Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-22
DELEGATE TO BIG
WASHINGTON MEET
DR.. Effie McCollum Jones Goes to
Washington as one of Fourteen
Women Chosen From Iowa
to big Suffrage Meet.
HOLD CONFERENCE OF LEADERS.
Have Many New Prop ms to Face
and Want to Bring Pressure on
Men in Capitol.
HOLD CONFERENCE OF LEADERS.

Webster City has been most con-
spicuously honored by having among
its citizens a woman of such qualffi-
cations and prominence in state and
national circles as to be one of four
teen women chosen to meet with Of
ficers, committees and life members
in the forty-ninth annual conven-
ton of the National American Suf-
frage association to be held in WASH
ington, D. c., Dec. IL to Is. DR..
Effie McCollum Jones of this city is
that woman.
other we'll known women in edu-
cational, society and suffrage circles
in the state, including Miss Anna
Lawther, state president of the Iowa
Suffrage association; Mrs. Homer
Miller of Des Moines; Mrs. Leona
Scott, Burlington; Mrs. Fred Patter-
son, Sioux City; Mrs. w. w. Marsh,
Waterloo; Mrs. J. X. Dysart, Ottum-
wa; Mrs. Ella Caldwell, Adel; will
attend. This meeting is expected to
be the most exceptional and marve-
lous in the matter of accomplishment
in the history of the movement.
Would Influence Congress.
Washington was selected as the
meeting place SO that pressure might
be brought, to bear upon congress in
favor OF the pending federal woman
SUFFRAGE anendpent. The delegatel,..
who IRE expected, to number more
than thousand, represent some two
million women in every state in the
union.
A really notable victory was won
by the suffrage workers during the
session of congress just closed when
it gained a special committee in the
house to take care of the suffrage in
terests. 1t has long had a committee
in the senate which has been the
means of advancing the women's
cause. Hon. Frank P. Woods, Iowa's
representative from the Tenth dis
trict, voted for the proposed commit
tee and with the support of other
Iowans in both senate and house the
Iowa Suffrage league feel that their
interest will be taken care Of.
New Problems and Issues.
This is the first national suffrage
convention since our country enter
ed the war, and the women who are
working for universal suffrage, are
faced with new problems and new
issues and it is apparent that the
nation is realizing its dependence
upon women as never before. But it
must be brought to realize, that will
ingly as women are now serving,
they can serve still more efficiently
when they have received the full
measure of citizenship. The purpose
of the convention is to urge these
facts upon congress and our govern
ment must be convinced that the
time has come for the enfranchise-
ment of women, by means of an
amendment to the federal constitu-
tion.
DR.. Jones, the local representative
to the convention, has been closely
allied with suffrage interests for
many years. Until August last she
occupied the important position of
field director of the National asso-
citation, giving it up only because
of the travelling it necessitated. Iowa
may well take pride in the women
she will send to Washington to bring |
about, what the majority of our peo-
pie believe, that world democracy |
includes government of the people,
by the people and for the people in