E1nergency 'Vveek'' Edition E Age Ews U Eti Published Monthly by the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association

E1nergency 'VVeek'' Edition e age ews u eti Published Monthly by the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association

Vol. VI. .. 2 HARTFORD, CONN., APRIL, /920. No. 4.

MEMBERS OF EMERGENCY SUFFRAGE CORPS

Mrs. Charles H. Dietrich of Hastings, Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham is Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy of Portland, Nebraska, is president of the Nebraska known as the "woman who put Texas Oregon, will represent Oregon in the Woman Suffrage Association. She was on the map." It was she who led the Emergency Suffrage Corps which will one of the group of women who fought fight for the primary suffrage bill which visit Connecticut during the week, May through the famous Nebraska-petitions her state passed in March 1918, and 3-7. Dr. Lovejoy is president of the case in which the opponents of suffrage were defeated. Mrs. Dietrich is the wife which 400,000 women, more than the International Women's Medical Associ- of a former Governor and United number of Texas men who had voted at ation. She was the first woman doctor States Senator from Nebraska. Mrs. the presidential elections, made use of in sent abroad by the War Committee of Dietrich will be the guest of her step- July, 1918. Mrs. Cunningham will rep- the Medical Women's Association. She daughter, Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith of resent Te~-ras during the "Emergency" has been active in suffrage work since Farmington, while in Connecticut. weelz. 1905.

frage movement in their own states. WOMEN FROM EVERY STATE IN Thirty of them will represent states where women are sure to vote in 1920 THE UNION WILL VISIT CONNECTICUT and the others will represent 9,000,000 women in the• states where the women's vote will depend on ratifica- Will Join With Connecticut Women To Prove tion of the federal suffrage amendment. That Special Emergency Exists Arrangements for bringing these women into the state are, being made by the National American W,oman Connecticut is about to have one of the Governor of Connecticut, will join, Suffrage Association which is co-ope- the most unique experiences in the on May 3rd, with the president of the rating in every possible way with the whole length of Connecticut's histori- Connecticut Woman Suffrage Asso- state association in the campaign to cal career. The state which gave to ciation in launching a national protest "make Connecticut· the 36th". the country the first written constitu- week in Connecticut-a consolidated tion will receive during the week of and concentrated protest of the The primary purpose of this protest May 3-7, a flying visit from women women of the country and the men week will be to provide the Governor representatives from every state in and women of Connecticut against the with the proofs of the special emer- the Union who will come to Connecti- refusal of Governor Holcomb to call a gency which he has said he is ready cut to petition the Governor of the special session of the legislature to to receive. It will be a protest of state to permit that state constitution act on the federal suffrage amend- Connecticut people, men and women, to be amended, lest 9,000,000 women ment. against the false position in which the be withheld from voting for president The protest will cover the week of state has been put by the refusal of in November. May 3-7 and will embody a series of the Governor to give the legislature Forty-seven women from forty- some thirty or forty meetings an opportunity to act on the matter. seven states, journeying into Connec- throughout the state which will be ad- "It will," says Miss Ludington, presi- ticut from the Pacific coast, from the dressed by groups of the forty-seven dent of the state association, be an northern and southern boundaries of women who will spend the week in endeavor to make plain that this is ,the country, from states where women Connecticut as guests of the Connec- not Connecticut's sole affair, because vote, and from states where women's