1. -PEM. ^ / a a
* 4qeo (?)
ItocHíOiS -
. R x g i m a S
f*OM H0KJ3 KCOXOMICt TO VORU) POUTICS.
B*rtha Wta,pr«aidant of U m Br*silian r*daration
for U h i d n n m m t of Kom«n.
Tho m n of th* Aatin n o M ataad at th* d o m of o now day. It haa b**a
long la aoalng but li ia tlagit horo. Soon iho aantyry -old nlght of oblirlon
will bo margod ia th» glare ot a troolal noon.
At tho last World °ongra.a of «oa*n hald at a.r U n la 1M9 u ,
tooratio loador of tho apanlah dalagatlon had fow roaont àawolopront* to ah
®ow tho latornatioaal nowa-aenrlaolafora* «o that hor radical, aalf-aad* llttlo
lawyar aonpanion haa holpod traft tho rapubliaan aonatitutlon of Spala. And thle
plf^BWl doaumont atatoa plalnly ia lta popmpoua proaaboa that aoz ia ao longor a
barrlor to i M l or politioal righta. lha naa of Éha laad of aaaaaa vi 11 toll 70a
that thoy hardly raaliaad that thoir aoan adght not bo idoally happy la th*ir
tradltleaal aaaluaion vhaa tho** aaia* w oaan *a*r|(d triwaphantly ia fali flodgod
oltlaonahlp.
"Matatioa rathor thaa orolutlon"woald aay th* blologiato*
ln Brasil th* laasaoroua tradition of th* aooriah riddoa ibariana ar* l*a.
▼*n*d by th* progroaalvo unrsat of tha S*w *orld. Changa ha* boè b**a quito ao
auddon or Araatio a* a li t h ia . ®ut tharo haa b*on auah growth and danlopaaat
aaong th* womon thomaeWea. lho atandarda now uphold by th* Braailiaa *odoration
for tho A4ran**n*nt of *on*n jthat hoada th* organiaod noraaanttra ao loa* glorola*
thaa thoao firat raiaad by th* anglo aaxon plonoora of tho world.
Twalr* yaara ago tharo aa* no wonana novomant in ®ra»il. H tha and of 1
1918 and la tha aiddlo of 1919, Maria Joo* ®*boêlo **andoa and artha W t a , bo-
aaaa tho fira t wonaa to ontor tho otoil aerriao aftor auaooaafully aoapating with
■on, th* firat for po*t i a th* *inlatry of foroign A ffa ir*, th* a*aond for tho ao-
•rotaryahlp of tho National H u o u a of ®ra»ll» Oa» yoar lator a aaffrago blll aa*
lntroduaad lato tho “anato, by tho lato aonator Juato Oharaont and tho yoar fol-
lowing aa* aaaaaaafully dofandád in th* chaab*r by th* thon °ongroaaaan dr.
▼anal ^amartln*, who aa* daatinad to giTO i t faaatioal r*allaatioa for tho firat
tia* la South ^aorioa,
Thaa* w*ro th* loa* bog|ftnAaga of tho « a a n aaffraga *aapaif§ la *raatl.
Th*n aan* th* Pan Aaorioan coaforo 00 of *oa*n organlaad by tho H tional
^oaguo of ( o*an ▼otora at tholr N ltla o r o Ooirrontlon in 19ÍZ.ürganiaad aatioa
b*gan on tho ratam SECMiXQUlxfcftU; tha brailllan govornawnt* offialal dalogata,
Bartha lata, to *r aa il.
BOOIOHZC CRAROXS.
Condltioa* haro ahangad groatly alnao th*n. At tho proaoat aoaant th*r*
ar* thouaanda of woaan in th* gorornnonta omploy.°no ailllon braailiaa n * a n «ara
théèr living *, oqualling on* aixtoonth of th* whola fOaalo popàlatioa of th* aoan-
try. Woaan aagla**ra build roada, woiaan a Tiatora *ral*o tho aklaa.W* haa* or*n hai
our Wyoaing. la 1917, tho «tato of Bio Grande do Borto grantad women fa li pollti-
aal right, at th* roqaoat of tho atato govornor Dr. Javonal S a a r t i a o . thaa b**o-
aing th* pioaoora of woaan aaf fraga in tha aoath aaorlean **ntinant, *t «a * U H
oa* of th* oarlloat, l f not tho oarlloat politioal riatory of woa*a la th* latln
ooantiroa* Tha arg*atlnian prorinoo of *aa "aan propptly follow*d It*

2. FBOlf HOME BCOHOMICS TO WORLD P Ó LIO S.
( an account of th# 2d Inttmational Feminiat Congpess of Rio d*
Janeiro and of th* Woman'8 movement in Brasil)
by
Bertha Lutz.
