The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-14
WOMEN VOTERS
TO ORGANIZE
State Meeting VIII Be Held at Jackson
Vile March 81, to Form League.

The Florida League of Women Voters
will be organized at a meeting to be
held in Jacksonville on March 81 and
April 1, in the Seminole hotel, and all
women Of the state interested are most
cordially invited to attend.
The call for the meeting is being sent
out by Mrs. j. 3. Salley, of Aiken. third
regional director of the National League
for Women Voters, and Mrs. ]. y. Cor
bet, of Jacksonville. who has been APP
pointed TO perfect all arrangements for
the meeting in Jacksonville.
The League of Women Voters win be
organized on the day preceding the
opening of the state social service con-
ference which will be held in the Semi
mole hotel April l and ? and it is ex-
pected this will insure an especially large
attendance, as many of the women in
terested in social service work were lead
ers in the suffrage movement and will
be particularly interested in the con-
structive work of the League of Women
Voters.
The opening meeting will be held ON
Thursday night March 81, in the audi
forum, tenth floor, of the Seminole no.
tel when Mrs. Salley. of Aiken. S. c.,
will deliver an address. She is charm
ing woman. a forceful and magnetic
speaker. and her address will be one of
the features of the entire program.
The business session will open at 10
O'Clock Friday morning, April 1. and
luncheon will be enjoyed in the Seminole
at l o'clock. Plans for an afternoon ses-
sion have not yet been completed.
In addition to the officers of the
tional organization. Mrs. Salley, of South
Carolina and Mrs. Jacobs, of Alabama,
who will speak, prominent Florida Wo-
men from various parts of the state will
be on the programs, and several particu-
larly interesting speakers will be on
the luncheon program.
Following is the official call for the
meeting which is being issued through
out the state:
Call to Organization Conference.
The Florida League of Women Voters:
III ever the world sees a time when
women shall come together purely and
simply for the benefit and good of man
kind, II will be as a power such as the
world has never known
To the Women of Florida, Greetings.
There will be convention in Jackson
vile on March 81 and April l at the Sem
mole hotel to form a Florida League of
Women Voters. Every woman in the
state is welcome and is urged to attend
this meeting, which is to be held on the
day preceding the social service conven-
ton for the convenience of those attend
ing that convention. The purpose of the
league Of women voters is to put a driv-
ing force behind a program of education
and legislation and which aims to i'm
prove the electorate by overcoming ig-
uorance and Indifference to the duties
of citizenship. The legislative program
of the social service workers. as well as
of all other legislative programs for up
lift and betterment, win need such an or
ganiZation. Come, let US reason togeth-
er" Florida is the only state in which
the league of women voters is not al
ready organized. On March 81. we will
have an opportunity to remedy this.
Mrs. Julian b. Salley, of Aiken. S, c., |
third regional director. and Mrs. Scion |
Jacobs. of Birmingham, Ala, secretary, |
League of Women Voters. will
be present and address the conference. |
DO not miss this opportunity to learn |
from women something of what women |
are doing, what there is for women TO |
do, and what the women of Florida can |
do, by organization.
EULALIE SALLEY.
Third Regional Director.
GERTRUDE ID. CORBET.
State Chairman