"Women’s Clubs," Oregon Journal, April 28, 1912, 5:4.

 

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WOMEN’S CLUBS
Edited by Mrs. Sarah A. Evans

Never have the club women of the state faced a more important or critical year, or one that has taxed their time, strength and pocket book as this year will do. Portland will particularly feel the stress of this as here the storm center will be, though it will be a storm of pleasure, delightful social intercourse and the meeting of old and the making of new friends.

When the biennial convention of the General Federation met at Los Angeles something like 10 years ago, Oregon had not wakened up to the full understanding of what federation meant, nor had she learned the fine art of club fellowship and club hospitality. Now it is a different matter. Twice presidents of the national body have journeyed to Oregon to attend the state conventions, and many other distinguished club women have been in our midst, while Oregon women too have gone to other states and accepted hospitality, thus the bond of friendship has been established and strengthened, thereby making it imperative upon the Oregon women to keep open house, to entertain handsomely and to see that our eastern club sisters carry back to their homes a beautiful memory of their entertainment in Oregon.

There is no doubt that every club in Portland will do its share in this great work that is before them. This will be the first obligation laid upon them. After this will come the state convention, which will open about November 5.  Five times Portland club women have been hospitably and lavishly entertained by the various towns of the state, and that Portland will not fall behind in its duty to the visitors is assured.

When this is over the club year will have been fully inaugurated, and the work of a year well begun.

ONE of the goblins that some of the club women are afraid “will get them if they don’t look out” is the fear that, by the action taken several months ago by the Woman’s club of Portland, indorsing suffrage, and its activity in promoting the work, the club will be “turned into a suffrage club.” Like most things we are afraid of in this life, this foolish and utterly without cause. Suffrage has become a national question; it concerns women more nearly than any question before the public today; if affects civics, publice [sic] health, civil service reform, forestry, good government and if fact, every line of woman’s club activities.  The large majority of women believe equal political rights will promote all these things so dear to the hearts of women, therefore the Woman’s club of Portland, with but three negative votes, decided to work for suffrage as a means to these ends. It, however, edged itself about by the restriction that it would work for it till the election in November. It contributed a stated monthly sum, believing in backing up its “faith by works.” This sum was also voted with the above restriction.  Why then should there be any fear either that the work or allowance will be continued indefinitely? And what is more, after the 6th of November there will be nothing to work or spend money on for the suffrage. If suffrage carries, the work is done for all time; if it fails it could not become an issue again for two years at the very earliest, and all the present work would be abandoned and the round-about trail of “influence” be again taken up. Hence, in either event, the clubs that have indorsed suffrage will again slip back into their own work and that before the club year is well launched so the goblin is an imaginary one, and not to be given serious consideration for a moment.

 

 


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"Boys Like “Suffrage”," Oregonian, April 24, 1912, 15.

 

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BOYS LIKE “SUFFRAGE”: JEWISH LADS FORM “VOTES FOR WOMEN” CLUB
Girl is Mascot of Novel Booster Organization, Which Was Awarded Flags by Ben Selling.

The interest that is being manifested in the question of woman’s suffrage among the younger element is evidenced by the fact that within the last week two clubs devoted to the cause of woman’s suffrage have been organized among Portland boys.

The more remarkable of these clubs is the Oregon Junior booster Club, composed entirely of Jewish boys from South Portland. The club was organized by Izzy Kerchefsky, who has been elected its president, and is under the patronage of Dr. Marie Equl , of the National College Equal Suffrage Association. The membership is limited to 12 members, including one girl, who is the mascot.

Most of the members are of a musical bent, and a musical organization is planned among their numbers. Both of the boys’ clubs will participate in street meetings and other demonstrations that are to be held in the course of the campaign. Mrs. A. E. Clark is the organizer of the second club.

The Booster club was yesterday awarded 17 large American flags by Ben Selling. Shortly after their organization last week they were also the guests of Mr. Selling at a luncheon. The following were its members; Izzy Kerchefsky, president and organizer; William Charack, vice-president; Silvia Kreisberg, mascot; Eugene Kreisberg, Leo Seltzer, Jake Gurien, Harry Shulman, Mose Shulman, Jake Minsky, Ben Kerchinsky, Sam Nudleman, Tommy Charack.

