{"id":893,"date":"2012-09-02T01:48:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=893"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:48:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:48:24","slug":"year-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1911: <strong>Woman&#8217;s Part in Government<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: William Harvey Allen<\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1088415~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_WomansPartInGovernment1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-896\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_WomansPartInGovernment1-64x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The suffrage movement was an important social issue in 1911, although women did not receive the vote universally in the United States until 1920.\u00a0 This book, written by the Director of the Bureau of Municipal Research and National Training School for Public Service, indicates that, \u201cit is not worth while discussing now what fraction of women want to vote.\u00a0 Our task is as rapidly as possible to make all women capable of using the vote when they get it.\u201d\u00a0 In this same year, 1911, the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage was organized, espousing the concern that woman suffrage would decrease women\u2019s ability to effect social reforms.<\/p>\n<p>The book is a fascinating look at citizenship and public perception.\u00a0 It discusses budgets, graft, establishing libraries, inspecting payrolls, milk safety and presidential term limitations, among many other topics.<\/p>\n<p>The Training School for Public Service was founded with a gift of $40,000 from Mrs. E.H. Harriman in the spring of 1911, who clearly believed the tenant in the outlined in the preface of the book, that \u201cwoman\u2019s third part in government is that of direct, conscious influencer of public opinion and official action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_WomansPartInGovernment2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-895 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_WomansPartInGovernment2-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_WomansPartInGovernment2-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_WomansPartInGovernment2-624x573.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_WomansPartInGovernment2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1911: Woman&#8217;s Part in Government Author\/Editor: William Harvey Allen Find it in Collins Library! The suffrage movement was an important social issue in 1911, although women did not receive the vote universally in the United States until 1920.\u00a0 This book, written by the Director of the Bureau of Municipal Research and National Training School for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1908-1917"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}