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43 Woman's J. & Suffrage News 1 (1912)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl43 and id is 1 raw text is: EWOMAN'SJOURNAL anWmnSuOaeAsoito Offcial Organ of the National A 'Vol. ixLn. u No. FACTS AND FIGURES There ire 2,000 women teach- ere in the Boston Public Schools.'ilia-in'. Thereare 60,000 girl-pupils in the Boston Public Schools. Thereare five. men and no woman or, the present School Committee. yet every 'child ,needs the mother~ifl ice 4 all''as the father-iffluenceit well-rounded deveo pment Is to 'follw. And the nthetrs'and' women.: teachers can comeinto far more sympathetic. relations With, a womanmeber o(f the School Committee 'than with anyrman, however admirable or able., Numberfof women teachers in the service of the city of Boston, 2,000.'.h Number Of girl pupils In the public schools of Boston, 50,000-, Number. of women voters. (registered)' last year,' 11,269. Number of.'egistered women who used'their ballots, 5,630. Numb er , of women voters (registerd) this year, 12,359. NumNbe of registered women who will use their'ballot, V Do yOu want-votes for wom- en? prove Nithis year by using the only political power you have to puo n the Boston School Board a' woman who stands for the: fullest oppor. tunity and progress for women. WHAT THE PRESS SAYS OFMRS.: FITZGERALD The Boston Transcript (Editorial) In selectingMrs. Susan' W. Fitz- Gerald as its-representative the School Voters' Leag ue'makes a 'trong bid for publicfavor. e Sli ts a wo * anof dis- tiaguished pareiiage, 'of brilliant nat- ural gifts, educated in one of the best ,and successful a mDst rtm Peraps in the whole city in either sex it would be difficult to find anyone with a re- cord that promised more for the ad- vantage of the schools in Boston. Practical Politics (Dec. 16) Mrs. Susan W. FitzGerald is gain- ing ground every day. The attacks upon her candidacy have been unwise and apparently malicious. They come from an element In the community which, posing as the better element, will resort to methods that no self- respecting politician would adopt. Their attempts to injure Mrs. FitzGer- aid by denouncing her as the mayor's candidate come with remarkable nerve from people who begged the mayor to endorse Mr. Brock and Mr. Lee as part of his slate. They are talking of driving the school teachers 'out of politics be- cause some of the school teachers are using their rights and doing what they can to elect Mrs. FitzGerald. As long as the male and female teachers and higher-up oicials confine their political efforts to boosting the slate of the P. S. A. no complaint is made: It is only when the teachers venture to Oppose that they are threatened with condign punishment. Jamaica' Plain News If those who :believe that women should be represented on the school board will unite on Mrs. FitzGerald, she will win, They should forget their prejudices, against certain or- ganizations and, their preferences for certain organizations, and they should bear. in mind one fact.. Mrs. FitzGerald is the only woman now running for the Boston school board. If she is not elected this year, there )a not a chance in ton that any woman will be electjd for several years. This is the opportune time. Boston Journal (0ee. 21) The feature of this year's registra- tion has been the' interest shown by the women, who have registered in- larger numbers than at any time since Mrs. Julia A.Duff ran' for the School Board. Last year the total registration( of wof n wA Ws 11,2.9; This year it showed 12,369 ,when ,the election Col- missioners shutuprshop. As the fig- rea of registrations'have been drop- ping about a thousand a year, these figures show aireal gain. (Continued on Page 2.) Y, JANUARY 6,1912 FIVE CENTS Susan Walker FitzGerald, Candid for the Boston School Board, is MR. AND MRS. RICHARD Y. FITZGERALD AND FAMILY Five Reasons for Electing Susan Walker FitzOerald MRS. FITZGERALD is of good old New England stock BUT she Is Just as much interested In the children of the latest immigrant as in any other Boston MRS. FITZGERALD is a g, aduate of Bryn Mawr College. and so has herself received the best oduoa.' ticnal equipment our country his to offer, BUT she Is democratic to tie core and beteves.that any girl should be able to obtain In our Boston Public Schools an adequate education for life. MRS. FITZGERALD is the daughter of Admiral Walker, and so might have led the life of any society, girl, nv/:lce/r:u~t.i n dmrs te!: BUT she has always believed that It is a woman's duty and privilege to do actual work amon .the world's workers, and she has done regular professional work ever since her student-life ended- MRS. FITZGERALD Is not only a happy wife and the joyful mother of three sturdy children BUT she has demonstrated her faith In the schools she hopes to serve by committing to their care her' two young daughters of school age MRS,. F a Dhaer s wo rdlong andevtedlyfor young people, not only in New York, as a tr u woMsgFITZGERALD has workedlnaddeOe,. . .