The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-10
CONNECTICUT
 SUF FRAGE NEWS
A G. Porritt.

No actual legislative work can be done to further the cause of woman suffrage in Connecticut during the year 1914. as the Legislature will not
 be in session this year. The Connec- ticut Woman Suffrage Association is consequently planning to concentrate chiefly upon the voters who will elect the representatives and senators to the
 new Legislature in the election of
 next November. If is with this5in view that canvasslng campaigns have been organized for the four largest cities
 of the State. Miss Emily Pferson
 and Miss Alyse Gregory, the State Orr
 ganizers have already carried through
 with the help of many members Of the
 local leagues, q thorough canvass of
 the wards of Hartford, and with the
 new year similar campaign is open
 ing in Waterbury,. After Waterb4rys the organizers will proceed to Bridge
 port, and New Haven will be similar fly canvassed during the spring months.
 Those large cities are too 1arg ge a
 problem for the local leagues without the aid of the State Association, but the smaller towns are arranging to carry out similar canvasses through E-the local leagues alone. Stamford whefe the local Equal Franchise
 League is under the presiden6 Of
 Miss p. l.. Plunley is to. hold a pub l lie meeting next week when Miss Alyse Gregory will describe the meth .ods of working and after the meeting will hold a consultation with the off | Icers of the League concerning ways
 and means of instituting a similar
 canvass in Stanford Early in Feb-.
 ruary the Greenwich Equal Fran chise League is planning similar attack on the voters The Greenwich League | is headed by Mrs. Ernest Thompson
 Rosemary Hall and Mrs E. o. Parker, probation officer for Greenwich are
 among the active workers,
 | In addition to the work planned l within the State the Cyy w. s. A. sis | lending hearty assistance to the Con gressional Eommfttees Of the National 1 American WoInan Suffrage Associa- l ton and tosthe Congressional Union in the work for the passage Of the bill Lamending the United States Constitu- ttion in favor of Votes for Women The lCongressional Committed has just se- cured new headquarters in the Nun sey Building Washington. It's head lis Mrs. MediH MacCormick of Chi tcago. Mrs. MacCormick is not with out connection with Connecticut for as Ruth Hanna she was a pupil ar Miss Porter's School, Pennington. She has had a peculiarly good training for taking part in political work for wo- | n1ens for she is her fathers daugh- lter in political ability and has made a close study of economies and ,civies AtNscheoI she was remarkable for her thigh sense of duty and her keen de- sire to be of use in the world,s and these characteristics she is bringing to her work on the Congressional Com t1nittee of the Woman Suffrage Asso- iciatfon. l S The Congressional Union, whose \ head is Miss Alice Paul. was organ. fixed last May as an outgrowth Of ths T iCongressionaI Committee. It's erea- ltion was necessary in order to gair a membership that would help witt funds and with personal labor in ttt
 work for the Congressional amend, i ment. Its membership extends al over the United States, and the dues amount to only 25 cents. During thu
 short time since it came into exist ence. it has received subscriptions fol