The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-06-14
U. S. DELEGATES IN THE LEAD
Notable Speakers Will Expound
Franchise Problems
AMERICANS TO WILL PRESENT

Budapest, June 14.--Thousands of
women representing nearly every race.
language and religion of the world,
have gathered i'm the ancient capital of
hungary to take part i'm the seventh
conference of the International Wom-
ans Suffrage Alliance. which opens
Monday and continues i'm session
through the week The hostelries Of
the city are taxed TO their capacity.
and many of the leading families have
opened their homes for the accommo-
dation of the visitors.
Noted Delegates Coming.
The convention promises To give To
the cause the most notable impetus
since the inception of the equal suf-
frage movement, The delegates include
hundreds of men and women who are
ranked among the intellectual leaders
I'm their own countries. From Spain
has come Comjtessa Emilia de Pardo
Basan, the famous novelist. while
among the delegates from Sweden is
Selma Lagcrlof, also famous as "a
writer of fiction. Flora Anna steele.
the English novelist; Herman bahr.
the Austrian writer; the Marchesa
Lucifera Italian orator; Keir Hardie,
English labor leader; Catherine Won
Renncs, the Dutch composer. aud
Lawrence Housman the English
author, are among the noted dele
gates.
Several countries viii bc represent
ed for the first time, among hem
Egypt, China. India. Burmah. japan
and the Philippines. other countries
that viii take a prominent part are
Great Britain. Australia, canada,
South Africa. France, Austria, Ger
many. Sweden. Belgium Bulgaria, Ice
land, Denmark. Bohemia, Servia. Hun
gary. switzerland, Italy and the Unit
ed states.
Prominent American Speakers.
AS representatives. of the country
where the equal suffrage movement
has won it's most notable victories the
delegates from the United states nat
urally will have q leading part in the
proceedings of the International con-
ference. The American delegation
numbers several hundred members and
includes such noted leaders AS Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president ard
founder of the Alliance, Or. Anna
Howard Shaw. president of the Am
erican Woman Suffrage Association,
Miss Jane Adams. of Chicago; Mrs.
Henry Willard Mrs .. II. Z. Belmont
and Mrs William Tod Helmuth, OF
New York. Mrs. Stanley Mccormick,
of Boston. aud Miss Anna Maxwell
Jones, of Texas. Frederick Nathan of
New York is here as a delegate To the
Mems International Alliance for Won
an Suffrage. which is To meet AT the
time as the women's organization.
Preliminary meetings will he he'll
tomorrow in many of the churches OF
budapest. Prominent among these
will bo the services of the American
delegation. which will he attended by
all DELEGATES who speak the English
language. This assemblage will listen
to an address on the equal franchise
problem from the Rev. Anna Howard
shaw Of Philadelphia
OcNOIc OtSs'oNe " S'S'So''
Following the exchange of greetings
and the other formalities of the open
ing the delegates will assemble Mon
day for the frs, of the regular ses-
slons. Each morning Of the week the
delegates will meet to discuss the bus
mess problems that have perpleXed the
diversified membership of the lnterna-
tional Alliance. The afternoons VIII
be devoted to sightseeing and the
evenings to mass meetings and fea-
lures of social entertainment.
Each of the forenoon sessions VIII be
devoted To the consideration of differ
cut subjects bearing upon the propa-
CATION of woman's suffrage through
out the world. There will be report
from each of the delegations repre-
senting their constituent countries
These reports will embody narration
of the progress made during the past
few years. the plans of campaign
found most effective in that particu-
lar country and an exchange of ideas