Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-17
RICHMOND SUFFRAGISTS
REVIEW WORK OF YEAR
Local League Has Participated In Niuny
Activities and Heard Many
AddrcHses.

Addresse..
That Richmond suHrasists are In
tcrested in and take part in varied
activities OF their city. State and coun-
try was demonstrated Thursday after
noon at the regular weekly meeting
OF the Equal Suffrage League OF Rich
mond. A resume Of the work of the
last eight months includes the fellow
ing outside" activities engaged in by
the league:
Parliamentary law class held at the
Young Womcn's Christian Associations:
antituberculcsis campaign: Richmond
League represented by its first vice
president. Mrs. Charles 6. Kosher. at
the meeting OF the executive council of
the' National American Woman Suf-
trage Association. called by it's pres'-
dent. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. to
.Ncet IN Washington 10 formulate plans
Tor service 10 tho nation, the fnal plans
covering agriculture. thrift and the ell
miration OF waste. and continued CO.
operation with the Red Cross: offer OF
services to President Wilson and Gov
e,nor Stuart when diplomatic relations
with Germany were severed; patriotic
luncheon. served by the agricultural
committee. Mrs. Horace Wexford Jones.
chairman. the proceeds of which were
turned over TO the food-supply COM
mittec OF the Richmond Chapter. Amer
ton bureau for women's patriotic ser
vice: speaking for recruits at the re-
quest OF the recruiting committee in
charge OF the cpen-air meetings held
for this purpose, also distributing re-
cruiting literature at these meetings:
contributions to the Army Young
Mems Christian Association fund and
the Jewish War Relief Fund: distribut-
Ing to the men registering for active
service copies of President Wilson's
Wal message; assisting as members of
the National League for Womans Ser
vice in the serving of luncheon to the
registrars at the polls.
Subjects and speakers at the reEu-
lar meetings OF the Richmond league
for the past eight months were:
The convention OF the National Amer
lean Woman Suffrage Association, held
in Atlantic City. was reviewed by Mrs
B. 5. Valentine, Mrs G. Harvey Clarke
Mrs. F. l. Jobson and Mrs. S. NJ. Block;
The Pennsylvania Campaign" Mrs
James II. Durham; Suffrage in Cali
fornia." Mrs. S. T. Glover; Suffrage in
Washington State" Miss Mary e.
Brown: Echoes OF the State Suffrage
Convention" held In Norfolk in Novem-
Der. were brought to the Richmond
league by Mrs. B. B. Valentine Mrs
Charles G.. Bosher, Mrs Sally Nelson
Robins, Mrs. Tyler Jobson, Mrs. +. L.
Jobson, Mrs Barton Wise and Miss
Mac SCndllI MISS Nora Houston and
Miss Adele Clark; Vital Statistics in
Relation to Equal Suffrage" DR.. w A.
Picker: Woman Suffrage as an Anti
tuberculosis Agency" Miss Adele Clark:
why the Women of England Want
the Ballot" Mrs. V. L. Blaxill; "The
Civic Survey" DR.. d. r. Anderson;
Woman Suffrage and the National
Popular Government League" Mrs c.
Harvey Clarke; The History of wo-
man Suffrage" Mrs. Halsey Wilson:
''Woman Suffrage and Political Ex-
pediency." Mrs. T. T. Gotham; 1.-THE
old-Fashioned Woman and the New"
Miss Anne Doughty: recitations. Mrs
John F. T. Anderson; THE Influence
OF Women Upon Legislation" Lewis
III. Machen; authors reading of play
let. "Pedestals," Mrs. Henry A. Simp-
son; THE Progress Of Suffrage in
Georgia" Mrs. j. f. Wills; "Organiza-
tion in Tennessee and South Carolina"
Miss Eudora Ramsay: The Situation in
Georgia and Alabama" Mrs. F. l.. job
son; Agriculture" j. Frank Fooshe:
Fish as Food" Miss Rose MacDonald;
Army Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton Work" j. f. Peasants: 1.-THE Eco
nomic Status OF the Women OF the
United States" Miss Mary Lite: Read
Ing OF the Tagore Drama, .Chitra,'"
Miss Lou Belle Catcsby Jones; Lib
erty Loan Bonds" Colonel Thomas B.
McAdamS.