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Women of The West
Nevada

Citizenship has brought to women responsibilities as well as privileges. Men, during their centuries of citizenship, have fought and bled and died for their country, and the ideals it represented to them. Women will never fight on the field of battle. They, like most men, do not believe in war and, unlike men, are able to resist its urge because they have not the fear of the challenge of cowardice being hurled at them. Their battles will be fought on the field of human ideas, opinions and judgments, and there they will contend, struggle and suffer, if need be, for their country and the ideals it represents to them.

Women of the United States gained national suffrage only eight years ago. Adult women had grown up without full-citizenship consciousness; girl children who were then ten or twelve years old, have just now reached voting age with half-citizenship consciousness; those born at or since the granting of suffrage have not yet acquired their majority. What will be the result of "Women in Government" in the next decade or two, when a whole generation of young women will have been born and reared with full-citizenship consciousness?


NEVADA

CHAPPELLE, (Mrs. B. F.), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1897, a resident of Nevada for the last 4 years. Married to Benjamin Franklin Chappelle. Assistant in Psychology, University of Nevada. State president, Nevada League of Women Voters; has studied in America and abroad, has specialized in French, Psychology and Anthropology. Member: Twentieth Century Club, League of Women Voters, American Ass'n of University Women, Zeta Tau Alpha, Phi Kappa Phi. Home: 576 Ridge Street, Reno, Nevada.

CHISM, Alice A., (Mrs.), a native of Bergen, New York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Hitchcock. Former resident of Iowa, living in Nevada for the last 52 years. Children: John Edward, Harry, Gardner. Charter member of Suffrage Society. Former teacher; past president of W. C. T. U. Member: W. C. T. U., D. A. R., Elderberry Club. Home: Box 808, Reno, Nevada.

CLARK, Euphenia, (Mrs. W. E.), born in Duanesburgh, New York, February 20, 1881; a resident of Nevada for the last 10 years. Married to Dr. Walter E. Clark. Children: Walter, Euphenia, Miriam, David. Very active in social service and musical activities. Member: American Ass'n of University Women, K. A. O., and several local clubs. Home: President's house, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada.

CLINEDINST, Lillie Barbour, (Mrs. J. B.), born March 3, 1885, in Rocky Mount, Virginia, daughter of J. R. and Abagail E. Barbour, a resident of Nevada for six years. Married to J. B. Clinedinst. Expert in factory inspection work. Identified with Labor Organization since 1904. Secretary-Treasurer, Nevada State Fed. of Labor, elected in 1924 (first woman in the United States to be elected to such a position). From 1910 to 1917, State Factory Inspector, Dept. of Labor, Richmond, Va. Has represented the National Child Labor Committee for a number of years. From 1917-19, Inspector Child Labor Division, U. S. Children's Bureau. Made inspections for violation of the Interstate Commerce Child Labor Act in workshops, canneries, shipyards,

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