↑Mrs Goode↓ [page 2]
↑Mrs. O'Neil's feelings↓
Perhaps Mrs. Goode, more nearly than any other woman in the United States who has sat in a legislative hall since women acquired the right to vote, embodied the ideal cherished by the multitude of women who for many years worked for the extension of the franchise to their own sex. This ideal of woman's place in political life was evolved slowly during [missing page(s)] [page 3]
We are all proud that Mrs. Goode was a woman of the Middle West and that she represented a constituency in Chicago. She was that best type of "college woman" who used her training to make a survey of life as she proceeded; who was not only carefully secured her facts but was also analyzed the sentiments and the urges which formed the public opinion of the moment. That she constantly "learned from life" to use Dante's great phrase was evident to her many admirers all over the country who were grateful to this ↑able↓ woman legislator who took her place with such ↑proud of her↓ dignity and ease.
As we mourn her premature death we realize that her public life and brilliant service has pushed forth ↑forward↓ the woman's cause even among the most skeptical. Will we not resolve to do all in our power to make the administration of the new Adult Education Law a memorial to her who cared so much that the amazing and unnecessary percentage of illiteracy in Illinois ↑our beloved Commonwealth↓ should become a thing of the past? [page 4]
[page(s) missing] just as we all believed from Maine to California, that such volunteer ↑public↓ service as Mrs. Goode performed in the League of Women's Voters would be the most effective preparation for public ↑political↓ life.
Mrs. Goode's outstanding ability as a legislator, her fine intelligence, her sympathetic understanding of the needs of the people of Illinois was never more clearly revealed than in her management of the Adult Education Bill, which, owing, to her efforts was unanimously passed by the Legislature at its last session.
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