To assist in the campaign in opposition to woman’s suffrage in this state which has been undertaken by the Oregon society opposed to suffrage for women, Miss Martin, of New York, an anti-suffrage speaker of wide reputation, will arrive in Portland Sunday and will deliver a series of addresses in this city and at various points throughout the state. Miss Martin is at present in Wisconsin, where an equal suffrage campaign is now under way. She recently made a tour of Kansas in opposition to the campaign which is also being carried on there for equal suffrage. Just how long Miss Martin will be in Oregon has not yet been determined.


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"Anti-Suffragists Meet, Plan to Combat Votes for Women Movement Considered," Oregonian, April 13, 1912, 11.

 

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ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS MEET
Plan to Combat Votes for Women Movement Considered.

An open meeting of the Anti-Suffrage Association of Oregon was held yesterday at the Multnomah Hotel. The principal purpose of the meeting was to decide definitely on a plan of campaign to combat the suffrage movement at the coming state election. It was presided over by its president, Mrs. Bailey, and there were 40 persons present, including General C. F. Beebe and W. D. Wheelwright. The principal address was made by Judge Corliss, of North Dakota, who took as his subject “Taxation Without Representation” and chiefly devoted his remarks to the business and moral features of the question. He was followed briefly by Mr. Wheelwright, who also will deliver the principal address at the next meeting, to be held at the Multnomah Hotel on the afternoon of April 7. Thereafter the meetings will be held monthly at the same place.

Reports were read by the secretary, Miss Elinor Gile, and by Mrs. Wallace McCamant, treasurer of the association. Miss Failing read a very interesting letter from Miss Goddard, of Colorado Springs, a former suffragist, but now strong in opposition to the movement because of the unpleasant results she found from its adoption in Colorado. Miss Goddard is president of the Colonial Dames of Colorado and very prominent socially in that state. It was announced that Miss Martin, of New York, and a noted anti-suffrage speaker, would soon arrive in Portland, and under the auspices of the association deliver a number of addresses in different parts of the state.


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"Chinese Women Dine With White Part 3 of 3," Oregonian, April 12, 1912, 16.

 

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Chinese Women Dine With White
Race Lines Not Drawn at Suffrage Banquet in Honor of La Reine Helen Baker.
Oriental Twits Sisters
Mrs. Chan Declares Oregon Is Behind Neighboring States and Nations – Militant Methods of English
Workers Explained.

Side by side with their Caucasian sisters, seven Portland Chinese women sat at a banquet at the Portland Hotel yesterday noon. The feast was attended by 150 equal suffrage workers. In the course of the banquet one of the Chinese women addressed the other women and voiced her belief in the rights of women to share political equality with man. She spoke in her native language, and her remarks were interpreted by her daughter.

The dinner was given in honor of La Reine Helen Baker, a magazine writer and author who is visiting in the city. The writer graciously stepped aside when interests centered in the Chinese women.
The presence of the Chinese women at a banquet with white women is unique. Mrs. Baker, who had just returned from a tour of two years in foreign countries, of which she spent six months in England in close association with the suffragists, said after the dinner that in all her travels she had observed nothing to compare with the Portland mixed dinner.

Portland Beats England
“In England,” she said, “where class distinction is virtually eliminated among the suffragists, and the possessor of millions associated with the poorest woman of the slums, I have never known the lines to be so completely obliterated that Chinese women and English women participated in the social function.”

The Chinese women attending the banquet were Mrs. S. K. Chan, wife of a Chinese physician, and herself a physician; her two daughters, Bertie and Fannie Chan; Mrs. Tong, with her two daughters, Ida and Beulah Tong, and Mrs. Herbert Low. Mrs. Chan is the president of a local equal suffrage society among the Chinese women. White suffragists yesterday learned for the first time of the existence of such an organization in the Chinese quarter. Mrs. Chan addressed her white sisters in her native language, and her words were interpreted by her daughter, Bertie, who speaks fluent English.

Thanks Due Americans.
“We Chinese women have much to be thankful for toward our American neighbors,” said Mrs. Chin, “You sent your missionaries to our country and they told us about the destiny and the equality of man and held up before us the highest of ideals. You opened up the avenues of commerce our closed confines and made it possible for our people to get in touch with the outside world, and by observing the various customs and peoples there, to better our customs and our government. But we have taken one step ahead of you. You have brought us the truths of the rights of man and we have put them into practice by granting our women the ballot, thereby placing them upon an equality with men, while you are yet trying to convince your men of this right.