(President of the Brazilian Federation for the ÀdYancement
of Women).
For th* women of the Latin racea a n*w period ls ooming.
It has been long on the way, hut dawn now here. Soou the century-
old night of oblivion will be aucceeded by th» glare of à tropioal
day.
At the last World Congress of Women held at Berlin, in Jane 1929
thp arjstocratic leader of the spanlah delegatlon had liitA* XfT-7~
ahow. Now the International news aerviçea infom ús t$at her ra­
dical, self-mafl*, little, lanyer-companioh haa helped draft the re
republiean eonstitution of Sjain, And this «tates plainly in lti
pompoua jreambl*, that sex is no longer a barrler to eiTil of po-
litical rights, The men of th* land of aanana will tell yon that
thejr hardly realised that their women might not be idealjy happy
in their traditional Beclusion when theae same women emerge tri-
umphant in full-fledged citiaenship.
líutation, rather than evolution, say the biologist. In Bra­
sil, though the laíiguoroua íraditiona of the *moorÍ8h-ridden iberi-
ans ar* leareçed by the progressiva unrest of th* N*rr World, ohan-
ge has aot been^iiite so ârastic^andlopiElilet*, but in compensation
th*r* has b**n much grorrth and developeijent in the vomen themaei­
ves» At the 2d International Feminist Congress Juat h*l^ in M o
de Janeiro, bjr th* Brasilian Federation of th* Advanoa&*nt of W ' *
t-'

3. mau, the atandards upheld were not less glorioua or the raaolu-
tlona voted léss courageous than those first raised and sustai-
n*d b i the anglo-aaxon pionears of world.
j To the onliokera, who
' gàtheredíin large numbers, tha beginings of th* Congress must ha-
re lookeà quite harmless. For ona thing, tha joint exhibition, or-
ganised by the brilliant young «nginaer Gamen Velaseo Portinho a
.and the Woman* s Club of Rio de Jaaairo centared round a model a-
partment-home. For another, the initial resolutions submitted to
tha aaaembly including those from Porto Rico and Cuba póintid out
tha ways of alleying good housakeeping with èffleiént citizenship
and defined th* perfect- women in teras closelp akin to those of
Biblical days.
fiut if th* foreing contributions were cireumspect, th* deman-
-®S’ of 'tKé^Srazilian women themselves were far mor* radical. Har­
í
dly had th* mayor of th** city, à confirme& anti-f*minÍ8t, recova-
red from the àttacks launched by th* press for his discourtasey in
neglecting to weloom* the delegates officially r*oi*v*d by th* Fe­
deral Government, whem notice was s*rved him that in future homa,
nakers wishèd to b* dir*ctly cõasultèd as to marlcet conditiohs, ho-
mes of the eity. Those that had oom* to critiois* th* "advandad
females" went hom* to tall their relativas that th*y wer* juat a
parcel of old-fashion*d hous*keep*rs futiíily talking of th* b*tt*r-
ment of hom* conditions. They w«r*qi}uickly undecieved, for the
next itejn on th* program, was "Womei Police*. Commandant Kary S.
Allen of th* Londom Folie* Forcef was th* first woman of Interna­
tional reputatien to oom* to Rio in aibwar to òur appéal. She was
exoallent publicity ind**d. From th* time of her. landing in Rio,
to th* day when she left for Uruguay, whére the Gov*rnm*nt calied
her and inatitu*d Folio* Vom*n whithin h*r short stay, she wa* a
nine d«y* wonder. Orowds were only prev*nt*d from gath*ring to

4. se» her, by able appeala from Braailian Congress-members to th» in-
nate courteaey of their conntry-men. But however startling her
top-boots, high oollar and peaked cap may hav» been to the average
male Citizen, her clear eye, keen mind and cbannlng persoriálity
readily converted tbe women. In fact, tha most old fashiòned, were
the first to see the advantafes of women pollee officials to deal
with juvenile deliquents, cases of infantecide, sex offenoes, crimes
against ehildren and for the custody of women prisioners.