-. ant-officer and settlement-worker, BUTIn Boston aiso. For over ayea, ar secreetary of the School Voters' League, she has studied Ithe schools with very great care and attended all the meeting$ of the school Committee, Susan Walker FitzGerald, candidate, and this was followed by three years of the School Voters' League foras head of Fiske Hail in Barnard Col- school committee, was born in Cam- lege, New York, and three years as bridge Mass., May 9, 1871; daughter bead worker of the Richmond Hill of the late John Grimes Walker, ad- settlement house, New York. Later, intral In the United States Navy. She as a member of the Child Labor Com- recelved her elementary education In mlttee in New York, abs was actively Salem, Boston and Washington, grad- responsible for the passage of laws uating from Bryn Mawr College, Pa,. restricting the enIployment of chil- in 1893. ' dren and providing for compulsory The following year she became sec- education until a certain age. In retary to the President of Bryn Mawr, order that the working of these laws might receive a ,thorough tesMs FitzGerald was appointed a truant, O'- ficer and served for ones year., ,, Mrs. FitzGerald is secretary ofthe Massachusetts Woman Suffrage ,Aso elation and a member of the Bard of the National Suffrage ..8atsoJ Last year she was secretary ft School Voters' League, and asIsuch made a close study of the schOol sit. (Continued on Page )2.). MRS. FITZGERALD'S PLAT- FORM Such re-organization as shall free the members of the School Committee from petty and per- functory details, that their time may be fully given to the Im- portant matters of administra. tion and of educational policy. Special and complete study of sohooi expenditures, with a view towards the possibility of check- ing if not curtailing the growth of supervisory expenses. Recognition on the part of the committee of the democratic nature of a public school sys- tem. The necessity for estab. lishing some recognized channel through which the public and teaching force can register their views on new school policies or proposed changes of policy In advance of action of the School Committee authorities. Prompt action on the salary schedule. Professional opportunities for women equal to those for men. Careful study of the educa- tional and financial effect of the abolition of the ninth grade. Establishment of a system by which supervisory appointments shall be made solely for educa- tional fitness or for constructive supervisory ability. REASONS WHY You Should Vote for a Woman as Member of the School Board-What Some Prominent People Say of Susan Walker FitzGerald Professor Charles Zueblin The excellent public servants seek- ing re-election to the Boston School Committee have unfortunately stulti- fied themselves by staking their honor on the retention of a superin- tendent who does not know how to treat women, and by claiming to ac- cept the nomination only as a last resort, although no effort was made to put in a woman, without whom any School Committee is an anomaly. Mrs. Fitzgerald furnishes the oppor- tunity to prove that Boston citizens care more for children than for mas- culine vanity. Charles Zueblin. E. N. Clemen t 1 believe that Mrs. FitzGerald should be on our next .School Board o redress the obvious Incompleteness and one-sidedness of an administra. Lion of the public schools which is without direct representation and participation of the women of the community; and this, apparently, not by accident, but by design and man- agement, as if to establish their ex- clusion as a policy. E. H. Clement. I hope that Mrs. FitzGerald will be elected as member of the School Committee on the ground that a worn- 'A an is essential on the Committee to attend to the beat Interests of the children and of the teachers, and also because she Is herself eslieeially fitted for the position. May Shlestager. Edwin O. Mead I believe that .Mrs- FJzGerad should be elected to the school Com.- mittee because I believe in the partil- pation of women in our political life,' and especially in 9ur municipa! h ue- keeping. Clear common sense.d o0W tated the admission of women Ato: school suffrage, even when :their u-. frage in other fields ,has been pSa poned, It demands their representa- tion upon our SchoOl Boards. MalH of our Boston. school Chlldren are girls and four-fifthaof Our'tebue, women, Yet for yeas we haveh.ba no woman on the Board, Last y.ar assurance was given that a Woina. candidate would be weloomed ad4 supported by the proisTre or.- sations. A good woman, 1 bee nominated. All the progresssive forel. should unite to elect her, ( : Be d w in D , P g e a , Digitized from Best Copy Available I %wan Woman Suffrage Association

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