Phoenix tribune., 1921-07-23

Prominent women coming from ev
cry section of the country, were in at
tendance at the opening of the second
biennial session of the Northwestern
Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
which was held at the Monroe school
auditorium.
The convention opened Monday
morning July Is at S:45 o'clock with
Mrs. Joanna Snowden Porter of Chi.
cago, president of the Northwestern,
presiding. The morning session was
devoted to the work of the executive
committee and the convention proper
did not open until 1880 Monday after.
noon, when delegates were enrolled
and appointment of committee made
A propram was rendered Monday
evening at which time welcome ad-
dresses were made by Secretary of
Stale, Ernest Hall, Rev. T. ]. Sanford,
Mrs. C. B. Caldwell, Mrs. r. F. Rodg-
ers, Mr. Jas. A. Green, Mr.. A. NJ. Car
ter and A. r. Smith. Musical num-
bers on the program were: solo, Mrs,
Major Jones, violin solo, Mrs. Ada C.
Thomas; duet, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew
White; vocal selection, Mrs. Frank
Shirley; response, Mrs. Withers of
Minnesota.
Following the rendition of the above
program, the president, Mrs. Joanna
Snowden Porter, delivered her annual
address. Mrs. Porter spoke in part
as follows:
SISTER Delegates to the Second Bi-
enial Convention of the Northwestern
Federation of Colored Women's Clubs,
Fellow Citizens, Men and Women:
Il want to pause brief moment to
congratulate us on the wonderful re-
ception we have had at the hands of
the women of the west, organized in
to that wonderful Arizona Federation
of Colored Women. We realize that
the welcome is state wide and as we
entered the portals of your city
and state, after we had braved the
heat of the desert, climbed the noun
tain and cleft the valley, we had suf-
ficient evidence to make our welcome
supreme.
Il shall not take up your time to
review the work of the Federation
during the last two years at this time,
which includes the reports of the Of
ficers and delegates from the differ
ent membership and the representa-
tives of the government, will fully ap-
prise you of the fact that we have
been up and doing all character of
work taken up by women's clubs.
Il do however, for a few brief mo-
ments wish to relieve my mind of its
disturbing elements by discussing
with you the issues before the nation
at this time, especially those which
have obtained since the close of the
war.
I'VE gave the nation, men to defend
the flag. They marched away as
cheerfully as any group that was call
ed. The women of the race who re-
manned at home and those who were
impressed into service for the coun-
try, worked with faith supreme and
sacrifices supreme that the nation re-
man free. For this reason | would
urge that there be Incorporated in the
the resolutions passed by this body,
a demand for a place in all courts of
action of readustment. Demands that
laws to be enacted and those enacted
enforced so that liberty might be writ
ten in words of life and not of blood,
on the escutcheon of the nation.
Suffrage enacted to give to wo-
manhood the power of selection in
matters pertaining to legislation, falls
far short of what was expected to re-
suit from the forty years battle wag-
ed by the women of the country for
emancipation from political slavery.
The mothers who represent the un-
measured and unweighed jewels of our
land, must be given that full equality