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Fifty Years Ago
Vrcxn ttie File* of The Galvertoa
ISfews, March 5, 1874.
'Tiipre will be a meeting of the
Island City baseball club at its hall
Preparations are being made for
iSSS'-^pro °SaBtS CstatUe;- school
funds is expected to amount to about
¥2The°following directors were elect-
ed yesterday by the stockholders of
the Merchants’ Insurance Company:
Alfred Muckle, AV. L. Moody, M. Kop-
perl, George Sealy, Job1! b). Rogers,
M F Mott, AV. A. Oliphint, Leon
Bium. H. Kempner, T. AY. Folts, R.
A. Brown, B. G. Duval and Henry
Sampson. .
Sixty-two prisoners were confined
in the county jail yesterday.
The Texas PresM.
The Austin Statesman attempts to
correct what it claims is the inac-
curacy of The News in regard to the
two guns now in the possession of
the Galveston Artillery. The States-
man insists that the, guns are the fa-
mous pieces of ordnance presented to
the Republic of Texas in 1836 by the
ladies of Cincinnati. AVe note that
while these pieces are of uniform
make, they bear the inscription,
“Santa Fe De Bogata, 1788.
The Tyler Reporter, in commenting
on the proposition to make a new
county from portions of Dallas, Den-
ton, Collin and Tarrant, takes occa-
sion to say that a petition is in cir-
culation to create the county of Coke
from Smith and Rusk counties.
The Milam Messenger has been
moved from Cameron to Rockdale.
AATe are in-receipt of the American
Journal of Education, E. AY. Kirk-
patrick editor, Austin. It is a neat
publication filled with interesting in-
formation, and its slogan is, Univer-
sal education the safety of a repub-1
lie." _ _[
By Gertrude GirarJe,
( f -yjjr*—
On March 31, 1923, the Galveston
League of Women Voters was re-or-
ganized, with Miss Ruth McIntosh, Re-
gional Secretary of the National League
of AAromen Alters, as the chief inspira-
tion of the re-organizatlon of the Lea-
gue. Prior to the time of the re-or-
angization, the League had been for
quite a while practically dormant, but
with its reorganization came new zest
and interest, and with the help and
guidance of Miss McIntosh and A'Irs.
Helen Aloore, State Chairman of the
League of Women Voters, the Galves-
ton League has grown in the past vear
to a membership of 235 and holds high
rank among the leagues of other Texas
cities which are, like the Galveston
League, affiliated with the State
League.
The executive committee of the Gal-
veston League is as follows:
Officers.
Chairman, Airs. AA7alter F. Avei's.
First AGce-Chairman, Airs. Jo'hn AV.
Hopkins.
Second Arice-Chairman, Airs. Dan AV.
Kempner.
Treasurer, Airs. Sally Trueheart Wil-
liams.
Recording Secretary, Miss Gertrude
Girardeau.
Corresponding Secretary, Aliss Gladys
Kempner.
Committees.
Finance, Mrs. Semmes Steele.
Precincts, Aliss Laura Heffron.
Program, Airs. Dick P. AVall.
National Affairs and Speakers’ Bu-
reau, Aliss Ethel Hilton.
The Advisory Council consists of the
above Executive Committee and twen-
ty-one precinct chairmen.
The object of the Galveston League
°f AVomen A7oters is to foster educa-
tion in citizenship and to support im-
proved legislation. The league is non-
partisan and non-sectarian, thougtf
?ed
1st an
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ii
lU jIAin miMU
And all the living shall have passed
into silence
And skipping children grow to sedate
manhood.
Lifting their ;eyes to the great mass
of stone......
Man passes quickly, his life a queer
dream;
His hands turned to fitting stones and
metals......
Lifeless things that eternity does not
absorb....
Scribblers make their books and poets
their songs
Of the Helen that never dies but lives
as Love
The works of mail as are the wine of
the grape
And man like the pulp floats into the
darkness......
Riveters pound steel to eternal rest-
ing places,
Alan passes silently, his hands touch-
ing stones,
Making his own peculiar mark, a
scratch, a line,
Or aimless all leaves no sign of earth-
ly liife----
The priests, the old black priests, soon
go,
Fading into the night like wisps of
steam:
Man dies; what he makes stands
through the ages.
