
and Suggestions for Money Raising.
We quote from the firs t of these three topics:
A.-MONEY-RAISING CAMPAIGN
"The Manager. Suffrage associations are looking
for the right kind of woman to be a financial campaign manager. . . . A woman suff ragist, tactful attractive, executive, accurate and optimistic is n~ces
sary. Do you know her?
"The Committee. The Committee should begin
work at least two months before the campaign. The
entire success depends on the planning ahead and
thoroughness of work of thi s Committee and in the
selection of captains. At least six should serve on
this Finance Campaign Committee. Set the time for
beginning and end of the campaign and advertise it.
Select a slogan. Decide on the number of teams necessary, amount to be raised, amount you expect each
team to raise, the forms of pledges and the forms of
~eceip~s and all details . of the campaign.
Begin an
mtenstve hunt for the kmd of captains who will work
with a will and who can inspire others to work. Get
at least six capable captains.
"Scheme. Divide your territory into districts that
can be covered by a team. If your territory is a city,
wards and election districts are a natural division.
If other lines of division seem more advisable, such
as denominations, or fraternal organizations or school
districts, or social lines, let these be clearly mapped
out.
"Have the captain bring in names of the persons to
be asked for contributions in the territory to which
she is assigned. Have all the lists card-catalogued
both a general alphabetical one §or reference, and ~
dis~rict card catal~g of the ? afnes in the territory
asstgned each captam. Meanttm., each captain must
be selecting her team of six (more if possible) who
will give up the entire campaign week to the task.
"The Campaign. Six days should be devoted to
the campaign. On Monday have a get-together
luncheon, at which the manager, the committee, the
captains and teams are present. At separate tables
seat each captain with her team. Afte r the luncheon
the manager launches the campaign, explains all details and arou ses enthusiasm. Each table should be
labelled with the number of the team. The card catalogs for each team are then placed on each table, gone
over by th e team and the names assigned to individuals
of the team. Any especially important or difficult
names are taken by the manager. Full directions of
details of pledge-taking and money-receipting are explained and the necessary paraphernalia given to each
person. System and exactness are required. Each
member of a team keeps a record on her cards from
now on of persons seen or interviewed, together with
results. These cards are then fi led in the captain's
file. After luncheon and business are over the teams
separate to visit immediately the names assigned and
to meet at luncheon on the next clay to report results.
"Following Days. Each clay at luncheon teams report totals and turn in money received and these
amounts are credited to the teams on a large blackboard. A victor's banner is placed daily on the table
of the team reporting the largest sums obtained.
Let the teams talk over their names after each luncheon and discuss difficulties and plans, separating to
canvass as usual.
"Publicity. Clever advertising beforehand helps,
a taking slogan, or any local hit or appeal. Posters
are useful. Arouse curiosity beforehand and enthusiasm while the campaign is on.
"Whirlwind Campaign. The end of the campaign
may see any especial form of campaign, utilizing every
helper available, a 'dime' campaign, pencils sold on
the street, mite boxes, a tag day, or whatever best
suits the community. Here is the place fo r an original
stunt. Let the campaign close with a clash and a final
dinner or luncheon to which important guests are invited. If you have not reached the amount set, have
pledges taken at this final dinner. You will get the
amount."
ANTHONY APHORISMS
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''It rej oices me every time I find a competent
woman in a responsible position ."
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"Degradation in the labor market always has been,
is today, and always will be the result of disfranchisement."
* * *
"The first duty of every intelligent woman is to
Jevote her best energies to getting the power of the
ballot into the hands of all women."
* * *
" I am here for a little time only, and then my place
will be filled as theirs was filled. The fight must not
cease. You must see that it does not stop."
A WORD OF REMINDER
Subscriptions to the NATIONAL SUFFRAGE NEWS are
very much in order. Subscription blanks will be
found in forthcoming numbers and those whose subscriptions are falling clue at this time are asked to
renew promptly.
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DONATIONS ~
Anne K . Chan,ing . .... $5.00
1.00
Mrs. Fra n cis Magoun ..
2.00
W . C. Gan nett .... ... .
Berrien Co. Eq. S. Assn. 1 5.3~
1.00
Mrs. Samuel Clay . ....
1.00
Miss Olivia Bowditch ..
1.00
Mrs. Charles E. Brown.
