NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS

...Nevertheless, the Russian proposal at Geneva was greeted by the great majority of the newspapers of the United States with distrust and ridicule, as though the course outlined was some thing -jnheard of, without guide or precedent...

...Is it not a most significant fact that these two great neighboring powers, with their unquestioned military potentialities, should be united on universal disarmament as the surest road to future world security...

...Glendower Evans and I visijed the Canal in 1914, we had visions of its bringing the peoples of the world into closer relationship to the advantage of mankind...

...Thus there would be perfected among all the Powers of the world an agreement for pacific settlement of international disputes...

...The calling of a conference by President Cooiidge at Geneva, with the object of obtaining' an agreement among the three powers to limit naval building, was commendable...

...Already there is talk of needed improvements to accommodate the growing demand...

...She was of famous New England ancestry and a member of the D. A. R. She had been an Indian missionary, a school teacher, postmistress, rancher, and owner of a cafeteria...

...She came to Washington this last December for the unveiling of the Alexander Stephens statue...

...Address La Follette's Magazine, 115 W. Main Street, Madison, Wis...

...warships and military air vessels...

...Their records are no less illuminating because of that fact...

...It was an honor fittingly bestowed...

...Under this proposal national funds freed from war budgets were to be employed in each state at its own discretion, but exclusively for productive and cultural purposes...

...She tnok the oath of office and sat for two days in the Senate...

...This would be an impressive example to all the other nations of the world and might lead them in turn to subscribe to the same instrument...

...these three powers is well understood...

...Since the Central Powers were disarmed, in compliance with World War peace conditions, their armies total only 184,000 men, Jess than one-seventh of the pre-war strength...

...and he cited the trip of the "Oregon" as having inspired the idea and as having demonstrated the strategic military importance of the Canal...

...the discontinuance of military training, military service, either compulsory, voluntary, or recruited...

...Alice Robertson of Oklahoma was elected as a Republican to Congress in 1921, and served one term...

...As she comes to fill the place which the size and character of her population make certain, the contrast of Germany, disarmed, with the highly-armed, much smaller neighboring states, presents a vital issue tc the parties to the peace treaty...

...the destruction of fortresses and naval and air bases...

...It may take another century to realize how greatly that step contributed to the world's progress...

...She was elected as a Republican from the state at large...

...would have reached its destination in fifteen days...

...We must accept the fact that women are a part of the human species and can lie fooled as well as men, and we must recognize that when the country is reactionary, the majority of women as well as the majority of men are reactionary...

...Evans' enthusiastic estimate of the social value of the great artery between the two oceans...

...Send a 2-cent stamp to cover mailing cost only...

...Hundreds of muskrats went to live -fn the brush and on the corn placed on the rafts for their benefit-Just about that time the deadly water moccasin snake discovered the rats and made life miserable for them, killing at least half of the flood's animal refugees...

...Even the armies of the Central Powers were made relatively inconsiderable...

...They may not vote in the public interest from our viewpoint, but they "do vote...

...When I was campaigning for woman suffrage, I countered the frequent objection that "It would only double the vote" with "It will double the interest...

...These proposals are an empty gesture, says the militaristic press...

...But as I have said, the presence of women representatives is in itself a concrete example of progress, of inestimable influence and value, as is the outstanding fact that wonren have the ballot, even though not followed by the improvement in con* ditions that some anticipated...

...The spirit of the Russian proposal was in striking accord with the speeches and the sentiment expressed at the September session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, which I reviewed in our October magazine, where the consensus of opinion was strongly and aggressively stated to be, especially by the representatives of Germany and of the smaller nations of the world, that the League of Nations could not endure unless the duty ot general disarmament was seriously discharged...

...Thus far Germany has not asked for restoration of military power...

...The majority of women who have attained high official position belong to the conservative school of politics, but what mountains of prejudice have been overcome by the very fact that women are serving as mayors and aldermen and governors, and are sitting in state legislatures and in the halls of Congress...

...Ferguson was elected his successor in 1925 as a vindication...

...She is the only woman who has thus far served a term in Congress who could be called Progressive...

...The menace of naval rivalry on the part of...

...A noted French engineer has urged that the Canal be gradually transformed into what he appropriately calls the "Straits of Panama," in other words, a sea-level channel, which will do away with the danger of military attack and likewise the danger of earthquakes and landslide, as though Nature herself had made an in-terocean passageway instead of an isthmus...

...Changes that affect the established order are slow—much slower than we anticipate...

...Send $2.50 for each volume...

...Her record in Congress shows she put the emphasis on legislation for betterment of social conditions...

...She voted against war, and otherwise took advanced ground...

...Naturally, her husband was the controlling force back of her election and administration...

...She has expressed impatience of the slow progress of disarmament, and Germany was manifestly in sympathy with the Russian disarmament proposal at Geneva...