“In this way the Chinese have shown themselves more progressive than the whites. When they threw off the yoke of Manchu tyranny and of the old vogue, they threw it off completely and adopted in their entirety the principles of truth and freedom.

Some Hope for Oregon.
“Oregon is now bounded on four sides by states that have recognized the rights of women. On the north there is Washington, on the east there is Idaho, on the south there is California, and far away, across the waters on the west, there is China. I hope the time is not far off when Oregon herself will take her place among them.”

The speech was enthusiastically applauded and her good-natured twitting of the Oregon women on their position outside the ranks of suffrage governments occasioned much merriment. All of the Chinese women were dressed in smart, conventional American gowns.

Mrs. Baker, in her address, touched on the work of the suffragists of England and said that they were much misunderstood. She outlined the causes that compelled English women to resort to militant methods and denied the charge that there were two factions of suffragists in England. They are highly organized, she said, and work together, in a spirit of harmony. Violence, she said, is employed only as a last resort.

Mrs. Coe Presides.
Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, president of the National College Equal Suffrage League, under the auspices of which the banquet was given, presided as hostess.

Yellow jonquils and intertwined suffrage and American flags decorated the tables and the room.
Mrs. Sarah E. Comerford introduced Mrs. Baker.

Mrs. L. W. Therkelsen, who has just returned from California, delivered a message of greeting from the women of California, and recounted her observations of equal suffrage put into practice in that state. The aims and workings of the National College Equal Suffrage League were explained by Mrs. Sara Bard Field Ehrgott.

A touching tribute was paid to Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, president of the Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association, who, through illness, was unable to be present. A vacant chair was placed at the head of the table in honor of Mrs. Duniway, and Dr. Coe paid a high tribute to the absent worker.

The following women were present at the banquet:
La Reine Helen Baker, Mrs. Sarah E. Comerford, Mrs. C Edward Grelle, Mrs. Paree Gibbon Rountree, Mrs. Le Roy Parker, Mrs. W. R. King, Mrs. R. R. Hoge, Mrs. Robert G. Dieck, Mrs. F. W. Blumauer, Miss A. Hunt, Mrs. Franklin N. Hertz, Mrs. C. H. Hepburn, Mrs. Rose Campbell, Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, Mrs. J. Andre Fouilhoux, Mrs. Solomon Hirsch, Dr. Kittie P. Gray, Dr. Mary V. Madigan, Mrs. H. Ogden, Miss Elizabeth Cadwell, Mrs. Ben Selling, Mrs. Sarah Bard Field Ehrgott, Mary Frances Isom, Mrs. C. B. Woodruff, Miss Laura Northup, Dr. Marie D. Equi, Mrs. R. Robertson, Dr. Clara I. Darr, Dr. Mae Cardwell, Miss Emma Wold, Mrs. Emma Wilson Gillespie, Miss Anne H. Shogren, Mrs. B. Grelle, Mrs. John H. Cronan, Mrs. Emma B. Carroll, Miss Hazel Weidler, Mrs. L. W. Therkelsen, Miss H. L. Seeley, Miss Emma Buckman, Mrs. A. A. Morrison, Mrs. Fred Strong, Mrs. P. Herring, Mrs. Genevieve Thompson, Mrs. C. Wood, Miss Helen Eastham, Mrs. Morris H. Whitehouse, Miss E. Prichard, Mrs. Margaret Hoge, Mrs. E. T. Taggart, Dr. Mabel Akin, Mrs. J. C. Elliott King, Mrs. Henry Jones, Mrs. A. Bomberg, Mrs. J. W. Ross, Miss Cornella Cook, Mrs. J. L. McCown, Mrs. Robert H. Strong, Dr. Esther Pohl, Mrs. W. L. Finley, Miss Elizabeth Griebel, Miss A. Shogren, Mrs. A. E. Clark, Mrs. Stanley G. Jewett, Miss Marion Jackson, Mrs. M. L. T. Hidden, Miss Hazel Therkelsen, Mrs. John F. Logan, Miss Frances Gotshall, Miss Rhoda D. Failing, Mrs. C. G. Klingenberg, Mrs. Robert Forbes, Mrs. Henrietta Eliot, Mrs. David Shindler, Miss Alice Strong, Mrs. A. A. Lindsley, Mrs. P. F. Jones, Mrs. B. Pileter, Mrs. A. King Wilson, Mrs. E. E. Heckbert, Mrs. George A. Kyle, Mrs. H. W. Williamson, Mrs. J. M. Morton, Miss A. Block, Mrs. C. E. Groesbeck, Mrs. L. James, Mrs. R. C. French, Mrs. Frank Kerr, Mrs. Helen Ladd Corbett, Mrs. George B. Van Waters, Mrs. H. Reynolds, Miss Sally Lewis, Miss Pearl Kendall, Mrs. Charles Gauld, Mrs. Maud Crawford, Mrs. Robert H. Tate, Mrs. Holt C. Wilson, Dr. Florence Manion.


