Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-03
SUFFRAGlSTS NEAR
LONG-SOUGHT GOAL
Think National Convention
Next Week Is Prelude
to Victory
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.

With former Amb issador James w.
Gerard, Mrs. william q. McAdoo, Dr.
Anna Howard Shaw and Miss Jeanette
Rankin, among the speakers scheduled
to date, and other men and women OF
nation,s and international prominence
expected to take part, the convention pro-
gram Of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association. preliminary an
nouncement of which Is made today,
promises 10 contain features of unprece-
dented interest.
The convention will be held at Polfs
Theatre, in Washington. December IL 10
Is, inclusive. Suffrage leaders say IL
will be the last convention In Washing-
ton, for they believe Congress will pass
the Federal woman suffrage amendment
Il this session. As this amendment has
been the goal Of the National Woman
Suffrage Association throughout the fifty
years of It's existence, the organization
will then transfer its activities to other
fields than Washington. First to the
Stlte Legislatures. where the amend
ment must be ratified. and then to the
proper utilization of the vote IT VIII
have secured for the women Of the
country
Preconventlon activities will begin on
I V,
of the national executive council of the
association at suffrage headquarters.
1926 Rhode Island avenue. Executive
conferences will continue throughout the
day on Tuesday. Tuesday evening the
delegates will be formally welcomed TO
Washington by reception In their
honor at the willard Hotel where the
hostesses will be Mrs. William Gibbs
McAdoo, Mrs. Newton d. Baker. Mrs,
Thomas w. Gregory, Mrs. Albert Sidney
Burleson, Mrs. Josephus Daniels. Mrs.
Franklin K. Lime. Mrs. David +. Hous-
ton. Miss Agnes Hart Wilson. Mrs
James X. Mann and Mrs, Philip Pitt
Campbell. This event. with eight women
Of the Cabinet and the wives of two
prominent members of the House In the
receiving line. will be a brilliant social
affair as well as of political signifl-
canoe.
The convention will be opened at
2 p. m. Wednesday by the president,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait While the
entire program of the week points to-
ward the Federal amendment, the SUBJ
jects considered at the various sessions
will include the following: Friends
and Enemies Of Presidential Suffrage"
SHOULD We Work for Woman Suffrage
In Wartime?" "a question which Is al
ready answered to the minds of suffra-
gsts by the continuous activities of
the National Suffrage Association and
the four departments of war servicc
conducted by the association namely,
food production, food conservation,
Americanization and protection OF
women's labor
At the evening meetings some of the
speakers will be Mrs. William G. Nc
Adoo, wife of the Secretlry of the
Treasury and chairman Of the womans
Liberty Loan committee Or. Anna How
ard Shaw, chairman of the won ans
committee OF the Council of National
Defense; Miss Jeannette Rankin, mem
ber of Congress from Montana; Miss
Jane Delano, of the Red Cross; Mrs
Norman r. Whitehouse, president of the
New York State Woman Suffrage party
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chairman Of the
| Woman Suffrage party of the city OF
New York; Miss Helen Fraser, Of Lon.
don, England, coworker of Mrs. Mill
cent Fawcett In the constitutional suf
frage movement of Great Britlin. ant
Mrs. Nellie McClung. of the Canadian
Woman Suffrage Association. The full
list Of speakers will be announced later