The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23

ton in their right to vote would exist
| Amendment to the national constitution
alone can give them an equal status
RED CROSS ACTIVITY
Trench candle making-equal or
pcrtunity for all. since they can he
| made with equal deftness by man,
woman or child. is taught at suffrage
/ headquarters every Tuesday afternoon
| BY. Mrs. Clyde Richardson. The candles
! NAV also be brought in at this time
| to- be paraffined and turned into the
Red Cross to light a soldiers hour
somewhere in France" Every spare
| NON ent must be utilized. Trench can
| die making is true conservation You
are urged to come and learn.
Miss -Anelia Worthington and Mss
| HorteDse Bissell recently took suf-
| frage and Red Cross hand in hand 10
| a group Of miners wives in camp
1 nearby Returns are beginning to
como in in the shape OF beautifully
Emitted garments for the Red Cross
unit of the suffrage association.
Miners wives, working women and
society girls work side by side for
| the suffrage unit--an inspiring sight
! for derhocfacy.
THE CONVENTIONS THE THING
[ The convention Of the National
| American Woman Suffrage association
4 was distinguished by the seriousness
OF its programme as well as by the
| brilliance of its gatherings. Alabama
was represented by Mrs. Julian Parkc.
/ Miss Mary Parke London, Mrs. Felix
! Baldridgs and Mrs. Alexander London.
But Alabama was represented. as were
! all the states by every woman pres
| emit for this convention was meet
! ing for the nation at the nations cap
| ital. Unity of purpose and an impos-
|
! were the keynotes of the convention
| Official Washington recognized the
| gathering in an unusual and satisfy
=! ing way. The members of the cabinet
of the President of the United States
and their wives united in offering TO
| the susfra gists the largest reception
| Of this war time season.
! This reception az the New Willard
| hotel on Tuesday night. representing
as it did the way suffrage is reach
! ing out and holding the heart of the
| country. could not but remind all
(! workers for the suffrage cause of the
! days when Susan Anthony was hooted
on the streets and women asking for
| the opportunities of simple education
! and advancement were scofned and re-
jected. Surely they are becoming IL
not the corner stone of the nation, Vet
| as sure foundation.
! The convention was distinctly
| gathering of a nation at war. Dr. Anna
| Howard Shaw. chairman of the wonl-
! ans council of defense. and Mrs. VIII
! liam McAdoo were among the prin-
cipal speakers and Miss Helen Fra
ser representing Great Britain, and
! Mrs. Nellie McClung. Canada, deliv-
cred war messages from our allies on
| Saturday night.
OF the two methods OF gaining SUI
frage for women the federal amend
| nlent easily held the intensest interest
lot every member of the convention.
| With the bill at present before Con-
gress and the hopes of the entire
country conferred in their action. the
meetings devoted to a discussion or
I the passage OF the Susan B. Anthony
amendment were fired with dramatic
enthusiasm. The more so since, along
4 with the hopes of the federal amend
ment there were present large delesa-.
| lions from the seven states which have
/ extended the franchise to women this
year, whose happy enthusiasm brought
announcement to us of the disfran-
chised areas. For. as woman SAID,
Can our men deny US what you arc
| given?"
| FIRST VOTING EXPERIENCE
Mrs David Kempner. formerly Miss
Esther Loveman of this city. proudly
reports that one Alabama woman has
tvoted. She relates that it was a "grard
and glorious feeling to trudge through
| the snow with her husband to the
| polls in Little Rock to cast her first
vote as an enfranchised citizen. Ar
kansas is the first southern state to
recognize the rights of women to vote
land so holds an especial interest to all
i southern women. When will Alabama
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