The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
WAR WORK DONE
 BY WOMEN GIVEN i CREDIT BY SPEAKERS
Senators Bankhead and Underwood Taken to Task for Failure to Sup- port Suffrage Amendment
 in the Senate

luncheon at the Southern club yester-
 day afternoon. The luncheon primari- ] ly was intended as victory" meet ling in celebration of the winning of three more states to the equal suf- jfrage cause at the November cleo
 ton, but the array of interesting ispeeches covered every sphere of
 woman's activity in the social, po-
 litical and business life of the nation. l In calling the meeting to order Mrs. W. L. Murdock, chairman, related brief f ly some of the important things accom-
 plished by the women in the war work campaigns. "When the war began we ] rendered our services to our country" ! said Mrs. Murdock, "and we have been l active in every way where we could be
 of help; in Liberty Loan campaigns, l Red Cross work, council of defense, and,
 in fact, in every line and in every way" l It was the first meeting the association has held in several months at which the entire time was given over to speeches and consideration of matters pertaining solely to the cause for which it was brought into existence. The attendance was somewhat decreased yesterday by the prevalence of influenza and the threatening weather, but over 50 women
 were present despite these conditions. ALABAMA MEN WARNED l Warning was given to the men of Ala ! bama that they had better open their eyes to the political developments and awaken from the "antediluvian" sleep | that has gripped them for ages past l Congress is going to pass the suffrage amendment declared Miss Amelia Worthington, land it may pass it this month. The democrats of the south de- I feated it when it was before the Senate recently, but I am told we gained one vote in the November election. If the democrats do not pass it before March the republicans will pass it after that.
 Our two senators-Bankhead and Under wood-voted against it, but they had bet | ter look out"
 l Miss Worthington advocated an active and aggressive campaign before the next session of the Alabama legislature. Ex- hibiting map of the United States Mrs. Murdock pointed to the white portion which represented the states where the women now have the full vote and to l the black section where they have no l vote at all. All of the white states, with | two or three exceptions, are in the west; all of the black states with two or three exceptions, are in the south.
 Alabama comes first alphabetically
 
 Murdock, "and we want her to be first l to grant suffrage to the women in the new year."
 MISS LONDON SPEAKS Miss Mary Parks London, who cam paigned in New York last year, and in Oklahoma several weeks preceding the re- cent election, told of the help the poli- ticians of those states gave them. The leaders of both the democratic and re- publican parties helped financially and in other ways, she said, and in both in- stances the suffrage carried by good majorities.
 'In southern Oklahoma where I helped in the campaign, because I am south ern woman and the people of that part of Oklahoma are mostly made up. of Alabamians, Texans and other southern CTS, the men rallied to our cause, and I want to tell you that the men of Alabama must wake up."
 After reciting the war work done by the members of the Alabama Equal Suf- frage association Mrs. Murdock intro
 duced President Arthur c. Crowder of the Chamber of Commerce to whom was assigned the subject of 'Women and the Civic Bodies" He advised cooperation in all civic work, saying that the wom- en could yield powerful influence for the uplift of the community by their assistance and cooperation, and sug- gested the inauguration of a movement to bring the men and women closer to- gether in all efforts for the improvement and the building up of the community Miss Amelia Worthington, called upon to relate what she had seen in her trav- els over the state as a representative of the Red Cross. stated that wherever she went she found that suffrage women were at the head of war work commit tees, and that they had been largely in- .xI...- cent results attained in the state. COUNTRY LACKS DEMOCRACY "We are preaching democracy for the nd ha1 rot in, ir