Show WOMEN OPEN I CHICAGO MEET Six Meetings i Prepare for Convention of American Suffrage Association Feb 12 l Six conferences and alternates al- al C ath attended by 2000 delegates representing woman vot voters oters ot- ot ers of tho ho north south cast east and west were held to today n preliminary to the opening tomorrow of what In hi 11 expected I to bo be the tho final convention of or tho the National National Na Na- aton a- a l American Woman oman Suffrage as association as- as ton sedation and the initial congress of ot i ithe the Iea League uc of oC Woman oman Voters i iThe The purpose of tho the conferences was was- was the Ute formulation of or d legislative c program program pro pro- pro pro-I gram and the topics discussed today toda Citizenship Protection Protection Pro were American of Worn Women on In Industry Child Welfare Food Supply an and Demand Unification of Social Hygiene and The resulting resulting result result- Laws Concerning Women ing pro program ram adopted U b by each conference confer confer- ence enco will wil be bo presented to tho the convention convention conven conven- tion of the League ague of or Woman oman Voters Voter at nt ton tho the Monday session for tion Uon I Mr Mrs UM Cutt Cot Will 1 Speak Tomorrows Tomorrow's sessions will wi constitute tho the formal opening of or the I I and Mrs Airs Carrie Chapman Catt Cat president president dent lent of the tho association will wi delv deliver r her annual address The Ictor victory co convention con Con- which ends rift ff fifty years years' effort efort j enton to procure votes for the tho women of or America will close Saturday evening with ith a ratification wil banquet banQuot On Sunday sun sun-I Sun Sun- da tiny day memorial services wilt will wil bo be held for Dr Anna Anna Howard Howall Shaw The sessions will wJ continue until next not Wednesday n night t. t Before the convention and and- congress closes several states state will have ral- ral rati- rati t 1 I A tiiA th 1 Mrs 1118 Catt I I u.-D- u. m predicted re d d Tho dissolution of the tte suffrage association as association as- as docs does not mean that tho the work worl of or obtaining the necessary six states as obtaining thirty ono have havo now ratified will willbo willbe wi be bo stopped or diminished Our headquarters headQuarters headquarters head head- quarters will remain Intact until the thirty-six thirty states are secured We e ex expect cx- cx hect New Mexico and Oklahoma to ratify rath before tho the convention closes and Delaware West est Virginia and Connecticut Connecticut Con Con- ConI I are arc our hope for the tho additional additional addi addi- addi- addi I three states said Mrs Airs Catt Cal I tonal Lobbying Lobbying- for tor the tho various arlous Republican Republic Republic- an nn candidates for Cor President was wn carried carried car car- ried ned on toda today while the Democrats also had workers among the tho women The advertisements of or two presidential candidates are arc nUy displayed as advertisements in the official program pro pro- program gram ram handed out b by the thousands Chairman Will H. H Hays flays Rys of the Republican Republican Re Re- publican national committee sent ent a statement to the women in which ho he pointed to tho the passage of oC tho the equal suffrage e amendment in Congress b by a Republican majority Later In the day Mrs Airs Ils George Bass gathered delegates of or Democratic sympathies sym sm to protest against tho the Republican lican moves |