The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-06
The First Official Details Are Given Out of Plans for the State Convention This Week
SOCIAL FEATURES
 VERY CONSPICUOUS
 BY THEIR ABSENCE
Delegates Go Prepared to Do Some Hard Work and to Pursue the Fight With Renewed Energy
By MIR s. SIDNEY M. UT.LMAN

The Alabama Equal Suffrage as sociation issues this year the call for it's fourth annual convention. It summons the delegates of all it's member associations to meet to- gether for inspiration and for coun cil. Our task will be to formulate judgment on those great issues of the day which nearly concern women; to choose the leaders who, during the coming year, are to guide the fortunes of our cause in this state; and, finally, to consider how we may, on the one hand, work for the enfranchisement of the women of our own state, and, on the other, press for federal ac- tion on behalf of the women of the nation at large.
 Let us, in convention assemb bled, kindle with the thought that as we consider methods for the political enfranchisement of our sex, our wider purpose is to free women and to enable woman's conception of life in all its aspects to find expression. Then woman's horror of war and of all needless misery, woman's indignation at the eXploi tation of her sister woman, wom- ans care for and wise stress upon the needs of the child will become operative. Let us set a fresh seal upon the great new loyalty of woman to woman; let our response be felt in the deep tide of fellow ship and understanding between all women which today is rising round the world.
 The place of meeting for the con vention will be Gadsden. The dates set are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, February 9, 10 and Il, 1916.
 PATTIE RUFFNER JACOBS,
 BOSSIE O'BRIEN HUNDLEY,
 ELLALEE CHAPMAN HUMES,
 MARIE HALE LOSEY,
 AMELIA WORTHINGTON,
 MARY WINSLOW PATRIDGE,
 MIRA B. KOENIG,
 General Officers of Alabama Equal
 Suffrage Association.
 News from Gadsden gives forth ev cry encoura cement for splendi convention for the suffragist Never before in the life of woman sui 'rage in Alabama has there been sue , concerted action to make the con Jention such a great success.
 The mayor ct al. are doing all pos ,ible to decorate, placard and beautlf 'or the pleasure of the delegates, an he Gadsden Equal Suffrage associatio ip ct oth md in crest any association in the state. The Birmingham delegation is eaa early awaiting the days for the con lention to begin and in spite of tn 'act that o'clock train must b taught and on a probably frosty morn ng, their ardor is not dampened.
 CONVENTION PLANS
 All business meetings of the conven ion will be held at the Printup hote ,nd night meetings at the opera house The Methodist Church Improvement so ,iety will serve lunch for two days i heir church parlors to all visitors thi courtesy to be financed by the Gadsde Chamber of Commerce.
 very excellent evidence that sui rage, in spite of the so-called defea n the legislature, is still very muc Hive in Alabama is the fact that tn Iadsden delegation comes from a corners of the state and outnumber again the delegation of even the Tus .aloosa convention, which was consid ,red very large, almost every associa ion sending it's full quota of dele gates.
 greatest number and the next can A splendid programme has been al anged with local talent and Helen Rln Robinson of Colorado, the only woma senator in the United States, as the chic irswing card of the evening meetinogs The convention proper will be strictl . working programme with the usua 'eading of reports of officers. standin committees and local presidents. Q Wednesday, February g, at p. m, ;hort executive session will be held an
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