The Connecticut labor press., 1919-10-25
PREPARATIONS MADE
 FOR STATE CONVENTION
Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Completes Details
 For Fiftieth Anniversary.

Preparations for the 50th anniversary
 of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage 1 Association are being made at series
 of county conferences which are be- | ing held in the various counties of the
 state during this and next week
 1 Conferences have already. been held ill Midd1esex, Fairfield, Litchheld, and l Holland counties. Windham county IS l arranging for a county meeting, Friday :! afternoon, October 24, at the home of
 Mrs. John M. Gallup in Danielson, and
 Hartford county sufragists will meet i for an a1l-day conference, Wednesday, | October go, at Suffrage headquarters, 55 Pratt street, Hartford.
 l The 50th anniversary will be cele-
 brated at the annual state convention which will convene at the Hotel Strat- field, Bridgeport November l2, 13 and
 14. t.$
 The proposed new constitution of the
 association will be acted upon by the
 convention at the Thursday morning
 session, sNovember 13. 1t is understood that very radical changes will be pro- posed at this time in order to provide bylaws broad enough to enable the association to expand into an ultimate League of Women Voters when the vote Is finally secured. This step Is. taken in cooperation with the plan adopted by the National American Woman Suffrage Association to turn each of the state suffrage associations into civic organization to be known. as League of Women Voters as soon as the ratification by the Federal Suf- frage Amendment has been completed ill any state. .=<-
 According to the proposed constitu- ton emphasis will be laid upon the county rather than the town organiza- tIons.
 The county organization will have in addition to county chairman, an ex- ecut1ve board and will be made up of suffrage leagues and other af1liating or gan1Zat1ons. .s .-~'..e -s F 7
 The new plans also include a citi- .zenship committee which will be made up of a state chairman, who will be one of the vice-presidents of the asso- ciation. Under the state chairman will be county and town citizenship chair men and committees. It will be the aim of the citizenship department to hold a citizenship class in every town in the state and to provide special lec- turers, each an expert in his or her field, on various social and civic prob lems.
 The enlarged committees will result in a much larger representation on the executive board of the association. The new constitution calls for four vice presidents instead of one as at pres ent. One of these vice-presidents will be chairman of the press and publicity committe and will be chairman of the citizenship committee.
 The proposed changes to the consti- tuition have been, and will be, presented to all the county conferences by Miss Mabel C. Washburn of Hartford, who Is chairman of the committee on re- vision of the constitution. Miss Kath- l arine Ludingten has also outlined the | new work before the association, so that convention delegates will be prepared | to act intelligently upon the matters put | before them. ..z
 Delegates to the convention will be | elected by local leagues at meetings | held during the next two weeks. Every | league affiliated with the state organiza- ] ton is entitled to five delegates by vir- 1 tue of auxiliaryship and one additional l delegate for every 10 members.