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DR.    MAX   EASTMAN   AND   1REV.
ANNIS        FORD         EASTMAN
SPEAKERS     AT     FUNCTION      j
OF   POLITICAL   EQUALITY
CLUB.
Undoubtedly the  inclemency  of the ¦weather   kept   many   away   from   the Country    lOlu/b    yesterday    afternoon, •wheTe the annual piazza party of the 'Geneva Political Equality Club was held for ¦ the    attendance  was     unusually small.    The absence of 'Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller  and 'Miss Anne IP.  Mil-; ler was greatly regretted, also the fact ¦that the party ©ould    not be held at their home at Lochland as usual, which i li'as   always   been   looked   forward   to ¦ wit:h   muieh   pleasure,   prdbaibly   caused ' a  little  less   enthusiasm  on  'the  part of  the   town  people.    Mrs.   Miller,  although very much improved in health, is yet  too feeble .to undertake to at-i tend, any  such   affair.    For   the     first' time in three months Mrs. Miller went, driving at noon yesterday in an  aubp-; mobile, when she went to the 'County! . Oub   carrying   the   new   yellow   satin j (burner of the Geneva Political Equal-j ifcy  Cluib,   which  Was   borne  toy   Mrs. ^Harriet Stanton Blateh recently 'in the suffrage   parade   in   New   York.    The ibanner  played   a  conspicuous   part  in , the deoonaitions of the clutohouse yesterday.    There were also many flowers gathered  from  the  LocMand  gardens, which  added  to  the attractiveness of ¦the clu'b room.
The guests began arriving aibout 3 o'clock and ait 4 o '«lowk Mrs. Charlos | S. Burrall, vice president of the club, ©ailed the meeting to order. She announced that a now plan for lifo membership of the club has ibeen : starved and that already 25 members have 'been secured, tie list 'being headed by Miss Bhoda Palmer, who will be 94 years old within a few days; William Smith, 92 years old; Mrs. E. 8. Miller, almost 88 years old, | also Mrs. (Maria B. Hemiup, Mrs. V. i Hemiup Haley, Mrs. Lina Powers, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Lewis, Bev. Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs. Dmdley Miller, ' Charles I). Miller, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Hallonbeek, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, Prof, and Mrs. Nathaniel Schmidt, Miss Laura Houghton, Prof, and Mrs. F. P. Nash, Mrs. Organ, Mrs. 'Carver JV.ies, M«. V."illir.,n ¦S:iif\:i; Mire. Smith O'Brien, Mrs. H. Lynford Henry ¦anid 0. J. •Cammann Bose.
The first address of the afternoon j was delivered by Dr. Max Eastman' of Columbia University and secretary of the Men's Woman Suffrage League of New York. Dr. E*»fcman is a most earnest and convincing speaker and although young, his varied experiences in the city of Now York, especially ' with the laboring peoplle, enable him to speak from personal knowledge and not from theory. He does not consider that universal suffrage is an issue of ¦so much importance for the politicians and men in general, but important for the women themselves, who need to broaden their lives by contact with the world and to improve their conditions. The modern inventions in ma- [ chinery for doing work outside the; home have made it necessary for the j women to go outside to do this work, not because they want to, but because they are obliged to as a means of sup-I port. Dr. Eastman said that today about every woman in five is earning! , her own living and that if women had the ballot, by banding themselves together, they would be a .powerful ele-i ment against unjust politicians. To illustrate this he cited the case of the 35,000 women, who during the shirtwaist makers' strike in New York this last winter, went to the chief of police with complaints against the patrolmen who were abusing and arresting without sufficient cause. The chief paid no attention to their complaints, neither did the mayor of the city, but if 35,000 voters had appeared before them, they would have received recognition at once, he said.
As a sort of prelude or    digression from the discussion of his theme, Mr. Eastman spoke of there being no suffragette movement in this country as in England, the reason for this being [that we do not militate here, and we j do not militate because there is really I I nothing to militate  against.      He ex- ¦ I plained'    that the politicians here are ¦ | not so opposed to the cause and when the   women   appear   b«£ore  them      to | present their  cause,  they are too polite or too indifferent to ill-treat them or eject them bodily from their presence. Again, there is no Mrs. Pankhurst to lead the euffrageittes in America as in  England and  also the women      in j America are a little bit more worried, : about their respectability and fear of1 losing their social position if they become active in militant suffrage.
Dr. Eastman stated that a particular reason why he considers woman suf-| f rage important is that it prepares women for future motherhood, enabling them to train their children, by giving them from cliifldhood a knowledge of tho world and how to meet it, and not to keep them during their childhood in so-called "virgin purity ' then turn them loose in the world, ¦telling them "now go and be good children," which last method has been j tho ruination of so many lives.
E*v. Annis Ford Eastman of Eflmira,      * mother  of Dr.  Max  Eastman,  gave a most inspiring address on, "Woman's One Right." She said that all her life she had heard of "Woman's Eights" but she had come to believe that woman has but one right—the rigkt to be : natural and that tke change in the so- ; called woman's spVor© and the progress j made in her industrial position is but tha  direct  course  of  nature.        Mrs.'
Eastman briefly traced the history of ! woman's improvement from the time j of Helen of Troy and Cleopatra to the present time. She said that she does not feel at ail worried over the ultimate result 'of this movement, for it surely is coming as a natural consequence for the time when there were but three vocations allowed women, these being sewing, teaching and marrying, has past, and today the educating, developing and broadening of women tends to elevate marriage and women will look for ideal intellectual companionship and if this is not found, they will find' some other sphere for their usefulness and thus marriage , will come to be wholly human and spiritual.
James Clarke of Cornell University, j assistant   editor   of   the   Cosmopolitan : Club Journal,  made  a few      remarks which  were  greatly  appreciated.  Concluding the program the High  School | Mandolin Club rendered several selections.   The club is composed of Messrs. James Moore, Donald McWhorter, Bob-ert Bushby, Harold Frost and Carlton I Smith.                                           innrtliMiniiip''i