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Jane Addams — Part 4
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LOME HELLER °e iw
. Freu Lotte Heller ia a Viernese, who = when still very young ~ og3-
sentrated her thoughts ca literature and gave lectures to working Re!
She married anc-went to Brunn, an Austzian provinciel town. Her in-
tereste became centered in the Women's Movement. Her lectures stinred t
mijdla class pmvincial minds to a more iniepancent thoughb*. E> chabine
with her lecturing soon jourralistic work. . a]
_ She wes the first merber of the "Suffrage Committes" sc sea ligaachc
* {moortanse of women to put an end to wer and propagaied the meting Bf warn
: at Zhe Hague in 1915, = . “om
She Austrian revolution had the happy effect of granting to waren, the
possibility of having meetings of their cwa, and at the first great meet ite
of women, Lotte Heller spoke to over three thousand people. o
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Lesder of Press Bureau of W.I.L., only delegate of the Austrian Qfi tion
to the Hague in 1922. As a member of the Executive Comittee ehe is continpally
furthering the cause of women's ideals towards peace and freedom.
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. YEGLA HERTZEA ‘
Founder of the new Women’s Clubs in Vienna. Founder of the first Lisien
trian School of Agriculture for women. Since 1914, pacifist worker for rSteew
national Peace.
BELGIUM oe
LUCIE DEVARDIN
Supplementary member of the Belgian Chember of Deprtics, Fecera?
Secretary of the Woren's Socialist Party, and et precent actively eugaged
jn organizing relief fer Germany.
Mile. Dejarcin was made a Chevalier of the Order of Lecpoia lI in
recognition of her war services.
During the war, because of her activities, she was taken pracouer
and sentenced to déath with six civilians charged with erpioasce. Westin
she was marched out to be shot eariy one morning and saw then drup tefore Ler, 4
one by one. It was only at the last moment that she learned that he: Senterse
had been commted to an indefinite sentence in a military orison. ‘iter three .
years of terrible hardships, she was freed and immediately organized a scsiety
consisting of former soldiers and of women sufferers from the war, wita the yh-
ject of relieving the children of the Certral Empires.
. ME, JENNY BOGILOVA-PATTE? ©
Renowned national and international woman. cournailec aad a woman of
letters of the new Spirit. From an early age she has been 6 fighter fo, tLe
emancipation of wowan, and is now s merbur uf the Women's intesnational Ice.
She is often called “the Apostle of the New Soviety”.
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