The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-13
ANNUAL MEETING OF EQUAL SUFFRAGISTS IN SESSION HERE Question of Changing Con- stitution to Come Before
 the Association DAILY LUNCHEON IS
 TENDERED VISITORS Reports of Standing Committees Sub mitted at Meeting Yesterday
 Afternoon-Isadofe Shapiro
 Is Speaker at Luncheon

While working for the federal
 amendment. the Alabama Equal
 Suffrage association will lend its
 efforts toward converting the next
 Alabama legislature to the neces-
 sify for equal suffrage in Alabama.
 Methods of procedure in the state
 campaign will be outlined and ap-
 proved by the executive board of
 the Alabama Equal Suffrage asso-
 citation at a later date.
 The association, at its session
 yesterday afternoon, approved and
 adopted the report of Mrs. SolOn
 Jacobs. legislative chairman, to-
 gether with recommendations
 which provided for the continuance
 of state work.
 The report was submitted in execu- tive session, and it's full text will not be made public at present, accord ing to Mrs Jacobs. Working in ac- cord with the suggestions of the na- tional association, the Alabama Suf- frage association has deemed it wisest not to make public its plans of pro- cedure, as this will enable the anti suffragists to get in their work more effectively
 Mrs. Julian Parke will be unani- lmously reelected president at the meeting of the convention this after noon. if is understood. It is believed that there will be few changes in the present executive family, as the con vention has indorsed and applauded the @f TDor r1y 1n usse tants during the past year.
 MRS. PARKES REPORT
 The report of Mrs. Parke. submitted at the meeting last night, showed that 27 local associations and IS commit tees have been added to the state as- sociation during the past year.
 Mrs. Parke commended the members of the association for the work they have done during the past year, and urged that they continue in the same spirit.
 "Suffragists must make sacrifices if they would win," she said. You should remember this"
 She declared that there is nothing which can stand in the way of woman suffrage. "The tide of equal suffrage will obey the laws of evolution,'' she said. '1t may be delayed, but 1t will come finally"
 Her report showed that active propa- ganda work has been done during 1916 and that conditions were such as to give force to more active work dur Ing the coming year.
 In addition to the report of Mrs Parke. the meeting last night was fea- tured by talks from delegates to the national convention, a sketch of the life of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt by Miss A. L. Williams and short ex- position of the true meaning of the federal amendment by Mrs. Solon Jacobs.
 THE FEDERAL AMENDMENT
 Mrs. Jacobs urged the federal amendment as the easy, economical and sane rule for getting the ballot She said that objections to the amend ment were entirely artificial, and came about through lack of knowledge ot the real objects and methods of secur- ing the federal amendment.
 Mrs. Jacobs spoke of the argument that the adoption of the federal amend ment will give the negro woman the right of the ballot. She answered this argument by the statement that there ere nearly 150000 more white women than negro women in Alabama. '"The only way the> south can retain its white Supremacy is through the en- franchisement of it's women," she said
 The convention this year is practl- cnlly void of the factional feeling which dominated the meeting held in Gadsden last year. This is attributed by some members of the association tc the fact that certain locals in favo, of measures that were defeated at the convention last year have no repre- sentatives. at the present session.
 A LOVE FEAST
 Attalla. whose delegates were ruled out of the meeting last year on the ground that their dues were not re- ceived in time, has no representation and Brewton. Scottsboro, Gurley and other locals which had delegates pres ent in Gadsden are not represented here. However, there are a number of new locals represented
 The suffra gists say that they are endeavoring in every way possible tc eliminate the personal element, and to conduct a sane. constructive and practical convention. No controversies of any kind have arisen in the open meetings, and according to members Of the association. the session held be hind closed doors yesterday afternoon was Hove feast and a meeting de- void of personality.
 The meeting was executive, the suf- fragists say, simply because 1t was not
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