Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-11
|PLEDGE FUNDS TO AID IN
WORK OF REGISTRATION
RESPONSE to Appeal Is Spon-
tancous-$1, 900 Is Desired
;SSslis Sum.
GOVERNOR TALKS TO WOMEN
Expresses Belief That in Prison Re-
form Lies Greatest Opportunity
Y Women Will Have to Justify
Their Ris.lt 10 Ballot.

fs5gNearly half of $1,000 estimated as
sthe amount needed for the former
stE1ual Suffrage League of Virginia 10
apay Its obligations and carry on the
sslMork of registering the women voters
i5this fall until the permanent organi-
3Ssation of a State branch OF the Ma
Htional League of Women Voters can
stbe effected, was raised yesterday az
/; ternoon in spontaneous contributions
tknnd pledges ut the final session IN
tthe hall of the House OF Delegates OF
1.-THE annual convention OF the expiring
||,sjt Governor Davis addressed the wo-
just prior TO their adjourning to
4endered them by Mrs. Davis The
|ssshief executive expressed it rs his
is9,elief that in the field of prison re-
'fiorm lay the greatest opportunity
sssthat women will have in many years
Ito prove conclusivcly to the men that
have proper and fitting part in
Women Escort Governor.
aiAa Governor Davis was escorted from
'ishis Offices to the House of, Delegates
ySMrs. Gordon Harvey, of Amelia. and
ESaiiss Mary l.. Pidgeon, of Clarke
dscounty. The convention hacked :,
fSergeant- at-arns 10 undertake the cs-
Mrs. Edith Clark Cowles.. of Rich:
iSmond, and Miss Bessie Taylor. OF
ISthe University OF Richmond. will rep
crescent this city on the executive COM
Fmittce OF the new organization. the
Former as "a member al large. the lat
sssional District y second member at
Charge is Miss Lucinda T. Perry of
'8Roanoke. The chairman. Mrs. John
5~H. Lewis, of Lynchburg. will appoint
Five other women ct large from other
organizations who have worked for
The following were nn;ned from the
S5trict Mrs. G. +. Townsend, of Nor
Y Bosher: Fonrth District. Mrs. John 7.
'Elsewis, of Clarkcvillc; Fifth District,
EMiss Elizabeth Gaines. OF Chariottc
lCourthouSc; Sixth District. Mrs. NJ. NJ.
sCaldwell, of Roanoke; seventh Dis
ktrict. Mrs. Rober; Barton. of Winches-
Fer. mother of the new state COM
Nm Robert Il. Barton: Eighth Dis
~ vt. DIR. Kate w. barrett, OF Alex
vria; Ninth District. Mrs. Howard
& Her: of Pulaski; Tenth District.
49,, Organize In October.
~ This committee Will convene early
sin October in this city to launch the
new organization.
Miss Mary Il. Pidgeon, of the Uni
q lersity. Of Virginia. in an address on
sieducation for citizenship, purallcled
Sthe suffrage proclamation TO the
sslgninE of the armistice in the mag
;nitude of the freedom which ii granted
Ito great forces that had been struE
Yelling for noble cause: She de,
4alared that Nirginia's traditions will
4iCd in preparing her women for the
Etrue democracy and called attention
&1o the fact that the State was the
&1iionecr in establishing course in
l.education for citizenship as a sepa-
rnse and di ,bn part Of .he cur
Ss Al the morning business session
:{Sslrs. +. l.. Jobson served rs head OF
;atlie credentials committee and Mrs.
;&Robcrta Wexford was chairman OF the
lFresolutionS committee. Mrs. Lila NJ.
{{yfNalen tines resignation as president
j!ot the Equal Suffrage Tongue on ac-
issseount of i'll health was accepted. and
PROSECUTIONS of the most rcgrctful
'llfnature were passed in connection
NE Colonel Henry W. Anderson was
.lIheard in a summary of Republican
jsplatform planks, and in the after
Enoon Attorney General John X. Saun-
tdet6 outlined 10 the women the chief
Ifenets on watch the Democratic party
tbs basins the present national con-
Hest for the presidency.
sissented by Miss Adele Clark govern
7Ang the aims and purposes OF the
s.gIewiy born State branch OF the Ma
Istional Women Voters League:
f@ Resolution Passed.
4 Resolved, That the Equal Suffrage
3IeaEue of Virginia, in convention as
l.pem6led. form an organization TO be
fscomposed Of not less than sixteen
Emembers, one OF whom shall be the
lEPresidcnt OF the EqnaI Suffrage
of Virginia, and'tcn of whom
3shall be nominated by this Convention,
sisohe from each congressional district,
the remainder to be APP
3pointed by the president. 1t shall he
1.-THE duty of said committee TO draft
la constitution, prepare a budget and
,5Teport TO subsequent conference to
.tlbe called by the president early in
stOctobcT, to which conference shall be
Isyjnvited representatives from other
Estate organizations OF women in Vir-
Sginia.
Resolved, further, That this con-
"a nfA gS u . f,,,,
;3.certain essential requirements in the
IsJuew organization, as follows: % az
gf1liation with the National League Of
Voters; CO nonpartisan pol
10y; 90 program Of education: tD
of legislation; 90 incOrpOra-
s4tion of the League OF Women Voters