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ft* fc THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER.&.1917 m : H ; *+ THE LAKE SHORE NEWS Established 1*12 ., With which la combined THE WILMETTK LOCAL NEWS Established 1898 ISSUED THURSDAY OP EACH WEEK By Til* Lake Shove Pabll«hl*ff Coapaax 1222 Central Ave., WUmette, III IwIuh Telephone...............1S31 Editorial Telephone...............1020 SUBSCRIPTION.........«2.0© A YEAR Strictly In advance Address all communications to The Lake Shore News, WUmette, Illinois. Anonymous communications will be passed to the waste basket. The same applies to rejected manuscript unless return postage is enclosed. Articles for publication should reach this office by Tuesday afternoon to Insure appear- ance in current Issue. Resolutions of condolence, card of thanks, obituary poetry, notices of en- tertalnments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged for at regular advertising rates.____________ Entered in the postofflce at Witmette, Illinois, as mail matter of the second class, under the act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1917 Dr. Stolp. There is a general sense of loss in Wilmette because of the death of Dr. Byron C. Stolp, who for forty years has held the respect, confidence and affection of his fellow townsmen and been counted upon as a certain sup- port of every good movement. We would not have the grief of the community less in the loss of this good man. It is a beneficent influence which he has left behind him, an ex- ample for others of us to follow. He has set a standard of citizenship and capacity for service and friendship, which we, who would raise a lasting monument in his memory, should strive ever to attain. The sympathy of the community is with the stricken family, the more because the loss is not entirely their loss, but ours, too. ■-' A life has gone out, but there has been left to us a mcmoiy which shall be a lasting in- fluence in the community, and for that we are grateful. * * * * * Suffrage In New York. Suffrage for women in New York! Success in the work which has been done in the Empire state has come at last and women can scarcely be- lieve that the returns of the election Tuesday are true. Votes for women in the two states which contain the largest cities of the nation is a gain for the cause which is significant of the loosening of the hold of organized politics upon the forces within the metropolis, as well as in the outside districts. The slipping in of the suffrage reform when the city of New York was con- vulsed with an internal straggle to re-instate Tammany in the municipal official strongholds speaks strongly for the independence of the rest of the state and suggests that the minority in the vast city included an affirmative vote upon the constitu- tional amendment proposition with their endeavor to shake off the re- newed grip of the Tammany tiger. The extension of the privilege of the ballot to the women of the city may make it possible at another time to repair the harm which has been done to the decent element of New York city by their failure to support the reform mayor in the primary elec- tion, thus putting the election into the hands of the organiation. The success of the suffrage issue in New York must not, however, re- duce the interest of the workers in the passage of the Federal constitu- tional amendment in the next ses- sion of Congress. Another added to the ranks of suffrage states is no small gain, but it must be borne in fnind always that there are many states in which it is very difficult to secure an amendment to the state constitution, some in which it is actually impossible. The state con- stitutional amendment route to suf- frage is at best most slow. The fed- eral amendment is the only certain and definite way. With New York added to. the ranks of progressive states in which the women are given equal rights with men in the govern- ment of themselves, it shouldJ be easier to convert the men who sit in Congress and who are still uncon- verted to the justice of flie woman's cause. Every effort should be made by voters to impress upon their rep- resentatives in the federal law mak- ing mody the fact that Illinois is favorable to the cause of the enforce- ment of its women and expects her representatives in Washington to re- flect that policy in the action which will be taken on the federal amende ment in this next session of Con- gress. While the New York success is fresh in your mind, write to the con- gressman of this district and to the senators from Illinois. Do your part to complete the privilege which has just been extended to the women of New York to the women of Illinois and to those of the states in which there is not even the partial gift that has been accorded to your fellow members of the commonwealth. ***** Welcome the Food Administrator. The appointment of A. A. Beebe to the position of food administrator for the suburban district north of Chicago is a satisfactor yway of meeting th esituation satisfactory