ticut Woman Suffrage Association. by the method provided for ratifica- voting may depend on the action of These women are leaders of the suf- (Continued on Page 4) 2 The Suffrage News Bulletin RATIFICATION COMMITTEE The Suffrage News Bulletin THREE COUNTY SUFFRAGE MEETS IN HARTFORD Published Monthly by ASSOCIATIONS MEET IN CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE APRIL Proofs that a special emergency ASSOCIATION · Three county suff rag.e associationweek exists for the call_ing ~f the legisla- meetings were held during t~e f ture in special session will be prepared 55 Pratt Street Hart£ord, Conn. ·1 19-24 The chief business. o o f A pri · ·d ation and duly and properly presented to all these meetings was consi er " the Governor declared Colonel Isaac Subscription Price-25 Cents per Year of plans for "Special Emergency M Ullman of New Haven, chairman Entered as second-class matter March 9, 1920, week. hl . t·ng of the oi the Me;'s Republican Ratificat~on at the post office at Hartford under the The regular mont Y me~ 1. · Committee, at the clo~e of a meeting act of March 3, 1879 Hartford County Associati~n .was of this committee which was held at held in the Y. W. C. A. ~uditorn~m, Suffrage Headquarters in Hartford, Friday April 23. The morning se~s1on President Monday afternoon, April 19. was gi~en over to a general burres1 The Committee met in executive Miss KATHARiNE LUDINGTON discussion. In the afternoon a po i icah session in order to lay out plans for Executive Secretary discussion took place. Mrs. Jose)> co-operation with the Connecticut M'ISS MARY ELIZABETH HUTT Alsop of Avon, spoke on the Reputt- Woman Suffrage Association in ar- lican 'Party, Mrs. T·. S. McDermo ' ranging the series of Protest meet- Infor111,ation Bureau of New Haven, spoke on t.he Demo- ings to be held throughout the state MRS. RUTH McINTIRE DAnouRIAN cratic Party, and Mrs. Annie G. Por- during the week of May 3-7. The ritt, of Hartford, spoke on the Labor Department of Citizenship Committee expressed general appro- ~rty. ff bation -of the plans for the week of MRS. NANCY M. SCHOONMAKER The New London County Su r~ge Emergency meetings. Plans were Association met in quarterly se.ssio; made to provide men speakers for all in New London, Thursday, April 2 · the "Emergency Rallies" which will Editor of Bulletin Luncheon ·was served .at the . Hotel JULIA M. HINAMAN •be held in thirty-five or forty towns Mlohican. Miss Katharine L1;1dington and cities throughout the state during was the chief speaker at this me~t- the week. ing. Miss Edna Tyler, county chair- Among the men ·who attended the WHAT IS YOUR PART IN THE man, presided. meeting besides Colonel Ullman, were SPECIAL EMERGENCY Middlesex County women m~t for. a John T. Robinson, Harrison B. Free- conference at Stueck's Tavern in .Mid- man, Herbert Knox Smith, Chas. A. WEEK? dletown Saturday afternoon, April 24. Goodwin, Hartford; Frank Cheney, Lunche~n was served at 1 o'clock after which Miss Mary Elizabeth Hutt, ex- Jr., Representative, W. B. Rogers, Women from every state in the ecutive secretary of the State suf- Senator Arthur E. Bowers, Manches- Union will join with the women of frage' association, outlined the plans ter· Representative, Harry L. Welles, Connecticut during the week of May f.or the protest week, ~ay 3-7. l\1lrs. we'thersfield; Frederick A. Perry, 3-7 in an effort to convince G?vernor Willis Austin, of Norwich, a member New Haven; Mayor D. J. Donavan, Holcomb that an emerg~ncy ex~sts for of the State Political Committee, w:as Attorney M. M. Wilder, Meriden; calling the legislature in special ses- the honor guest and one of the chief Representative, Harry Shenyood, sion. speakers at the meeting. Mrs. Wm. W;estport; Senator John B. Dillon, These women are making an eno~- P. Couch, chairman of Middlesex Shelton; Representative Samuel C. mous effort to come to Connecti- County, presided. Shaw, Bridgeport; Judge John H. cut. They are doing it because they Light, South Norwalk; A. S. G. Tay. lor, Norfolk; A. T. Pattison, Sims-- place their beliefs in d~?1ocracy b~- NEAR EAST RELIEF fore any personal convenience ?r. pri- bury; Dr. Wlatson