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Show MAKE GREAT PREPARATIONS FOR NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION 8 jze cvlsh root Women aTl over the United States i are getting ready to attend the forty-sixth annual national suffrage i I convention in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. I 12-17. Southern women such as Mrs. DeBha Breckenridpe, granddaughter of Henry Clay and president of the Kentucky Suffrage Association; Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, of Ala- I bama; Miss Kate Gordon and Miss Jean Gordon of New York, are planning plan-ning a parade through the streets during convention week. The Nashville Nash-ville Chamber of Commerce and the Business Men's Association are to entertain the guests. Teas, luncheons, lunch-eons, receptions, dinners, and an old-fashionod barbeque at tho home of Arxlrew Jackson are planned. No convention, male or female would bo complete without bone3 of contention ana this convention meets the requirement with two bones The first is the question of states' rights versus a federal amendment Shall each state decide the question for itself or 6hall an amendment to the constitution of the United States five all women tbe right to vote? t'" an Interesting point, as anyone can see. and the divergent attitude of northerners and southerners on st-ts' rights is well known. The second bone concerns tho Bristow-Mondell Bristow-Mondell amendment and the Shaf-roth Shaf-roth amendment, both before congress. con-gress. The Bristow-Mondell amendment amend-ment provides a straight woman suffrage suf-frage claoeo while the Shafroth 1 amendment is considered by 6omo a short cat to suffrage since it would have tho question submitted to the voters in each state by initiative initi-ative petition. W. B. Hooper, governor of Tennessee; Tennes-see; Hillary Howse, mayor of Nashville; Nash-ville; Mrs. Crozier French, president of the Tennessee SutTrage Association, Associa-tion, and Mrs. Guilford Dudley president of the Nashville Suffrage Association, will welcome the convention. con-vention. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw will make her annual address on Thursday evening and among othr prominent speakors will be Jane Addams( Mrs. Carrlo Chapman Catt, Miss Zona Gale who will read a oew Friendship Village story with - - . -: II ? V;v ' ' ; ll 1 v IS -'Kc Convict a ouffrago moral; Mrs. Rosika Schwimmer of Budapest, Mrs Desha Breckinridge and Mrs. Medill McCormick. When Suffragists began to hold their "woman's rights" meetings, it I was not thought propt that a woman 6hould mako a speech bc- j fore a public audience. What would these early workers say if they could b present Monday evening at the convention in Nashvillo and see ! tho new moving picture piny by I which their followers mean to bring the question of suffrage before be-fore the people of the country? "Your Girl and Mine" is the title of this drama which the critics declare is one of the excitements oi" the year. There are no long winded suffrage arguments in the scenario, but it Is full of dash and action and Miss Olive Wyndhara, Miss Kather-ln Kather-ln Kaelrcd, leading lady in "Joseph "Jo-seph and His Brtthren," Sydney Booth a nephow of Edwin Booth and 'Dr Anna Howard Shaw are tho I Mr. K05' T- W-ftj principal characters. The play comes out under the joint auspices of Mrs. Medill McCormick and William N. Selig. James Lec Laidlaw, president of the Men's League for Woman Suffrage Suf-frage will have charge of "Voter's Evening " At present, tho Congressional Union is causing much agitation within and without suffrage ranks because of tho campaign which it is waging against tho Democatic party. The National Association does not favor the policy of tho Union. But tho spirit of the forty-sixth forty-sixth annual convention of suffragists, suffrag-ists, representing women from all i ovor the country, will be essentially on5 of mutual sympathy and helpfulness. help-fulness. The Union was a child of last year's Congressional Committee of 1 the National Associatior , but it proved so unruly and so obstreperous obstreper-ous an organization under the lead- ' ership of Miss Alice Paul and Miss Lucy Burns, that the National Association As-sociation refused to admit it to membership, and appointed Mrs. Medill McCormick chairman of thjs year's Congressional Committee, thus antagonizing the Union which wished Miss Alice Paul re-appointed. |