s. Every week a column or more, edited
by James P. Callaway, was filled with abuse of suffrage leaders and
every slanderous statement in regard to them which could be found.
Miss Caroline Patterson of Macon was always president of this
association and Mrs. Lamar, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Moore and a few other
women, all of Macon, were ardent co-workers and leaders and frequent
contributors to Mr. Callaway's column. The association still holds
together and the members are pledged not to vote but to give their
time and money to any effort made in the courts to invalidate
ratification of the Federal Amendment (1920).

[39] In 1921 the League prepared a bill "to remove the civil
disabilities of women," which provided that women should be eligible
to vote in all elections, primary and general, in municipalities,
counties and the State, and should be eligible to hold public office.
The only objection made to the bill was to women on juries. The women
objected to this exemption but had to yield. In the Senate the vote on
July 22 stood 36 for, 3 against; in the House almost unanimous on
August 10. These legislators were so courteous and obliging the women
could scarcely believe it was a Georgia Legislature. They gave
everything asked for and inquired, "Is there anything else we can do
for you?"

The State organizer of the League of Women Voters is Mrs. Z. L.
Fitzpatrick, former president of the State Federation of Women's
Clubs. She is most enthusiastic over the new order of affairs and is
touring the State organizing leagues and urging women to get out and
vote and to nominate women for the offices!

CHAPTER XI.

IDAHO.[40]

Idaho women have been voting citizens for twenty-four years and during
these years much has been accomplished for the making of a bigger and
better State, especially along educational lines. The women came into
their suffrage sanely and quietly, working shoulder to shoulder with
men in everything vital to their country. State and local politics has
been materially improved since women have been electors. No strictly
suffrage association has been maintained since the franchise was
granted, but when the National League of Women Voters was instituted
in 1920 a branch was formed in Idaho with Dr. Emma F. A. Drake
chairman. Work heretofore had been done through the Federation of
Clubs, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and other organizations
of women. Political leaders always consider what women wi