Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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think of these things; of her inferior position ; of her lack of political rights ; of the reforms that were needed and which she was sure she could bring about. She began to have decided ideas on these subjects and to air her ideas. It was then that the men began to realize that their women were not so contented as they had thought them. Hiisbands voiced their disapproval in various ways; one became sentimental and said that politics was a dirty game and that no woman of his family should soil her honor and reputation by con- tact with it; another merely informed his wife that she hadn’t the brains for anything more serious than clothes and with an amused smile advised her to forget politics; still a third autocrati- cally decreed that a woman had no right to an opinion different from that of her husband and that politics was not for her. Nevertheless, regardless of mascu- line opinion, about 1,840 suffrage socie- ties began to be formed and meetings were held in earnest. The first demon- stration of this was a large meeting held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The work was later carried on by Susan B. Anthony whose well phrased text of 1875 now forms the Nineteenth Amendment to the Consti- tution of the United States. The first state to yield and give woman suffrage was Wyoming in 1869. This state was followed by twelve others giving presidential suffrage and two giving primary suffrage between 1869 and 1920. In 1913, stung by the indifference of President Wilson, the various suffrage organizations held a huge parade in Washington, D. C., the first ever at- tempted in the national capital. From then on waged the battle to have the Nineteenth Amendment introduced and passed in Congress. From 1918 to 1919, angered by Presi- dent Wilson’s continued indifference, the suffrage parties picketed the White House. In the six years between 1913 and 1919, the suffrage movement was carried on by two main parties, the National Woman’s Party and the Nat- ional American Woman’s Suffrage Asso- ciation of which Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was the president. In June of 1919 the proposed Amend- ment was passed by the Senate and soon after signed by the President. Then began the campaign to have the re- quired number of states ratify it in time for women to vote in the November election. It was at this time that a writer for the Independent Magazine said; ‘Tt is not a question of women’s going into politics when they get the vote. They have been in politics for six years.” In the work of ratification the wom- en’s parties were assisted a great deal by President Wilson, now won over to the cause, Homer S. Cummings, chair- man of the National Democratic Execu- tive Committee, Attorney General Pal- mer and Secretary Daniels. The ratification campaign was won in time for the election and immediately woman began to make herself felt in the political game. Miss Anne Martin from Nevada became a candidate for the United States Senate, and Miss Alice Robertson of Oklahoma, who had form- erly been an anti-suffrage leader be- came a candidate for the United States House of Representatives. Women be- came members of party committees, and they ran for city, county and state offices. All in all the political world was quite upset. Meanwhile other countries had been 21

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hour made the first Trans-Atlantic flight under Lieutenant Com. A. C. Read of the U. S. N., people were astonished. It seemed impossible that such a thing could have been done. Then when the Italian triplane was brought before the public, they were duo for another surprise. Italy still has the lead in airplane building. Caproni, the greatest of all airplane builders, not being satisfied with the success of the triplane, built one of the triple tandem type; that is with two sets of wings, three .decks in a set, which carried some forty passengers, but the latest in his line is the new novi- plane which is now under construction. This immense craft will be 72 feet long and will have the carrying capacity of a hundred passengers. The motive power will be supplied by eight Liberty motors having a total of 3200 horse power. The motors will be arranged in two groups, one on the front planes and the other on the rear; each group will consist of 3 tractor motors and one pusher motor. Now, comes the last word in development; the plane will be navigated in the same manner as an ocean liner, the pilot controlling from the “bow”. It will be steered either from an enclosed cabin or from an ex- posed “bridge”. In fact it will be the Leviathan of the air. Caproni intends to cross the Atlantic in thirty-six hours with this new type of machine. How can we doubt the success of this plan? He has already established regular passenger routes in Italy. His planes have carried as many as forty passen- gers before. Barring accidents, we shall no doubt be visited by the mons- trous air craft in the near future. We have all seen skiing parties