Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-21
LADIES OF MACCABEES
OPEN CONVENTION HERE
WITH PLEA FOR BALLOT
Mrs. Blankenburg Sounds
Keynot e for Suffrage
Amid Beautiful Scene
Which Marks Gathering
at the Hotel Walton.

Ladies' Of the Maccabees of the World
heard plea for woman suffrage by Mrs.
Rudolph Blankenburg when the two days
convention of the Great Hive OF Pennsyl-
vania opened at the Hotel Walton. today
Mrs. Biankenburg was heartily applaud
ed. She said equality Of opportunity for
women could be gained only through
woman suffrage.
II have no ambition to he mayor" Mrs.
Blankenburg said but | want TO see
men placed on the same basis politically
with me. Women arc engaged in indus
try, but the one great industry, as great
as the iron-making or any other, is home
industry.
"rhis is one of the fields women arc
engaged In Some OF the opponents Of
suffrage contend that woman's place is
on a pedestal, but a pedestal is n very
inconvenient place for working women.
They need the ballot. and the women in
the home need the ballot most"
During his address OF welcome Mayor
Blankenburg announced he had been in
formed that $4,000 of the funds OF the
order were to be invested in Philadcl-
pha municipal securities.
With the hall one mass OF rod roses
and the walls covered with hundreds Of
pennants. and the Stars and stripes inter
twined with the black, red and white.
the coors of the organization, Miss Bina
Nj West, supreme commander of the
order. mounted the platform and an
nounced that the day which had been
looked forward to for the past four years
was here at last" Reviews are held
every four years.
Praises of Philadelphia and Pennsyl-
vana. and especially OF tho "order, the
first and one of the finest of It's kind,
which since it's organization % years ago
has paid nearly S12, 1000 in death and
disability claims" featured the opening
address.
There are 1900 members of the Ladies
of tine Maccabees of the World In Phila-
delpha; there are 1875 in the United
States. A great many of the members
are known to be decidedly pro-sufrage.
Miss Nellie F. Lounsbury, great com
mander for Pennsylvania, presided at this
mornings session. The Commander 3
Committee on All Arrangements includes
Mrs. Ada Gorsuch, commander. Philadel-
phia Hive, the oldest in the city; Mrs.
Frances NJ Helms, commander Key
stone Hive; Mrs. Georgiana England.
commander Betsy Ross Hive; Mrs Mary
Morriesey, commander, Quaker City Hive;
Mrs Emma Tierncy commander. Oltvet
Hive; Mrs. Anna Duckworth, commander,
Liberty Bell Hive: Mrs. Anna r. tavcns,
commander, Penn Treaty Hive; Mrs. Min
ME Evans commander, Bartram Hive:
Miss Laura Michener. commander, West
Philadelphia Hive; Mrs. Louisa Jones.
COMMANDER, opus lilN', anu MITE. q II
Largeman, commander, Mansion Hive.
SUPREME OFFICERS PRESENT
Among tho Supreme and Great Hive
officers present this morning were: Miss
Bina NJ West, supreme commander. who
founded the first hives in Pennsylvania
and New York; Mrs Elizabeth f. Brown,
past supreme commander; Miss Nellie T..
Lounsbury, great commander for Penn
sylvana; Miss Minnie +, Burgin great
record keeper for Pennsylvania, who has
been member for twenty y-one years, and
Miss Frances ID. Partridge, supreme rec
ord keeper of the order.
Tonights session will include an eXem-
plifcatlon of the First Degree" by the
Philadelphia hive staff assisted by the
uniform rank of Philadelphia. The feat
ure of the evening will undoubtedly be
the military and display drill by young
women in white uniforms, armed with
spears. The officers carry swords All
wear the regulation military cap. Miss
Burgin will be dril-mastcr Mrs Mary
Couch is captain Other officers are:
Mrs Ada Gorsuch. first lieutenant; Miss
Lillian Evans, second lieutenant; Mrs.
Alfrida Olson and Mrs. Augusta Lash.
sergeants,