Phillips, Hunting- vate interests. It is a rare. priVIle~e The News Bulletin is asked to make ton. which Connecticut women will have in an appeal to its readers for the Near entertaining these women who are the E'ast Relief in its courageous and leaders of woman's activities along over-whelming work in Armenia. MRS. HALE SPEAKS BEFORE many lines in their own states. M~ny The condition of this unhappy coun- FAIRFIELD COUNTY of them are ranked among the leading try is so well known that the harrow- women speakers of the country. It ing details of what it has suffered may ASSOCIATION would be an unusual opportunity to well be soared. ·Given safety and time hear any of them speak on any sub- for recovery, Armenia would soon be Mrs. Beatrice Forbes-Robinson ject but Conn~cticut is to have the self-supporting, but in the failure of Hale, noted author and lecturer, was privilege of seeing them .assembled to- the Allies to co-erce the Turk and the one of the principal speakers at the gether in an effort to finish one of the lack of mandates either for Turkey or well attended April meeting of the greatest struggles in the history of Armenia, the situation grows more Fairfield County Suffrage Association the movement for democracy. and more sinister. Since the with- which was held in .the First Congre- It need scarcely be urged that the drawal of French and English troops gational 1Church of Stamford, Thurs- women of Connecticut take advantage fron1 that part of Asia Minor, there day, April 8. Mrs. Hale emphasized of every opportunity to extend to has been one terrible massacre and woman's importance in the present these guests proof of New ~ngland another is imminent. In the face of critical world situation and spoke of hospitality and courtesy. It is only tremendous difficulties, the Near East her as providing the balance wheel ~e- necessary to remind eve,ry member of Relief is working heroically to bring tween the violent radical and the v10- the Connecticut Woman Suffrage As- food, clothing and some sort of shel- lent reactionary. sociation that this is her fight, that ter to these unfortunate people, lest Another speaker was Representa- "Special Eme~gency Week" is a fit- the whole nation be exterminated. It tive Harry R. Sherwood of Westport ting climax to the long struggle for is a work in which every dollar given who ardently advocated that the leg!s- political ,enfranchisem·ent, an~ th~t the is put to immediate use, and the Con- lature should call itself into special co-operation of every su:ffragi'St in the necticut Woman Suffrage Association session over the refusal of the gover- state will be needed .to make the final will gladly receive any contributions nor to call such a session. and forward them to the headquarters splendid effort the success that it must in New York. Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees, chair- be. man of the Fairfield County Associa- No words can describe the terrible Some of you will be asked to serve conditions. To quote Ex-Am,bassador tion presided at the meeting. Rev. on committees on arrangements for Morganthau in his Hartford speech Grant A. Walton, pastor of the First meetings. Some of you live in towns last November-and this is only one Congregational Church, welcomed the where meetings will not be held. In phase of the situation-'"Let every Association to Stamford. The May that case see if there is anything that woman in this audience imagine her meeting will be held in Westport. you can do to help in a neighboring feelings if every morning when she It was voted that the collection, one town. Off er the services of your ca_r opened her front door, she found lying of the largest ever taken at a county or of yourself. A·bove all do not fail on the steps a little child who had meeting, should be made a personal to attend some of these meetings, a~d died during the night from starvation gift to Miss Grace Murray, Fairfield especially the final rally to be held in This, and more than this, is true i~ County Organizer, as an expression. of Hartford, Friday morning, May 7. Armenia." the regard in which the Association holds her. The Suffrage News Bulletin 3

