Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1927, Page 40

40 THE SUNDAY CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION Pollcxes of Woman Voters Outlined, as Fall Program Is Inaugu- rated—Association of Woman Lawyers Take Stand Against Protectlve Legxslatmn. BY CORINNE FRAZIER. CTIVITIES at the headquarters of ' the National League Oof Women Voters are in full swing for what promises to be a record-breaking year, begin- ning with Fall and Winter board meet- ing, speaking tours for members of the board of directors, the national convention in the Spring, and culmi- nating in enthusiastic participation in & non-partisan way, in the campaign and presidential election. Miss Belle Sherwin, league president, | who has heen absent on a month’s va- vation, will return to Washington next week. Mrs. Arthur Ringland of Wash inxton D. C., the league’'s new secre- tary, is expe(‘!ed back this week from & month’s attendance at the Williams- town Institute of Politic Gladys MHarrison, executive secr tak en up her duties after five \\e('l.\s ab- sence. | 1In a recent issue of the Survey, Miss | ! Harrison reviewed the work of the Jeague as an experiment in political education, and particularly the Jeague's development-as an outgrowth of the suffrage movement. She point- | ed out the significant record of Prog yess in the last seven year - i | going over th ment, which the League of Women Voters is attempting—vocational edu- cation by the laboratory method. The method has proved itself stimulating to educational invention in a most neglected fleld. “It is to sharpen the challenge of the vote, to vivify the educational process of study and discussion, quite as much as to achieve the success of particular measures, that the league supports a legislative program. It follows that the league must con- stantly readdress itself to shifting needs and conditions. Such action is easy enough for a small group of like minded people, which leave its airs to a small governing The league, however. is large, and the common denominator among its mem- bers, aside from sex, is no more than a general desire to use the vote in- telligently. How can such an organ- ization act on 'current controv 1 sues without disruption? “The answer is in a scrupulous re- gard for representative procedure within its own ranks. The re council meeting received the reports | of two committees which had been i ure with a fine- :ommendations for a_change were slight, but all in tooth comb. vealed in th ction and report yecent general council meeting Washington, As the event of suffrage retreats the individuality of the National league of Women Voters, which was | its nfffi[lrln( is ln‘g\l\nhlg to emerge,” | “Presumably the ‘ inainspring of its existence has been | the fact that the members of one --)\v had a relation to the vote which was | new. The league has recently held in IWashington, in place of its usual dele- : gate convention, a meeting of its gen { eral council, composed of its board of directors and two officers from each of its 44 State leagues. Such a meet- ing is revealing. and this one discloses | » continuing and’ increasing vigor % which, seven vears after suffrage, calls {| for explanation. § “T believe the explanation lies in l the fact that the league, in the strug-| ¥ gle of addressing itself to an almost ¢ impossible task, has hit upon and de- i veloped methods which are themselves in | I energizing and vitalizing. Not be- cause it is composed of new voters, | who are women, but because of the | ways it has found to relate the inter- B et e’ v eovesment e | Jeague is significant today. “What is the procedure by which & large organization can act simulta- 4 § neously as an educational agency and as a supporter of a program of action? | The immediate relation of study to use and action is characteristic of adult education, even that which is not strictly vocational. The immigrant studies English and the Constitution in order to become a citizen. The bride-elect takes cooking lessons in order to feed her husband without flasco. It is political education for #nd through participation in govern- the direction of increasing advance consideration of the program on th | part of the local league and individ- ual members, and the understanding use of the program after adoption. L montt at wh “ G ago the practice was estab- ed of sending out, three in advance of the convention, ich action is to be taken, printed copies of the proposed program of work, with all proposed new matter indicated in red ink. This preliminary period is one of study, consultation and discussion—not of referendum. The deliberative freedom of the con- vention itself is carefully preserved. “Two other points should be men- tioned—items are customarily placed upon the study program for a year or more before going on the active list, and the number of items added in a year is small, the rate being about equal to that by which other items are written off through accomplish- ment. “The three additions this year il- lustrate with particular clearness the | league’s habit of dealing with ‘situa- tions not subjects.” The general coun- cil, which takes the place of the con- vention in alternate yvears, is limited in action on program to proposals due | to ‘altered conditions.’ To the pro-| ram of efficiency in Government de- partment, therefore, was added the study of corrupt practices legislation. The child welfare program was modi- fied so as to permit support of meas- ures—State or Federal—to continue programs of maternity and infancy hygiene in the States after the expira- tion of the Sheppard-Towner act in 1929. In the department of interna- tional co-operation to prevent war, ar- bitration has been for several yeal body. | ent | Jan item for study. There has now { been substituted active ‘support of the | settlement of international difficulties by arbitration or other peaceful means ‘md support of treaties having the o end in view.' A proposal to add the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act to the study because of the lack of information, adequate and lable as a basis of study and because the league itself lacks the means and personnel to duct investigations in so I On the other hand, the I | courage study teenth amendment by a qualified arch foundation. Thus the league has worked out itself a_procedure which spells lity and health. It is, in brief, to seek first the facts, then a plan of action to meet the facts. The method is slow and often criticized by eager spirits who would press forward even though the rank and file trail help- tessly and perhaps resentfully behind. Yet the league has found that the ecaution and care with which it mak commitments are in direct ratio to 4 vd valor with which fter be supported. ue will en- the other camp. Why should the | league take action on” controversial | atters? Why not stick to conven tional educational work? Women of | excepional experience and training who may command expert knowledge of some’ aspects of public affairs are sometimes the last to realize that they are now a part of that ultimately re- sponsible multitude, the electorate. t citizen organization like the thigu(‘, fact-facing and fact-finding as s, with only disinterested motives m dealing with public questions, can- not take a position on controversial issues after study, di fon and con- vention debate, then what kind of a body is to do s0? “The answer {s, of course—organiza- tions motivated by bias or self-interest. 1t is legitimate as it is inevitable that such organizations should continually press upon Government, as they do, thelr claims, for favor and exemption. The question is whether any organiza- tion can be maintained without some animating special interest. Good citi- zenship is too vague even for the league. Its departments of efficiency in Government, public welfare in Gov- | ernment and international co-operation to prevent war, so named, betray the heginnings of a creed, while the | fourth, on the legal status of women, shows at least a touch of direct group interest.” S of DEFINITE stand against pro- tective legislation for women was taken by the National Association of ‘Women Lawyers in the passage of a resolution at the annual convention in Buffalo, N. Y., August 29 and 30. ‘The resolution as adopted pledges the association to file formal protest whenever and wherever laws are pro- AIDA Radio ‘Which do you want? program was not adopted | of the results of the| eriticism jumps into | -| visit to the National Woman's Party. STAR., WASHINGTON, posed for the regulation of workers salaries based upon the sex of the worker rather than the nature of the work. The measure was proposed by Rose Falls Bres and Emilie M. Bullowa of New York. Mrs. Bdward Franklin White of IndidnapoMs, vice president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs | and one of the most prominent Jaw- vers of the country, introduced a reso- ution before the association calling for a_constitutional amendment which rovide for uniform marriage laws in America. This vesolution also was adopted by the | convening group. Katherine R. Pike' of this city was | re-clected president of the association. | Margaret J. Curtis of Lincoln, Nebr., was chosen vice president; Mamie de Sailes Borah of Indianapolis, Ind., | treasurer; Olive Beatty of thiy city, orrespe and Marion | Gold Lewis of New York City, record- | | Margaret Wintringham of Lon- ingland, formerly a member of the House of Commons, who was