The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04

1 ton.
 Selma has the distinction of having
 held the first open air meetings in Ala bama for suffrage. They were fnaugl-
 rated in unique way \ little party of women would motor to spot selected
 anywhere in the county. and tack up on
 tree or other conspicuous place. a neat ly printed sign that on certain day and hour there would be speaking at that
 place on equal suffrage They always
 had a crowd. They kept this work up all last summer which Is very hard to do in | so warm a climate Besides this, Selma
 has sent out organizers to different parts
 of the state, distributed much literature
 and through Mrs. J. R. Parke and Miss Mary Partridge have become interested in sociological questions. The Selma Times | favors equal suffrage, and the wife of
 the editor, Mrs. r. T. Raisord keeps the public well posted in an suffrage de- partment.
 At Greensboro, Miss Martha Young. the Misses Hobson and Mrs Henry Young aided by rapidly growing membership planned and carried out very successful public meetings for both men and women Tuscaloosa association has enlisted to a l large extent the student body of our state university. where Mrs r D. Losey
 dean of women, is president Here. too
 the work of propaganda embraces a suf- | frage school. many lectures. one by Dr. l Anna Shaw this winter. the distribution of literature and persistent personal ef- l fort with visitors drawn there by the uni- versity, as well residents who may become converted.
 l Cullman boasts the distinction of be-
 ing the first county in the state to have | two organized equal suffrage associa tons.
 After that in Cullman was formed by Mrs. I. Pollak Mrs. J H. Gillespie and
 l.. N. Buell. secretary of Cullman's Com I mercial club. they proceeded to Vincent and formed the second association. Since I then other counties have organized a l number. very conservative old Ger | man gentleman when he read the item in a Mobile paper where he was visiting. remarked: We'll ven Goodman goes for de Vimmin's vote, l gif i'd up. Mrs I. l Pollak, with her splendid training in Ger man and other languages and her great familiarity with the history of the move ment, does very effective work with the foreign element in Cullman.
 Vincent. through it's able president. Mrs Mary Munson, of Ridge Farm" puts Into operation various picnics in that pie turesaue region, luncheons. teas pubic debates with coffee served free and is thus reaching through personal efforts large number of people.
 The other and much larger number of associations are newer. but they are just dS pussy planning new ways and fOllOW1ng olden methods of reaching and educating
 the people as the original eight of Ala bama on this grave question. You will hear great things of them during the com. ing winter.
 Geographically the entire state is now embraced in a network of organi- zations and active local campaigns are being heard from daily. From every | little white schoolhouse as we'll as from her imposing auditoriums. the people will hear the eloquent appeals to the voters of this state to give the women the right of self government as the | men possess 1t now in the state, and it's dull politician who does not St q
 that they are going to do It.
 Notable Campaigns in the Cause The individual workers in Alabama are particularly interesting to the pub lie, because they belong to us. we know them and love them. They are inter csted in all big questions that affect the home and the lives of our citizen ship, and most of them arc southern to the core. It goes without saying that progressive. cosmopolitan Bir- mingham has furnished the largest
 smount of talent in the two-year- old campaign, although Huntsville Mont gomery, Selma and Cullman have fur nished their quota. Mrs. Solon Jacobs or Birmingham, president of the Ala oama Equal Suffrage association, or eanizer of the local association and its first president, has been for years closely identified with the movement and ranks first In Alabama and nigh among the national leaders. Through her efforts as member of the national executive council, the southern confer ence was held in Birmingham last spring. Mrs. Jacobs is a handson, q woman, a fluent speaker, and is lhe equal of any woman in the national movement in executive ability Mrs Jacobs has made addresses in most of the large cities in Alabama, which were admitted to be splendid in argu
 ment, potent in eloquence and as wo-
 manly and beautiful in manner as can
 tc found in any worker for any cause.
 Mrs. Oscar Hundley, also of Birming-
 nam, next to Mrs Jacobs, the best
 known campaigner in the state, has covered more territory, made more
 talks, lectures. addresses than any
 other worker in the cause. Mrs Hund-
 ley has been in charge of the legisia-
 tive work and Is now. with a corps of able helpers, at work on the big lpet-
 tion that will go to the legislature
 In July. She was president of the Br-
 mingham association last year and as etiring officer, made splendid show
 ing of the work of that organization.
 Mrs Hundley is especially gifted as
 
 very womanly. in presenting the faith. She spoke to large crowds on the streets of Nashville during the nationa. convention, standing in the autos of prominent Nashvillians in the evening and in company with Gen" RosaIie
 Jones and other noted public speakers.
 interested hundreds Tn fact, Mrs Hundley is Alabamas General Jones'" and her ease and eloquence In public work far surpasses many well-known suffrac cists. Miss Ethel Armes of Bir-
 mngham holds place or deep grati- tude In the hearts of our suffragists
 not for her speaking tours, but that
 she has given her youth and ner
 genius to the work she loves. Miss
 Armes, by her press work. has kept
 much Interesting suffrage data before
 the public and she will still give the public Alabama suffrage news. Miss Amelia Worthington of Birmingham Is
 also doing good work In propaganda,
 she Is also a charming speaker She
 made 9. number of delightful addresses and has great humor as we'll as spien
 did logic with which she captivates the
 crowds who hear her. Birmingham
 has also a large number of women
 who in their clubs in their own wds arc doing great things for equal suf
 frage, among them Mrs. Crawford
 Johnson. Mrs H. IT. She'll Mrs. Asa
 Rountree, Mrs. Murdoch, Mrs Angus Taylor and others. Outside of Birming- ham large number of able talented women of the state have aided in or ganizing, have made public addresses have with their splendid resources, in many ways forwarded the movement
 for political equality. Among them most noted are Mss Mary Partridge