Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-26
NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENT


payers.
Kansas women are asking that they
have equal property rights with their
husbands.
Women form about % per cent of
the total immigration into the Uni
ted States.
The National Suffrage association
has doubled its membership in the
last year.
Of the 10000 trades union women
in New York city, so per cent are
foreigners.
Although the suffrage movement
in Michigan has received two defeals
within the last six months. Michi-
gan had fourteen delegates at the
national suffrage conventions and
presented one Of the best reports.
Four hundred and fifty-six dele
gates, representing thirty-four states,
attended the recent convention of the
National American Woman's Suf-
rrape association in Washington, D.
G.. This was the largest number on
record The adoption of the rule OF
Zone woman one vote did not cut
down The size Of conventions, as had
been feared.
Two new officers of the National
Suffrage association are Mrs. Desha
breckenridge Of Lexington, KY, sec
and vice president and Miss Carolyn
Rutz Rees Of Greenwich, Conn, third
vice president. Mrs. Breckenridge is
president of the Kentucky Equal
Rights association and is grand
daughter Of Henry Clay and a sister
in-law of Miss Sophonisba Brecken-
ridge of the University of Chicago.
Her husband, Desha breckenridge, Is
editor of the Lexington Herald. Miss
Rutz Rees has been identified with
Connecticut suffrage work for sever
al years. She is recording secretary
oil the Connecticut Woman's Suffrage
association,
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| reorganized the Woman Suffrage as
| ISOLATION of Ohio in 1885, and has
been member Of the executive COM
mlttee ever since. In the beginning
she was its president Recently sne
was instrumental in having booth
at The Lake county fair, which was
decorated and made very attractive
with pennants and posters. Suffrage
literature was distributed and twenty
five subscriptions secured. Lake coun-
ty carried for woman suffrage last
time largely through the efforts of
| Mrs. Easement and she proposes to
have it carry by large majority
next time.
Southern women were conspicuous
by their absence from the anti-suf-
frage side at the recent congression-
al hearings, says the Woman's Journ-
al. Out of about thirty speakers
against woman's ballot only one rep
resented an anti-suffrage organiza-
ti'i III any oouShSiH obatS anu She
was from no farther south than
Maryland Men and women from
Massachusetts,, New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania and few other
northern or middle states implored
che committee on rules not to recon-
mend the appointment of commit
tee ON woman suffrage, lest it should
lead to an invasion of states rights;
while on the other side appeared a
whole series of southern women, sew
eral of them from the far south, Ala
bama and Louisiana, others from
Kentucky, Tennessee, etc, etc. Among
the 456 delegates present at the ma
tional convention were women not on
ly from the aforementioned states,
but from Virginia, West Virginia,
Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland,
Mississippi and Texas. Even Florida
has lately joined the national with a
full-fledged state association, and the
southern delegates were among the