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Show oo CHICAGO WANTS HEADQUARTERS LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Oct 20. That a spirited if not unfriendly contest for the removal of the national headquarters head-quarters from New York to Chlcnfco will be entered Into probably tomorrow, tomor-row, by tho delegates to the 13rd annual an-nual convention of tho National American Amer-ican Woman Suffrage association, now in session here, uas indicated lato H The question nine ut in a discus- jH sion of the "proper function of th IH national association. IH Inasmuch as a ureal part of the 8-f- IH fraje work is being carried on or has H succeeded in the extreme west, the H western women feol that thoy arc en B titled to more attention .Miss Carey H M. Thomas, president of Biyn .Muwr H college, said that if suffragists could H forget sectional differences, they M could expect victory everywhere In H ten yearn. Looking toward further H j organization of the movomeat, Mrs. H Anna Blount of Illinois urged tho for- IH tnrulon of societies In every state. B "Like tho American mother," fho said, " an important function of fi" HBV association Is having children. Whilo ! it cannot bo stated how many call- drcn American mothers ought to tunc, IBSJ the National Suffrage association HBV should at least have -IC " H 1 Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president M in explaluipg thc absence ot Mi- h Katherine Houghton Hepburn, preai H dent of 'the Connecticut society, a)- jl peared to take tuuoh satisfaction n ll the fact (hat Mis Hepburn's 4-month?" IH old son would not permit her to ai- H tend the convention. Customary ur B guments asamst suffrage that stiff ra H gists have no time for home life aro 1 contested by many delegates, who re- ll for in their addresses to their chll- H drcn. Led by Dr Shaw, who dial- IH lenged them to show they could cheer jH as well as men. thc suffracists at to- IH night's scsBion gave tniee rousing- IH high-pitched 'Hip, hip, hurrahs' Tor H the suffrage triumphs In California H and Washington. M Mrs. Elizabeth l.owG Watson, pic?- IH idenf of thc California association, "The suffrage victory in Cullfou'ia H has sounded the death knell "t r jH aristocracy." H Omer Carewood ot Oenver chau, M ploned the enfranchised . woman o H Colorado in an address dealing ft" H thc Colorado Aid association. M |