1.00
Mrs. Paul Bu tler...... .
1.00
Mrs. Eilzabetb Berry .. .
2.00
Mles Lucy Allen· · · · · · ·
1.00
Mrs. S. Bridgma n .... .
1.00
M re. H erbert Barton .. .
1.00
Miss ·r.rargnret Anthon y
1
.00
Mrs. Ellen 1'. Adams ...
1.00
Miss c. s. Callendar .. ·
1
.00
Mrs. Grace Bailey. · • · ·
1 .00
Miss Caroline Cook.· . · ·
1.00
Mrs. AJtred Bullard .. · ·
1 .00
Mrs. !<'red Ashworth . . .
1 .00
Miss Mary W are Allen . .
1.00
Mrs. ColematJ · · · · · · · · ·
1.00
Mrs. Charles B . Alden . .
1 .00
Mre. C. Eliot. ·· ·· · · ··· ·
1.00
Mrs. Charles P . Adams .
1.00
Isabel L. Briggs· · · · · · ·
1.00
Sa ra h B. Dabney .. ····
1 .00
Elizabeth Anthony · · · ·
1.00
Mrs. Wlllhtm Benedict .
Mrs. Langdon Frot hing·
1.00
bam .. ·· ·· ·· · ····· ···
1 .00
Mrs. Herbert Bond . · . · ·
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Mrs. c. M. Baker. · · · · ·
1 .00
Mies LibbY · · · · · · · · · · ·
1 .00
EmilY Caller · · · · · · · · · ·
1.00
M·rs. David Edsall. · · · · ·
1.00
Mrs. B ertha Brenner . ..
1.00
)!lTa Chandler . · · · • · · · ·
1.00
Mrs. Elizabeth H. Bowles
1.00
Mrs. Hilda B . Shaw · · · ·
1 .00
Miss Brooks · · · · · · · · · · ·
1.00
Charlotte Clapp · · · · · ·
1 .00
Belen Farnham · · · · · · ·
1.00
Harriet Ellis · · · · · · · · · ·
1.00
Mrs. w . T. Forbes.·.··
1.00
Miss Edith Burrage · · · ·
1.00
Mrs. c. F. Fearing . .. ·
2.00
Miss Abbie Barry· · · · · ·
1.00
Miss M)trY Barrow . . . ..
1.00
Miss Allee Chandler· · · ·
1 .00
1\frs. walte r Channing ..
1 .00
Miss Edith Fuller · · · · · ·
1.00
Mi ss Lucy Bardwell .. . ·
1.00
Mrs. M. E . Collins .· · · ·
1.00
Mrs. Henri et t a Aiken . . .
1.00
Miss Mary Aiken .. ··· ··
1.00
Mrs. c. A. Gray · · · · · · · ·
1.00
Miss Amy Woods . . .. ··
1.00
Miss Lillian Cram . · · · · ·
1.00
Miss E . v. Chenery ....
1 .00
Miss Charlotte Flint .· ·
1.00
Miss Elizabeth Flint.· · ·
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Dr. Julia Dutton ..... .
Mrs. Mary Durgin . ... .
Miss B . P . Kimball ... .
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Miss Belen Cushing .. . .
Mrs. Roland Baker . . .. .
M1ss Eleanor Sullivan . .
Mrs. J oseph Lovejoy .. .
Mrs. Arthur Rot ch . .. . .
Miss Louie Stanwood . .
Mrs. Gertrude P ennima n
Dr. Annie F isher . .. . . .
Annette Rogers .. ... .. .
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Mrs. Al!nes Lacy .. . .. ·
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Dr. nnd Mrs. Winston
Stephens . . .. .. . . . . .
Mrs. Addle Knox . .. . . . .
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Mi ss M. N. Tatt. . .. . .
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Mrs. Florence T.ewls .. .
Mrs. W . R . Rollins ... . .
Miss Anon Richardson . .
Miss 1\1. Stone .. .. . . . . .
Fnnnle L. Bayes . .. .. . .
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Miss Marla Purdon ....
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Mrs. r,. Fl. R a rrlman .. .
Mi ss F.. R. Ln lr<l . .... .
Miss E. M. Caldwell .. .
Mrs. James 'forhert ... .
Mls• f'o ra Start . . . . . . .
Miss Ellen D~bn ey .... .
M'rs . Lewis Thorpe . ... .