Altogether, f o m tha opening session, tha Congress was a great
sHccess. Remembering tha first small Congress of Wõmen held in Rio
ten years ago, had been muoh troubled aarly in the day of tha firat
meeting. Fearful as to the posaibility of filling the huge bali
room of the Automobile Club, where tha Congress i a held, I had ji-
rs
•eí
vt to díssemble the vaeant spacea, nhílè diatributing
about three hundred ohairs. Our young aecretary Carmen de Carvtl ho,
wilfully oancelling my ©rders, had every available seat packed into
thé hall,. Now, with women erowdin* the floor and galleries, and
men filling the comera, and. pesaage ways, it sudâenly came upon me
that in Brazil public opinion has recently traveled a long way on
the rpad to tha emanoipation of women. The wife and the represen-
tant pf the Preaident of th» Republic sat at my right hahd, 'and
the platfom was crowded with outstanding women, officials and di­
plomata. Threatening letter promiaing to break up the meeting with
bombs, owing to the preaenoe of tha Chief of folioe lay on my deak.
I felt faintly worried a , to the safety of oúr guesta, as I liste-
s
ned to the brilliant young Roealina Coalho Lisboa Miller gire them
welcome in fiye languages.
But aa the sarna Chief of Folioe, Baptiata Luaardò, the cause
of my worry and "the feminist" of the reYolutionary aâministration
now dominant in Brasil, boomed qut his oonrictions my thoughta wan-
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5. 4
derad away. Sllently I reviewod ten years worke for tha womens »o-
* ;
vement in Brasil. The ravolt I felt «fter eight ye&ra in Europa,
on landing in a city, whare num stared at wcanen as i£ undrossing
them with their ajas* ( a fina has haan institued by the pèlice for
nolesting women) • and oontaquent how to chonge this« Tha beginning
of puhlie Ufa, by entrance into the civil sorvi©©, after campating
rdth ten men, a - a time wb.cn anly one women held a govem»ae£.t posi-
t I
tion. The first lonèly visits to the Congress vhen none of my five
followera-dared go with me to pléad for suffraga bilis, the pan-a*
merican conference of women held at Baltimore, the uphill struggle
organising the campaign on r retum...
ay
But things h&ve changed sihce, There are tens of thousands of women
in the goveraments employ» One million Brazilian women (1/16 of
tha popolatitMi) eaito tnèlr livlngsj «amen engineara build roada,
women eviators oruiae the skies. Only we hava ov<*n had our í j o
( r ming,
and a womsn major i . the state of Rio Grande do Horta, during the
n'
aãministration of the south «meriean pioneer of women suffrage go* |i
vemor J. Lamartine. (Corning was the first state to grant women
the vote, Dr, Ü . Lamartine waa eleoted state golíernor* with a women
T -m
<
suffrage plànk in his platfom. Ee ohtained votes for women in his
state, the first to grant politioal equality of aen and women in
South America. The argentinian provinoe of San «Tuan immodiately
followed suit)• Knowing how slowly the fruits of social endeavour Via*
ripen, my soul rejoioed withla me, I
The days that followed revealed many sterling (jualities in the
women gathered from ali cornara of Brjudl. One of the ehief points ;ht
of the program were civil and Politieal Rights for ftoman, whlch
eould not be negleoted, considering that the revolutionary goremr
6
'
ment had daclared itself disposed to regard our olaims. There were
extremists presmt, no donbt» One old lady, who In her day had Veen g íj

6. the pioneer of women. noveliststconfiàed to me thàt she had helieveà ^
in economic indepenàence,but not in women suffrage and still lessin
women police.On the other hamd a small group of moderni*ts,discipti4
of Lenin,sat in the audience,tnd nursed tracts on hirth control and
other paeudo-medical litterature,waiting to confim the Congress
with demands as to only these subjects had not been placed on the
lists of reforma advocated by the Congress, The young women lawers
in charge of this committee showed good sensetand a praticai out J
»
look.They aeked for full politioal rights,for economic reforms in
marriage,snch as the abolition of the regime of common property, ^||||
the right of married women to. ohose their domicile4to go into hu-
siness or to pratise a profession,an equal share in their ohil dren
and in heritage laws. That oan be more urgent than to prevent a wo-
mans husband from squandering her property and from tying her down
by preventing her from êarning the living he denies her?What us« is
'.
