Evening star., 1924-09-14
DRIVE TO GET OUT VOTE
PUSHED HARD BY WOMEN
Coal for November Election Is Is Per
Cent of Eligibles-Results Al
ready Impressive.

more than 25,ooo.Ooo intelligent
voters"
Among the methods tried success
fully in Missouri, .under the general
ship of Mrs. George Gellhorn were
these: Two hundred and fifty thou
sand cards and circulars on voting
were distributed for the August
primaries in st. Louis. Speakers went
to individual plants and talked to the
employees. Employers distributed
notices in pay envelopes. Motion pic
ture theaters ran slides several days
before registration. Radio programs
included speeches on the importance
of registering. A telephone corps of
1000 men and women was organized.
each person agreeing to telephone 100
persons and supply information con-
cerning registration to them.
Tour to Get Out Vote.
A "get out the vote" caravan will
tour the State of Pennsylvania
throughout October, starting on
October I from Independence Square,
Philadelphia. The automobile caravan,
containing representatives of every
Organization cooperating with the
league in the campaign will stop at
virtually every -four corners" in the
State. County and local league repre-
sentatives will meet the State caravan
at the county border lines and escort
the caravan through the county
Speeches will be made all along the
route. The league is also erecting
signs in conspicuous places showing
the number of votes cast i'll that
community in 1920 and what the 25
per cent increase sought by the drive
means in figures.
In Texas, 1000 circulars with the
I,x1 80 -, alA "a
conspicuously emphasized were mailed
with letters urging league women to
make careful note of these days and
then work to get out the largest pos
sible vote. Returns from the Texas
primaries Indicate that the calendar
| reminders were we'll needed.
With the Massachusetts, primary
still fresh in mind 1T is interesting to
note how the women there are work.
ing. Everything hinges on the pre-
cinct worker" says Miss Mary Web
ster, who is the chief deviser of the
Cambridge leagues plan to increase
registration. Essentials for success,
she believes, are a general, or city,
chairman with a motor car to use at
will and unlimited telephone service,
and precinct workers of her choice
who will find their canvassers..
This year the Cambridge league ex-
poets to double the vote. Miss Web
ster has instituted a system of refer
ence books" for her workers and she
herself has the master reference
book" in which Information brought
in by canvassers is transferred, with
a check system in colors-red means
"alien," green opposed" blue mon
resident" purple Ineligible" Names
of persons who are reported will
register" are checked with a mark
through the will" when their names
appear in the official list of registered
voters.
For two weeks before final regis
tration in Rhode Island, Mrs. Level
Willis of East Providence and her
assistants spent full time in the town
clerks office checking UP the regis
tration lists. Delinquent names were
sent to district leaders, who made
personal calls, telephone calls and
sent post cards in an effort to have
every name registered.
They are painting on barn roofs in
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