{"id":220,"date":"2012-08-27T17:21:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/?page_id=220"},"modified":"2012-08-27T17:53:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T00:53:39","slug":"1913-04-13-why-you-should-register-the-arizona-daily-star","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/research\/arizona-suffrage\/transcriptions\/1913-04-13-why-you-should-register-the-arizona-daily-star\/","title":{"rendered":"1913.04.13 \u201cWhy You Should Register\u201d, The Arizona Daily Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhy You Should Register\u201d, The Arizona Daily Star<\/em>, 13 April 1913 Sunday Morning, Section 2 Front Page. \u00a0Transcription by Karen Board Moran.<\/p>\n

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WHY YOU SHOULD REGISTER<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you really have to tell how old you are?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAre there any horrid men standing around listening?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you have to tell your whole family history and just what your favorite recipe is?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you have to go into a little booth all by your lonesome and swear to tell the truth and nothing else, so help you forever and ever?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you have to sign your name more than eighty times, and write down your preference for silk gloves?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you have to tell why you want to vote, when you really haven\u2019t thought much about it?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Arizona Star 12 April 1913 Saturday Morning, p. 4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cDo you have to tell whether you think Emmeline Pankhurst [a militant leader of the British suffragette movement] is right or wrong and why?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you have to recite the constitution of the United States from start to finish by heart, and then swear you believe every word of it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you have to tell who your husband\u2019s parents and favorite great aunt were?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you have, in other words, to particularize about everything, and then state whether you are really a good citizen, when you aren\u2019t sure whether you are or not?\u201d<\/p>\n

These are some of the questions that are liable to be asked you any time now if you inquire whether \u201cshe\u201d has registered or not.<\/p>\n

Of course you want to register first yourself; so you can explain how easy and simple it is, and don\u2019t forget to dwell upon the importance of it either.<\/p>\n

For be it known to you society woman, business woman, home woman, and woman of every walk in life, that the Great Register is now open and ready to receive your name, in order that you many cast your vote at the next election, special, general, emergency, or whatever it is.<\/p>\n

Over the phone Saturday inquiries were coming in by the dozens concerning this and as it is supposed that most women at least read the society columns (which, if they don\u2019t we\u2019re lost) it is hereby set forth that women may register at any time they choose between now and May 1.<\/p>\n

May 1, however, the Big Book closes, and if there is a special election and you have not registered, Fair One, you will lose your vote, so it\u2019s up to you to get busy during the next fifteen days.\u00a0 The senators and representative have made an emergency clause for this purpose so you can have something to say at the next election, and now that you have the franchise that you have fought for so hard, don\u2019t fail to take advantage of it.<\/p>\n

There is nothing the lease bit embarrassing about registering your name in the Great Register in the recorder\u2019s office at the court house, for that is where you must go.\u00a0 There are two young women in that office who will assist you, and this is the time to go, for the men will not register until later, most of them having already registered.\u00a0 The only requirements are that you must have lived in Arizona for at least one year, that you are able to read the constitution of the United States, and that you are over twenty-one years of age.\u00a0 It is not necessary that you say how much over twenty-one you are, in fact, it is understood that you are twenty-one if you go to register.\u00a0\u00a0 There are no intimate questions; there is nothing in the least troublesome about it in any way.\u00a0 Just because you have never gone to register before is no reason that you should hesitate now.\u00a0 Now is the accepted time, and there are only about two weeks left.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no time like the present for registering your name as a voter in the great state of Arizona, and you may miss something if you don\u2019t take advantage of the opportunity.<\/p>\n

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Transcriber\u2019s note:<\/p>\n

The next item was \u201cCOLLEGIATE CLUB HOLDS IMPORTANT MEETING\u201d.<\/p>\n

There is great interest in having the women of Tucson register.\u00a0 \u201cCivic questions have held the floor at the past few meetings of this live[ly] club of college women, and it is their desire to have the women of the city register so that they shall have something to say concerning \u201cwhat\u2019s what\u201d in municipal, county and city politics and questions.\u201d\u00a0 Certain club members will be at the court house Saturday, April 19 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to assist.\u00a0 The club \u201cwill work among their friends in an effort to have at least a hundred or more register…\u201d<\/p>\n

[The Collegiate Club was the precursor of the American Association of University Women which continues to help women to register and become educated voters.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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