a
diyorce to a women who has no inçome of her own?Why neglect conce*
m
ssions that are obtainahle and feasible,when official committeea .
are sitt,ing for purpose of defeating them?Above all,only jeop»4dise
the vote#which enables women. to establisH a first control of future
KM
legislation,in favor of theòries that. if votei by the Congress,
•woulçL l®ad to instânt withdrawal of support by the. preaent dicjato
ríàl gavernmentíIEbe oppo.rtunity granted to ali womens associatións
whích* took part i£ the ,Gonçres8,to repoít on their aptivities broiyjht £§*
out the jstrong bias of women for welfare work,showèd that when
thfy have a say in the government#publio administratiòn will beoome
more efficient in solving social problems.lt demonstrated also that
; .
.. 6 tf
they have an esssentialy constructive point of viçw.Muoh of the irork
as oarried out by wòmens instltutions is still old fashiòned SnougV

7. V
gava his unoonditional eupport to tha feminiat movement,fearingn
neither violenee nor riáicula.
AT the firstgreat banquet of women held in Brasil,and with several
mombers of the diaorstionary afaainistaation preeent,Stella Querral)
Duv&l,?;hose na&e stanàB for the welfare of motherB,proposed the on
ly toast of the dayt"to the absent",Her words were well chosen and
few and her low toned voioe oarried allover the room as ahe ágain
evoked the oorageous pioneer mfljjmiatratn and with h à those
an
among the former exaoutivea,le3 Íalators and magistrates,trhò in
any way had helped us. AT the last meeting,Alice TibirlQa,rose to
demand that the Congress request the Public Health authorities to >
èemagân the lepers colony founded by the suffrage governor,who a i
l.
but wiped the fali disease from his stata,snd which was olosed by
the revolution.This time the name of Juvenal Lamartine oame cla&r /
as a clarion-call and the aadienoe stood and cheered the exhiled
President.
Permanent peaoe irill be the WomanCitisens*glft to the World.The y
'éágeimèss with which womenskassoc$ationa ,the earth over are preya- .u»
ring petitiona for tha future disamament Confarenoe,of 3enev#,whj(t
govemments heaitate and mon predict failure is added proof of thii -
Tiaa to thic ideal,Peace Was one of the chief topios of the 2d Int
e
temational Congress of Women had at Rio* At tha Peaee meeting,in , v»
th© festive hall,of the Automobile Club atill wreathed with gar- <
lanâs of roses from the banquet,motion after motion was aoolaimed,
càlling for Continental oourts of Justioe,for dÍ8armam*nt,for arbi-
trationjappealing tomother', and «duoatorsAto sikr against militar
ris», inatigating seientists to refuoe their oollaboration in the
improvement of the maehinery of war fare. In a oreseendo of good-w
will,the aasembly was led to the oulminating moment of the Con­
gress when the dean of great women of oontemporary Brasil,Julia

8. P b
i
Lopes de Almeida,rose to speak and the audience to listen*
As one inapired,8he described the days of revolutionary agitation,
when red rehellion stalked through the land as a fiery tempest
burning and destroying in the promise that it will cleaaM and rer
deem.She then piotured the desolatlon that left in its waike use-less
hatred and persecution are firaly held on leahs.Finally,she made
an appeal to the victors in favor of the vanquished, describing the
sorrow that reigns in the homes of the men,they have exhiled.
She called for the extinction of revolutionary tribunais and of
iiiãls at which impartial justice roses can never sit. Applause was
thunderousfno one,could hesitate,not even the most fierce revoluti
onary among the delegates^It was the voice of the women of Brazil
from the Atlantic to the Andes,from the Amazon to the frontier of
Rio Grande do Sul,the Southern leader of the rebellious states.lt
matters not that our appeal has remalned unheard.Wè will repeat it
as needs be.We will continue to fight for lawíul governments and c
I
cIvl1fséa
r wl Decome enxran.chêd^citrzèiis.