to the peopl eof this district. No one here wishes to be unjust to the merchants who serve us in the shops. No one here wishes to inflict a burden upon them which it is unfar to impose upon them. The people wish to be put into a position of com- plete understanding of the situation, to know what is right and to have some one with th ecapacity to set a right standard and the authority to enforce it placed in charge of the situation. We believe that such a man has been found in A. A. Beebe and rely upon him to devise a plan by which a position may be gained here, fair both to the distributor and the consumer and the materials handled in our shops. Communication "New York, Oct. 23, 1917. "Editor The Lake Shore News, "Wilmette, Illinois. "Dear Sir:-- "Your paper has been a long time reaching us, but we appreciate the honor you showed to our recent com- n unication by placing it in your edi- torial columns. We have had letters regarding it from other lake shore towns, including Evanston. May we s.y a word in regard to your very courteous comment? You explain the space which has been given by the newspapers to the 'pickets' in Washington by saying that it is the business of a newspaper to furnish news to its patrons, and the public was interested in the activities of these 'pickets' just because it was sensational, and you add: 'We be- lieve in the justice of the woman's cause as do most of the better class of newspapers, even though they give a large amount of space to the "pickets."' Undoubtedly this is the case, but when it was so very evident that the 'picketing' was doing more injury to the cause of woman suffrage than anything which had happened during the long sixty years' struggle for it, we cannot but think that a real friendship for the cause would have minimized the 'picket' publicity. "You are justified in the wish that the vast amount of the work done by the National Suffrage association might be made to 'appeal to the pub- lic interest which attaches to the pranks of the picketing women of Washington.' Unfortunately there is nothing in the solid, substantial, sub- soil work of this association to appeal to the imagination. During the pres- ent year its vast resources have been largely devoted to the military serv- ice demanded by the government, and while the 'pickets' have been waving J banners and getting themselves ar- rested, the members of this associa- tion have been assisting in the regis- tration of soldiers: mobilizing the forces of women; looking after food conservation; working with the Red Cross and selling Liberty Bonds. That they did not lose sight of the suffrage, however, was evidenced when the Senate committee made its favorable report on the Federal Amendment and the Lower House created a special committee on wo- man suffrage.. These were the only two requests which the association made of Congress during its special session, and the fact that both of them were granted in spite of the universal hostility caused by the 'picketing' is a high recognition of its influence. "As the 'picketing' has now ceased to call for headlines, may we not trust that The Lake Shore News will have time and space to advocate the submission of the Federal Amend- ment by the next session of Congress, and to persuade all of the Illinois members to vote for it? "Very truly yours, "IDA HUSTED HARPER, "Editorial Chairman Leslie Suffrage Bureau." ***** The Lake Shore News and Woman Suffrage. ' In another column of this issue of The Lake Shore News will be found a communication from the chairman of Editorial Correspondence of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, a letter which has been elicited by the two editorials in recent issues of this newspaper on the matter of the pick- eting women in Washington and a later comment upon an earlier letter which has already appeared in our columns. The Lake Shore News editors do not know by what means the paper has been brought to the attention of the Leslie Commission, but they are gratified that sufficient importance has been attached to the articles in communication. It is with pleasure that we acquiesce in the request of Mrs. Harper to urge the passage of the federal amendment when Con- gress reconvenes in December and we assure those of our readers who are concerned in the success of the suffrage movement that this news- paper is among those which appreci- ate the justice of the cause and be- lieve that the record which the wo- men of Illinois have made in the ex- ercise of their limited suffrage is sufficient evidence of the wisdom of the extension of the full franchise to women to warrant the men of this state who have been sent to Wash- ington to represent their fellow citi- zens in tha national law making body in supporting the passage of the amendment which will remove the element of impossibility which exists in the case of those states whose constitutions are so protected that amendment is virtually a thin.g not to be done. ***** SUBSCRIBE NOW. 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