Victory Pin Windowsill Victory Garden Banana Split

As the flight for women’s suffrage heats up, Caitlin "Cat" Bowen gets to participate as to her mother, her sister, and many others close to her organize and act to win the right to vote.

		June 27, 1917 Father was wrong. Ten women have been arrested so far, thank goodness not Mother or Auntie Claire or Harriet’s mother. But six of these ten were indeed judged guilty of obstructing traffic, warned of their "unpatriotic and treasonable behavior," and sentenced to pay a twenty-five dollar fine and spend three days in jail. The women said to the judge that "Not a dollar of your fine will we pay...to pay a fine would be an admission of guilt. We are innocent." So they have been sent to jail. I feel that I should write their names down here, to mark them somehow for history although I guess that might seem silly, as their names are printed in the newspaper. But the women are Katherine Morey, Annie Arneil, Mable Vernon, Lavina Dock, Maud Jamison, and Virginia Arnold. They come from Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. Mother says we are having "government by embarassement." She says that the real crime was not obstructing traffic but embarrassing a president. They say that Wilson was furious with those signs when the Russian diplomats drove through the gates. It is a very odd notion but I think she is right. Mother said that the women of the picket line have always been civil and picketed in a peaceful manner, but that the government has now become uncivil through its efforts to save face and not be embarrassed. But through their uncivil behavior they are the biggest embarrassment of all.