Our day is coming,our hour draws near. Governor Juvenal Lamartine,
who in thRio Grande do Norte first instituted votes for women in at
Brazil and who in the days of power preached in the desert,has found
t .
f
ardent disciples among thcse who derided and persecuted him.As 1 Lua
write,the future election law is being drafted by tha special com-
mittee appointed for this porpose by the Dictatèr.Unless I am veTy
much mistaken it will include equal political rightà for both sexaqs
ali over Brazil.The first impulse was to exclude marríed women with-
out private incomès or profèssions,hut the Brazilian Federation
for the Advancement of Women intenrened and preached the economia.
▼alue of home-makers, Soon we will enter the realms of praticai ci-
tizenship.We hope to Btraceed.Our intentions are honest;our program
is construetive.

9. We lack neither moral cowrage,nor lofty ideais,and in one thing
ve leaders of Brazllian women. are ali agreed.We are vromen and as
wèmen we wiab to attain.Our aspirations radiate from our hearts a
and óúr homes to the end of the earth.Ve reach out to our sistfll
of the whole world and together withthemjUe stand for collabo-
ration and good fellowship for happiness and health,íor heauty and
wiadom,for -Justice and Teaoe,
The whole field of human endeavour^ii ours,f rom Home-Sconomics
to International Politioa.

10. FROM HOME ECONOMICS TO TORLD FOLITICS/
r --------------------------------I
(An account of tha 23 International Feminist Congress of Rio
de Janeiro and of the Woman's movement in Brazil.)
by
Bertha Lutz.
(President of the Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of
Women.)
For the w o m e n t h e Latin races a new p
C i t v| *
v C_ i *'*■ W W
'** "
m»toçt
It has been lông ets»ih».<wiyy e/.Soon the century
old nig&t of ohliripn will be succeeded by the glare of a tropi­
cal day.
At the last World Congress of Women held at Berlin,te June L929
the aristocratic leader of the spanish delegation,had little
to show, Now the intemational nèws services inform us that her
radical,self-made,little|lawer-companion haâ helped draft the
repubíican constitution of Spain. And this^Btates plainly in its ^
pompons prewnble,that sex is no longer a harrier to civil or po-
litical rights.The men of the land of manana will tell you that .
they hardly realised that their women might not be ideally happy
in their traditional seclusion when these same wçjaan emerge trim
phant in full -fledged citizenshij?.
Mutation.rather thán. avolution/^w the biologistsjjl»- BraeiA
W tkoagiKthe langnorons tradí^lfens of the moorish-ridden iberians
leavened by the progresslve tmrest of the New World,«kaag^sl»*
dUo • U
■ not quite só drastio aiuL^«oiilftte,but iu «eaponài+ion there
has been much gro^bh and deveiopment in the wèmen themselves. - S
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j aat hold in Rio de-Janeirc
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11. meã, f h standards upheldNjárenot less glorious op tha ?aa«lw-
ce
ti i 5 vutuü lemr- e
ot~ - oupage r a fhan those first raised and sustai-
ca c
ned by the anglo-saxon pioneers of world. ’ To the onliokers, who
gathered in large numbers, the boginings oèythe Congress must ha­
ve looked quite B^raless. For one thing, theyjoint exhíbition, op-
ganised by the brilliant young engineer Cannen «fiasco Fortinho a •
y
and .
x
the WoEan’s Club òf Rio de Jsneiro centered round níedel á-
çartmetot-home. For anothar, the initial resolutiotíe submitted to
the asseM>ly including thoáe from Porto Rico and Cuba pointed o«t
the ways oKalleying good houbakeeping with efficient Yitisenship
and defined t f perfect women ia teras dosoljt akin to wiose of *
he
Biblical days.
But if the foreing contrihutionli were eircumspeõt, the desan­
da of he Brazllian wirmen themseives ere far more radicai. Har-
dxy had the mayor of the city, a conflroed anti-feminist, recove-
red from the attícVs lanfeched by the press for his discourtesey in
t neglecting to welcome the delegates officially reoieved by the Fe-
deral Government, whea not ico nas served him that in futura h t f ,
oie
V . • ,V ■
makers wished to bo directly consulted as to aarlcet conditions, ho-
mee of the city. Those that had cone to criticise the "advaaèed
females" went home = tell their reiatives that they were just a
to
parcel of old-fashioned housekee^pers futilily talking o the better-
f*
ment home oonditio^s;. They we»qijuiekly undecieved, for tha
next itsm on th® progruu i a ”Womeii Folioe".
rs Comnandant iíary S.
