Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-13

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| lators at Commercial club, noon.
AIRS. w. E. BARLEY of Lin
, M coin, president OF the State
N Suffrage association, will be
one OF the speakers at the
Mississippi Valley Suffrage confer
ence, now in session at Columbus, o.
Mrs. Barley will tell about the lcgis-
lative campaign this year which re-
suited in gaining partial suffrage for
women in this state. The Columbus
meeting is regarded by suffrage lead
ers as the most important interstate
suffrage meeting Of the spring, being
almost equal in importance to a ma
tional convention. It will bring to-
gether leading suffragists Of this
country, headed by Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait.
The general topic will be: "Victory,
How, Why, When and Where" At
least six states will have suffrage
victories to report at this conference.
Besides Mrs. Gait the prominent
speakers include Mrs. Catherine
Waugh McCulloch, Evanston, H.;
Mrs. Maude Wood Park, chairman
OF the national congressional commit
tee, Washington; Governor James M.
Cox of Ohio and possibly Congress
man Jeanette Rankin. /
Suffrage campaign methods will be
discussed by Mrs, Mary o. Cowper,
Lawrence, Kan; Mrs. Summer Nc
Knight, Minneapolis; Mrs. Charles
Savage, Cleveland; Miss Harriet Balm,
Wisconsin; Mrs. Ellen S. Stewart,
Chicago; Mrs. Grace Julian Clark, In
dianapolis; Miss Laura Clay, Lexing-
ton, KY; Mrs. Julian Clark, Selma,
Ala; Mrs, Malcolm Mcbride, Cleve-
land.
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, presi-
dent Ohio Woman's Suffrage asso-
citation, will preside at dinner.
Today there will be Mothers
day session at Memorial hall, Judge
William Littleford, Cincinnati, presid-
ing. Address, "Ohio," by Governor
James M. Cox and an address, @In
Five Short Years." by Mrs. Gait.
Victories in 1917" will be discussed
by the following: Arkansas, "The Pri-
mary Law" Mrs. A. F. Ellington,
Little Rock; North Dakota, Half a
Loaf" Mrs. Robert Clendenning,
Wimbledon; Indiana, "The Nine
Tenths," DR.. Amelia Keller, Indianap-
oils, and Mrs. Anna Dunn holland,
Logansport; Tennessee. Suffrage OH
Lookout Mountain" Miss Margaret
Hamilton Erwin, Lookout Mountain;
Ohio, Presidential Suffrage" Miss
cara DUPONT and Miss Grace Drake,
Cleveland, and Mrs. ]. S. Branden-
burg, Oxford. "The Supreme Court
Decision" Mrs. Roger G. Perkins
Mrs. Scott Nearing, Cleveland
Mrs. Gait and Mrs. Park will dis
cuss the beet, rs National Wom-
ans Suffrage Possiblet"
At the closing session at s p. M,
Monday Mrs. McCulloch will speak
on Door and Windows and another
speaker, to be announced, will discuss
THE Real Enemy"
Methods of active patriotic service
as outlined by the council meeting OF
the General Federation Of Woman
Clubs at New Orleans are being cir
culated among clubwomen. Executive
clerical, welfare, supplies, commits
sary and transportation are the
classes of work named.
I'VE have two great objects: First
TO be OF utmost service in time oil
need; second, TO keep alive the sense
OF law and order. of the security oil
permanent elements that must rebuild
society when the tumult OF war is
past" is the statement in the press
bulletin.
In the conservation department the
production of nourishing and non.
perishable foodstuffs is urged; in
civics, community action on waste
lot gardens, agitation of emergency
savings accounts and support oil
training women for service; in civil
service, enforcement of honest admin.
istration OF laws, immediate training
for public service; in art, teaching pa.
triotisn to children by portraits Of
great Americans; in education, in
structiop in thrift, current questions
physical training, simpler social life
in home economics. study of dietetics
in legislation, uphold federal, state
and police authorities, avoid promis
cuous discussion OF war issues and dis
elimination in favor of American citi
zens, demand equal pay for equa
work for women; in literature. serv,
along clerical lines, collect stories anc
jokes for military camps and conva
lescent hospitals; in industrial and so