Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-23
FOLK To
SELL FLOWERS
FOR SUFFRAGE
Fifty Pretty Atlanta Girls Will
PeddIe Chrysanthemums for
Votes for Women.

! suppose you were walking down
and one Of Atlantas most beautiful
( young society girls were suddenly to
step up in front of you and push into
your face a great mass OF fragrant
| chrysanthemums, and say please.
sir, won't you buy flower"
What would you do?
Well you may have a chance to
do it,
Fifty of the fairest girls Of the
Gate City, all recent converts to the
/ votes for women" movement, are
going to take one thousand large,
beautiful chrysanthemums sometime
within the next month, and stand on
the street corners and sell them-all
in the name of the cause They will
peddle their flowers for ali uney can
get for them, and will turn the pro-
ceeds into the treasury Of the WON
ems Suffrage League, where it will
be used to extend the suffrage move
ment,
The plan was preached at the last
meeting of the league Wednesday
afternoon by Mrs. Margaret Cham
bers, one of the prominent workers
OF the organization. Mrs. Chambers
brother lives at Montezuma, Ga, and
has about one thousand chrysanthe-
NUNS that he wishes to dispose of
She mentioned the matter at the
meeting, and 1t was at once suggest
ed that the league sell them and put
the money in the treasury
Mrs. Psnkhurst Defended
committee composed of Mrs
Harry Smith. Mrs Chambers, Mrs
Frances Whiteside, Mrs M. f.. Brad
ley and others, was named by Mrs
Albert Howell. who served as presi-
dent of the league, yesterday. and ar
engagements will be made at once to
get the flowers here and sell them
A letter will be written to the flower
owner at Montezuma, asking for his
best proposition. and as soon as it is
received the date for the sale and the
details of the plan will be made
known.
dramatic defense of Mrs Emmeline
Pankhurst and the militant suffragists
of England was made at the Wednes-
day meeting by Mrs. NJ. f. Bradley
treasurer of the league, who declared
that she would willingly give up her life
for the cause"
I'VE in America do not know what
provocation the English women had be-
fore they started their career of mill
fancy, she said. "a woman must be
ready to fight for her rights II neces-
sary, although | do not believe Ameri-
can women Will ever find II necessary
TO use the methods employed in Eng
land. No woman Is n real suffra gis L
unless she is willing to give up her
NE for the cause | know ! would will
ingly give up my life il knew the cause
Of suffrage would be advanced there
paper on The Woman OF To-mor-
row. a new book by w. L. George. a
noted English suffragis sympathizer.
was read by Mrs. Elizabeth Mccarthy,
and Mrs Margaret Chambers read pa =
per on 'Christ--A ReVolutionist," com
! pairing the struggles of Christianity with
the struggles of the suffragists Miss
Aurella Roach, who was on the program
for a paper on Municipal Government -
was unable to attend the meeting.
Labor Leader Suffraalst.
Mrs. Frances Whiteside. chairman of
the executive committee, read the
names of twenty new members, among
them being Jerome Jones' editor OF The
journal OF Labor and Georgias most
prominent labor leader
Mrs. j. b. Gardner submitted her res
ignaion as secretary of the league.
stating that she is leaving soon for
Florida to spend the winter Mrs Har
~ Smith, president, will serve as secre.
tary until the annual meeting In Jan
uary. and Mrs, Albert Howell will pre-
| side over the meetings Mrs Gardner
was given a rising vote of thanks as a
recognition of her work as secretary