Allen of 'Üie Londom Police Force, waffLth^ first wonan of Interna­
tional reputation to come to Rio in anwer to our appeal. She was
excellent puVlioity indeed. Vrom the tüpe of her landing in Rio,
to the day wheo,the,leit for Uruguay, wheM the Government called
her and initituècTTelioe Women whithín hérshort stãy, shl was a
nine.days wonder^ Crowds were onl^ prevented from gatherx^g to
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12. _ - f,
se» her, by able appeals from Brazilian Congress-members to the in-
nate courteaey of their conntry-men. But however startling her
top-boots, high collar and peaked cap may have been to the average
male citizen, her clear eye, keen mind and charming personality
réadily converted the women. In fact, the most old fashioned, were
the first to see the advântages of women police officials to deal
with juvenile deliquents, cases of infantecide, sex offences, crimes
against children and for the custody of women prisioners.
Altogether, form the opening session, the Congress was a great
saccess. Remembering the first small Congress of Women held in Rio
ten years ago, had been much troubled early in the day of the first
meeting. Fearful as to the possibility of filling the huge bali
room of the Automobile Club, where the Congress was held, I had gi-
ven instruction8 to dissemble the vacant sp&ces, whilè distributing
about three hundred chairs. Our yoímg secretary Carmen de Carvalho,
wilfully cancelling.my orders, had every available seat packed into .
-the hall. Now, with women crowding the floor and galleries, and
men filling the corners and passage ways, it sudáenly oame upon me
that in Brazil- public opinion has recently traveled a long way on
.the road to the emancipation of women. The wife and the represen-
tant of tíle President of the Republic sat at my right hahd, and
the plaltfotta was crowded with outstanding women, officials and di-
plomats. Threatening letter promising to. break up the meeting with
bòíibs, 'owing to the presenceof the Chief of Police lay on my desk.
I felt faintly worried as to the safety of our guests, as I liste-
ned to the brilliaht young Rosalinâ Coelho Lisboa Miller give them
welcome in five languages.
But as the same Chief of Police, Baptista Luzardó, the cause
of my worry and "the feminist" of the revolutionary adminiatration
now dominant in Brasil,, boomed out his convictions my thoughts wan-

13. àereà away. Si l.pnt.Ty I revitiwed t W years wwíke f a s ^ e e T w t i r o
-j.fk-ííoHm-
k*-vJL Y r* o ( W ( IM im iU ) r m A iv i fV v w v w * * ^ l* *
v«ttS»<Jjis3i<aes.l. The revolt I felt after pight years in Europe,
on landing in a city, where men stared' at women as if undressing
them with their eyes. ( a fine has béen institued hy the pòlice for
molesting women), and eonsequent-how tó change this, The beginning
of public life, by entrance into the civil service, after competing
with ten men, at a time mhen ònly oné women held a government posi-
tion. The first. lonely visits to the Congress when none of my five
followers dared go with, me to. plead for suffrage hills, the pan-a-
merican conference óf women held at Baltimqre, the. uphill struggle
,
organising the .çgmpaign on my return...
But things.have changed since. There are tens of thousands of womra.
in tte governments employ. One- million Brazilían women (1^16 of
theJpopuíation) e a m their liv in g |; women engijieers huild roads,
women aviators cruise the skies. ^Sjjiy have even had our Wyoming»
aiiíK,fl^*a3»eíK©a$M^^ the. state of Rio Grande Jlo Norte,
o À wx*. Vwl c*X*X£
a l n s £ . » M nn of .the soutb .
iiàÍÍ*a amenr.nn-ji <ynger
amef içac-çi g0_
vernor J. Lamartine. (i^teming eos tha flr-st j-t&te
arti-
üB"waB üluuCôd stafê gov&rnor with a wbmen
xn nis platfprm» -in
j *.*?F Vr*o |Kjl
-tdatle, fjrat t , grant politi^aT^quality of men and women in
o
South America, VJhe argentinian pròviace of-Soft-Jufln 4mmgJn;aíely
^cT t)tiji d vwi TZol J W I JLaX a
u.
