Volume 17 , Issue 26

(1915) Get Health First & Ballot Later Is Advice To Women

This is what some people were talking about in August, 1915 when the woman suffrage movement was going beginning. The Tulsa Daily World was reporting on their front page the following headline reported "Get Health First and Ballot Later Is Advice To Women."

Portland, Oregon, Aug. 3 (1915) -- To women health was more important than the privilege of voting, declared Dr. evelyn K. Bush of Louisville, Ky., at the annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association.

Dr. Bush stated, "While I am in hearty sympathy with the woman suffrage movement I believe that when by self knowledge and self discipline women shall gain easy and habitual control of their bodies they will have achieved a far more important emancipation for themselves and the race."

Children's diseases were to be abolished, it was predicted in the women's session of the convention on that day. Dr. Josephine L. Pierce of Lima, Ohio, advocated a "Healthy day, to be proclaimed in each state and recognized by schools, churches and clubs. Her idea is to start with the children and thus obtain a firm foundation for health in the future.
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