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Show REPIBLHS GATHER TO PUN CIP1I CHICAGO, Jan. 5. Nearly one thousand thou-sand Republican men and women from fourteen central west states were here today for the first of a series of three two-day conferences arranged by Will H. Hays, national chairman, for January. Jan-uary. The second will be held in Denver Den-ver January 8 and 9 and the third in San Francisco January 12 and 13. Women are to take a prominent part in these gatherings, according to party leaders who arc planning their national campaign on the supposition that the national suffrage amendment will be ratified in time to give all women votes at the November election. elec-tion. Mrs. John Glover South, chairman chair-man of the women's division of the Republican national committee; Mrs. Medill McCormick. former chairman of the women's division; Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chairman of the women's national executive committee, and Mrs. Margaret Hill McCartcr, of Kansas, Kan-sas, were among the speakers na,med 'at the conference here. The Chicago conferences will be open forums with Miss Hay presiding. Mrs. Frank Dodson, state chairman of the Republican, women's committee in Iowa; Mrs. Manley L. Fosseen, Minnesota" Min-nesota" state chairman; Mrs. John Pratt, Now York, member of the committee com-mittee on ways and means; Mrs. Augustus Au-gustus Willson, wife of the former governor of Kentucky; Mrs. Harry L. Keefe of Lincoln, Neb., and Mrs. A. E. Sangster of Sheboygan, Wis., were among the prominent women who came here for the meeting. Among the national committeemen who came were James J. McGraw of Oklahoma, and Willis Cook, South Dakota. Da-kota. State chairmen from Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Florida, Missouri and Montana also were. here. Our idea of the most useless thing liljl in the world today is an order for a f ton of coal on the coal dealer's order fllH book- 1(H If you are really efficient, you can H make somebody else do your work and lll think that it is their own. I'l Don't think for a moment that a life- ifl saver Is a bartender. |