The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-11

meeting. On the stage were Miss Jane Addams, Mrs. Stanley Mccormick. Miss Caroline Runtz Rees. Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, and Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett of the national executive board; Mrs. Soion Jacobs, Mrs. w. L. Murdoch and others of the local association. The mem- bers of the executive board had a busy day yesterday and did not make any speeches last night, but all of them con tributed much to the pleasure of the meet ing as in answering the several questions they related many a quaint anecdote or made an apt illustration.
 The meeting last night was a fitting close to the visit of the executive board. The same enthusiasm was there that has greeted them everywhere they have ap peared in the city, and at the close of the meeting Miss Addams speaking for the board expressed dSep appreciation for the thoughtful, generous and hearty well come they had received from the men and women of Birmingham. She said that they would long remember the charming hospitality of the city.
 As was announced the audience was ex tended the privilege of asking questions relating to the feminist movement to be answered by the visiting suffragists. Some were wise and some otherwise; some of them dealt in generalities, others of vital interest to the state To the ques- tion propounded by well known lawyer. Twill equal suffrage put negro women on the same footing as white women?" Mrs. Hundley replied, "The white men of Alabama fixed the qualifications for the white men of Alabama to vote and for some of the negroes It vii be for white men of Alabama to set the qualifications for the white women of Alabama to vote. We are asking in our bill that will be presented to the next legislature that the women of Alabama be given the same right to vote as the men of Alabama" Mrs. Kate Jordon of New Orleans made a spirited reply to the question.
 Has Not Resulted In Prohibition
 Another question which proved of in terest was, Has womans suffrage In any instance brought about state wide prohibition?" This question was answered by Mrs. Dennett, who said that no state where woman's suffrage had been grant ed had statewide prohibition, but that 1t had resulted in every instance in better regulations. In reference to the fact that women in a certain part of California had voted wet, which was heralded through out the country, she stated the women had voted against an unenforcibIe and badly framed law containing obnoxious features She said the women of Cali fornia were interested in the question and had voted much territory dry It was about an even break as voting wet and dry she said.
 Many other questions were asked, many of them of a purely speculative nature, some of them dealing with statistics, but all were readily answered by the mem- bers of the board
 By the time the meeting was called to order by Mrs. Hundley every seat in the hall was taken and the passage way and corridor crowded. It was estimated that fully 5C0 men and women were pres ent. With the same evenness that has characterized the other meetings of the suffragists the programme was carried out and carried out successfully. In mak- ing the answers last night the leaders displayed a complete knowledge of the equal suffrage movement and gave spir- ited and at times apt and witty replies to the questions
 Leave for Atlanta
 The leaders left last night for Atlanta to hold a series of meetings at that point. As one of the local leaders state, Atlanta will have to go some to match up to the Birmingham meetings.
 Before the close of the session, Mrs Jacobs expressed the thanks and appre- ciation of the local suffragists for the presence of the executive board in Br- mingham and of the great impetus that the several meetings held ir the city would have on the movement in Bir- mingham and the state. She also ex- tended the thanks of the association to all who had contributed to the splendid success of the meeting. She announced meeting of the state executive board for 10 o'clock this morning