...Jeannette Rankin of Montana in 1917 achieved the distinction of being the first woman to serve a term in Congress...

...Our State Department is reported as engaged diplomatic intercourse with France, with a view that the two countries may make a signal contribution to world peace...

...Now if we stop to think, we realize that for the past ten years the world has had a conspicuous example of a great nation almost as completely disarmed as called for by the Russian proposal...

...Ross was chosen in 1925 to succeed him...

...This disarmament was conditioned on the statement in the preamble to the peace terms, which read:"In order to render possible the initiation of a general limitation of the armaments of all nations, Germany undertakes strictly to observe the military, naval and air clauses which follow...

...Today, however, the number of warships going through the Canal is insignificant as compared with the number of freighters that pass to and fro exchanging goods from over the world...

...When William B. Ross, Democrat, of Wyoming, who had been elected for the four-year term (1923-27), died suddenly, " Mrs...

...it took two months for the famous battleship to round Cape Horn, when if the Canal had been built the shir...

...Shall thes conquered Central Powers be allowed to arm again, or shall the victorious nations meet the obligation of disarming...

...She had been opposed to woman suffrage and, prior to her husband's becoming governor, had led a quiet domestic farm life...

...And today, as then, I see the great forward step of our time, in the accomplished fact that men and women are vested with mutual responsibility and concern for national, state, municipal, county and township government...

...WOMEN IN POLITICS ALICE STONE BLACK WELL, at a meeting of the National Council of Women, in New York City recently, where she spoke on the life and influence of her mother, Lucy Stone, is reported as having expressed disappointment that women have not used the ballot more effectively...

...Such well-known conservatives as Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and George W. Wickecsham, formerly United States Attorney General, are voicing active opposition to this extraordinary program of naval expansion...

...Kdith Nour.se Rogers, Republican, of Massachusetts, was also elected in 1925 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, who had represented his district for ten years...

...Nevertheless Ihe ratification of these arbitration treaties will go far to crystallize world sentiment for the outlawing of war...

...With the exception of a standing army adequate for maintenance of internal order, the Central Powers were disarmed on about the same basis outlined by Litvinov...

...PEACE TREATIES AT THIS writing it looks as though our Government might offer the nations -ef the world substitute agreements for the Root and Bryan arbitration treaties, which, after the War, it was feared might be allowed to lapse...

...The plan is that the United States and France shall join in an offort to obtain the adherence of all the principal 1'owers to a declaration renouncing war as an instrument of national policy...

...It is suitable for binding with your magazines for the year...

...Florence P. Kahn, Republican, from California, was elected in 1925 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Julius Kahn, who had served in iW House a quarter of a century...

...This hope is based on the response to the Briand proposal made last April, for whose consideration Jane Addams, with a delegation of women, presented a petition to President Cooiidge last month, signed by 30,000 women...

...She was then 87 years of age...

...It has raised a storm of protest in Congress and throughout the country...

...The majority of the trade carried on is still intercoastal, but there is a large proportion of ships from all over the world...

...Kahn has always been interested in politics and enjoyg the work with which she is familiar...

...but his declaration is not taken seriously even by his supporters at home, and in London, Paris, Tokio, and Rome it is accepted as a challenge to the world of United States control of the high seas...

...Rebecca Felton, the only woman as yet to have the distinction of being a United .States Senator, was appointed by the Governor of Georgia to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Senator Thomas E. Watson...

...They follow party leadership and are conservative in point of view...

...Itt>und volumes of the 1927 Magazine also are ready for mailing...

...The two pioneer women governors would prob-ably'never have entered the political arena on their own initiative...

...M. Litvinor •pecifically stated that, while the Russian Government favored the foregoing plan of thorough disarmament, the delegation was nevertheless ready to participate in any and every discussion of the question of the limitation of armament whenever practical measures really leading to disarmament might be proposed...

...He declared quite frankly that as...

...but that, she said, was before we realized the power of concentrated propaganda, whose technique had been perfected by the war to control the press, the radio, the pulpit, and all other important channels of spreading the message of organized weakh...

...we may be disappointed in the immediate result, but we know there is gain in ultimate enlightenment...

...Since those signatures were affixed, Germany has made rapid strides in regaining her industrial and commercial position...

...Though disappointed that women's ballots have not been used more effectively in serving the public interests, I am sure Miss Blackwell SEND TWO-CENT STAMP FOR INDEX The complete index of all issues for 1927 is now ready for subscribers...

...But unless action is taken in conformity with the preamble of the World War peace terms, other growing, ambitious nations will soon be engaged in the scheme of naval aggrandizement...

...Katherine Langley, Republican, from Kentucky, was elected to the Seventieth Congress to succeed her husband, who was obliged to resign from the Sixty-ninth Congress after having represented his district nineteen years...

