The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-06
New England Women
 Furnish Leadership

A call for a two days conference of the women voters of New England to take place at the Copley-Plaza, Bos- ton, Nov. IT and IS, has been issued by Mrs Maud Wood Park of Boston, chairman of the National League of Women Voters, and Miss Katharine Ludington of Old Lyme, Conn.,, vice chairman.
 Delegates to the meeting from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut will attend the confer ence. One of the notable events will be afdinner at the Cop1ey-Plaza hotel, Boston, on the evening of Nov. IS, at which 1ading Republican and Demo- cratic men will talk to the women on political affairs.
 The chairman of the League of Women Voters in the New England states are arranging to have a most representative gathering of women at the meeting Among the leaders in the organization in New England are Mrs. George R. Fearing, IT,, chairman of the league in Massachusetts; Miss Katharine Ludington, chairman in Connecticut; Miss Martha Kimba11 chairman in New Hampshire; Miss Mabel Connor, chairman in Maine; Mrs. James Cheeseman, chairman in Rh ode Island, and Mrs. Lillian Owen dam, chairman in Vermont.
 The League of Women Voters, the most powerful women's organization for its leadership. Although slower than the Western states to adopt actual suffrage, the home of the Bos- ton Tea Party and Paul Revere's Ride iiis leading in the movement to interest the rest of the country in the work of accomplishing practical vel fare measures.
 Mrs. Maud Wood Park chairman of the League of Women Voters, is. a Bostonian. She was graduated from Radcliffe College with highest honors. It was there she first became interest ed in suffrage at a meeting which she herself had arranged for Alice Stone Blackwell. She received ner final inn petus at WaShintgon at the time of the celebration of Susan B. Anth onyos S0th birthday. With Mrs. Inez Haynes Irwin she at once organized the nue. leus of the College Equal Suffrage As sociation. As vice president of the association, she crossed the continent four times, speaking at colleges and universities.
 New England is proud of the fact that Mrs. Park was made congress siona1 chairman of the National American Woman Suffrage Asso ocia- ton and conducted the intensive cam paign in Washington for the passage of the federal amendment. Her front
 
 Island avenue in Washington is a well known institution.
 Mrs. Frederick P. Bag1ey is another 1 well known Massachusetts woman holding a beacon light in the great womens organization. Mrs. Bagley is chairman of the Standardization ] committee of the league. She achiev- ed distinction in Americanization work while it was a part of the war service program offered to the governmentsby the national suffrage association. At that time there were more than eight million aliens in the country, three million of whom were not naturalized. A native leader of Massachusetts | who has wandered far afield is Mrs. James Page, now of Minneapolis, one | of the organizers of the League of | Women Voters in Minnesota. A gradu- ate of the Normal Art School of BoS- | ton, Mrs. Page studied law at the University of Minnesota and was ad- mitted to the bar. She is married to a professor in the university and had charge of the first citizenship course given at that institution in co-opera-