The Age Herald

WOMAN
and SOCIETY.
BY ANNIE KENDRICK WALKER.

Alabama's capital promises to be stormed
by fair women lobbyists in the interest
of the bills prohibiting child labor and
urging compulsory education. A joint com-
mittee from the Birmingham Woman's Club
and the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was appointed yesterday and the del-
egation will go to Montgomery Tuesday
afternoon to urge upon the committee the
importance of the bills and to assure Miss
Ashby of their earnest sympathy in her
work. It is understood that a slight senti-
ment against Miss Ashby, the framer of
these bills, has arisen by reason that she
is an English woman, and while it seems
impossible that such a narrow prejudice
should be brought to bear in the fight for
the passage of these humane measures,
still Alabama women will leave nothing
undone to show that they are behind this
movement and are its strongest advocates.
When Miss Ashby was in Birmingham
she met with universal co-operation on the
part of the most prominent clubs and the
citizens generally and no movement ever
received stronger endorsement than that
which she advocated at both club and mass
meetings held in this city.

Mrs. Zac Smith, the president of the Bir-
mingham Woman's Club, and Mrs. C. S.
Spencer, State president of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, received let-
ters from Miss Ashby yesterday assuring
them a hearing before the General Assem-
bly of representatives from both of these
organizations, and urging that a strong
delelation of Birmingham women be ap-
pointed to visit Montgomery Tuesday when
the House committee is to consider the
bills.

Both Mrs. Spencer and Mrs. Smith were
seen yesterday and they believe that the
committees from the organizations will
have great influence with the Legislature.
Mrs Robert Cunningham is chairman of
the committee from the Woman's Club and
when the committee has its hearing before
the Legislature, Mrs. Cunningham will ad-
dress that body in the interest of these
bills.

Mrs. Cunningham and Mrs. Smith will
visit the Avondale mills this morning that
they may be more fully prepared to discuss
these measures.

Mrs. Smith will accompany the delegation
to Montgomery, and the committees will be
composed of the strongest and most earn-
est women in both the Woman's Club and
the W. C. T. U. Mrs. W. H. Jeffries, presi-
dent of the W. C. T. U. in Birmingham,
will also go to Montgomery on Tuesday
and with such an aggregation of Alabama
women to lobby for the bills, the prospects
for their passage may be said to be un-
usually encouraging.

Mrs. Smith, president of the Woman's
Club, has appointed the following commit-
tee from the club, which has endorsed Miss
Ashby in her work for the two proposed
bills-the child labor bill and the com-
pulsory education bill.

Mrs. Robert Cunningham, chairman; Mrs.
W. P. McCrossin, Mrs. E. T. Taliaferro,
Mrs. J. H. Phillips, Mrs. Ida Adams, Mrs.
Ed McCrossin, Mrs. W. B. Leedy, Mrs.
Solon Jacobs, Mrs. M. J. Gregg, Mrs. M. N.
Due, Mrs. W. J. Zeigler, Miss Eugenia Self.
Mrs. Barnes Morgan, Mrs. F. A. Dille, Mrs.
Frank Alexander, Mrs. R. P. Jones, Mrs.
C. S. Simmons, Mrs. James Hardman, Mrs.
James Kirk, Mrs. William Vaughan, Mrs.
Soper, Mrs. David Fox, Miss Belle Dangaix,
Mrs. Bruce Harris, Mrs. Sam Blake, Mrs.
Charles Washburne.

The following women will represent the
W. C. T. U.:

Mrs. C. S. Spencer, Mrs. W. H. Jeffries,
Mrs. A. N. Ballard, Mrs. James Weisell,
Mrs. T. A. Hamilton, Mrs. George C. Jep-
son, Mrs. W. L. Murdoch, Mrs. William
Redd, Mrs. L. F. Stratton, Mrs. G. L.
Thomas, Mrs. William Vaughan, Mrs. John
White and Mrs. W. S. Brown.