Helen Ring Robinson: Colorado Senator and Suffragist

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210 N o t e s 76. Nevins and Hill, “Henry Ford and His Peace Ship.” 77. Robinson, “Confessions of a Peace Pilgrim,” p. 226. 78. The information in this paragraph is from “Ryndam Was Crippled by External Explosion,” Atlanta Constitution, January 30, 1916, p. A11, www.newspaperarchive.com. 79. Ibid. 80. Nivens and Hill, “Henry Ford and His Peace Ship.” The statement from Helen is expressed slightly differently in “As Mail Is Seized Van Dyke Protests,” New York Times, January 30, 1915, www.nytimes.com, wherein she is quoted as saying “the weakness of the undertaking was due to the fact that the leaders did not rise to the magnitude of the idea.” 81. William C. Bullitt, “Autocratic Leader Split Ford’s Party,” New York Times, January 31, 1916, p. 2. 82. Ibid. 83. Riegel and Long, American Story, p. 219. 84. Ibid., p. 223. 85. Ibid., p. 227. 86. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914– 1991 (New York: Vintage Books, 1996), p. 26. 87. “Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson Dies of Ailment Incurred by Overwork during War,” p. 1. 88. James H. Baker and LeRoy R. Hafen, History of Colorado, vol. 3 (Denver: Linderman, 1927), pp. 1003–1004. 89. “Woman’s Club of Denver Establishes Endowment for Museum Internships,” Colorado History News (January 1996): p. 12. The San Juan Prospector, March 1, 1918, p. 1, contains a notice that Helen was appointed state chairman of the woman’s committee for the next Liberty Loan drive, www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org. 90. Ida Clyde Clarke, American Women and the World War (New York: D. Appleton, 1918), p. 1, www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/comment/Clarke/ Clarke01.htm. 91. “Women Must Work, Warns Senator Helen Ring Robinson,” Fort Collins Weekly Courier, August 23, 1918, p. 8, www.coloradohistoricnews papers.org. 92. “Liberty Loan Conference in Denver,” Summit County Journal, Sep­ tember 14, 1918, www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org. 93. “Small Towns in State Eager to Boost Loan,” Rocky Mountain News, October 14, 1918, p. 10. 211 N o t e s 94. Caption under photo of Alcyon Robinson, Littleton Independent, May 24, 1918, p. 6; also in Akron Weekly Pioneer Press, May 24, 1918, p. 1, www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org. 95. Clarke, American Women, chapter 7, p. 1. 96. Helen Ring Robinson, “Squads Right! Squads Left,” Independent, July 27, 1918, p. 120. 97. Ibid., p. 127. 98. Harry E. Fosdick, The Meaning of Prayer, Faith, and Service (Gar­ den City, NY: Garden City Books, 1917), pp. 257–258. Fosdick was quot­ ing from Ralph Diffendorfer’s “Thy Kingdom Come.” This prayer was first found on the website of Jim McGuiggan (jimmcguiggan.com). 99. “Name Gunter for Governor,” Akron Weekly Pioneer Press, July 26, 1918, p. 1, www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org. 100. History of the Denver Woman’s Press Club, 1898–1899–1900, Denver Woman’s Press Club Collection, Box 2, Minutes, February 16, 1905, Western History and Genealogy, Denver Public Library. 101. Denver Woman’s Press Club Year Book, 1919–1920, p. 26. 102. Denver Woman’s Press Club Year Book, 1920–1921, 1921–1922, 1922–1923; “Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson Dies Following Breakdown from Her Work during World War,” Denver Times, July 10, 1923, p. 1. 103. Helen Ring Robinson, “A Fair Field in Sex,” Pictorial Review (May 1919): p. 21. See also Robinson article, “Making the World Safe for Monog­ amy,” Pictorial Review (November 1918): p. 5. 104. Helen Ring Robinson, “A Fair Field in the State: For Mothers of Women,” Pictorial Review (August 1919): p. 24. 105. Robinson, “The Time Has Come to Consider Birth Politics,” p. 27. 106. Helen Ring Robinson, “Releasing Women for the Top: Being Some Meditations on the Work of Women after the War,” Pictorial Review (December 1918): p. 24. 107. Helen Ring Robinson, “Sex Equality and Brass Tacks,” Delineator (November 1923): p. 2. 108. Robinson, “Fair Field in the State,” p. 24. 109. Helen Ring Robinson, “A Fair Field in Labor,” Pictorial Review (July 1919): p. 45. 110. Robinson, “Releasing Women for the Top,” p. 54. 111. Helen Ring Robinson, “Putting Her House in Order: No Woman Can Manage More than One Business at a Time,” Pictorial Review (January 1919): p. 11. 212 N o t e s 112. Francis Melrose, “Helen Robinson Left Political Mark,” Rocky Mountain News, January 8, 1989, p. 16M. 113. “Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson Dies of Ailment Incurred by Over­ work during War,” p. 1...