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EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES
Conducted by Augusta Equal Suffrage
League.)
"Equity knows no difference of sex.’’—
Herbert Spencer.
Mrs. S. B. Owens—President.
Mr*. W. H. Fleming—First vice-presi
dent.
Mrs. C. R. Stearns—Second vice-presi
dent.
Mrs. E. T. Kruger—Treasurer.
Miss Isabelle Williams—Secretary.
Mrs. J. B. Morgan—Corresponding sec
retary.
Miss Annie G. Wright—Auditor.
Mrs. F. E. Fleming—Parliamentarian.
Miss M. M. Cleckley and Mrs. H. E.
Clark —Directors.
Miss Annie O’Connell—Chairman mem
bership committee committee.
Mrs. W. N. Benton—Chairman finance
committee.
Mrs. T. D. Murphy—Chairman house
committee.
NATIONAL HAS A HOUSEWARMING
Distinguished members of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association
from all over the country gathered at
the association’s new Washington home
on Saturday evening, Dec. 9, for the
housewarming ceremony. Cabinet women
met social workers, wives of senators
and supreme court Justices at the "Na
tional Suffrage, Club," as It is called.
There was dancing and grape Juice punch.
The house had its capacity taxed by
more than 1,000 women and some hun
dreds of men guests.
Miss Heloise Meyer of Lenox, Mass.,
sister of ex-Secretary of the Navy George
von L. Meyer, was chairman of the com
mittee on arrangements, and in the re
ceiving lino with Mrs. J. Borden Har
riman, chairman of the reception com
mittee, were Mrs. Newton D. Baker, wife
of the secretary of war; Mrs. David F.
Houston, wife of the secretary of agricul
ture; Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, Mrs. Adolph
Miller, Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beale, daugh
ter of James G. Blaine; Mrs. Leigh Hunt,
Mrs. Frederick Brooke, Mrs. Glendowen
Evans and Mrs. Walter McNabb Miller,
first vice-president of the national asso
ciation. -
Mrs. Carrie Chapnran Catt went to
Washington for the occasion and Dr.
Anna Howard Shaw, while unable to be
there, will preside later at the dedication
of the Susan B. Anthony memorial room.
—Woman’s Journal.
BALLOTS AND BABIES.
The relation of infant mortality to
equal suffrage was discussed before a
gathering of women the other day by
Dr. W. A. Flecker, registrar of the Rich
mond (Va.) board of vital statistics. Dr.
Flecker said:
"You who advocate the extension of
suffrage to all who are worthy of it,
without regard to sex, have in inind in
that extension likewiso the betterment,
first, of home and child life, and through
them the improvement of the whoel fabric
i .- im■ i<*ty. Tm better politics and gov
ernment and to make the life in city
and country at its best, wo must begin
In the home, and rear families of normal
children, healthy in mind, morals and
body. They must be surrounded at home,
at school and on the streets with influ
ences which will tend to that one end.
Who is better prepared than the mothers
for deciding what is best for their chil
dren, and who more interested in secur
ing the government and legislation that
will secure the results desired?’’
As reported in tlie Richmond Journal,
Dr. Flecker pointed out that of the 60,000
children born every year in Virginia,
about one-tenth die in infancy, mainly
from preventable diseases. In Virginia
the death rate among Infants under one
year of age is 100 in 3,000. In New
Zealand, where women have voted since
1803, the infant mortality rate is 50 in
1,000, the lowest infant death rate in the
world. Kansas, where women have had
municipal suffrage since 1887 and full
suffrage since 1912, lias the lowest rate
of infant mortality in the United States.
"In the Western states, which are prac
tically all woman suffrage, the death
rate for infant* is lower than that of
the rest of the country,’* said Dr. Flecker.
CABINET WIVES HELP BIG DRIVE.
The big drive on congress to be man
aged by the National American Woman
Suffrage Association has gained several
new recruits among women whose hus
bands are very close to the administra
tion.
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, who
arrived in Washington Dec. 6; Mrs. New
ton D. Baker, wife of the secretary of
war, and Mrs. David F. Houston, wife of
the secretary of agriculture, have all
agreed to aid In the campaign at the
capital for nation-wide equal suffrage.
Mrs. Bryan, in an enthsulastic letter
to Mrs. Carrie Chrfpman Catt, declared
suffrage to be a dominant issue this year,
and promised to spend much of her time
while in Washington this winter in help
ing to win over recalcitrant senators and
representatives.
Mrs. W. Y. Morgan of Huchlnson, Kan.,
president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage
Association, and two newly appointed
"congressional aides," Mrs Everett Col
by and Mrs. Philip McKim Garrison, both
of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J.,
are among the other recent additions to
the imposing gathering of women who
are backing the demand for a Federal
amendment in Washington.
POPULAR ELECTION IMPLIES SUF
FRAGE.
Since the recent national election there
lms been much discussion all over the
country as to the wisdom of abolishing
the present electoral college system of
choosing the president and of finding
a more democratic means of election
In this connection the Newark Eve
ning News. Dec. 4, says editorially:
"In reaching a conclusion on the mat
ter it is well to bear in mind that what
ever alternative may be adopted is bound
to make for universal suffrage. Given two
states of equal population, one with wom
an suffrage and the other without, and
the former will have twice the voting
population of the latter. While universal
suffrage is confined, as practically it is
at present, to one section of the country,
that section will have an inequitable in
fiuence in electing a president, whether
that election he by total vote of the na
tion or by proportionate representation in
an electoral body.
"Since the states themselves fix the
qualifications for suffrage, women who
have been granted the ballot can be de
prived of It only by the states in which
they reside, which is hardly within the
limits of probability. To place them
sehes upon terms of equality with the
suffrage states, those that have hitherto
dented women the privilege of voting will
be compelled to give them the ballot
’•Unless universal suffrage comes first
it is practically certain that any consti
tutional amendment abolishing the elec
toral college will be accompanied by an
other granting the franchise to women."
EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
! MEETING.
Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock—state
officers to meet st 11:30 o’clock.
The monthly meeting of the Augus
ta Equal Suffrage League will be held
Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock, at the
League's new headquarters. No. 217
Seventh St.
The state officers are requested to
meet promptly at 3:30 o’clock, as there
will be some important business to
be transacted prior to the meeting at
4 o'clock.
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CRANFORD CALENDAR.
Open afternoons frem 3 to 6. except
Monday, Christmas.
Tuesday Miss Harper.
Wednesday Mrs. Bryan Camming.
Thursday Mrs. James Black. Jr.
Friday Mrs James Harper. Jr.
Saturday Mrs Rumm
Regular meeting of the Cranford
Club will bo held on Frfday of next
week, Jan. sth. Please note the change
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THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.
The Children'* Hospital wishes a
merry Christmas to all of its friends
and extends many thanks for the
presents sent yesterday.
• • •
Miss Igvulxe Ashe, of Atlanta, and
Miss Mary Stephens Ashe, who have
been attending school at Athens, are
spending the holidays with their par
ents. Mr. and Mr*. W, H. Ashe, at
G rave wood, U*.
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