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Mrs. A. J . Joyce .... : . .
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Miss Agnes Garrison . ..
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lllrs. Arthu r Livermore. 34.00
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1.00
Mrs. A. J . Mundy .... . .
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Mrs. Rarr~et Bergmrtn ..
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Mrs. Walter Hunter .. .
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Mrs. John C. Lee ..... .
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Katherine B. Shute .. . .
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1\Irs. George Wallace .. .
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Mi ss Eugenia Frothing1.00
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Mrs. G. R . P a rker . .. . .
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Baltimore ...... ... . . 19.10
l'.frs. S. S. Mitts .. .. . . . 20.00
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H elen Eacker .. .... . .. . 10.00
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ANNUAL PLEDGES
Mrs. R . C. Langdon .... $50.00
Eq. Sut. League of N. C. 15.00
F:relyn R . Ordway.. . . . 20.00
Mi ss Julia Rogers. . . . . . 100.00
Mrs. Jos. Macpherson. . 100.00
Minn. W . S. Assn . . . . . 750.00
Dr. Wm. Allee.. .. ..... 30.00
M"rs. Wm. Allee....... 30.00
Mrs. Robt. Gould Shaw 1,000.00
D. of C. Col. E . S. L.. . 25.00
Carrie C. Catt ... . .. . .. 273.82
Mrs Lewis J . Cox . . .... 50.00
V ot~s t or Women League
ot North Dakota . . . . 25.00
Conn. W . S. Assn .. . • . . · 10.00
Pol. Eq. League, Little
Rock, Ark .......... . 50.69
Dr. Katharine B . Davis 25.00
Ky. E . Rights Assn ...• 150.00
Conn. W. S. Assn ... .. . 199.00
Mrs. John C. L ee .. . .. . 200.00
Mra. D. 0 . lves .. . . ... . 25.00
Mo. Eq. Suf. Assn .... . 25.00
Mass. Pol. Eq. Union .. . 100.00
Eq. Sut. League, Balto. 17.88
Chicago Eq. Suf. Assn .. 582.00
Mrs. Ra y mond R obins . . 100.00
Total ......... $3,903.39
DUES
Nat. Council Women
Voters • . . . . . . . • • . . . .
50.00
Total .. ....... . . $4,727.79
�·RAGE NEWS
WHITE SPACES
INDICATE GOOD
LEGISLATION
Page 15
BLACK SPACES
INDICATE POOR
LEGISLATION
OR NONE AT ALL IN REGARD TO THE FOLLOWING:
7. Age of Consent-18 years-(Unchaste)
1. Child Labor-14 years
4. Minimum Wa~e
2. Compulsory Education
8. Red Light Abatement
5. Mothers' PensiOn
9. Prohibition
3. Eight or nine hour day £or women
6. Equal Guardianship
(Chart is based on compilations to date of January 1, 1917. Since that date North Dakota and Ohio have been added
to the suffrage column.)
It will be seen that there are in the twelve suffrage
states thirty-two black spaces in all, an aver,age of
2.66.
It will also be seen that there are in the thirty-six
non-suffrage states 186 black spaces, an average of
5.16.
Judged by social legislation, women and children
are, therefore, nearly twice as well off in suffrage as
in non-suffrage states.
It is to be remembered in this connection that
neither women nor children are employed in industry
in appreciable numbers in most of the suffrage states.
This accounts for such agricultu ral states as Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Arizona, ~·or instance, having
black spaces in the first circle. They are without a
child labor problem of any moment and they do not
put laws on their statute books to cover a situation
that does not exist. Wyoming had exactly seventeen
children between the ages of ten and fifteen in factories, according to the last United States Census.
Compare the application of the mother's pension
laws of New York and of Wyoming. In New York
the mother must work when the father is disabled and
she receives only ten dollars a month for the first
child. In Wyoming a mother is pensioned if the
father is disabled, dead, or has deserted the family,
and twenty dollars a month is allowed for the first
child.
This is the only chart of the kind so far issued with
the sanction of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Acknowledgment-is made to Mrs.
J. G::. Holman, of St. Paul, for the ingenious device
whereby the showing is made.
