The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-18

the receiving line-D. E. McLendon president of the city commission, and Mrs. McLendon; Commissioner and Mrs. w. B. Cloe.< Commissioner and Mrs. William Harrison and Commits sioner W. E. Dickson.
 It was mentioned several times how unfortunate 1t was that Mrs Dickson was unable to be present She was detained at home on account of the Illness of three of her chil. dren by ptomai1e poisoning.
 Long Receiving fine
 In the receiving line there seemed to be as many as 90 members--repre. sentatives of the various womens clubs of importance in the city.
 As l approached the end of the lina four women reached out hand to stop me, declaring
 We are from Ensley and we cal. ourselves Mrs. Echols' body,xuard' :"
 Please be sure to say how enthusi- astic we are for Mrs. Echols. And'- it was Mrs. J. J. Walker speaking T am particularly proud of the fac. that she is a charter member of the Sesam club of Ensley. which I rep. resent"
 Mrs. J. K. Cook represented ths Ensley Highlands Delphian club. Mrs Frank J. Leslie the Ensley Chryso. lite club. and the fourth woman of the Ensley group, Mrs K. R. May nard, was from the Minor School I'm. provement association.
 Mrs. w. b. Nesbitt was the League of Women Voters hostess for the afternoon. She looked lovely in green georgette. Mrs. Richard Johnston, president of the league. never look ed more attraetive than in a creation of coral georgette. adorned with irl-. descents
 She stood next to Mrs. EchoIs in the receiving line. Earlier she had presided at a programme of addresses which opened the afternoons af- fairs, at 2:3O o'clock
 Several Talks.
 Talks were made by Mrs. A J. Bcwron, Mrs. Solon Jacobs, after which Mrs. Echols made her short address. Mrs. Charles Sharp, chair man for disarmament for both the state and local League of Women Voters, and who was scheduled to give disarmament talk, was i'll and could not be present Mrs. Johnston, as the gracious presiding official, in- troduced the speakers in charming style.
 Mrs. Jack Bowron told the audience what it is like to have personal knowledge and the sight of devasta- tion caused by the World war She has just returned from abroad and described in vivid phrases one spot in Belgium where spears have been stacked in trench and left standing thrust in the ground above the spot where their owners were buried. The spears give mute evidence of the de- struction of whole regiment by a terrific rain of bomb fire.
 'To me- said Mrs. Bowron, those spears stand as the most shocking memorial to the horrors of war"
 It was Mrs. Solon Jacobs who urged the women voters to register and who outlined some of the pos abilities, hopes and aspirations of the league. It was the duty of the or ganization, and it's effort, she said to help educate the women and the public to the importance of voting She spoke of next years being a great voting season, telling the hearers that they must register between now , and February.
 Lengue's Aims.
 One of the leagues aims" averred Mrs. Jacobs, "is to create good cit izenship. It wishes to make better citizens and better conditions under which to live"
 Mrs. Echols' talk on cooperation closed the programme. with the ex- ception of telegrams concerning dis armament, which were read. These telegrams were those the league sent to President Harding. Senator oscar Underwood, and ex-President Wilson through Mrs. Johnston, as president and Mrs. Charles Sharp as chair man of the disarmament committee of the league. The replies from Wash ington, read by the secretary, Mrs. T. D. Strock, thanked the league for its sympathy and good wishes con corning the hoped-for success of the disarmament programme Said Mrs. Johnston:
 Our reception today revealed to me more clearly than anything else how our women are developing. The outpouring of women citizens shows how our women voters are begin ming to take their rightful interest and place in civic affairs. We gave the reception to show our apprecia- ton that we have woman repre- sentative on the governing body of our city. We wanted to let Mrs. Echols know that Birmingham wom- en are anxious to cooperate with her and with the other commissioners in  better place in which to live" Mrs. Johnston became more earn est:
 Wants More Members. We want to increase our leagues membership because we realize the importance of having a large wom- ans political organization. We can do great good with 1t. We can get better politicians and officers there by"
 Announcing the guests of the aft ernoon was Mrs. Baxter and in the receiving line were the members of the leagues executive board. was sorry that 1t was impossible to get the names of every woman in the receiving line. but the jam was too great. Among them, besides those 1 have mentioned. were Mrs. ] William Hood and Mrs. M. J. Han kins, the latter of Woodlawn.
 Mrs. Echols was clad in a gray