NEW HA VEN COUNTY WILL 12.15 Child Welfare---'Mr. Herbert is active in work of a eivic and educa- M. Diamond, Assistant Director, Con- tional character in South Dakota. HOLD CITIZENSHIP INSTI- necticut Child Welfare Commission. One of the directors of the National TUTE, APRIL 28-30 12.35 The Woman's State Farm- American Woman Suffrage Associa- Dr. Valeria H. Parker, Chairman, tion-Mrs. Ben Hooper-will repre- Connecticut Society for Social Hygi- sent Wisconsin. Mrs. Hooper is a club A Citizenship Institute, or a three- ene. woman, was organizer under the State day school for instruction in govern- 1-2 P. M. Lunch - Smith College Council of National Defense during · ment and civic problems, will be held Club. the war, and has been active in the in New Haven, in the Center Church 2-3 P. M. National Government- legislative work for suffrage for Parish House, April 28, 29, and 30 Mrs. Nancy M. Schoonmaker. many years. Wisconsin is one of the under the direction of the Citizenship 3 P. M. Smith-Towner Bill - Mrs. victory st~tes of 1919. Department of the Connecticut F. L. C. Kitchelt. Among the prominent suffragists Woman Suffrage Association. 3.10 P. M. The League of Women who will come to Connecticut on May The Committee in charge of the Voters-l\1Jiss Katharine Ludington, 3 is Mrs. F. Louis Slade of New York. Institute has arranged the pro- Regional Director of League of Mrs. Slade was elected Regional Di- gram for the three-day school Women Voters. rector for New York and Pennsylva- so that the course on the Ma- 8 P. M. State Government (as nia under the National League of chinery of Government will be given above) i Mrs. F. L. C. Kitchelt. Women Voters at the Victory Conven- in the evening as well as in the 9 P. M. Americanization - Robert tion in Chicago last February. She day sessions, so that business women Deming, State Director. has been prominent not only in suf- and housekeepers may have the same frage work in New York, but held opportunities as the women who are Friday, April 30 positions of responsibility during the able to attend during the day. 11 A. M. New Problems - Mrs. war. The Institute is designed primarily Nancy M. Schoonmaker. Mrs. John T. Fuller of Orlando, for the benefit of the women of New 12 A. M. Public Health-Prof. C. Florida, the president of the Florida Haven City and County but it is open E. A. Winslow, Yale University. E·qual Franchise Association, is Chair- to all men and women of the state. 1-2 Lunch. man of Civics for the State Federation Luncheon will be served each day by 2 P. M. Political Parties - Mil's. of Women's Clubs, and organized her the Smith College Club. No admis- Nancy M. Schoonmaker. state for the Food Administration sion will 'be charged for any of the 3 P. M. Mental Hygiene-Dr. Wm. during the war. While Florida women sessions. The Institute is under the B. Terhune, Dire0tor of Connecticut have not obtained full 1uffrage, Or- direction of the Citizenship Depart- Society of Mental Hygiene. lando is one of the cities which has ment of the Connecticut Woman Suf- 3.20 P. M. Women in Industry- granted municipal suffrage. frage Association and is financed by Mrs. Alice Barrows Fernandez, U. S. Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout was the the money raised in the Citizenship Bureau of Education. leader of the group of women who Campaign held last spring. 8 P. M. National Government- lobbied for suffrage in Illinois and An extremely practical and inter- Mrs. Nancy M. Schoonmaker. who have undertaken the work of ob- esting feature of the Institute, will be 9 P. M. W1hy I am a Democrat- taining a modern constitution for the the demonstration of a voting ma- Mrs. Hiram P. Maxim, Member-elect, state. Incidental'ly Illinois has the chine which will be placed in the ves- Hartford Board of Education. honor of being the first state to ratify tibule of the Parish House. This ma- Committees in charge of the Insti- the federal suffrage amendment. chine will be demonstrated ·by trained tute are: Program Committee, Mrs. The Minnesota Woman Suffrage As- attendants throughout each day and C. E. A. Winslow; Arrangements sociation has