The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-01
SUFFRAGE WORKERS
 PETITION GOVERNOR
Ask That Women Be Forced to
 Act on Juries
DO DUTY LIKE A VOTER
Teachers Federation Meets In Spokane in July nnd President MacCormnc Says Business Schools Are
 Dominating University

Spokane. Wash, January S1.--(Special) Prominent workers in the suffrage move ment, members of exclusive clubs and scores of working women in Spokane are writing letters to Gov. Marion E. Hay, urging him to deny the petitions of wom- en electors requesting to be relieved from jury duty if called upon for service.
 When I asked for the privilege of citi- zenship,Y said Mrs. May Arkwright Hut ton president of the Washington Equal Suffrage league, q was ready and will ling to accept all the requirements I am willing to serve on a jury and will do so without protest if called to that or any other duty required by the state.'
 Mrs. Hutton is the wife of Levi w Hut ton, a millionaire mining operator, and has extensive interests in Spokane and the Occur dAlene mining district in nor thern Idaho. She financed a statewide campaign for equal rights in 1910 and was factor in securing the ballot for women at the last state election.
 Mrs A. P. Fassett, who has been identi- fled with the suffrage and other women's movements in Spokane for years, said:
 T have written to Governor Hay ask ing him to refuse to take any action on the petitions of woman voters requesting to be released from jury duty. l have also interested large number of club women to write similar letters.
 When I worked for equal suffrage fully understood all the duties that would devolve upon the women as voters. I am afraid now that if the women start to balk at sitting on a jury they will lose their right of franchise.'
 That the women of Spokane are inter- ested in the ballot is evidenced by the large number registering for the spring election in March, when five commission CTS will be chosen to replace the present city government, headed by Mayor Nel- son S. Pratt.
 Morton MacCormac of Chicago, presi- dent-eect of the National Commercial Teachers Federation, representing 20,00o instructors in the United States and Can ada which will have its next convention in Spokane in July, 1912. has sent the fol- lowing telegram to the Spokane cham Der of commerce:
 'The fathers of business educatlOn builded better than they knew. They sowed the seed which is today ripening into the flower of the most practical sort known in the history of the educational world. The business college has widened it's influence until today we are a CO., operative body of business schools, high schools colleges and universities, organ ized for the sole purpose of strengthening courses of study along the lines of com nferce.
 I've are not only interesting the high school and college graduate, but also those who have been lax or uninterested in regular public school work, and, in addition, provide them with salable education, which is a passport to the best commercial enterprises and positive insurance against disaster.
 eve stand for continued uplift, for -.rogressiveness and for thorough cooper ation among all the forces of education whose aim and desire is 10 make prac- tical and valuable our educational sys- tenn.
 "Originally the universities were the fathers and their offspring the college and the high school Today We find the in- fluence emanating from the business training school dominating the future policies of our universities. The age is one of common sense practicabilty in education.
 "The united efforts of our committees will be exerted along the line of making the coming Spokane convention an epoch in the American school"