The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-26
Alabama League of Women Voters
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 This Is the slogan of the call to the meeting now being planned for April and in Montgomery. For many years the Equal Suffrage Asso- ciation has had for it's prime object att taining the ballot.
 This object was for the moment par amount to everything else, for the
 thoughtful women realized that the ballot is the means of obtaining proper legislation relative to citizenship. Now there Is no doubt left in the minds of the Alabama women that 1t will be their prized possession within the next few months. the call has gone forth to the women of the state to meet and devise means for proper and intelli- gent use of the ballot
 The meeting will take place in the historic old Montgomery capitol, with in the senate chamber. where only a few months ago the Susan B. Anthony amendment was defeated by a small margin, after several strenuous months of battle.
 It is to be a jubilee meeting conyen- tlon-a victory meeting, so to speak; but true to the generous nature of the struggle for the ballot, the meeting is not called for suffragists alone, but to all women, the anti-suffragists, the i 'indifferents," the club women, the church women, the home makers, the | future citizens of this commonwealth. l The National League of Women | Voters, which is the outgrowth of the ! National American Woman Suffrage Association, is headed by 8 remarka-
 ble body of women, seven in number, 1 all possessed of gigantic brain power, i answering energy, and splendid ability.
 | Numbered among the seven leaders | is our own Mrs. Solon Jacobs, one of
 the ablest and most distinguished suf- fragists, in America, and in speaking of the choice of the seven women who
 compose the "woman's directorate" " | Anne Whitney Hay in recent num- Der of one of the big metropolitan newspapers, said among other things: l Tt required great deal of thought | and tact to select representative group of seven women from as many parts of the country to carry on the
 work into which the suffrage move-
 ment has grown. Geographically, the division presented hard problems, but when 1t came to a. question of proper and satisfactory representation, it was l even more complex.
 ] The directors are to remain non-par- l tisan and the league will fight against | the democrats or the republicans, ac-
 cording to the legislation they support
 It will uphold the old suffrage princi- 1 pie. that of warning against an oppo- nent, which is the same thing in tS- l SnnDnrtinp q "All of the directors are seasoned
 suffrage workers. They will fight their
 legislative battle just as valiantly as l they fought for the vote. Many have 1 been welfare enthusiasts and most of l them are trained in the school of legis- l lation.
 I Mrs. F. Louis Slade of New York
 City, is director of the eastern region. l Her associates on this new feminine lboard are Miss Katherine Ludington of Connecticut, Mrs. George Gellhorn of
 Missouri, Miss Elizabeth Hauser of | Ohio Mrs. Della Dorch of Tennessee, | Mrs. James Paige of Minnesota, and
 Mrs. c. B. Simmons of Oregon.
 Mrs. Maud Wood Park of Boston is 1 chairman of the board; Mrs Gellhorn,
 vice chairman; Mrs. Solon Jacobs of Alabama, secretary, and Mrs Richard /! E. Edwards of Indiana treasurer" V publicity for Birmingham for the com | ing jubilee meeting at Montgomery and one of the most ardent suffragists in the south, besides all of her other l activities, musical civic, educational and social, in speaking of the jubilee said yesterday:
 T hope none will wait for further invitation, for we want everybody to come and help us form a partisan league of women voters, whose object shall be to further educate the woman hood of our commonwealth in the high est ideals of American citizenship an6 to support improved legislation" the says. Come irrespective of whether you have worked for suffrage, been in different to it, or fought against its victorious onsweep. Come. let us req. son together, let us counsel one with the other. breadth of vision and plar for the future. Come and join in the creation of this new organization. fired
 with the determination to unitedls
 strengthen our organized influence as
 voters who wish to serve the best in terests of our beloved state.
 Those of us who may followed tht
 course of woman suffrage from thu
 outside with indifference or lack O 1 knowledge of what has been at stake
 had no comprehension of the meaning
 It meant" said Mrs. Johnston, that the
 nation is won for suffrage and tha
 the seventy-year struggle is practically
 over. That the women of America are
 enfranchised women. That we are a
 last emancipated and not citizens only
 on tax paying days but citizens the year around, with the power to express