The Belding banner-news., 1920-01-21
WOMEN PLAN
TO CAST THEIR
BALLOTS WISELY
MEN FOLKS" AND INHERITED
AFFILIATIONS CAN GO TO
SMASH-HAVE OWN IDEAS

How will women vote next fall !?
Blindly? The way their men folks
do according to inherited party affi-
liations? By personal appeal of can
didates? Indeed no-not if the Mich.
igan League of Women Voters can
reach them with ideas and suggestions
it believes to be of prime Importance
to every thinking woman in the state.
An opportunity exists for the wo-
men of Michigan to work effectively
in bringing about desired changes in
the local and national systems of gov
ernment. The Michigan League Of
Women Voters offers that opportun-
ity, for it is the only state associa-
tion with such an avowed object.
Just as women worked together
strenuously and doggedly to secure
the ballot, they are now working as
strenuously and doggedly to impress
on the great number of feminine vot-
ers who are novices at voting that
their responsibilities today are as
great as when the race for suffrage
was not nearly won.
These women in Michigan, with the
League of Women Voters hold them
selves ready to welcome every woman
in every county of the state to mem
bership and to extend TO each one an
opportunity for such service and eff
fort as will promote the policies Of
legislation, which will be benefit to
the people at large. Women are ev-
erywhere interested in educating
themselves in the use of the ballot.
They realize their need to secure full
and definite information concerning
the measures which are recommended
for passage in the legislatures and the
federal congress. Knowing this, and
hoping to utilize these. impulses to
build better state the Michigan
League of Women Voters is urging
its enfranchised women to ally them
selves with this organization which
has as it's purpose: "To increase the
effectiveness of women's votes in fur
thering better government"
By so doing these women will throw
their balance of influence toward all
aims to correct the ills upon the po-
litical face of the state-yet, as in
dividuals they are free, and are urg-
ed to align themselves with the par
ties of their choice. This is possible,
because the League is not partisan.
AS an auxiliary of the National
American Suffrage Association, the
Michigan League of Women Voters is
therefore a part of an organization
representing 14,000,000 women who
are thoughtfully considering the po-
litical situation. While the definite
measures which it will set forth as its
program, will not be announced until
after the annual state convention is
held in the fall, it is meantime exert
ing its influence in molding public
opinion in regard to many vital prob
lens.
Departments in the Michigan
League Of Women Voters are devoted
to specialized consideration of
these problems The Chairranship
Of these departments are entrusted
to notable Michigan women whose
experience in civic administration and
other branches of public activity oual-
ifv them to render valuable leader
ship.
Of the departments designated as
GOOD Problem. Miss, Jennie Buell..
Of Hastings, is chairman. Miss Buell.
has been secretary Of State Grange
many years and during the war was
connected with the food committee
of her home county of Washtenaw.
Through monthly contact with large
number of rural organizations in
in which civic, social legislative and
human topics have been discussed,
she developed special interest and
knowledge in. the general question
of food supply and demand.
Miss Mary L. Hinsdale. well known
both within and without Michigan for
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