The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
COMMITTEE MAKES
 ELABORATE PLANS FOR VICTORY PARADE
Thirty-Six States Who Ratified Suffrage Amendment to Be Represented All Women
 Invited to Join

l to be staged in Birmingham tomorrow afterno>n~at o'clock by the women of this county will be worked out at | meeting this afternoon at 12;30 o'clock at Cable Hall. All members of the general committee are urged to be present.
 Thirtysix automobiles elaborately decorated will head the parade. They will represent the thirty-six states ratifying the suffrage amendment and will appear in the parade in the order in which they ratified. Each will bear the name of the state it represents and the following women will ride in them :: Illinois, Mrs. E. Anderson; Wisconsin, Mrs. z. M. Long of Jasper; Michigan, Mrs. James Bowron; Kansas, Mrs. Alex London; New York, Mrs. Chalmers Moore; Ohio, Mrs. H. Key Milner; Pennsylvania, Mrs. T. G. Bush; Massa- chusetts, Mrs. W. D. Nesbitt Texas, Mrs. J. R. Hornady; Iowa, Mrs. w. I. Grubb; Missouri, Mrs. Sidney Hart; Arkansas, Mrs. Kenneth Smith; Mon tana, Mrs. Brooks; Nebraska Mrs. Will liam Vaughn; Minnesota, Mrs. Gallin; New Hampshire, Mrs. J. F. Carle; Utah. Mrs. E. c. Prince; California, Mrs. Carr Mccormack of New Castle; Maine, Mrs. Almon; North Dakota, Mrs. H. H. K
 Jefferson; South Dakota, Mrs. George Harris; Colorado, Mrs. D. M. Starnes Rhode Island. Mrs. D. B. McLendon
 Kentucky, Mrs B. A. Cooper; Oregon
 Miss Madeline Jacobs; Indiana, Mrs. l..
 Smith; Wyoming, Miss Willie Byrd ;
 Nevada. Mrs. Sam Batson; New Jersey
 Mrs. Donahoo; Idaho, Mrs. Walter
 Beasley; Arizona, Mrs. Edmund Armes;
 New Mexico, Mrs. J. M. DeShazo; i;
 Oklahoma. Mrs. Arthur Moody; West
 Virginia, Mrs. M. G. McGough Wash
 ington. Mrs. Hankins and Tennessee,
 the perfect thirty sixth" Mrs. H. E.
 Pearce.
 FIRST sECTfON
 Mrs. W. D. Nesbitt, chairman of the
 automobile committee. urges all wom-
 en to meet promptly between 3 and 3:30
 o'clock as the automobiles form the
 first section of the papade which will
 start at o'clock. These cars will form
 on Eighteenth street between Sixth and
 Seventh avenues.
 In addition to the thirty-six automo-
 piles there, will be a large number of
 cars in the parade as many of the To-
 cal women's organizations will ride in
 decorated automobiles. Practically ev-
 cry club. organization of all kinds as
 well as church societies will participate
 in this victory parade which prVmses
 to be the largest ever staged in this
 city.
 A proclamation has been issued by
 the City Commission declaring the day
 a holiday and during the hours of the parade everyone will either be watch ing or taking part in the demonstra- tion. Many women have signified their intention of marching in the parade and the first section of marchers will be the pioneer suffragists of Birming ham. Many other organizations will walk in the parade and the women will wear white dresses or white shirt waists and skirts, white shoes and a white hat. Mrs. Solon Jacobs, chair man of the general committee, stated that no woman need remain out of the parade because she does not happen to be wearing these things.
 The parade will form on Sixth ave- nue and Nineteenth street in front of the First Methodist church and will go south on Nineteenth street to First
 avenue east on First avenue to Twen- tieth street and north of Twentieth
 street to Capital park, where the parade will disband. Here they will be several short speeches made by both men and women in comm em oration of the ratification of the nineteenth amendment. Every member of the gen. eral committee is urged to meet at Cable Hall at 12:3O o'clock to assist in making final arrangements for the demonstration.
 NINETEENTH AMENDMENT There are only forty-six words in the nineteenth amendment to the Consti- tuition, IS passed by Congress. It reads: |: "Section 1. The right of citizens. of the United States to vote shall not he denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Section ?. Congress shall have power by appropriate Legislation to enforce the provisions of this ticIe.
 SEQUENCE OF RATIFICATION The sequence of the ratification of suffrage for women by the several states was as follows: June 10, 1919-Illinois. June 10 1919-Wisconsin. June TO- 1919-Michigan. June 10, 1919-Kansas. June 16, 1919-New York. June 16. 1919-Ohio. June 24, 1919-Pennsylvania. JHne 25. e1s-Massachusetts. June 2S. 1919-Texas. July 2. 1919-Iowa. July 3, 19197Missouri. July 2S, 1919-Arkansas. July 30, 1919-Montana. August ?, 1919-Nebraska. September 8, 1919-Minnesota. September 10. 1919-New Hampshire, September 30. 191s-Utah. November l, 1919-California. November 5, 1919-Maine. December 1, 1919-North Dakota. December 4, 1919-South Dakota. December 12. 1919-Colorado. January 6, 1920-Rhode Island. January 6, 1920-Kentucky | January 12, 1920-Oregon. | January 16, 1920--Indana. January 27, 1920-Wyoming. ! February ', 1920-Nevada. | February g, 1920-New Jersey. l February II. 1920-Idaho. i February 12. 192o-Arizona. l February 19, 1920-New Mexico. 1 February 2S. 1920-Oklahoma. l March 10, 1920-West Virginia. l March 22, 1920-Washington. i August IS, 1920-Tennessee. SECURING PERMITS
 FOR NEW BUILDINGS