South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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.j5,Y5,f::-' . .,1 -ggi Yfziga . ta, - ,g -1. .fi r ff ff f f H f. -Wi:-F' -f J , -V lfgfztf ,Ani V ,Q X . ,Q-' E ' ..AA i ' The T1 ev 3 fi Y gr. 4. ,Aff If 3, A Q' , ' W' if Elf W I w ' X w , '- Q 'Sies- THE NEW VOTERS, RESPONSIBILITY BY MRS. MANLEY L. FOSSEEN HE century that is opening is all our own. The years that are before us are virgin pages. We can inscribe as we will. The future of our country rests upon us-its happiness and prosperity depend upon us-the fate of humanity may be in our hands. The American nation has every reason to congratulate itself on the beginning of its fourth century. Never have we faced a future with commerce, industry, and invention which promises such development and such prosperity. As we read human history, we find that where commerce has fiournished, wealth has accumu- lated, and science progressed, civilization has increased and with it women's in- fluence in politics, bringing with it reverence, devotion, and loyalty. The new voter is dreaming of a new era of greater humanity, less poverty, less crime, and less ignorance, and let us remember that in this dream of a new day that is dawning, these thoughts we have today are woven into our lives of tomorrow. Women in their future political work will strive for the victory of these ideas that will give to every family the right to be well nurtured, well housed, well educated, well employed, and well paid. The re-organization and reconstruction' of social, industrial, economical, and govermental questions must be met with a recognition of this new spirit. America has the greatest moral power of all the nations in the world. Sixty years ago our Nation was a child among Nations, now she towers above them all, and during these years this great moral force has been steadily growing. We are going to see America arise to a newer and greater glory than ever before be- cause of the service she is going to render mankind. Unfettered and independent she is going to be a powerful factor in bringing the weaker Nations gradually to take their place and play a positive part in world civilization. Everywhere we feel the awakened conscience that reminds us that civilization will perish if we put all the emphasis on material prosperity. Man has a spiritual nature that far exceeds what wages, houses and lands mean to him, and that is the worth of man. The women are going to help stabilize and humanize government. We are going to strive to provide healthful housing, wholesome food, sanitary working conditions, reasonable hours, fair wages for a fair dayis work, opportunities at a cost within the reach of all. Humanity is politics, politics create the government -Government must be a human agency, which satisfies the heart, is full of mercy, assisting the good, resisting the wrong. Educating the ignorant is one of the greatest remedies and the fundamental principles of freedom, which means obedience to law. We must be patriotic, loving our country before all other things, her happiness our happiness, her honor our honor. We must keep faith with our State, with our Nation, with our institutions and with each other, remembering what Webster said, Nothing can ruin our country if the people themselves undertake its safetyf, Page 6

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,.w5,, - it ,-f af if ff , aria . The T1 er, .K ' - Q ii' WOMEN AND THE ELECTION OF 1920 BY GOVERNOR J. A. 0. PREUS O tribute which I can pay to the women voters of Minnesota will be adequate. So much of reverence for women is inborn in the minds of American men that the discussion of the woman voter is necessarily tinctured with sentiment. At the election on November 2nd, the fundamental principles on which our country was founded were an issue. The voters met the issue and decided that the constitutional basis of our country and our homes, namely, life, liberty, and the right of private property, shall be retained. In considering the questions sub- mitted, the women did so sincerely. They studied the problems before them, studied them intelligently, carefully and at great length. As a result, their vote reflected an unusually mature judgment. The thoughtful attention given by the newly franchised voters, both to state and national questions, the work which they did in the interests of the party whose cause they espoused, and their numerical strength at the polls, all demonstrated that the women of Minnesota will use the right of suffrage honestly and con- scientiously. THE NEW NATIONAL HOUSEKEEPER BY MRS. FRANK M. WARREN HE year 1920 will be marked as a new year of achievement, not only in the history of our own country, but in the history of the world. Years of constant, per- severing work on the part of the women of the nation finally brought about the adoption of the two most important amendments to our constitution, the prohibition and the suffrage amendments. The political campaign of this year of 1920 will be remembered because of the spirit of achievement which showed itself so clearly in the splendid optimism of the new citizen. She rightly defined politics as the science of government and seriously regarded the new privilege as a duty. This attitude on the part of the new citizen brought about a revival of political education and of the study of civil government, which is one of the out-standing results of the recent enfranchisement of women. The extension of the suffrage has qualities which have distinguished women as home-makers. The new voter feels that her home-making and housekeeping have been extended. All forces that affect her living conditions are now Within her control to be regulated by the ballot. She brings to her national housekeeping, the same appreciation she has always had of the value of the work of the men, fso long her partners in the homel, the same co-operative spirit, the same loyalty to principle, and the same painstaking care of details. These have been her assets in her home-making. Women are naturally conservers, builders of the home and of the nation. Her characteristics are now active, thru the ballot, in the political life of the nation. The war proved woman's capacity to Hcarry on. Political life will test it. Her influence will tell despite the fact that growth in national character and national ideals is slow. Page 8