visit- ing in Washington during the past | fortnight, spoke informally at a tea glven n’ her honor at the National | Woman's Party headquarters on Cap- itol Hi She discussed the two phases of the struggle for equality between man and woman in England, in which she has been especially interested. Equal pay for men and women work- cors is one of the phases of the prob- lem with which Mrs. Wintringham de- clared herself to be particularly con- |cerned. She related a story of two ipaign organizers to illustrate the |inequality which existed in their wage | scales at present. One man and one | woman were engage her own party (Liber “\vlll out to do the said, but the man was to be paid £330 {and £300 for expenses, while the wom | an was to veceive £150 and £100 for ex | penses. Wintringham pointed {out the injustice of this in a manner sufficiently convincing to bring about a readjustment which gave the man and woman equal pay for the work. Mrs. Wintringham discussed, as the second phase, the question of equality in agriculture. She declared that one- eighth of all the woman workers of England were engaged in agricultural employment on a wage basis and that in most cases the women were paid only half as much as the men, al- though their living expenses may be the same, Of the 700 members of the local ag- ricultural boards in England, only seven are women, said Mrs. Wintring- ham, while only one woman member sits with the national board. This ne is compulsory, as the law requires at least one woman member.” means “at most” where e concerned, as a rule, com- s. Wintringham. Among those who attended the tea were Mrs. Richard Wainwright, Mrs. ¢, Mrs. Max Rotter of Mina Van Winkle, ott Baker, Mrs. Legare O'Beere, Mrs. Bernita Shelton Mat- |thews and Misses Katherine Fish- |er, Laura Berrlen, Nancy Allender, Winifred Mallon, Mary Gertrude Fen: dall and Ruby Black. Mrs. Wintringham was_entertained at luncheon in the presidential room at the New Willard, previous to her At the luncheon, she spoke before a distinguished group of women on the battle against tradition and prejudice | By the Associated Press. D. C.” SEPTEMBER 1T. 1927— which must be waged by the women of England—a much greater obstacle in her country, she declared, than in America, The daily luncheons at the Wom- 's National Democratic Club, whic were discontinued during August, were resumed this week at the New Hampshire avenue clubhouse and will be a regular part of the daily pro- gram throughout the Fall and Win- ter months. Luncheon hour will be from to 2 o'clock each afternoon. U. S.-PANAMA DISPUTE ARBITRATION IS URGED Submission of Question of Sover- eignty to Court of Justice Pro- posed to League Assembly. 12:30 | | GENEVA, September 10.—Submis- sion to an impartial court of justice of the dispute between Panama and | the United States over the question of whether the Canal Zone is under the sovereignty of the United States or Panama. was suggested to the Assem- ¢ tonight by.Dr. Eusabio A. Morales, ex-foreign minister of Panama. The suggestion hinged on the in- ability of the United States to accept Panama’s viewpoint in the contro- y. Thus far the attitude of the ed States toward Panama’s view- point has been undetermined. Furtive Peak. dorfer Blatter, Munich. is a mountain here, From Me “There there isn't s, but you must have a guide if you want to climb it.” Is it so high and dangerous, then?” | “No, but it's so hard to find.” = Snow surveys made in California, Utah and Nevada are used in fore- ter supply of the yea PART Y. “Wandering Horse and Festive Dog” | Get Aid in Tokio | Correspondence of the Associated Press, TOKIO, Japan.—The “wandering horse” and the ‘festive dog,” as well as the human pedestrian, are protected by traffic rules in Tokio. “At the rise of the hand police- man stop rapidly,” say rules post- ed in “English” in the central po- lice station here. “When a passenger of the foot hove in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet at him. Meladiously at first, but if he stlll obstacles your passage, tootle him with vigor and express by word of mouth the warning, ‘Hi! Hi “Beware the wandering horse that he shall not take fright as you pass him by. Do not explode the exhaust box at him as you pass him by. Go soothingly by. Give big space to the festive dog that shall sport in the roadway. Go soothingly in the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon.” WILL PREAEH ON CRIME. —_— Rev. John E. Briggs Invites Police | to Attend Services. “The Cost of Crime,” the second of a series of sermons on timely topics, is the subject which will be discussed by Rev. John E. Briggs, pastor of the Fifth Baptist Church, from his pulpi: tonight. 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