Smyrna times., 1920-09-22
SMYRNA WOMEN HASTEN TO
QUALIFY FOR FIRST VOTE
UNUSUAL ACTIVITY PRODUCED
A NOVEL SIGHT. THIS DISTRICT
AntI-Suffragists Were Even More
Anxious Than The Sufrs To Get
Their Names On-735 OuaIifv


Anxious Than The Suffs To Get
Their Names On-7S5 Qualify.
The novel sight of seeing woman
gong before the Registration Boards
OF our two local districts to qualify
70 vote at the coming election. occu-
pied the state of action all day Satur-
day and lively occasion it was too
From the opening to the close of tho
settings Of the Board. There was an
parently no lull in the activity of wo-
men, In the two election districts of
LUCK Greek Hundred 735 names were
put on over six hundred of whom
were women. Automobiles and nearly
every Kind OF a conveyance was util-
lied to transport the women. espe-
clally the older women, to the place
OF registration. Of course the poli-
tlclans were active. At Dick Lono,s
store, where the Registration Board
OF the First election district sat. the
greater majority qualified were COL
ored. This was not so pronounced at
the Second district sitting place
(Iown HalD, but some figure that of
the zoo voters qualified. $50 were
whlte and 25O were colored. In quite
a few instances registration was re-
fused because of the lack of consti-
tutlonal requirements. One of the
amusing features of the turn out was
the eagerness of the anti-suffraeists
TO qualify. Their activity was even
more pronounced than the suffragists
and though they fought the 18th
amendment they were the first to
qualify.
Great Activity Down at Dover.
Returns from Dover, the First cleo
ton district of the Fifth representa-
tive district in Kent, a total of abuot
662, of whom about 100 were men
and 562 women. At Frederick the
general impression seems to be about
nall the registrants were colored. Re-
ports from this section Indicate that
party workers made a special drive
TO get out the colored vote. and that
The next registration will show
arge increase in the percentage of
White women who register. It is fio-
lred that the women vote will about
equal that of the men, and reports
rom the district show that about one
,hlrd of the total vote is registered
N the Second election district of the
fifth representative district of Kent.
2O3 voters were registered Saturday
u whom 143 were women.
Big Registration Down in Sussex
While it is difficult to ascertain
ne exact number of women who reg
stored in Sussex county Saturday. it
estimated that at least one-third
Il all the white and colored women
the county have registered. and
is believed that at least rs per
ent will be qualified to vote on
lection day. This estimate is based
n the figures from Georgetown.
There out of total of 900 white !
'omen of voting age, 800 registered. .
nd OF $50 colored women, 10 reg :
stored. Returns from all over Sus- :
eX county indicate that the per- !
entage of colored women regis 7
cred is small. Negro women in
everal sections of the county who {
'ere less than Fl years old and were T
nable to read and write, were refused
egistration. \
lively at Blackbird and Townsend I
Reports from rural New Castle +
ounty indicate that at least one-third t
the women of voting age, or about
900 registered Saturday; and the
ame proportion is indicated by the
eturns from throughout the State. A
both the Blackbird and Appoquin-
mink Hundreds automobiles and
'ucks were used to take the women L
the registration places, and most :,
the women who were qualified req =
tered. The registration at Middle =
wn brought out what is considered =
per cent of the voting strength of :
e women, and on October 16 it is = :.
Ipected that 80 per cent of the n
omen will have registered. The M
gistration at Middletown was 249. =,
whom 234 were women. The first =
oman to register in the First Dis y
let was Mrs. Walter S. Money, who 7,
is always been an anti-suffragist. M
Newark there was also big regis N N
alton. At Deer Park Hotel polling G,
ace more than 200 women register NJ
out of total of 235. At the y y
ashington Hotel 129 women were i,
gistered out of total of 2O4, all NJ NJ
lite.