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"Chinese Women Dine With White Part 2 of 3," Oregonian, April 12, 1912, 16.

 

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Chinese Women Dine With White
Race Lines Not Drawn at Suffrage Banquet in Honor of La Reine Helen Baker.
Oriental Twits Sisters
Mrs. Chan Declares Oregon Is Behind Neighboring States and Nations – Militant Methods of English
Workers Explained.

Side by side with their Caucasian sisters, seven Portland Chinese women sat at a banquet at the Portland Hotel yesterday noon. The feast was attended by 150 equal suffrage workers. In the course of the banquet one of the Chinese women addressed the other women and voiced her belief in the rights of women to share political equality with man. She spoke in her native language, and her remarks were interpreted by her daughter.

The dinner was given in honor of La Reine Helen Baker, a magazine writer and author who is visiting in the city. The writer graciously stepped aside when interests centered in the Chinese women.
The presence of the Chinese women at a banquet with white women is unique. Mrs. Baker, who had just returned from a tour of two years in foreign countries, of which she spent six months in England in close association with the suffragists, said after the dinner that in all her travels she had observed nothing to compare with the Portland mixed dinner.

Portland Beats England
“In England,” she said, “where class distinction is virtually eliminated among the suffragists, and the possessor of millions associated with the poorest woman of the slums, I have never known the lines to be so completely obliterated that Chinese women and English women participated in the social function.”

The Chinese women attending the banquet were Mrs. S. K. Chan, wife of a Chinese physician, and herself a physician; her two daughters, Bertie and Fannie Chan; Mrs. Tong, with her two daughters, Ida and Beulah Tong, and Mrs. Herbert Low. Mrs. Chan is the president of a local equal suffrage society among the Chinese women. White suffragists yesterday learned for the first time of the existence of such an organization in the Chinese quarter. Mrs. Chan addressed her white sisters in her native language, and her words were interpreted by her daughter, Bertie, who speaks fluent English.

Thanks Due Americans.
“We Chinese women have much to be thankful for toward our American neighbors,” said Mrs. Chin, “You sent your missionaries to our country and they told us about the destiny and the equality of man and held up before us the highest of ideals. You opened up the avenues of commerce our closed confines and made it possible for our people to get in touch with the outside world, and by observing the various customs and peoples there, to better our customs and our government. But we have taken one step ahead of you. You have brought us the truths of the rights of man and we have put them into practice by granting our women the ballot, thereby placing them upon an equality with men, while you are yet trying to convince your men of this right.

“In this way the Chinese have shown themselves more progressive than the whites. When they threw off the yoke of Manchu tyranny and of the old vogue, they threw it off completely and adopted in their entirety the principles of truth and freedom.

Some Hope for Oregon.
“Oregon is now bounded on four sides by states that have recognized the rights of women. On the north there is Washington, on the east there is Idaho, on the south there is California, and far away, across the waters on the west, there is China. I hope the time is not far off when Oregon herself will take her place among them.”

The speech was enthusiastically applauded and her good-natured twitting of the Oregon women on their position outside the ranks of suffrage governments occasioned much merriment. All of the Chinese women were dressed in smart, conventional American gowns.