�Page 16
NI\TIONAL 5
_, tzzard, "doing everything, from scrubbing
to speaking with Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Snowden,
Congressman Keating and recently with Mrs. McClung.'' She carried on the complete suffrage filing
system for Buffalo, doing the filing herself, along wi.th
various other odd jobs. One of the latter was the
running of the Business \iVomen's Club, which she
started and made a profit out of, through their fifteencent hot suppers. Gradually she emerged as a street
corner speaker, having two, three and four speeche~
every night all the spring and summer of the 191 5
campaign and speaking through the country districts
as well as the cities. She ran all the press work for
the eighth campaign district, the largest in the state,
and for the city of Buffalo, the second largest in the
state. After the campaign she was elected city chairman and had entire charge of the city of Buffalo.
She has been, " for a dim, dark, and forgotten number
of years," on the Buffalo Express, and is the youngest officer of any State Federation of Women's clubs,
being recording secretary of the New York organization, after two years as its press chairman. She has
written children's stories which have been printed in
various magazines, but this is her first sustained effort.
She is a member of the Scribblers of Buffalo, an
organization limited to 30 members invited ior their
literary work and containing such illustrious lights as
Anna Katherine Green and Marian de Forest, dramatizer of " Little Women' ' and "Erstwhile Susan." Several of her amateur plays and monologues have been
done in Buffalo. That's about all, except that she
"adores cooking and hates street speaking."
Her book is issued in an attractive dress at $1.05
postpaid! by the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company.
~
FOR RENT-ONE PEDESTAL
MISS MARJORIE SHULER
It is also for sale-apply to National Suffrage Publishing Company. And it is not a pedestal. It is a
book-the story of a suffrage campaign, and a bright
and breezy girl's part in it.
The propaganda novel is a difficult proposition, but
Miss Marjory Shuler has walked up to it with the
same rippling sense of humor and the same buoyancy
of spirit that made her a lively and original figure in
the "Eighth District" during the 1915 suffrage campaign in New York State. Those who have been
through a campaign will read this gay little record
with frequent reminiscent chuckles. And those who
have not been through a campaign will read it chucklingly just the same. There is a fund of suffrage information and argument in it; there is advice; there is
human experience, and woman experience, and political
experience. And it is all off-haadedly given, so that
the reader has the sense of enjoying a breezy book
rather than of being tutored in suffrage tactics. One
instance will illustrate. Concerning the art of suffrage speaking, the young heroine says:
".l\fy attempt at a comprehensive, logical outline
failed completely. No one wanted to hear my speech.
Those who stopped for a minute were restless, made
comments and soon melted away.
"Finally in desperation I told the story of a little
girl who went to have dinner with a great man. All
during the meal she was anxious to speak. The great
man silenced her. When des, ~ rt was served, he
asked, 'Now, little girl, what do you want to say?'
"She replied, 'Please, sir, it's too late now. I
wanted to tell you there was a \I'Orm on your lettuce,
but you ate it.'
"As I told the story I reali~ed that my voice had
been patronizing like the man's. I began to talk
simply about things women want to remedy before it
is too late. The crowd grew and grew."
The young author went through the last campaign
~
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\IJ.
Woman Suffrage
Year Book
1917
Edited by
MARTHA G. STAPLER
The first attempt to issue under one cover
information on the following subjects-and more!
Calendar of Suffrage Events in 1916, Suffrage History,
Arguments, Statistics, Charts, Bibliography, International Alliance, Federal Amendment, Presidential
Suffrage, State Referenda, Lists of Associations in the
United States, Suffrage Planks in Party Platforms,
Effect of Woman Suffrage, Number of Women Voters.
Laws Affecting Women and Children, Persons Excluded
from Suffrage, Jury' Service and Poll Tax, Facts for
Suffrage Workers,Sentiment in Favor, Cost of Elections.
Paper.' Postpaid $1.05
...
Edition Limited-Order Now!
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171 Madison Avem e
I
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A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
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Title
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Bruges, postcard
Creator
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Raphael Tuck & Sons
Description
An account of the resource
3.5 x 5.5", postcard
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Painting of a street scene in the northwest Belgian city of Bruges.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1915
Subject
The topic of the resource
Bruges (Belgium)
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
45a48bf3-3d18-4e7e-a06f-21fb6a1f1604
Postcards
World War I
-
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Title
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World War I Era Publications and Propaganda, MS 055
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
A collection of U.S., U.K. and French publications primarily from the First World War and most are propagandistic in nature. The collection includes some ephemera and clippings from the era as well.
