The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-31
PREPARATION FOR NATIONAL CONVENTION
IN FULL SWING AT THE CAPITAL

Washington, D. c., Oct. 3o.-Prep
arations for making the 47th annual
convention the most successful in the
history Of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association are al
ready in full swing at Washington.
The convention will be held from De-
cember 14th to December 10Th, in
elusive, with headquarters at the Will
lard hotel.
The group Of women who have in
charge the local arrangements for
the convention is representative of
the type of women who edo things"
representatives the suffragists say,
Of the women who are working for
enfranchisement the country over.
Mrs. Winston Churchill, the wife of
the well-known novelist, is chairman
of the committee. Mr.. Churchill chose
Washington as his residence last win
ter while he was completing his
novel, 'The Far Country" During
that time Mrs. Churchill, who was
an enthusiastic suffragist, assisted in
the lobby work of the National Con-
gressional Committee for the federal
amendment, and also found time to
work for suffrage bill in her own
state of New Hampshire. Later she
was made treasurer Of the National
Campaign Committee, and has her
self joined in the campaigns in New
Jersey and New York. Mrs. Churchill
has charming personality and
through her wide social acquaintance
in Washington has made suffrage
vastly more popular among the ex-
elusive circles. Tt is at Harlakenden,
the beautiful country home of the
ChurchilIs at Cornish, N. H., that
President Wilson has established the
summer White House for the last two
years.
Mrs. Laura Puffeffr Morgan and
Mrs. George Alex. Mosshart, the vice
president and secretary-treasurer of
the committee, respectively, are both
trained women. Mrs. Morgan was
before her marriage a professor of
mathematics in big co-educational
university. Being married to news
paper correspondent in Washington,
she has. turned to newspaper work
and for the past year, as member of
the National Congressional Commit
tee, has had charge Of its publicity.
She is also an officer and active MEM
Der of the several college associa-
tons in the city.
Mrs. Mosshart in her unmarried
! days was secretary of the Nebraska
State Railway Commission, and one
of the foremost women rate experts
/ in America. She was one of the or
ganizers and is now president of the
Washington Woman Suffrage council,
an organization auxiliary to the con-
gressiona1 committee.
The committeeb casts of two sue
cessful authors among its members,
Mrs. Helen H. Gardener and Mrs.
Alice Lee Moque. Mrs. Gardeners
name has been known TO suffragists
/ throughout the country for twenty
/ years, as an active worker and a wo-
man whose literary gifts were used
! to spread their propaganda. With
/ Elizabeth Cady Stanton she labored
for the adoption of the single STAN
dard of morals and the raising of the
age of protection for girls. Her two
novels, as This Your Son, My Lord p
and "Pray You, Sir, Whose Daugh-
teri" though in the form of fiction
were written as part of this propa-
ganda and created a tremendous SEN
sation. AS a result of this crusade
in two years thirty-four state legis-
/ latures raised the age of consent from
one to five years. This work of Mrs
Gardeners was carried on while she
was connected with the Arena, the
most progressive journal or review OF
Z its time. At that time VIM. T. Steac
wrote to Mrs. Gardener: "My only
regret is that TIE Review of Re
NEWS had not the honor and the priv,
aege Of conducting that work"
Another novel, can Unofficial Pa
TRAIT" dramatized by James A
Heane under the title of Griffith
Davenport" was given splendid tri
butte BY Senator John Sharp Williams
in his book on Thomas jefferson
After living an appreciation of thu
book he says: "By the way, it con
tains the best portrayal of Abraham
Lincoln n our literature" Mrs. Gard
ener also has volumes of short stories
and essays to her credit, but of lat
years she has devoted herself NOR
to universiE extension work along
sociological Ines.
1t may be said in passing tina
though known 10 her public and CO
workers as Helm Gardener, in pr
vate and official life she is Mrs. Sci
den A. Day, the wife of an army of
f1cer.
Mrs. Alice Lee Aoque' is a news
paper writer, author lecturer, studen
of law and medicine, and expert pho
tographer. In fact, ALMOST every
thing, as she says. she can reel OF
society correspondence with a mini
mum of effort, and at the same tim