Now looms the monolith, stones fit-
ted as one,
A sturdy white milestone along eter-
nity’s way.... v.
Brute sledges sound the passing hours:
Clang ...... clang ...... clang......
I A nm°nu°5ng Ken»Pner.
I s°ciai calendar wS* the* h£*?TdeLy'B
I aar&nSsr" sawras
ss, tootrh.eoLSi ?,">«?
The hospitality was extendbIrthday-
jn fiJS
S?<assrt^; ’isE- oree
guests
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raooa nva
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every member of the league is
to join some political party, but
organization it can be allied with
support no party.
On Saturday, Alay 10th. 1924, the
md
J - -LULU. uic ivi^etings ot tne neague are neiu
had^ its ^first puncheon _ meqi a m0nth, on the f irstJ3aturelay, at 3:00
with Judge Alart H. Royston as
speaker, v ho gave a most instructive
ing
local
decicj
reset
with
secretary pf the National League of
AAromen Voters, and elected Mrs. AV. F.
Ayors as chairman for the local organ-
ization. AVas. John AV. Hopkins was
elected first vice chairman and Mrs.
D. AV. Kempner second vice chairman.
Other officers will be announced at
the first meeting of the league to be
held Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
in the gold room of Hotel Galvez.
Every woman in Galveston who has
paid her poll tax is eligible to mem-
bership and is invited to attend the
initial meeting.
The formation of the local league
is the culmination of the discussion at
Saturday afternoon’s meeting of the
mT"*Fe f? rusary~^1YtYi -r^> b SR ,Mrs. H. B.
of the league in the form of a m
TTU Rl/Hfe
Club Directors
Elect Officers
Directors of the Galveston Golf and
Country Club at a meeting thiE'
ing re-elected R. F. Irby president and
Edward F. McBride secretary-treasur-
cr I H. Kempner was elected vice
president. Raymond C. Stone was nam-
ed chairman of the house committee
and Eustace Taylor chairman of th^
greens committee . ______
of Women
rized Today
luncheon was held at Chop Suey, with
Dr. J. E. Suaughter, head of the de-he
partment of civics and philanthropy at m
Rice Institute, as the speaker of the,
day. The League felt that they were
indeed fortunate that Dr. Slaughter, in
his usual gracious way, accepted this in
invitation to speak to them, and his
t on that occasion was Cityti-
vernment. ” —he
In February, 1925, Airs. D. AV. KSTfip-.r-
ner, Second A7ce Chairman of the Gal
veston League, was named a
of the Executive Board of the Texa_
League of .AA’omen A7oters.
the Gal-aSi
member „„ *
She* reports that the expansion
of the Texas league, which
run about two months ago, is
showing results, and that many
ces are asking for her services,
of the state pre*sident, Mrs.
Moore of Texas City, to assist them in
forming organizations.
“Because of its non-partisan, non-
sectarian policy,” Miss McIntosh said
this morning, “and because it is the
only organization designed to take the
woman as a vote*r and fit her for her
task, The League of AVomen Voters is
growing as no other national wom-
an’s organization has grown in the
history of our country. In the four
years since its inception it has expand-
ed until it holds the second number
of women who are being- reached and
benefited, since the league i*s on the
whole a missionary organization and
does not confine its efforts to its own
membership.”
An invitation will be extended to
those attending Thursday’s meeting to
become charter members of the organ-
ization. Active memberships are* 51.00
a year. This will entitle the holder
to a year’s subscription to the New
Citizen, the official organ of the Texas
League of AVomen Voters, which fe is-
sued each month. It will also entitle
the member to access to the national i
league literature, which c.ove-rs in con- I
cisc form every phase of city, state and
national government and our national
foreign policy.
-MgStTngs oFthe League are held once
■
o’clock, at the Y. AV. C. A. The Execu-
tive Committee also meets one a month,
necessary^
The dues of the League Sir
year per member, and any woman vo-f
ter is eligible for membership.
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