followed su.it.)Ssewúig hoia «Inwly the frnvf° QndcfotPUj*
- j p í i iiy sültl rejoiced Wlthin me.
r . t x ; i,
The ila^a that follswéd reveaied many tstmling qualitias. in .the
jouieu gatl^H^d grum 71II comçrs o£ Bra^líio One of the chief points %
%tmmm
theprogram v&zá civil and Politioal R
Politioal^ Rights
f’
l*-*"» ^VAilí l&L fxO.o**. M (i_3 J V
TnA -Í
could not be nejflected, considering that the rèvolutionary governr '
•
ment<Jà«3~clèclared itg.elf dispoged to regard our claims. Thaye wet>e
--- é w ^ u y n One old lafl^WhU u , ..
», n
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14. I
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6
the pioneer of women novelists,confided to m*-7that she had helieVed
t»
ecOnomiô/independence^Jrtít not in nomo 'suffrage and still lesa in
taad-
women police.On thíí'other hand,a/émall group of modernis »,di8- £kt
ciples of Lonijífsat ín the au#íence,and nursed traçfes on birth còn-
trol and otér pseudo-medjxíal litterature,warjálíg to confirm the Con- r»
gress ij t demanda
ih to only these sajbjscts had not heen placed on
thq/lists of r«£f5rms advocated hy^the Congress.The young women law-
ers in charçe of this cõnanittèe showed good sense,and a praticai pkt~
------- ’JS * X c "JlÍ — lA^Tvyf t m A v U t-
look.Tbpy-*&ted -£ar full political rights^for econàmíc rèTotms in J»
~~-- • |
marriage,such as the aholition of t , regime of commfcn property
he
the right of married women to chose their domicile,tp go into busi-
ness or to practise a profession^an equal sh&re in theif ehil-
r ^
(^dren and in heritage lawsfcíííãt can be more urgent than to prevent- a
^ ^ ^ ® ^ ^ ^ r o m a n s husband from squandering her property and froía tying her doaa
VrtMwt* A y prerenting her from eaming the living he denies her? What use is
AAaAaX-A4 ^
divoree to a woman w^fhas «wv^income of her ora? f h neglect con-
ly
cessions that are obtainahle and feasihle, when officfel conmdttee»
are sitting for purpose of d%afting them?ABõve ull,unly joop»rdii ©
the Tote.whifth anaMas women to establish § first control of future
|||p
Q l«gÍBlationfin favor of theoriaa that if voted by the Congress^ould
.
<xM. t"**' iiu*!i » t i » i i i r of auppnrt hy the nresent dictatorial .
ii»-i i a i i i «
. -gr&fttad to bIT womena associations whòdh
^ t m the ilongPéss.lu cnuurt o n their aetivitiõo hrought. g c
jft
tha atrong hias of n^man welfare work,3ÍKu»e4^iwçtowí«a-^h«y 1 1 >
ty -ntfOsxA (V* »va
hare-a say in the.government,public administration will heoome more
vx*. M f — --- p p P —
/ ©ffipi®nt in solving social problema ,Tt i n i m t P t M l # t ã pfí||| o
lnruiiti f '
í n* 'Tkj-w* o**{£>-
pPf th<»y have a essentialy construetive point of viewAluch of thâ^work
iy |
jg: carried out by womens institutions is still old fashioned enough
j,

15. gave his unconditional support to tho feminist movemejit,fearing
neither violence nor ridicule.
