The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-10-01
WOMEN WILL GO
INTO POLITICS
Organization Begun This Week
Will Take In Every White
Woman Voter in the
CITY

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Will Elizabeth City women
turn out and vote in the Nov
enlber eleetion? This newspaper
says they will. Not to be out
done by the co1ored women who
are being pushed a1onglby the Re
pub1ieans, the white women Of
the town are going ahead on
their own initiative and perfect
ing what is going to be an .omi-
nous political organization. In
the less thar. ten days every one
of those Democratic county com
1nitteemen who voted against
woman suffrage in the late state
convention are going to wish
they had look in with these
women voters.
Steps for the organization ofIa wo-
mans citizenship club were taken at a.
| meeting of ninety representative wo-
|
4 Y. NJ C. A. Wednesday afternoon. Mrs.
Sallie Boettcher presided over the meet
| ing and Mrs. Cam w: Melick did most
| of the talking. One caves dropping man
( said all the women were trying to talk
at one time But that could not have
been true because the results of that
!. meeting indicate that there was action
. as we'll as talk The club will not be
permanently organized until next Thurs
day, but a temporary organization OF
ward chairmen Cor chairwomen) has
/ already been appointed and probably will
be retained. by the permanent orgamza-
ton =
4 These ward leaders are Mrs. Cam w.
Melick for the First Ward; Mrs. Larry
Ennis Skinner for the Second Ward;
! Mrs James G. Fearing for the Third
i Ward and Mrs. Bessie Stuart for the
Fourth Ward. Married women, or at
4 least wome nof matrimonial experience
are going to run the feminine politics
!, in this town.
4 But can you beat that Organization OF
ward 1eaders?, No convention OF men
Fever perfected a more promising organ
J Iization than that. 1t willzbe the busi-
9 nass of these ward leaders to organize
!. ssudy ssrpups of wopen voters ip theil
respective wards Armed withsan sorts
D of literature on citizenship classes OF
, ten or a dozen women will be started
, on every side of every block in ward
q These classes will meet from day to day
and study the business of citizenship
&Iara WILLY q
= general meeting in which all will as
h semble and have a regular talkfest.
The ward chairmen will select as man!
helpers or assistants as they may re
ouire and any woman who says sh'
: hasn't time to give to politics will b.
branded a Stacker. Every woman eng
ible to vote will be personally canvasset
if necessary and shown the way to reg
! lister and the way to registration booth
Those who can't get to the reglstratlo1
books in any other way will be haule
TO the booths in automobiles. They vii
= he hauled to the polls on election da
10 in the same way. That's the way tn
- women in Elizabeth City are going t
90 into politics. Watch 'em. They,
show vou men few things before they
- re thru with it.
: The thing that has aroused the II
ferest of the women of Elizabeth Git
=, in politics is the school question. Ellz
= abeth City is authorized to vote bon
=, issue of $5OO,OOO or less for schools
-. - The women want that bond issue an
:, they realize that to get it is woman
!. fight They are going into politics wit
- their sleeves rolled up because 1t IS &c
=, their home and for their children.
- At the meeting. Wednesday atternoo
the women appointed a committee
p confer with> the Board of Graded Scho'
I'd Trustees and the Board of Aldermen fc
st the purpose of urging an early call
1g the special election on school bonds. IT
re committee is composed of Miss Lii
1t, Grandy, Mrs. Herbert D. Walker, Mr.
n. D NJ. Jones and Miss Minnie Nash