The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-24
WOMEN TO MEET
HERE TO PREPARE
FOR CITIZENSHIP
Suffrage Institute to Study Re
quirements Opens.
Wednesday.

The New Haven County Citizenship
Institute which will open in Christ
church parish house Wednesday morn
ing, April %, will bring to New Haven
many speakers of renown as we'll as to
provide an opportunity for people to
hear some of New Ravens own eel
ebrities on questions of civic and gov
ernmental importance. ~
THE aim of the institute is two
fold" says Miss Emily Whitney, execu-
tive chairman of the institute. First
it will provide school in which women
may study and discuss the most i'm
portant civic questions of the day and
also it will give an intensive course in
the machinery of government in order
that women, all women, business wom-
en-, housekeepers, professional women,
women of leisure may have an oppor-
tun1ty to learn how to exercise 1ntelli-
gently their rapidly approaching right
to vote"
With these ends in view the commit
tee in charge of the institute has ar
ranged the program for the three-day
school that the course on the machinery
of government will be given in the
evening as well as in the day sessions,
so that business women and hodsekeep-
ers may have the same opportunities
as the women who are able to attend
during the, dav.
The institute is designed primarily
for the benefit of the women of New
Haven city and county but it is open
to all men and women of the state.
Luncheon will be served each day by
the Smith College club. No admission
will be charged for any of the sessions.
The institute is under the direction of
the citizenship department of the Con-
necticut Woman Suffrage Association
and is financed by the money raised in
the citizenship campaign held last
spring.
An extremely practical and interest
ing feature of the institute will be the
demonstration of a voting machine
which will be placed in the vestibule of
the parish house. This machine will be
demonstrated by trained attendants
an opportunity will be given for the |
scholar to operate the machine her
self. Mrs. T. S. McDermott is-chair- |
man of the voting demonstration COM
mittee.
THE complete program for the insti-
tute follows:
Wednesday, April %.
ii a. m, Town and County Govern
D. VI.
IL AS a. m, Women's Police Bureau
Mrs. John P. Buwalda.
R:15 p. m, Domestic Relations
Bureau-Prof. E. M. Morgan
IL p. m, lunch Smith College Fly :
ing Corps.
4 2 D. m, City Government-Mrs.l
Nancy M. Schoonmaker.
Ten minutes Proportional Represen-
tation-Mrs, +. l.. c. sKetchelt
p. M, New Haven City Interests;
Public School Scho1arships-Mrs. A. K.
Rogers.
Vocational Education Miss Kathar-
Junior High School-Claude Russell.
8 p. m, Address by the Mayor.
City Government-Mrs. Nancy M.
SHOEMAKER.
s:45 p. mn Why, I Am a Republican,
Mrs. Joseph w. Aisop.
Thursday, April g..
ii a. m, The State Government and
How the Legislature Works-Mrs. F.
L. c. Kitchelt.
11:50, Widows Pensions-Mrs.
Elizabeth F. Maloney, supervisor of
mothers aid, Boston,
12:15, Child Welfare-Herbert M.
Diamond.
IL IS, The Woman's State Farm
DIR. Valera Parker.
IL p. m, lunch Smith College Fly /
ing Corps.
2-3 p. m, National Government-Mrs.
Nancy M. Schoonmaker.
8 p. m, Smith Towner Bill-Mrs.
F. L. c. Kitchelt.
$40 p. m, The League of Women
Voters-Miss Katharine Ludington.
p. M, State Government, Gas above1
Z L
9 p. m, Americanization-R Robert
Friday, April 80.
IL a. m, New Problems Nancy
M. Schoonmaker.
IL M, Public Health-Prof c. E. A.
Winslow.
IL, lunch.
2 D. m, Political Parties-Mrs. Nancy
M. Schoonmaker.
D. m, Mental Hygiene-Dr. Will
liam Terhune, director of Connecticut
Society of Mental Hygiene.
500 p m, Women in Industry
Mrs. Alice Barrows Fernandez.
8 D. M, National Government-Mrs.
Nancy M. Shoemaker.
9 q. M, Why / Am Democrat
Mrs. Hiram P. Maxim.
Committees in charge of the institute
are: Program committee, Mrs. I. +.
A. Winslow; arrangements committee,
Miss Emily Whitney; hospitality COM
mittee, Mrs. William L. Phelps, Mrs.
Elliot Watrous, Mrs. Joseph Whitney, /
Mrs. G. H. Nettleton; publicity commit
tee, Mrs. John c. Clark, Miss Margaret
Whitney, Miss Georgia Troup, Miss
Katharine Schwab, Miss Alice Walker,
printing, Mrs. Joseph Reed; voting
demonstration, Mrs. T. S. McDermott
attendance, Mrs. John c. Schwab, Mrs.
w. J. Mozart, Mrs. Jennie Robinson,
Mrs. Fred Johnson, Miss Lola Walker.
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