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League of Women Voters minutes, 1920-1925

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miss in our daily struggle to rouse inthusiasm, increase our membership, raise state quota's and educate the electorate and rouse in our neighbors and friends a civic conscience. Her approach was so fair and she regarded all the problems as obstacles which we could overcome if we had courage and a saving sense of humor. She told us at one time they had 6000 members in the St Louis League and then decided to have an actual roll call and create a dues paying organization, the 6000 shrank to something like 2500 when a fee was fixed as the price of membership, but Mrs Gelhorn said they regarded those others as 'spiritual members" who some day they might win as active workers in the League. This charming speaker said that we must get info up some excitement, always have ourselves before the public, even if people did not like us, to go on liking them and working for them and finally come to be organized as a real factor in the promotion of needed legislation and the education of the people in political science. Thursday morning --- Oct 12 --- Third annual convention called to order by Mrs Pierce State President at 10: A.M. Mrs pierce announced that we have a Resolutions Committee with Miss Dunlap as Chairman, all resolutions must go to this committee. No resolutions to be brought up on the floor that have not been submitted to this committee on resolutions as we have certain policies that we must carry out and it is up to the Resolution Committee to decide whether they are within the power of the League of Women Voters.

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miss in our daily struggle to rouse inthusiasm, increase our membership, raise state quota's and educate the electorate and rouse in our neighbors and friends a civic conscience. Her approach was so fair and she regarded all the problems as obstacles which we could overcome if we had courage and a saving sense of humor. She told us at one time they had 6000 members in the St Louis League and then decided to have an actual roll call and create a dues paying organization, the 6000 shrank to something like 2500 when a fee was fixed as the price of membership, but Mrs Gelhorn said they regarded those others as 'spiritual members" who some day they might win as active workers in the League. This charming speaker said that we must get info up some excitement, always have ourselves before the public, even if people did not like us, to go on liking them and working for them and finally come to be organized as a real factor in the promotion of needed legislation and the education of the people in political science. Thursday morning --- Oct 12 --- Third annual convention called to order by Mrs Pierce State President at 10: A.M. Mrs pierce announced that we have a Resolutions Committee with Miss Dunlap as Chairman, all resolutions must go to this committee. No resolutions to be brought up on the floor that have not been submitted to this committee on resolutions as we have certain policies that we must carry out and it is up to the Resolution Committee to decide whether they are within the power of the League of Women Voters.