for many years been led evening and an opportunity will be Committee, Miss Emily Whitney; by Mrs. Andreas Deland, who was in- given for the "scholar" to operate Hospitality Committee, Mrs. William terested even before the ·beginning of the machine herself. Lyon Phelps, Mrs. Elliot Watrous, her work for suffrage, in civic and The complete program for the Insti- Mrs. Josepha Whitney, MTs. G. H. philanthropic work. Mrs. U eland is tute follows: Nettleton; Publicity Committee, Miss an honorary member of the Minneapo- Wednesday, April 28, 1920 Julia Hinaman, M;rs. John C. Clark, lis Civic and Commerce Association- Town and County Gov- Mi~s Margaret Whitney, Miss Georgia a men's organization. She is a good 11 A. M. of ernment-Mrs. Nancy M. Schoon- Troup, Miss Katharine Schwab, Miss speaker---clear, concise, and full maker, Counsellor-in-Citizenship. Alice Walker; Printing, Mrs. Joseph humor. 11.45 A. M. Women's Police Bu- Reed; Voting Demonstration, Mrs. T. reau-Mrs. John P. Buwalda, Field S. McDermott; Attendance, Mrs. John Worker, Connecticut Protective As- C. Schwab, Mrs. W. J. Mozar,t, Mrs. NATIONAL SUFFRAGE sociation. Jennie Robinson, Mrs. Fred Johnson, SIT'UATION 12.15 P. M. Domestic Relations Bu- Miss Lola Walker. reau-Prof. E. M. Morgan, Yale Law School. Thirty-five states have ratified the 1-2 P. M. Lunch - Smith College WHO'S WHO IN THE EMER- federal suffrage amendment. Dela- Club. GENCY SUFFRAGE CORPS ware is now meeting in special ses- 2 P. M. City Government - Mrs. sion. The lower house in Delaware Nancy M. Schoonmaker. has turned down ratification but there 10 Minutes - Proportional Repre- A ·brief paragraph by no means does is still a possibility for reconsidera- sentations---'Mrs. F. L. C. Kitchelt. justice to the careers of the women tion. The Louisiana legislature meets 3 P. M. New Haven City Interests: who will make up the "Emergency May 10. Governor-elect, John M. Par- Public School Scholarships- Mrs. A. Corps" but at least it will give you ker, who will take office six days be- K. Rogers. some idea of the fame of 1Connecticut's fore the legislature convenes, is urg- Vocational Education - Miss guests. ing ratification of the amendment. Katharine Brennan, Princi- We have here data concerning not In North Carolina the legislature pa1, B·enjamin Jepson High more than a fourth of the num·ber who will meet in July. The Democratic School. are coming. These are chosen not be- State Central Committee has adopted Junior High School - Mr. cause they are the most important a resolution favoring ratification. Claude Russell. but because this information was the This practically assures favorable 8 P. M. Address by the Mayor. first to arrive in our office. action from North Carolina as the City Government- Mrs. Nancy M. Miss Katherine Pierce, who will Democratic is the majority party. It Schoonmaker. represent Oklahoma, is one of the is said that the North Carolina leg- 8.45 P. M. Why I am a Republican youngest presidents of a state suf- islators are anxious for an opportu- -Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop, -Chairman, frage association. She is now Secre- nity to act in order rto win for the League of Independent Republican tary of the National League of Democratic Party the honor of com- Women. Women Voters. Miss Pierce is famil- pleting ratification of the amendment. Thursday, April 29 iar with the ways of legislatures, hav- Connecticut and Verm1ont are the 11.00 A. M. The State Government ing for five sessions served as journal only Republican states which have and How the Legislature Works, Mrs. clerk in the Oklahoma Senate. taken no action in behalf of ratifica- F. L. ,C. Kitchelt. Mrs. John L. Pyle, as President of tion. As yet no Republican state has 11 :50 Widows' Pensions - Mrs. the South Dakota Equal Franchise turned down ratification. Twenty- Elizabeth F. Maloney, Supervisor of League helped to win full suffrage for nine of the states which have acted Mothers' Aid, Boston. the women of her state in 1918. She favorably are Republican. 