en- joying themselves flying down the larg- est hills in this town at breakneck speed. Perhaps we have wondered at the skill of the skiers. What should we think if we should see motorless airplanes glide from these same hills into the air soar- ing like the birds; hundreds of feet above our heads? Yet in Germany and France the people have witnessed this very thing. Gliders, as this type of plane is called, have become a fact. Men have learned to build planes that will be propelled only by the natural eiemients. Hun- dreds of these planes have been tried. Some obtained the height of a thousand feet, more reach five hundred feet, some only a few hundred ’feet ; all, however, succeeded in gliding. This new branch of aeronautics has been termed a “new sport”. It is a sport in every sense of the word. It is a battle of skill, ex- perience, and nerve against the elements of the air. We have noted the great development in aeronautics in the past 140 years. Things that before were thought hardly more than a dream have been ac- complished. And as yet we have not touched the real importance of science. We seem on the verge of greater things. Let us hope therefore, that the United States will be foremost in the field of aeronautics in the future. James Burke. Woman’s Invasion Into Politics A century ago woman was considered to be quite inferior to man. The bare suggestion that she go into politics or even be allowed the privilege of voting would have raised anger, contempt, or at least amusement from husband, father, or brother ; anger that she should want to interfere in men’s af- fairs ; contempt and amusement that she should think she had brains enough to play the political game. Gradually, however, woman began to 20

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carrying on similiar campaigns. Eng- lish women began as early as 1850 to demand women’s rights. Among the more prominent of the leaders of the twentieth century have been Mrs. and Miss Pankhurst who were radical suffra- gists and Lady Astor, who startled all England in 1919 by taking advantage of the equal suffrage bill, passed the. year before to run for Parliament. • Besides Great Britain and her two colonial possessions, Canada and Aus- tralia, practically every European coun- try gives women equal suffrage with men. . Today in United States politics we find women in every conceivable politi- cal position. We find them in Congress and in State Legislatures. In Wash- ington we find a woman, Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, assistant to the United States Attorney General. In Ohio, we find Miss Florence E. Allen a judge of the Supreme Court, the first woman in the United States to hold this position. Miss Allen has also held the position of assistant county prosecutor and was formerly Judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas in Cleveland. Women have been in politics com- paratively few years, and we have as yet to see how high they will go. How- ever, we may expect to see many women in Congress and State legisla- tures, not a few following the lead of Judge Florence Allen and possibly even one or two taking their places in the President’s cabinet. W. L. George, a sarcastically in- clined writer for Harpers’, gives it as his opinion that women in politics will be “as crude, as stupid, as intolerant, and as smug as men, possibly worse since they are more passionate.” On the other hand Mr. George contends that for the first few years, at best, the v omen who go into politics will be on a higher intellectual plain than the men there now, for a woman can quite easily be persuaded to vote for a man, but it will take a woman of brains to win the votes and approval of the men. However, women have shown them- selves so capable in the political game that we can expect to see Mr. George’s contention proving true, not only for a few years, but for always. Evelyn Bamford “CARPE DIEM!” Valedictory “Carpe diem!” Seize the opportunity! — a motto worthy to be followed and re- membered all our lives. It is a motto especially appropriate for us who start out to-night to seek success in the world. Opportunitv has been a recognized power thi-ough all the ages. The early Romans and Greeks built temples and made offerings to the goddess of op- portunity, called by them. Fortune. Be- fore attempting anything important, they went to the temple of Fortune to pray and to promise gifts if she favored them. Some prospered and many failed. Those who prospered gave great and magnificent gifts to Fortuna, and believed they had succeeded because she had aided them and because they had followed opportunity when the door was opened to them. Those who failed were the blind who did not see the doors of opportunity standing ajar and success beyond the threshold. No man can succeed unless he seizes opportunity when it comes to him. Edu- cation, experience, patience, energy, de- sire, persistency and efficiency, all nec- essaiy to success, can gain nothing un- less opportunity is sought and seized. Many great and successful men started as very poor boys but came to success through seizing each oppor- 22