The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
WOMAN CITIZEN 4 Department coadueted by the Jsffsrsea County League of Women votsrs
New Board Announced

X Jefferson County League of Women Voters. has just announced the appoint 2 ment of the committee chairmen who win serve with her and the other off rers as members of the executive board S during the coming year. ,
 The first meeting of the new board will be held at the Hillman hotel on Tuesday at a Dutch luncheon at 1 p. m. The guest of honor will be Mrs. George Gellhorn of St. Louis. who is ] known throughout the United States as a speaker and worker in the league Miss Helen Rocca of Cleveland, who will be here to direct the citizen ship school tomorrow and Tuesday, and Mrs. Lula Shepherd. we'll known ora tor and representative of the National { Reform Association of America. The new committee chairmen are: State and national affairs, Mrs. W. ] J. Adams. .-..-..
 Educational. Miss Rosa Strickland. Health and hygiene, Mrs. J. D. Bowling. .. Peace and arbitration, Mrs. l.. F. Harris.
 Women in industry. Miss Mollie Dowd.
 , Anericanisation, Mrs. A.. J. Pref. l. ankamp.
 : Headquarters. Mrs. Rudolph weeelin.
 q Social. Mrs. C. B. Ja-nes. s Membership. Mrs. l.. Albritton.
 Program. Mrs. E. H. Newsome. Legislative. Mrs. Sydney Hart.
 Social welfare, Mrs. Charles G. { Brown.
 County precincts, Mrs. E. J. Burns. The precinct chairmen appointed so ! far are: West End. Mrs. J. J. Wind- ham; East Lake. Mrs. J. NJ. Minter {: { woodlawn, Mrs. o. D. Freeman; Fair field, Mrs. Charles A. Fiske; Ingle- nook, Mrs. Herbert Kline. The others will be appointed later. Besides Mrs. < Hankins. the new officers are: Mrs. Palmer Daugette, vice president: Mrs. Dora c. Fell, second vice president {; Miss Marjorie Adler, third vice presi- ; dent; Mrs. W. D. Colby, treasurer {; 2 Mrs. Priestley Toulmin, secretary Mrs. Neil R. Wallace, publicity secre- tary. These ladies are asked to notify : headquarters. Main 5SS6, whether or net they will attend the luncheon on Tuesday.
 Letter to League Members
 The following letter went out last week:
 January 16, 1924. Dear Members of the League Please come to the citizenship school and urge all your friends and neighbors to come. { See enclosed program. Social session for business women each evening from z to 8. No admission for members of league, their membership card being their ad- mission ticket. Non-members will be charged a small fee except for night meetings, which are free. Men as well as women invited. The two night meetings will be splendid. so don't miss them. All sessions held at Hillman hotel.
 If you haven't already registered and paid your poll tax. do so at once, at the court house. Please give the en- closed leaflets to people who haven't registered and paid their poll tax.
 Next regular meeting of the league will be held Tuesday night at at the Hillman. followed by reception in honor of Mrs. Gellhorn. Be sure and come. Yours faithfully,
 MRS, J. NJ. HAWKINS, President Jefferson County League of Women Voters, Hillman hotel, Bir- Ts mingham, Ala.
 ST Annual report of executive secre- tary, Jefferson County League of { Women Voters:
 January 8. 1924. i, Madam President and Members of the League: I beg to submit herewith my report as executive secretary.
 I began work on Monday. January 22, 1923, and have averaged about five hours work every week day, with the nf xudokS vacation August.
 During this time, my activities have covered every phase of league work.
 Publicity
 The most important element in the success of any organization such as the league is in it's publicity, and l am glad to say that our publicity has been excellent. The newspapers have been most generous of space. On Jan ! uary 2S we opened our regular weekly columns in the News and The Age Herald. and they have been run con ! tinuously ever since, averaging about two columns each, weekly. Mrs. John Foster, publicity secretary, was obliged to resign last February and ; her place was taken by Mrs. E. C.. ! Citizen column in The Age-Herald from March till June, at which time she moved to Los Angeles. During tbe summer and fall. Mrs. Hugh l.. ' Allison very ably took charge of The Age Herald column. and did splendid work, but was obliged to resign the s first of December, since I have writ ten both columns. It has also fallen to my lot to handle all thepublicity outside of the columns-by far the 2 largest part of the publicity work and great deal of my time has been given to writing the stories, getting them in, and calling up the papers.
 Letters
 One of my first undertakings was to learn to use our multigraph. During the year I have sent out 2,500 mo- tiees of general meetings and 315 no- tices to the executive board. In addi tion, l wrote S15 letters for the wom- an in industry committee, 5000 for z the convict lease campaign, 800 for the citizenship essay contest. 600 for Y the organizer, 50 for the county pre- < ciret chairman, and 200 membership z letters. These. with 245 letters of general correspondence will bring the number sent out from our office ur fo S,225. This does not include the vast amount of literature sent out for the state wide campaign committee. The !. multigraph hns also been used to null tigraph song g-Hheets for our community singing wish here to express my thinks to Mrs. Marston, Mrs. Jacobs stenographer, who very kindly gave her services to us for several days dur ing the membership drive.
 Inquiries lave come from all over the state, and from other states, about