Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-27

to induce all women to register for the
November election.
Mrs. William II. Williams. 17O3
Columbia avenue. has offered the use
Of her home aS headquarters for the Re q.
publican women of the Tenth division Of
the Forty seventh ward.
Many Out Of City
Assessors who are on their third day
OF the city wide canvass to put women
on the voting lists are reporting many
women residents Of fashionable subur-
ban sections out " the city on vaca =
tinns. Unless those women return be
fore next Wednesday they will not be
permitted to vote in November.
They will have until Monday TO be
listed by the CanvasscrS now on their
rounds, and Tuesday and Wednesday
the assessors will sit at the polling
nlaccS and assess those women who put
in Il personal appearance. II II woman
is not put on the assessors list by
Wednesday she will not b. allowed TO
register and pay the fifty cent poll tax.
Next Thursday is the first OF three
registration days. the others being
Scntrmhrr II and October >.
Independent strength in the strictly
residential sections is expected 70 Uc
lcsscncd If women in the downtown
and river wards turn ont. while their
more leisurely sisters do not.
The names of block women who
are to make their appearance in local
politics for the first time after the as
sessment of women is completed are
soon TO be announced. Mrs. Thomson
said today.
Mrs Warden Named
Mrs. Thomson. announced the ap-
pOintment of Mrs. William &. Warden,
of Germantown. as associate chair
woman of the Philadelphia Republican
wonen's committee and of Mrs. Hayes
A. Clement as head Of the newly Cstab
lished information bureau.
Mrs. Clement. who took up her duties
at once, appealed TO the women who
on the first assessment day. had de
Clined to give their names to the as
SCISSORS. to reconsider their decision.
Now that the nineteenth amendment
has become the law of the land" she
said. lit is nothing short Of the alb
Solute duty of every women eligible a.
a voter to go to the polls. In the cir
cumstanccs fail to see how ANY
woman can be a good citizen Will,
neglecting or refusing to vote.
"lf the objection is that politics il
not clean. it is up to the women t
make politics clean. Housewifely dutie,
also should not stand in the way o
citizens duties. have houscholC
duties myself. and their performance,
does not prevent me from attending /,
this work. 1t takes only few innuto
TO register and az little !ime to do tn,
actual voting
y woman who is a relative Of Rober
&. Macaulcy, Of this city. Single Tal
candidate for President. and who viii
vote the Single Tax ticket in November
was assessed yesterday. She il Mis-
Mary MCGowan. 1877 Bcrks street. anc
is eighty one years old. OF course
will vote for my nephew. Bobbi
! MaCauley, she said Il believe he i
fOreOrdaincd to be President because h,
was born February IL. 1865. Lincoln :
/ last birthday.
"Lincoln would have made n fin
Single Tax leader" Miss McGowar
added.
/ Assessment of women was complete,
( yesterday in the twenty second division
of the Twenty eighth ward. north
west residential section. The report o
the assessor. the first one to complete
his canvass. showed that there ar
twenty seven more women voters in III,
division than there are men