Mrs. Baker, in her address, touched on the work of the suffragists of England and said that they were much misunderstood. She outlined the causes that compelled English women to resort to militant methods and denied the charge that there were two factions of suffragists in England. They are highly organized, she said, and work together, in a spirit of harmony. Violence, she said, is employed only as a last resort.

Mrs. Coe Presides.
Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, president of the National College Equal Suffrage League, under the auspices of which the banquet was given, presided as hostess.

Yellow jonquils and intertwined suffrage and American flags decorated the tables and the room.
Mrs. Sarah E. Comerford introduced Mrs. Baker.

Mrs. L. W. Therkelsen, who has just returned from California, delivered a message of greeting from the women of California, and recounted her observations of equal suffrage put into practice in that state. The aims and workings of the National College Equal Suffrage League were explained by Mrs. Sara Bard Field Ehrgott.

A touching tribute was paid to Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, president of the Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association, who, through illness, was unable to be present. A vacant chair was placed at the head of the table in honor of Mrs. Duniway, and Dr. Coe paid a high tribute to the absent worker.

The following women were present at the banquet:
La Reine Helen Baker, Mrs. Sarah E. Comerford, Mrs. C Edward Grelle, Mrs. Paree Gibbon Rountree, Mrs. Le Roy Parker, Mrs. W. R. King, Mrs. R. R. Hoge, Mrs. Robert G. Dieck, Mrs. F. W. Blumauer, Miss A. Hunt, Mrs. Franklin N. Hertz, Mrs. C. H. Hepburn, Mrs. Rose Campbell, Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, Mrs. J. Andre Fouilhoux, Mrs. Solomon Hirsch, Dr. Kittie P. Gray, Dr. Mary V. Madigan, Mrs. H. Ogden, Miss Elizabeth Cadwell, Mrs. Ben Selling, Mrs. Sarah Bard Field Ehrgott, Mary Frances Isom, Mrs. C. B. Woodruff, Miss Laura Northup, Dr. Marie D. Equi, Mrs. R. Robertson, Dr. Clara I. Darr, Dr. Mae Cardwell, Miss Emma Wold, Mrs. Emma Wilson Gillespie, Miss Anne H. Shogren, Mrs. B. Grelle, Mrs. John H. Cronan, Mrs. Emma B. Carroll, Miss Hazel Weidler, Mrs. L. W. Therkelsen, Miss H. L. Seeley, Miss Emma Buckman, Mrs. A. A. Morrison, Mrs. Fred Strong, Mrs. P. Herring, Mrs. Genevieve Thompson, Mrs. C. Wood, Miss Helen Eastham, Mrs. Morris H. Whitehouse, Miss E. Prichard, Mrs. Margaret Hoge, Mrs. E. T. Taggart, Dr. Mabel Akin, Mrs. J. C. Elliott King, Mrs. Henry Jones, Mrs. A. Bomberg, Mrs. J. W. Ross, Miss Cornella Cook, Mrs. J. L. McCown, Mrs. Robert H. Strong, Dr. Esther Pohl, Mrs. W. L. Finley, Miss Elizabeth Griebel, Miss A. Shogren, Mrs. A. E. Clark, Mrs. Stanley G. Jewett, Miss Marion Jackson, Mrs. M. L. T. Hidden, Miss Hazel Therkelsen, Mrs. John F. Logan, Miss Frances Gotshall, Miss Rhoda D. Failing, Mrs. C. G. Klingenberg, Mrs. Robert Forbes, Mrs. Henrietta Eliot, Mrs. David Shindler, Miss Alice Strong, Mrs. A. A. Lindsley, Mrs. P. F. Jones, Mrs. B. Pileter, Mrs. A. King Wilson, Mrs. E. E. Heckbert, Mrs. George A. Kyle, Mrs. H. W. Williamson, Mrs. J. M. Morton, Miss A. Block, Mrs. C. E. Groesbeck, Mrs. L. James, Mrs. R. C. French, Mrs. Frank Kerr, Mrs. Helen Ladd Corbett, Mrs. George B. Van Waters, Mrs. H. Reynolds, Miss Sally Lewis, Miss Pearl Kendall, Mrs. Charles Gauld, Mrs. Maud Crawford, Mrs. Robert H. Tate, Mrs. Holt C. Wilson, Dr. Florence Manion.


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