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CampaignWOMEN WHO WILL AID IN THK CAM I* A ION “TO GET OUT I'HK VOTE.” CENTER. MRS. MAUI) WOOD PARK. WASHINGTON. TOP HOW (LEFT TO KHillTK MISS ESTHER DCNSHEE, rillCAOO; MRS. ANN WEBSTER. WASHINGTON; MRS. JOHN JAY O’CONNOR, WASHINGTON, AND MIH8 BELLE 8H ERWIN. CLEVELAND. LOWER ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT). MRS. KLLIOTT CHEATHAM. ATLANTA; MRS ROBERT L. I lENORM AN I) IE. BOSTON: MISS EDITH ABBOTT. CHICAGO; MISS ELIZABETH J HACSER, GIRARD. O.; MISS KATHARINE Ll’IilNGTON, LYME. CONN.; MISS GERTRUDE ELY. BRYN MAWR, PA . AND MISS RUTH MORGAN, NEW YORK.duletIrflutrlt;Buffalo, N Y . March 11 \ natlon-w Id*1 campaign to “get out the vote’ for the 15*24 election will be launched at the firth annual convention of the National League of Women Voters to he held hlt; re April 24 to 29 The tilt of the four yearsof work la the 15*21 election, accord-' ing to the president. Mrs Maui Wood i Park. jAccording to figure*. ft-wer th*n! half the Higible voter*— only 49 per j—roll’ll lit lur |tf«-rtMUfUUtf* jtion In 1920 IIn 1922, 33 states elected governors!and only a little more than one-third of the possible voters caat tfielr ballots. and In primary and local flection* the percentage la much lower.‘•Every woman In the league fa called upon to remedy ^Ihls condition,n Mra. Park state*. If we ;tre to be a democracy it la time we were a boat it I! Let ua fix aa our goal for 15*24 7' per cent of the vote that couM have been caat In 1920, and to-list the help of puhllc-apirtted menMini m%*mm It uui uu« *tUU 01 mecountry to the other in carrying outthe plan .** ,Th* governora of five east* rn states, York. Maryl ind, Delawnro, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, have been Invited to attend the governor's maa* meeting on April 26 The 12 moat distinguished women aelected laat May, tslt*r a year’s can-vaaa atul study, will be guests of honor at a dinner to be given on April 28.This Hat includes Jane Addara*. Cecelia Beaux. Annis Jump Cannon, i arrie v napiuau iau, Aaaa Iwita-ford Comstock, Minnie Mndderit Kiake, Louise Homer, Julia Lathrop,Florence Rena Sabin, M Carey Thom-ai Martha Van Rensselaer and Edith Wharton.Representatives from every statela tho I'nion ar*» to be present *g wellas speakers of national and international fame.The program committee, of which Mias Eliiarxth Hauser of Ohio la chairman, Includea also Miss Belle Sherwln of Cleveland, national vice president; Miss Gertrude Ely of Bryn.*iHwr, ra.; virs. tnirar wjiuuey uNew York City. Mrs. B. J. Burns and Miss Louise Michael of Buffalo.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield, West Virginia, US
Thu, Mar 13, 1924
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