Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-13
SUFFRAGE BODY
PLANS FIGHT TO
REDUCE Fl. G.. L.
League of Women Voters VIII
Attempt Union of All
Similar Bodies.
MRS. GAIT RAPS ENEMIES

CdlG8tIAJt
cost of living and OF the number Of IL
literate voters Ind the raising of stand
ards of citizenship and of laws for the
protection Of women and children were
the problems occupying the attention Of
delegates 90 the hftyfrst annual con-
vention Of the National American Woman
Suffrage association and the first annual
convention of the League Of Women
Voters here today.
Advice as to methods for accomplish
ing these ends, the result Of the years
laboratory work of the new league, has
been formulated for the consideration OF
the delegates.
HOPE TO IMPROVE
U. S. CITIZENSHIP.
The facts compiled by the eight ma
tional committees of the league have
been eagerly absorbed by the hundreds
of delegates representing every state in
the union who intend through their own
organizations Of men and women ana
the political parties, to effect legislation
which viii improve citizens and citizen
ship
Among the Indiana women who at
tended the first session of tOday's con-
vention were: Mrs. J. ?. WasOn, Delphi,
Mrs. A. II. Beardsley, Elkharti Mrs
Frank ]. Sheehan. Mrs. c. E. Green
wald. Mrs d. C. Wicks, Mrs. f. r. Car
gill and Mrs. J. A. Patterson. all OF
Gary; DR. Adah Mcmahon, Lafayette:
Mrs. Corina Warrington, TT. wayne 8
Mrs. Elizabeth c. Earl, Connersville;
Mrs. Ora Thompson Ross, Rensselaers
Mrs Homer T, McC-ay, kendallyile,
Mrs. Anna Studebaker Carlisle, South
Bend Mrs Harvey Hawley and Mrs.
Joseph Shirk. Peru; Mrs. NJ. ]. Duggaq,
IL
dena Lauter and Mrs. J. G.. McNutt, In.
dlanapolis; Miss Elizabeth Cooper, Miss
Alice Hammerstein and Mrs. Walter G.
Ely of -Terre Haute, and Mrs c. A STU
art and Mrs. Allison Stuart, Lafayette,
In every conference yesterday the
league made it clear that 1t Is not to dis
solve any present organization but to
unite all existing organizations Of women
who believe In Its principles. 1t - not
to create sex antagonisn but TO develop
cooperation between men and women.
1t is not to lure women from partisan
ship but to combine them in an effort for
legislation which will protect coming
movements which we can not even fore
tell from the untoward conditions which
have hindered for so long the coming OF
equal suffrage.
RESULTS TO COME
NEXT WEEK.
Next week the results of these con
ferences Will come before the conyentioa
for adoption OF legislative platform.
But for the next few days the national
suffrage association will have the floor,
rejoicing over its victory and reviewing
the mOmentous events Of the last few
months.
The enemy OF woman suffrage is "a fly
sitting on the wheel Of progress"
imagining he can COMMAND it Ito re-
volve no mora ard that it will obey"
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president OF
the national suffrage association, said in
her opening address at the convention
OF the organization here today.
Mrs. Cattl attacked Senators Borah OF
Idaho, Wadsworth of New York, Pome-
rene of Ohio and Hitchcock of Nebraska
rs refusing to represent their states"
III the Sixty fifth congress when the
amendment failed to pass.
LAYS 1T TO EACH
OF THEIR STANDS.
AS the amendment needed but a sin
gle vote in the Sixty-6fth congress, the
| responsibility for it's failure to pass
may be laid upon any one of the four
she said. "They not only put their
own states to the expense Of extra ses.
sions but all the other states as we'll"
Mrs. Gait called upon suffragists to
rally to the support of any governors
who may be attacked by their political
opponents for bringing extra expense OF
special sessions upon their states.
Plans made by the conference of wom-
en- lawyers of the country, which will be
presented to the convention, include
Standardization of all laws concerning
women. Laws affecting marriage, d.
vorce, Independent citizenship for mar
ried women, control of wives wages ana
mothers pensions were discussed.