AT tho firstgreat banquet of women held in Brazil,and with several
mambers of the discretionary administ*ati«a- present;Stella Guerra
Duval,whose name stands for the walfare of mothers,proposed the on
ly toast of the days"to the absent".Her words were well chosen and
few and her low toned voice carried allover the room a ' she again
s
evoked the corageous pioneer and..xa^Mè^èe and with him these
tk
t
among the former executivas,legislators*and magistrates,who in
any way had helped us. AT the last meeting,Alice Tibiriçá,rose to
demand that the Congrôss request the Public Health authorities to
ítaapèn the^lepers colony founded by the suffrage governor,who ali
but wiped the fell disease from his state,and which was closed by
the revolution.This time the name of Juveaal Lamartine came clear
as a clarion-call and the audience stood and cheered the exhilad
President. • ’
Permanent peaca will be the WomanCitizen31gift to the World.The
* i * y
eagerness with which womensàassocfations ,the e®rth oiw-ttre- prepa^xi
sing petitiohs for the future disarmament Conference,of Geneve,whlle
governments hesitat^and men predict failure is fcdded proof of thisi
Ò ATB<*
fnae to this ideal,Peace w»s one of the .chief tejics of the< SA In
tftjnational~ e
- ungre5s of W i n n hW* at Rjof^At t i Peace maetinsv» * luíL
cie íe )
(IM JL u A C rv . ( s ú ò aJ (V U a •^AJÜLeV. ,
p t i A the fwulimj hãll.of the Automobile Club still wreathed with gar-
xav
^ V-
'’ p Í (XjUA4'r ^
Ã. ^
lands of.roses from the banquetjmotion after motion was acclaimedT^
calling fór continental courts of Justlce.for disarmament.for arbi-
trationjappealiiig to-mothers and educ&tors,to sttr against milita-
rism, instigating scientists to refuse their collaboration in the
iayrovaae of“
nt thé machinery ■ # war-fare. In a crescendo of good-
£
will,the assembly was lèd to tha culminating moment of the Con­
gress when the dean of great women of contamporary Brazil,Julia ( ^

16. & ÊÊL £
Lopes de Almeida,rose to speak and the audience to listen.
As one inspired.she described the days of revolutionary agita-
tion,when red rebellion stalkàd t | c u h the land as a fiery tempest
jfog
buming and deetroying in the promise that it will cleanse and re-
deenuShe then pictured the desolation thatCLeft in ità wake uea-
vwless hatred and persecutionjire finnly held on leash.Finally,she
made an appeàljto the victors in favor of the vanquished,describing
the sorrow that reigns in the homes of the men,they have exhiled.
She called for the extinction of revolutinary tribunais and of «
.
trials at which impartial justice yiftgs can ncTer sit#
Applause i a thunderous,no one,coulâ hesitate,not even the most
rs
revolutionary among the delegates.If was the voice of the
women of Brazil,from the Atlantic to the Andes,from the Amazon to
the frontier of Rio Grande do Sul,the southern leader of the rebe-
llious statesifct maters not raat our appéal nas rwaalned unheará;
We~wãí3 rwpuãr1 f as~neeag bg.ffa will continue to flgat lor l ü -
r B&t l
f«±-
the desert.has foxmd ardent discxpJ.es amo: those wno der
aent aiscxpj.es among
IWVm t» U/O ,
f dkJu-» r i v w
íinu fn I f w t u a o oleotâep Aaw
l r
/V X L W íJ Ü L « U m
the spBp.Tal o t m .tao appointed ^for t^xa gurpe«e
ofnf
<» OVbt Cor
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J&J0.'tl
3 rf- í*> Í^*VA 1akiU->^W. ( C
Ur «u C*X»C.v~/
aVs»V
" f ' p"1<4'ff' rights
iif1 •"***— BraaiI»The f i a r
-ef-
h w w t* * U * T W C A o l ( Q tm f e sK t-v v L -u -V Jl L u lo r ^ u » . C k * JL
xm fpmf n withm t privtfl W.nnjnp or £
f l i.
t» íV-tW. r >_
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panfnfuiffnftjbi^ tho- BragaJ ian H f *»t.ínn f i t h A h n & B t f of'
n n- .s rr n m f n r
“ •*l f
* i !f-
WornianinteiveuuQ tor preached t&é éf õ l m
a cfot
" V u l vj rvw.
Tjo ftwck **. u )KOl
x
fSõon wê will enter the realms of pratioal citizenfhip.We hope to
guceeed.Our intentions are honest;our program is oonstruotive.

17. 1 1
We lack neither moral courage,nor lofty ideais,and in one thing
we leaders of Brazilian women are ali agreed. We are women and as
t >-
women we wish to attain. Our aspirations radiate from ov'r ^ear s
and our homes to the ends of the earth.We reach out to our B"
[..
ters of the whole world and together with them,we stand for coi«
lahoration and gofcd-^Í^TiOrskip for ' apginesã
h ax»ii,for heauty
and wisdom,for Justice and Peace.
The whole field of human endeavour is ours.from Home-Economics to
WnJLr
h rtopnntional Politi cs.
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