4 The Suffrage News Bulletin . . . . F Saunders. ~ave hopes that the proofs of such WOMEN WILL VISIT M1ss1ss1pp1, Mrs. B · · M N b Mil- Missouri, Mrs. Walter c a an emergency. w!ll yet be presented CONNECTICUT to you in conV1nc1ng force, as perhaps ( Continued from Page 1) lerMontana, Mrs. Wallace ~er~am. they have not yet been so presented. Nebraska, Mrs. Chas. D1etr1ch. Twice as Governor you have de- tion of the amendment the voting. of New Hampshire, Mrs. Mary I. cided that such an emergE:ncy exi~ted 9,000,000 women hangs on the action Wood. S and have called a spe~1al session. oi Connecticut." New Mexico, Mrs. A. B.. troup. Both of these emergencies were of According to present plans, the New y ork Mrs. F. Louis Slade. exactly the same kind as _the one now women will arrive in Hartford, Mon- North Dakota, Mrs. Robert iClen- presented to you; both involved the day, May 3rd, where a. luncheon dening.. . t right to vote. But whil~ of the same will be given in. their. honor. Ohio, Miss . Rose Mor1ar y. M~ller kind neither of these pr1or cases, nor In the afternoon they will sep- Pennsylvania, Mrs. John O. · both' of them together, approached the arate into four groups of twelve Michigan, Mrs. Myron B. Vorce. present one in magnitude. The first each and will be motored to one concerned the votes of a~out ,two New Haven Bridgeport, Waterbury thousand soldiers on the Mexican bor- and New Lo~don where they will hold GOVERNOR ASKS FOR der· the second about fifty to seventy- meetings that evening. On Tuesday PROOFS OF SPECIAL five' thousand serving in the great war. the women will form twelve groups The present emergency affects the of four each and during the ne~t thr~e ElVIERGENCY voting rights of over two hundred and days they will speak at meetings 1n fifty thousand women of Connecticut, the following cities and towns: M_an- Colonel Isaac M. Ullman has made and, very possibly, of over ten milli~n chester New Britain, Thompso?v1lle, public the letter received trom Gov- in the United States. Our women 1n Southi~gton, Farmingt?n, W 1~dsor ernor Holcomb, March 31, 1n reply to this war have fought !evel with our Locks, Bristol, Ansonia, Me_r1den, the request for a special session ~ade soldiers. Th'.ey sent their men to fight, Naugatuck, Wallingford, G~1lford, by a group of prominent l_tepubhcans and backed them with laboring hands Branford, New London, St_on1ng~oi:i, at the time of presentation to the and brave hearts. They served their Jewett •City, Mystic, _Niantic, Willi- country doubly in its need. mantic, Putnam, Danielson, Central Governor of the resolution passed by the State Convention. This reply was Their service has been accom- Village, Middletown, Haddam, Say- plished, their men returned., or are brook, Essex, N orwal_k, Stamford, sent out in spite of the statement of Executive Secretai:y, John Bu~kley never to return. The movement of Greenwich, Danbury, R1d_gefield, ! or- events now places the momentous is- rington Winsted, New Milford, Litch- that no formal reply would be given. Governor Holcomb's letter together sue of their political rights upon the field, Thomaston, Lakeville, Rockville, Governor and Legislature of Connec- Stafford Springs. with Colonel Ullman's reply is given here: ticut. I believe that the members of A relay motor corps will be pro- March 31, 1920 the Republican State Convention con- vided to transport the women from "Dear Colonel Ullman: sidered this a supreme State and Na- one city to another. I have given consideration to the tional emergency. On Friday the "Emergency Suf- Very truly yours, frage Corps" will meet again in Hart- petitions and arguments presented at ford for a hearing ,before Governor the meeting on Tuesday and to t:11e (Signed) ISAAC M. ULLMAN." Holcomb. The Governor has set. 11 :30 urgent appeal that I call a special In the reply which Governor . Ho_l- o'clock Friday morning as the time at session because, it is alleged, the vote com b sent to this letter, he said 1n which 'he would receive the deputa- of Connecticut is necessary to com- part: . tion of visiting ·women which will be plete the number of states necessary "Yours of the 9th is received, 1n joined 'by a large group of Connecticut to adopt the Federal Suffrage Amend- which you say that you have hopes