Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-01

Anna Shaw and Miss Jane
Adams. the noted suffragists, in
Atlanta has aroused great interest
among clubwomen. Many prominent
clubwomen from neighboring towns will
come to Atlanta for the occasion, and
one of the largest audiences ever seen
In the Grand is promised.
The visiting notables will be the
quests of the Georgia Suffrage League,
Of which Mrs. Francis Whiteside is
president They will be entertained at
the Hotel winecoff, and will address the
Georgia Woman's Suffrage League. the
Atlanta Woman's Suffrage Association
the Eighth Ward Suffrage League, and
the public at large.
These distinguished women will put
before the men and women of Atlanta
the necessity of giving women the bal
lot, and will be heard by hundreds of
interested people. They will speak in
the Grand March IL at p. m.
THE Highland Park School Welfare
Club gave an informal reception
yesterday afternoon from to
o'clock
Officers of the club are Mrs. c. w.
Mcclure. president; Mrs. Moore, first
vice president; Mrs. Cola Spears, sec
ond vice president; Mrs. Charles A
DdNios AtNpIbiAi6 SCSA CNoASs dllL NlA D
Little. treasurer
Members of the seventh and eighth
grades served refreshments. The OBJ
iect of the club is to combine the school
and civic work of the community.
The Georgia Womans Suffrage
League heard an interesting address by
J. Hughes Roberts a their meeting last
week. The subject of Mr.. Roberts adj
dress was "Woman's Suffrage
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reasons he said, and are influenced
by money, whisky and other things.
Women viii go into politics for the good
"If woman was given the ballot she
would always stand for the best and the
highest, Woman has never been given
the square deal. She has always been
in a dependent position and no person
can reach their highest in a dependent
condition,
women have never been allowed the
privilege of expressing themselves.
Even in marriage they have to wait for
the man to ask them-they dare not ask
the man-but they ought to have the
right to do So They also ought to
have the right to use and to know how
their husbands money is spent. They
should be partners. as the woman is
working in the home as well as the
men are working out in the world.
Wonderful progress has been made
by this movement in the last few years,
and it is here, and the men have got to
women 10 untangle affairs and help
make things run smooth. Men need the
help of the women more to-day than
ever before to purify politics.
when women go into anything they
always master it and their efforts are
always crowned with victory. If the
men and women viii work together, we
VIII have a better government"
Mrs A. Med. Wilson. chairman for
Georgia Of the Southern Confederate
branches of this organization send in
their reports to her in order that they
may be sent to the general secretary in
Richmond.
The nominating committee for the an
nual election of officers for the Atlanta
Wnman's Club are Mrs James Jackson,
Mrs. \. Q. Woodward, Mrs. w. p. Pat
THO Mrs. J. w. Watts and Mrs. Hamil-
ton Douglass. The election will take
place in April.
N the absence Of the president Mrs
A. P. Coles. Miss Alice Baxter, first
vice president, presided over the
meeting of the Atlanta Woman's Club
meeting Monday afternoon.
Herr Won Wolmungen gave several
songs, and Miss Julia Dunning perform
ed on the piano. There were several
speaEers on the program, among them
Mrs. w. G. Raoul who spoke on the
forthcoming lectures by Jane Adams
and Anna Shaw, and extended an invi-
ration to the club to attend the ad-
dresses on the evening of March Il.
These distinguished suffra gists We're
invited to Atlanta by Mrs. Emily Nc
Dougald, president of the Eighth Ward
tanned during their stay here by promi-
nent suffragists of the city.
The Council of Jewish Women gave
program Wednesday afternoon at the
IgIIplp when her n we'll known