Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24
WASHINGTON WILL HAVE
4. BIG SUFFRAGE MEETING
National American Woman's Associ-
49, alton Conrenes There in Deccln-
her for Five-Day Session.
PREPARATIONS NOW UNDER WAY
Many Prominent Workers in Charge
OF Arrangements, Which Promise
to MIKE Event Most Successful
Ever. Attempted by Leaders.

WASHINGTON. october 2S.-rrcp
ara,ions FOR making the forty seventh
annual convention the most successful
in the history of the National Amcri-
can Woman Suffrage Association are
already III full swing at Washington
The convention will he held from De
Ccmhcr Il to 10. inclusive. with head
quarters at tho Willard Hotel.
The group .ot women who have in
charge the local arrangements for the
convention is repre- sentative OF the type
of women who do things, rcpreSenta-
tiveS, the suifraEists SAY, of the women
who are Working for acknowledgements
tho country over.
Mrs. Winston Churchill. the wife Of
tho we'll known novelist. is chairman
OF tile committee. Mrs. Churchill has
charming personality. and through
her wide social acquaintance in Wash :
iucton has made suffrage vastly more
popular among the exclusive circles
II is at Hariakcu,len. the beautiful
country home Of tho ChurchillS ut Cor
nsh. ~ II. that president Wilson cS
tahlished The summer White House for
the last two years.
PROMINENT WOMEN IN
CHARGE or DETAILS
Mrs Laura l'uffer Morgan and Mrs.
George Alexander NoSshart. the vice
president and secretary treasurer OF
the committee. respectively. are both
trained women Mrs. Morgan was be-
fore her marriage professor OF
nath cmatiCs in Il big cocducational
UNIVERSITY Mrs. Mosshart. in her un-
married days, secretary of the
Nebraska State Railway Commission,
and one of the foremost women rate
experts In America. She WAS one of
the organizers and is now president of
the Washington Woman Suffrage Coun-
ell. All organization auxiliary TO the
A
The committee boasts of two sue
ccsSfui authors among it's members
Mrs. Helen II. Gardener and Mrs. Alice
Lee MoQuc. Mrs. Gardeners name has
been known tp SunragiSts throughout
the country for twenty years. rs an
active worker and Il woman whose lit
orary gifts were used to spread their
propa randa. II may nc said that.
though know" 20 hcr public and CO.
workers aS Helen Gardener. in private
and official life she is Mrs. seldom y.
Day the wife of an army officer
Mrs. MoulIc is newspaper writer.
author lecturer. student of law and
medicine and expert photographers.
Mrs. Frank Hiram Smell is proui-
nent WASHINGTON woman, who gave her
whole time since April to the New
Jersey campaign.
Mrs. Glcnna Smith Tinnin, who has
charge Of the decorations for the con-
vcntion. is the director OF paEcants and
Mosques OF the NoycS School of Rylh-
mic Expression.
Ott'r members OF the committee are
Miss Florence T.. stiles. president. OF
the CollcE" Equal Suffrage League. who
does editorial work in the Division of
Publications of the Carnegie lnStitu-
tion OF Washington, Miss Mary O'Toolc
secretary Of the College League. and
PRESIDENT OF TN" state Equal Suffrage
Association of the District, who is u
r u 4,
OF Law ana n practicing attorney in
the city. and Miss Ethel NJ. Smith.
formerly editor OF the bureau of
Fisheries, who left the government
service TO 80 into active suffrage work
The other TWO members Of this group
of women, Mrs CARR. t.. Kent and
Mrs. Helen II Tindall. have both been
intimately associated with the suffrage
movement in the District of Columbia
FOR years. For twenty years Mrs. Kent
has been AN officer of The state asso-
citation. irSt as president then
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