...the destruction of all weapons, military supplies, means of chemical warfare...

...WE ARE FINDING THAT WOMEN CAN BE FOOLED AS WELL AS MEN," said Miss Black well...

...At present only three powers, the United States, Great Britain and Japan, have navies of the size to threaten world peace...

...a military man heN viewed the purpose and achievement of the Canal from the military standpoint...

...It is also true that the majority of the women whose official service has attracted nation-wide attention have succeeded their husbands in office...

...That means a large element of our citizenship was liberalized who could only be converted'" by actual experience...

...As a part of the disarmament of the Central Powers, conscription was forbidden, universal military training and service were abolished, the German navy was destroyed, fortifications demolished, no submarines, no military or air naval forces were allowed...

...NAVAL RIVALRY THE Disarmament issue involves both land armament and naval armament...

...At the same time that the proposed arbitration treaty is submitted to France to take the place of the existing treaty' between France and the United States, which expires February 27 of this year, identical arbitration treaties, as I understand it, will be submitted to other Powers having arbitration treaties with the United States wh'ich expire shortly...

...Rogers had served as a presidential elector in 1924...

...That the conference collapsed because of Great Britain's failure to co-operate is unfortunate...

...It was a disappointment to have 'Colonel Goethals, whose executive genius was indispensable to the building of the Canal, laugh lightly at Mrs...

...Their sons and daughters need not expend energy in ^overcoming prejudice against women's having an equal share in government...

...When Mrs...

...This safe and easy way will obviate delays and congestion in traffic, contribute very much to world service and, let us believe, to world fellowship...

...She was an active war worker and the support of the An"rirr.n Legion was said to have been an important factor in her election to Congress...

...did not intend to convey the impression that votes for women was not in itself a glorious achievement...

...Votes for the voteless is like literacy for the illiterate...

...Every effort of statesmanship to solve the problem should meet with universal support and approval...

...THE PANAMA CANAL IT PLEASES me to note that year by year, month by month, the commercial traffic through the Panama Canal increases far beyond expectation in tonnage and tolls...

...It should be remembered, however, that nothing counts in a situation of this kind like the protests of the plain common sense voter and taxpayer to his senator and representative in Congress...

...Felton had been for many years a newspaper writer, suffrage and temperance worker, lecturer and author, a member of the D. A. R., and a clubwoman...

...Before the World War, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, had highly equipped, most efficiently trained armies, whose total numbers aggregated 1,275,000...

...The world was astounded, homever, when the President of the United States immediately on the convening of Congress put the stamp of his approval on an enormous naval building program of $725,000,000 a year, which, if carried to a conclusion, will cost the taxpayers of the United States $2,900,000,0001 The President declared there was no spirit of rivalry or competition, hack of this stupendous proposal...

...There are hopeful signs that this war-provoking project may not be put over...

...Her husband had served six years in Congress some forty years earlier...

...Although the canal has been in operation only 13 years, it is estimated to have arrived at the half-way mark of its capacity...

...Of the four women members of the present Congress, Mrs...

...When Germany signed the peace agreement, twenty-seven other nations signed it...

...that is, Russia was willing and ready to take part in any move that promised worth-while results even though it did not go as far as the Russian proposal...

...It is common knowledge that after their enfranchisement many conservative women who had been bitter opponents of suffrage, at once became active and influential in politics...

...Harvey and Fergus Roberts built and anchored 52 muskrat rafts on their 1,600-an* ranch in Ixniisiana as refuges for the little animals from the flooded Mississippi...

...She was an ardent suffrage worker, a student of sociology and economics...

...M. Litvinov, speaking for the Russian Government before the fceague of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission at Geneva, said the delegation was authorized to propose the dissolution of all land, sea, and air forces...

...the scrapping of military plants, factories, war-industry plants, etc...

...It took nearly a hundred years to get written into the constitution of the United States that the right to vote shall not be denied nor abridged on account of sex...

...the scrapping of a...

...These four representatives are women of fine character and good ability who compare well with their colleagues in qualification for the office they hold...

...She made a good record and she was nominated in the primary by the Democrats for re-election, but was defeated by the Republican candidate, Wyoming being normally a Republican state...

...She had hoped and believed women would have made more progress in correcting conditions, and she went on to observe that the money interests had opposed equal suffrage because they thought that women would favor humanitarian legislation...

...When James Ferguson, Governor of Texas, was impeached for malfeasance in office, Mrs...

...Mary T. Norton, Democrat, from New Jersey, is the only one not chosen to succeed her husband...

...All titles, subjects, authors and illustrations are fully enumerated, permitting ready reference to any desired information contained in the twelve issues...

...She was elected in 1924, ap» parently because of her popularity and gift for political organization...