The program for the convention of the League of Women Voters, which will meet in Durham March 4 and 5 is about complete. Great interest is being shown in Durham and through the state in the coming meeting. Fifty women in Raleigh have signified their intention of attending. Greensboro, Salisbury and Charlotte will also send large delegations, it is said. The Woman’s club of Durham is the hostess. The chamber of commerce will give a luncheon for the league.
The program is as follows:
March 4, 8 p.m., superior court room.
Invocation.
Address of welcome, Mrs. W.J. Brogden, president of Woman’s club.
Response, Mrs. C.W. Tillett Jr., president of Mecklenburg county League of Women Voters.
Greetings from other state organizations of women.
Greetings from our national committeewomen, Mrs. Lindsay Patterson and Miss Mary Graham.
Address, Women in Politics in 1924, by Miss Belle Sherwin, 1st vice-president of the National League of Women Voters, introduced by Mrs. Elliott Cheatham, third regional director.
March 5, business session, 9 a.m., chamber of commerce.
10 a.m. Discussions: The world court, the children’s amendment, women in industry in North Carolina.
1 p.m. Luncheon, Mrs. T.E. Cheek, presiding.
Talks: Our New Citizens, Miss Alice M. Baldwin.
The N.C.E.A. program for Citizenship Training, Miss Elizabeth Kelly.
This Year, Mrs. Elliott Cheatham.
Unity for Action, Mrs. Palmer Jerman
. 2:30 p.m. Symposium, Our Juvenile Courts, led by Mrs. Mary O. Cowper, with the following taking part: Mrs. J.P. Holmes, Orange county; Mrs. Leonard Tufts, Moore county; Miss Marie Miller, Durham county; Miss Margaret Berry, Charlotte; Mrs. Frank H. Chamberlain, Lincoln county.
Address, The Juvenile Court, Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson.
From the first page of the second section of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, Feb. 24, 1924
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