The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-02-15
PROMINENT WOMEN OF KAN
SAS CITY ATTEND MEET.
ING OF THE N. N. c.
c. L. OF A.
The Ladies Endorsed the the Object
and Purpose Of the League and
Pledged Their Undivided Support
in the Coming Membership Cam
paign. Campaign Begins March LIST,
Ending March 22nd, 1919.

Ending March 22nd, 1919.
A number of prominent women OF
Kansas City attended the meeting of
the y. n. c. c. l.. of A, held at head
quarters, 1915 East Eighteenth street,
Wednesday, 2:30 p. M, February 18th,
1919. The meeting was very enthusi-
astic and each one present promised
their hearty support and cooperation
in carrying out the great and much
needed undertaking of the League.
The object and purpose of the
League is to see that the blood of our
brave and noble soldiers who fought
for world democracy shall not have
been shed in vain by waging an un-
ending and ceaseless fight; using every
honorable means to wipe out and elm
mate determinations and prejudice,
Jim Crowism and disfranchisement,
mob violence and injustice from the
United States of America forever.
AS their first movement they are
circulating a mammoth petition ask
ing the United States government to
enforce by appropriate legislation the
14th and 18th amendments to the Con
stitution.
II was for the above reasons that
the ladies' who visited Wednesdays
neetin, pledged their support. 1t is
for the above reasons that every true,
loyal and race loving Negro man and
woman in Kansas City is hereby asked
to lend their support and aid in this
worthy and timely cause.
The membership campaign of the
League, which is to be launched the
first of March will, to a certain eX-
tent, be military in form; that is,
there will be one hundred ladies who
will act as generals. Each one of these
generals will have under their direc-
tion ten captains.
Each captain will be asked to re-
cruit at least twenty-five members for
the League. Each captain whose COM
pany reaches or exceeds its quota will
be presented with an honor badge;
each general whose division reaches
or exceeds it's quota will be presented
with distinguished honor badge.
About forty-five ladies' have volun'
teered to act as generals in this cam
paign; fifty or more are still needed
Every race woman who is willing and
in a position to secure ten captains
for this great army of justice is SIN
cerely asked to get in touch with gen
eral headquarters and offer service
Every race woman who assisted in the
hospital, Red Cross, War workers and
other such campaigns, by any means
should not fail to lend the same as
sistance to this cause which means SO
much to ourselves, our children and
Cur future generation.
The next meeting of the League
will be held at general headquarters
/ 1915 Fast Eighteenth street Wednes
day February 10Th, at p. m. Every
| lady who desires to lend her assist
ance in this movement is most cor
daily invited to be present. In con
| junction with the great army of wo
men that is being modified, there is
being organized among the leading
and most influential race men Of the
| city an auxiliary to assist and coop
crate with the women's divisions,
The petition which is to be circu
lated by the n. ~ C. c. l.. of A. is Il
consist of twenty volumes IN loose lea
ledger form. Each volume is to con
tain 1000 sheets with space on eacl
sheet for fifty signatures making il
all when the petition is compiled
document containing one million sign
ers. After every person in Kansa
City has been given the opportunity t
sign this great document, differen
! sections of it will be distributed i
every part of the United States III
til it is fully signed After this ha
been accomplished, the leading NJ
groes in different sections of the Uni
. ed States will be chosen and selec
ed to accompany the presentation {
this great petition to Congress.
1t has been asked by some feebl
minded people as to the good such
3 petition would do. The good that
! will do to any broad-minded person
obvious. II the Negro does not pr