The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-12
WEATHERLY SPEAKS ID THE SUFFRAG|STS Regular Meeting Was Held Yesterday Afternoon FREEDMAN IS HEARD New York Legislator Replies to Some of the Stock Objections Made to Giving the Ballot to
 Women
Ny MYRTLE MILE.

Since agitation Is an inspiration for progress. the Equal Suffrage league of Birmingham made a rapid stride for ward, for yesterday afternoon at the regular meeting of the organization in the parish house auditorium, Church of the Advent, some of the most cap able men at the Birmingham bar and some of the best informed women in the city of Birmingham upheld their various principles in the presence of q responsive audience. The speaker in vited to deliver the customary address
 before the league was Commissioner Games Weatherly. Mir. Harold Fried
 man, a member of the New York leg
 islature, who is a visitor In the city,
 was also invited to be present and give an informal talk. The expression of
 these two men was followed by vol-
 untary talks from the floor in reply
 to certain statements. The broadness,
 the fair -mindedness and the fine poiso
 of the speakers was evident in the
 graceful tactful manner in which an-
 swering observations were made and
 received.
 Mrs. Solon Jacobs, president of tho
 Equal Suffrage organization, was chair man. In the absence of Mrs J. E. Frazier, Clement R. Wood was appoint cd temporary secretary. The minutes of the last meeting were dispensed vita in anticipation of an additional speak CT in the person of MT. Friedman. The routine work was rapidly handled. There was especial interest in the re port of Mrs. Sidney Ullman, chairman of a committee to confer with the United Garment Workers before whom
 Mrs. Jean Gordon delivered an address Hast Saturday. Mrs. Ullman reported la favorable interest in the franchise among certain members of the union and also brought back pleasant &C., count of the talks made by several young women of the suffrage league.
 The president expressed qualification at
 the development of good speakers. A business meeting was announced for next Saturday afternoon, when .
 discussion of the recent revision of the constitution will be heard and Mrs. w. L. Murdoch will present her report of the recent sociological conference. Mrs. h. A. Rountree will also be with the league and present the Woman's club building project
 Introduces Mir. Weatherly Mrs. Jacobs introduced MT Weatherly | in gracious fashion, mentioning the subject upon which he had been asked to appear before the Suffrage league .'Woman's Position in the Social or ganism,, an explanation of pure food, lsanitation. school laws and other legal points affecting woman's position in civic work
 Mir Weatherly,' said Mrs. Jacobs, evas an unconscious influence in mak- ing me fixed in my beliefs as to wom- ans right to the ballot Last summer I had occasion to go to him as a rep resentative of some 200 women and ask iiis assistance in a certain project of lcucfit to the community. He received
 me courtcously, kindly. politely, but | afterward felt that if l had been a representative of 200 voters I would have stood more show
 Mir Weatherly in acknowledging his lpfesentation to the club was most com lplimentary in his references to women and their influence in the body polite. He said. 'I am moro than pleased at this opportunity to be with you; I know that this organization includes n US Hst of members many serious minded. intelligent women, well worth intelli-
 gent effort on the part of one wh as appears before them. I am pleased that
 you do not necessarily call for a con-