The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-04-28
DEMOCRATS GIVE
WOMEN EQUALITY
UPON COMMITTEE
Will Also Divide Vote Of Dele
cation to State Convention
With Them-ChooSe Dele
gates May 22.

Forty-fo women. most of them
! prominent in club work or in parent =
teacher associations. were elected We'd
nesday as members of the Shelby
county Democratic Executive commit
tee with all righte and privileges ac-
corded To the regularly elected members
Of the committee
The list submitted by Chas. y,
Brn"er, as chairman of special COM
mlttee, was adopted without change and
the committee also, on motion OF Leo
Williamson voted unanimously to give
the women fun participation in any
action OF the committee and requested
the secretary TO request the Democratic
committees IN the other counties in this
congressional district, Hardeman Fay-
ette and Upton, to take similar action.
IN motion of Grover Mccormick. the
committee also voted ito elect at the
next meeting, women as vice chairman
ana assistant secretary of the commit
a mass convention to select delegates
70 the state convention was called for
May ~, on motion of r. Harry Kelly.
ana MS resolution also provided thai
delegates and alternates shall be edual-
" dlNlded between the men and wo-
men ana that the women shall have
an equal vote in the state convention.
lhefe was a large attendance Of in
terested Democratic leaders besides
members of the committee, but none OF
tne newly,elected women members were
present. The list of women members
for each ward and district AS adopted
Dy the committee follows:
FIRST ward, Mrs. j. B. Griffin; Second
ward, Mrs, Joe Steger: Third ward.
Mrs ID. y. Anderson; Fourth ward. Mrs,
a. IN M' Mclean Firth ward, Mrs. W. W.
Ash sixth ward. Mrs. T. 4. Shaw;
seventh ward, Miss Miriam Goldbaum;
Eighth ward, Mrs. Amante Finley;
Ninth ward, Mrs. ]. G. Blount; Tenth
ward Miss Louise c. Burke Eleventh
ward Mrs. NJ, c. Adams; Twelfth ward.
MIS-, MIS-, = j. Jordan; Thirteenth ward,
MISS Kate Watson: Fourteenth ward
Mrs Frank Riley; Fifteenth ward, Mrs.
Giles Bond: Sixteenth ward Mrs A. B,
peLoach; Seventeenth ward. Mrs. J.
NJ. McCormack; Eighteenth ward, Mrs,
Joilh =, Lippett; Nineteenth ward, Mrs.
Edgar Lee Twentieth ward, Mrs Frank
iyyuBah TWenty-first ward, Mrs. X L,
Woodson Twenty ward Miss
Agnes liandwerker; Twenty third ward
Mr3. George f. Phillips; Twenty-fourth
ward ward Mrs li II, NJ, Johnson; rwenty-fifih
WaIa, ssstIt Mrs q. 2. Jernagin; Twenty
.seypntlT ward, Mrs. A. c. Sperrye
'Iwenty eighth ward, Mrs. Walter Lee;
twenty ninth ward, Mrs. Kate Burns
Thirueth ward. Mrs, Wesley Halliburs
ton Thirty-first ward. Mrs. Samuel j.
ellis; Thirty-second ward Mrs. Henry
y, Bauer; Thirty-third ward, Mrs.
j., NJ. Morgan; Thirty fourth ward, Mrs.
= 1SlaTenGe Ice; Thirty fifth ward, Mrs.
>. First district, Mrs. Lee Cummins,
kerrville; Second district. Mrs. G. G.
anderson, Eads, Third district, Mrs,
Shirley Gadd, ColIierville; Fourth dis
tlct Mrs. Harry Madison Buntyn;
SNth district, Mrs. c. X. >lason, NAL
loIy avenue; Seventh district. Mrs,
John Steinhauer. ll0t North Second;
Ninth district, Mrs. Tate Yates. Bart
lett. Tenth district Mrs. H. ". Hale.
president Shelby County Parent-Teach
ers' association, Whitehaven.