The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-16
SUFFRAGE WORKERS MAKE ADDRESSES
 AT CLUB MEETINGS
Announcement of Suffrage Tea to Be Given Saturday at the Tutwiler Hotel
 Being Mailed

! The three workers for the Woman's party who are in Birmingham this week
 are having a busy time at the headquar- ters at the Tutwiler hotel and at the var
 ious meetings which they are invited to
 address. Yesterday Mrs. St. Clair Thomp-
 son spoke at the Psychology club and at
 the Women's Christian Temperance
 union. Miss Beulah Amdon was the
 guest of the College womens club, and ] spoke briefly about the work of the
 woman's party. Herself a recent college graduate of the 1915 class of Columbia
 university, Miss Amidon was much inter- ested in meeting some of the graduates of the southern colleges.
 l From the headquarters at the Tutwiler announcements of the suffrage tea on Saturday are being mailed Volunteer workers are busy all day and well on into the evening addressing envelopes and sticking stamps, and it is expected that
 the last of the announcements will be | mailed today. The tea will be held at o'clock Saturday afternoon in the ball. room of the Tutwiler. The programme will begin promptly at and Miss Alice Paul, national chairman of the woman's
 party, will be the first speaker The
 meeting will be open to the public, and
 everyone is invited to remain for the
 social tea that will follow the speaking
 and to meet Miss Paul.
 SUFFRAGE HEARING
 l Yesterday the judiciary committee.
 which has the suffrage measure in charge
 in the House, devoted most of it's work
 ing day to a suffrage hearing. The
 chairman of this committee, Representa- l tive E.. Y. Webb of North Carolina. is 1 one of the avowed opponents of suffrage The committee is known as the "morgue because of its ability to bury measures indefinitely. But the suffragists never despair and telegram received last 1 night at the woman's party headquarters said that the hearing was a brilliant one, and that the committee listened with
 more attention than it had ever given be- fore. The speakers were Mrs William Kent. wife of former Representative Kent of California, chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Independent league, | Mrs. Abby Scott Baker of Virginia, Miss Mabel Vernon, secretary of the woman's
 party and Mrs. John Rogers, prominent society woman of New York.
 'Of course we hope for a favorable report on the suffrage measure,' com mented Miss Paul. We hope the judi ciary committee has abandoned forever | its habit of burying suffrage or tying 1t l up beyond the power of anyone to rescue | it. Todays papers bring word that suffrage measure has been introduced into the British Parliament for immediate consideration. We do not want our coun- try to lag behind the nations of Europe in recognizing the citizenship of women. Our grandchildren are going to marvel that this simple justice for women could have been so long delayed. Everyone knows that suffrage for women is inevi- table, And surely women never needed it so much as now. when it seems that our men are to be called away, leaving us to manage the affairs of business and industry. We are very tired of arguing with congressman and other men, ] too We want suffrage.