Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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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

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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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tunity which presented itself to them. Edward Bok, ex-editor of the “Ladies’ Home Journal” and one of America’s most prominent men, came to. this country with his family, when a boy. Bok went to school for a short time, but as the cost of the family living was raised, he left school and went to work. He took every opportunity to educate himself and to learn everything con- nected with his work in any way. He made his employers notice him, and they, seeing how he tried to progress, helped him to advance until he finally reached the top. Bok was always look- ing for chances to make money outside of his regular work. He noticed that the horse cars, which ran a long dis- tance, were crowded with passengers, hot and dusty, on Saturdays and holi- days. The car stopped in front of Bok’s home, and the conductor went to get a cool drink at the drug store while the passengers remained in the car. Bok filled a pail with cold water, hung some cups on the edge, and went through the car selling it to the passengers. Other boys in the neighborhood had the same opportunity but they did not take it un- til Bok led the way. Bok was then compelled to sell lemonade at a slightly higher price to secure a monopoly. Andrew Carnegie started as a bobbin boy at a salary of one dollar and twenty cents a week. When ha came to America from Scotland, he became a messenger boy for the Ohio telegraph company. By taking every opportunity offered him he rapidly rose until during the Civil War he superintended many of the government railroads and telegraph lines. He kept on rising and finally founded many steel works. Washington’s success as a general was due in a great part to the use he made of his opportunities. As an ex- ample of this — he was driven across the Delaware by the British and re- mained encamped there for some time, waiting to cross again. The Hessian troops were merrymaking on Christmas day. Washington led his men across the river and captured the surprised Hessians. Thus, in business, in life, and in all things, we must seize our opportunities or fail, for, as Shakespeare says: “There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to Fortune, Omitted, all the voyage of their life, Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves Or lose our ventures.” We, the class of 1923, wish to thank our parents, school committee, and superintendent for helping us gain our education; our teachers for the hours they spent working with us; our prin- cipal for his wise advice and never fail- ing sympathy and kindness. Classmates: during our four years at Manning High, we have worked, played, and studied together. To-night we part, some of us to continue our studies in different schools and colleges, and the rest to take positions in the business world, but wherever we go let us live up to our motto — Seize the op- portunity! “Carpe diem!” Dorothy Shaw CLASS HISTORY September 4, 1919 there was great re- joicing in Manning High, for the most promising graduating class of the Win- throp School were about to become Man- ning High Freshmen. Yes, so we thought, but it remained for the sophomores and juniors to lessen that feeling of importance. Many, 23