Evening star., 1915-12-13
Forty-Seventh Annual Con-
vention of National American
Association Assemblies.
DR.. ANNA HOWARD SHAW
TO GREET THE MEMBERS
President Wilson Will Receive the
Delegates at the White House
Tomorrow Afternoon.

DECISIONS respecting the activities
ana policies during the coming wear
OF the National American Woman Suf-
frage Association, whose forty-seyentb
annual convention opened in this city
today, occupied the board of director.
OF that organization at an executive
session which began this morning and
which lasted most of the day.
Although the convention technically
opened today. no formal session of the
entire body is scheduled until tomor-
row morning at II o'clock, when the
president, DR.. Anna Howard Shaw. will
extend greetings to the delegates and
reports of a number Of important COM
mittees will be submitted. This is tho
thirtieth convention which DR.. shaw
has attended.
The credentials committee. Mrs. Hem
ry Wade Rogers of Connecticut, chair
man. was busy all day today on the
tenth floor of the New Willard Hotel.
tion purposes equipping the hundreds
or delegates and life members with the
badges which will entitle them to seats
on the floor. The annual convention
was held In Washington two years ago.
and no fewer than 500 delegates were
In attendance In view of the great inn
petuS given the movement by the ac-
tivfties of the two intervening years.
IT is confidently expected that the num-
per OF delegates from many states will.
registered VIII reach the thousand
mark The association includes eixty-
iour animated organiza tions, represent
ing the country from Maine to Hawaii.
Executive Council to Meet.
The executive council will meet to-
night at o'clock at the New Willard
and at tomorrow morning will occur
the annual pre-convention meeting Of
this important body. After tomorrow
morning sessions will convene at 10
o'clock and the meeting tomorrow and
su6seauent afternoon meetings will be
held at 2:3O.
The social features of this annual
gathering, expected to be both numer-
Gus and important, have been planned
SO as not to interfere with the main
purpose OF the convention. The only
mass meeting scheduled is for SUNDAY
afternoon at o'clock at Polls The
ater.
The President of the United States
VIII receive the delegates at the White
House at o'clock tomorrow Afternoon
ana senator Thomas. chairman Of the
senate committee on woman suffrage.
has arranged for hearing Of associa.
ton leaders before his COMMITTEES.
wednesday at 10 am The Houss
judiciary committee will grant its rem
resentatives simultaneous hearing.
College League Gathering.
According to custom, the annual
council meeting of the National College
Equal Suffrage League will be held in
connection with the present national
association convention. 1t is an affili-
ated member of that body. The Ma
tional College Equal Suffrage League
includes chapters organized in the col
,eses ana universities and branch
leagues In various cities
It's business meeting is scheduled for
$3.50 m Saturday. December Is, on the
tenth f1oor of the New Willard. and the
annual convention luncheon will be
nela ne same day at p.m, at the
New Ebbitt House. The WashinRton
branch maintained a bureau Of infor.
nation booth in the Union station yes-
terday and today. Its headuuarters
during the convention week are in
room zoos. the New willard
Its president is Miss NJ Carey Thomas
president OF Bryn Mawr College. the
executive secretary is Mrs. Ethel Pufyer
HoWes. formerly of the faculty of Wei
lesley College. Miss Florence M. Stiles
Is president of the Washington branch
OF the league; Miss Louisa Puffer is its
vice president and Miss Mary O'Toole
its secretary.
The Washington Woman Suffrage
Council is sending four delegates to the
convention of the national association.