Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-02
WOMEN VOTERS HAVE
SUCCESSFU Ill MEET.
BY CAROLINE VANCE
(Lcased Wire Service to The Journal.)
Copyright, 1922

(LcaSed Wire Service TO Inc JourHal.J
Copyright, 1922)
BALTIMORE, Nd, April 29.-To
take up the battle with their own
pet enemies in local policies where
they left off more than week ago
the delegates to the Baltimore con-
vention of the League Of Women
Voters are rushing back home to-
.day.
The women voters have been
~. much heartened by this week OF
. s::ss.cxperience" meetings. 1t was
.ruuch like a protracted revival meet
) ing, when the women from the va
rious states got up and told how
]. they dealt with the hosts of political
darkness. No doubt they prayed
that the Lord would send consterna-
-tion among their enemies during
their absence. At any rate they
!. are returning much strengthened IN
spirit and woe betide the peanut poll
ticians who bark not when the
women shall but whisper in their
home districts.
49, The much mooted question OF
!. whether the League of Women Vot-
ers shall take stand in indorslng
and opposing candidates was defeat
ed by the pessimistic element within
the membership. Their argument
was that it would merely be a ques-
ton in most cases of choosing be-
tween a black pot and sooty ket-
tie. But that decision does not pre-
vent the league from delving into
the dark pasts of the political pots
3 and kettles and airing what they
bring forth in view of all the voters.
Another closely allied question
was the proposal to abandon all ef-
forts toward obtaining social well
fare legislation and to concentrate
no obtaining deficiency in govern
ment.'' Mrs. John o. Miller, Of
4 Pennsylvania, led in the fight to
scrap social welfare subjects. She
argued that women were not pre-
= pared to render decisions and TO
reject and indorse certain pieces or
1, proposed legislation, that it was
dangerous to do so unless the SUD-
jects were thoroughly studied with
ell the evidence at hand when was
impossible to do in all parts OF the
1Scelntry. In other words the League
of Women Voters is as constituted
at present another congress sitting
in Judgment on widely varying sorts
OF proposed legislation and without
q the opportunities congressman nave
of studying this legislation. rms
faction which at times threatened a
SPLIT in the league went down to de-
feat. for the time being at least,
! nuder what looked very much like
{ steam roller tactics. It is this fac
ton that looks with disfavor upon
Z fhe so-called powerful lobby which
s the league maintains in Washington
and which attempts to dictate to
congressmen how they should vote.
1t is the same powerful lobby" that
I Alice Robertson claimed ordered her
!. to vote for the little navy" as
i AGAINST the treaty navy" backed
by the president.
Cnconsciously, I believe, the Unit
ed States delegates to the Pan Amer
lean conference held in connection
with the League OF Women Voters
s sacenyention, had previous to the meet
ing adopted a superior attitude to-
wards the women from the South
american countries and from our
outlying possessions. They were
subjected Ghe United States dele
gafes) because of this superior at
gasped when Madame jain G. De
Vera, of the Philippines contrasted
the morals of native Fiiipinos with
those of American soldiers, to the
disadvantage of the latter and they
Opened their eyes in wide wonder
when Sonora Olga Capurro de val
era. official delegate from Uruguay,
ted of laws that must make OF
.UJruguay veritable Uptopia Tor
women. She claims that the women
initiate all the laws and the men
merely carry them out.
s"'Coyernor Ritchi We'd with Lady
Estor in being the hit Of the Wom-
en- Voters convention. The hand
some governor of Maryland spoke
at several of the dinners, meetings,
etc., and the delegates were invited
to- the governors mansion for tea
down in placid and venerable An
napolis. The fact that in addition
TO being easy on feminine eyes GOV
errlor Richie is at the moment "un-
attached" in a matrimonial way,
added to the thrill of the occasion.
Mrs. Albert Richie, mother OF the
governor, helped receive in the
stately mansion and the governor S
smile of radiant welcome was warm.
ing to say the least.
LADY Astor by the way brought
with her on the same boat one OF
her feminine political enemies, Mrs.
I'M. Dreschfield, member Of the
British council of women. Mrs.
Dreschfield says that Lady Astor
voted against the bill sponsored by
the council to make the divorce
laws Of England apply equally to
men and women.