Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-15
Home Economics and Public
Health Topics at Convention
of General Federation.
RECORD OF ALL BIRTHS
URGED BY A DELEGATE
Resolutions Adopted Protesting
Against Suggestive Stories and
Censuring Immodest Dancing.

| CHICAGO, June 15.-The slate Of the
| nominating committee of the General Fed
Grafton of Womens Clubs. prepared fol
presentation today. was headed by Mrs
Percy V. