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ft iftlt;u**iftiti!i iPageant, Parade and Mass Meeting Crossed Off Calendar by Chairman.No symbolical suffrage choruses win dance on The stage of the Oakland Auditorium oa September 14. No ardent suf-ra*, cites trill parade through San Francisco- None will address a mass meeting; at Scottish Rftea hall across the bay.All these things are not to be* for since the arrival of Miss Alice Paul In San Francisco, the pageant* parade and mags meetf^s' have been ruthlessly crossed oft the calendar of events on the 'Woman Voters Convention program.Miss Paul, who appeared on the scene several days agp. is the executive chair-man la charge of details of the first conference to oe net a oy svomcn. with and for the baKot__ She is also one of the organizers of the' Coogressloaaal Union and a resident of Washington* D Her action in calling off the events planned by the local women entrusted with preparing the way* has come as a decided surprise* as tickets bad been^ sold lor the mass meeting and the pantomime* which was to be a bnHiaac and unique affair and had been already composed by Miss Anne Bearden of the University of California, and placed in charge of Porter Garnett* the well known Berkeley pageant director. jIn planning these* Oakland and San* .Francisco women have worked energetic- [ | ally and have been as energetically sup- 1 , ported by their friends and sympathizers j with the projects- Miss Boris Stevens,, another organizer of the convention and one of the first to be sent out here* has been at the head of these plans- |Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney* the! the chairman of the California branch of 1 the Congressional Union* and Miss Nellie Bullock* who has been in charge of the, t Oakland arrangements* refused to crlti-! | cize Miss Paul’s action in canceling the i plans of her predecessors In the state.| The movement the union is under-J taking is too big to be marred by any i rejections on these an direction/ saId j one of the the local members after learning of the latest development of the convention plans. “Of course we are disappointed . especially since our friends have helped so generously.No change has been made In the date of the luncheon which will be held at the Inside Iim on September 14 with Mrs. O. HI P* Belmont presiding. Cards have also been sent out for .a Congressional Union ball at the California building- at the Exposition on the night of September 16* as a dosing function. ' j Among the Oakland women of prominence Interested In the Woman Voters'' Convention are Mrs. Frank Havens, Mrs.- Ml B. Stone of Berkeley* Airs. A. E_ Carter* Mrs- H C. Bobinson* Miss Bessie Wood and a number of others* j
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Oakland Tribune
Oakland, California, US
Tue, Aug 31, 1915
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