Evening star., 1926-09-05

When they have succeeded in forcing
upon Uncle Sans substantial Citlzenry
the necessity of exercising its voting
privilege en- masSe. and not by
meager percentage. they can feel that
they not only have accomplished much
but have established that new era in
politics" which one of their leaders
declares quite honestly has not yet
been reached.
Statistics show that nowhere else
on the face Of the globe is the duty of
voting taken so lightly as in this
great American republic. Perhaps
politics would not have to he house
cleaned" so vigorously or so often If
the ma jority of the voters regularly
exercised their privilege.
This is the opinion of the leading
women's political organizations, which.
despite varied aims. are united in the
one big effort to encourage Il more
representative number of regular Wis
itors to the polls on election day.
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WITH the vacation period at an end.
w the immediate attention of the
officers of the National ! .qgue or
Women Voters is being directed 10 a
week of important conferences, 10 De-
held from September 13 to IS, inclu-
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Mrs. William G.. Hibbard. a director
The first two days of conference
week. Monday and Tuesday. Septem-
Der 13 and ii. will be devoted eXclu-
sively to organization matters. MISS
Belle Sherwin. president. ana MISS
Katharine I,udington of Lyme, Conn.
treasurer. will confer with the regional
directors and secretaries from an
parts of the country. Reports or the
growth of the league in "A states VIII
be made and plans discussed TOT
greater development of the work
Those directors making up the or
ganizatiOn department who Will meet
with the president and treasurer IN.
clude Mrs. James f. CheeSman OF
Providence, X. L.: Mrs. Caspar Whit
ney of New York City; Mrs. Mary q.
CoUper of Durham. y. c.; Mrs. VII
liam G.. IIibbard of Winnetka. Ill:
Miss Marguerite NJ. Wells of Mime
apolis: Mrs. Roscoe Anderson OF ST
Louis. Mo-. and Mrs. Ernest j. Mott
of San Francisco, Callf.
Secretaries who will take part in the
discussion are Miss Margaretta VIII
hanson of Asheville, n. c.; Miss Flor
ence Harrison of Minneapolis: Miss
Ruth Mcintosh; Mrs. John f. ParkeS
of Minneapolis. and Mrs. Elise Harlan
Tharp of San Francisco.
Following the organization confer
ence. the annual Fall meeting or the
board of directors will be held. The
regional directors will be joined by
other officers for the opening session
of the board meeting Wednesday
morning, September 10.
Owing to the absence OF several
members still vacationing in Europe,
the complete board will not sit at the
Winnetka conference. Among the
executive committee members expected
to attend are Mrs. James w. Morrison
of Chicago. first vice president; Miss
Adele Clark of Richmond, Va, second
vice president; Miss Elizabeth j.
Hauser of Girard, Ohio, fourth vice
president. and Miss Mollie Ray Car
roll of Baltimore, fifth vice president.
Mrs Hibbard, at whose home the
sessions are to be held, is in Geneva
observing the League of Nations at
work. Miss Ruth Morgan. third vice
president, is another board member
watching developments at Geneva.
Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith OF Farm
ingtOn Conn, secretary, sailed lO Gays
ago for two months in Italy.
Members of the league throughout
the country, and particularly those In
States adjacent to New York City, are
interested this week in a meeting In
honor of Lady Astor The NationaI
and New York State Leagues OF
Women Voters have arranged meet
ing Thursday night in the Waldorf
Astoria, New York City, at which
Lady Astor will make her only speech
sin this country before her return for
the early opening of Parliament.
Station WIZ and allied stations will
broadcast Lady Astors address at
o'clock. and many local leaguers are
planning special group gatherings TO
hear her.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, honorary
president of the National League. will
also address the meeting. Miss kath-
arine IudingtOn, treasurer of the Ma
tionaI League. will preside. Owen ID.
Young, u member of the National
Leagues advisory committee, who had
so great q share in the successful
work of the Dawes Commission, VIII
introduce Lady AstOr.
Widely known women are members
of the special committee of arrange
ments, including Mrs. Montgomery
Hare, chairman; Mrs. Gait. DIR. kath-
crime Bennett Davis, Mrs. Henry God
dard Leach, Mrs. John w. Davis, Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. Franklin
ID. Roosevelt, Mrs. Norman Der.
Whitehouse. Mrs. Caspar Whitney,
Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Mrs.
James Lees I,aidlaw Mrs. August Bel
mont. Miss Mabel Choate, Miss Mary
Garrett Hay, Mrs. Elon Huntington
Hooker, Mrs. Edward NJ. House, Mrs.
Wallace Irwin, Miss Belle Sherwin.
Miss Ruth Morgan. Mrs. Herbert Lee
Pratt and Mrs. Charles l.. Tiffany.
1t is understood that Lady Astor Is
in Virginia at present. but will go TO
New York Tuesday morning.
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MEMBERS of the National Wom-
AVA ans Party entertained at a re-
ception last night in honor of Mrs. +.
L. Ransome of Tucson, Ariz., State
chairman. who returned recently from
Europe, where she attended the Paris
conclave Of the International Suffrage
Alliance.
Mrs. Ransome, Mrs Burnita Shell
ton Matthews, president Of the Dis
trict Woman's Bar Association. and
Mrs. Robert Walker of Baltimore were
the speakers Of the evening.
Mrs. Ransome reviewed some Incl
dents of the Paris conference, told of
her part in the London procession in
July and touched upon her program
in Arizona this Fall. which will include
the introduction of drafts of the equal
rights law into the State Legislature.
Mrs. Walker, who. like Mrs. Ran
some, had not returned to America
when the other delegates to Paris
were entertained at the Woman's Party
headquarters, Selated her experience
at Paris. stressing her impression Of
the effect the opposition to the Wom-
ans Party had upon the public In
general. She predicted that the first
European INVASION OF the National
Woman's Party would result eventu-
ally in a change in the development
of the whole feminist movement In
Europe.
Mrs. Matthews described her part In
the London procession, which was the
first international demonstration I'm