women. The women will .bring to ment and ena1ble the women of this that proofs will yet be presented to the Governor the proofs of a state to vote this ye,ar, and that this me which will convince me that an special emergency for cal!ing a creates the special emergency which emergency exists regarding the call- special sessio~ of the _leg1slat~!e authorizes and should compel the gov- ing of a special session. I am ready which they believe they will have 1n ernor to convene the General Asse·m- to receive the proofs." hand. bly in special session. The Republican Ratification. Com- · Following the hearing the women I do not agree with this claim. A mittee has already announced its de- will address a large public ma'ss meet- special emergency cannot be manu- termination to present such proofs as ing which will be held on the lawn factured 'by insistent and persistent -the Governor expresses himself will- outside the :Capitol from 12 to 1. a.ppeals, otherwise, in these tempera- ing to receive. Arrangements for the mass meet- mental times, the General Assembly ing will be made by Hartford suffr~- would ·be in continuous session. gists. Mrs. Thomas B. Chapman 1s One of the provisions of our Con- Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, President chairman of the arrangements com- stitution is intended to prevent hasty of the Kentucky Equal Rights As~o- mittee. Plans are being made for action. The Federal Suffrage Amend- ciation, had a large share in the dis- effective decoration of the automobiles ment will be before the next session tinction of making Kentucky an en- which will convey the deputation from of our ·General Asse·m•bly and I find no viable exception to the rest of the Suffrage Headquarters on Pratt justification for convening a special Solid South in the matter of suffrage. street, Hartford, to the Capitol. session to act upon it. For several years Mrs. Breckinridge A complete list of women who will Respectfully yours, was second Vice-President of the Na- form the "Emergency Suffrage (Signed) M. H. HOLCOMB." tional American Woman Suffrage As- Corps" has not been received but Colonel Ullman's letter follows: sociation, and has held many positions acceptances have come from the fol- of responsibility in her own state. lowing women: Anril 9, 1920. "Hon. Marcus H. Holcomb, Mrs. Walter McNab Miller, honor- Alabama, Mrs. Solon Jacobs. Hartford, Conn. ary president of the Missouri League Arizona, Mrs. Frances W. Munds. My dear Governor Holcomb: California, Mrs. Seward Simons. of Women Voters, is also chairma_n of Colorado, Mrs. Helen Ring Robin- I have received your letter of its committee on Social Hygiene. s·on. March 31st, in which you decline to Mrs. Miller at one time held the posi- Florida, Mrs. John Fuller. comply with the request contained in tion of Chairman of the Public Health Georgia, Miss Annie G. Wright. the Resolution passed by the recent Department of Missouri. She is· a Republican State Convention that you national figure in the work for suf- Idaho, Mrs. M. J. Sweeley. frage. Illinois, Mrs. Grace W·ilbur Trout. ~ummon a special session of the Leg- islature to act upon the ratification of Iowa, Mrs. James A. Devitt. Resolutions of congratulations to Kansas, Mrs. Chas. H. Brooks.· the Federal Suffrage Amendment. Using ~he power vested in you, you Mir. and Mrs. Henry H. Townshend, ~f Kentucky, Mrs. Desha Breckin- New Haven upon the birth of their ridge. have decided that no special emergency exists for the consideration of son, Henry Hotchkiss Townshend, Jr., Louisiana, Mrs. Phillip Werlein. were passed at the April meeting ~f Maine, Mrs. Arthur Balentine. the Amendment. You courteously make clear in your letter that your the Executive Board of the Connecti- Maryland, Mrs. Chas. E. Ellicott. cut Woman Suffrage Association, held Ma·ssachusetts, Mrs. Ida Porter refusal is based on this ground. I feel, however, that your mind will at the home of Miss Emily Whitney Boyer. in New Haven, Wednesday, April Minnesota, Mrs. Andreas U eland. al:Vays remain open to conviction on ;4. this, or any other disputed matter. I Mrs. To·wnshend was formerly chairman of New Haven County.