Creator
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Karolik, Martha Catherine Codman
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<a href="https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/ctdbn_ms055_wwI_era.xml">Link to finding aid.</a>
IIIF Collection Metadata
UUID
265f49a3-4b22-4038-99a3-ce773fe1bad4
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
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Title
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Defenders of the Empire, postcard
Description
An account of the resource
3 x 5", color postcard
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Painting of soldiers from Great Britain in various uniforms and branches of service.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1914
Subject
The topic of the resource
World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Postcards
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Payne, Harry, 1858-1927
Publisher
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Raphael Tuck & Sons
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
63ff26bd-bbfa-446d-925b-2dc7370336c6
Postcards
Propaganda
World War I
-
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Title
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World War I Era Publications and Propaganda, MS 055
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
A collection of U.S., U.K. and French publications primarily from the First World War and most are propagandistic in nature. The collection includes some ephemera and clippings from the era as well.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Karolik, Martha Catherine Codman
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IIIF Collection Metadata
UUID
265f49a3-4b22-4038-99a3-ce773fe1bad4
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
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Title
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Viva L'Italia! postcard
Creator
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Raphael Tuck & Sons
Description
An account of the resource
3.5 x 5.5", color postcard
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Painting showing soldiers from different allied nations (England, France, Belgium, Japan, Russia and one other) welcoming an Italian soldier into their group. Includes patriotic poem on the verso by Grace C. Floyd: "Banded together for sternest strife..."
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1915
Subject
The topic of the resource
World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Publisher
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Raphael Tuck & Sons
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
05c35d0a-ef71-49d5-82bc-1dd3b1393d04
Postcards
Propaganda
World War I
-
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Title
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World War I Era Publications and Propaganda, MS 055
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
A collection of U.S., U.K. and French publications primarily from the First World War and most are propagandistic in nature. The collection includes some ephemera and clippings from the era as well.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Karolik, Martha Catherine Codman
Has Version
A related resource that is a version, edition, or adaptation of the described resource.
<a href="https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/ctdbn_ms055_wwI_era.xml">Link to finding aid.</a>
IIIF Collection Metadata
UUID
265f49a3-4b22-4038-99a3-ce773fe1bad4
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
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Title
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Picture Puzzle Postcard, S.S. Oceanic
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Payne, Harry, 1858-1927
British Red Cross Society
Description
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3 x 5", postcard, with frame, envelope and mailing envelope.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
From the "Red Cross" Series: Published by Special Request entirely to aid the British Red Cross Society... Included is a scan for the postcard image (also in the collection) which is the basis of the puzzle. At least 3 pieces of the puzzle are missing.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1914-10-04
Subject
The topic of the resource
Ocean liners in art
World War, 1914-1918--Pictorial works
Photographic postcards
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Raphael Tuck & Sons
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
ca43545d-9fb7-41e0-84d2-c7d394b51c8f
Postcards
World War I
-
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Title
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World War I Era Publications and Propaganda, MS 055
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
A collection of U.S., U.K. and French publications primarily from the First World War and most are propagandistic in nature. The collection includes some ephemera and clippings from the era as well.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Karolik, Martha Catherine Codman
Has Version
A related resource that is a version, edition, or adaptation of the described resource.
<a href="https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/ctdbn_ms055_wwI_era.xml">Link to finding aid.</a>
IIIF Collection Metadata
UUID
265f49a3-4b22-4038-99a3-ce773fe1bad4
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
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Title
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Swollen-Headed William
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Painful Stories and Funny Pictures after the German!
Creator
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Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Morrow, George, 1869-1955
Description
An account of the resource
20pgs
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1914
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
A satire on the Emperor William II. based on Heinrich Hoffmann's "Struwwelpeter."
Subject
The topic of the resource
Hoffmann, Heinrich, -- 1809-1894. -- Struwwelpeter -- Parodies, imitations, etc.
William -- II, -- German Emperor, -- 1859-1941.
Struwwelpeter (Hoffmann, Heinrich)
Publisher
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Methuen & Co., Ltd: London
Source
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Der Struwwelpeter (WCSU Special Collections PT2617.O45 S 75) gift of Dr. Jack Leopold.
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
3663fcc6-08b0-49fa-baa8-091ac1c4c4df
Propaganda
World War I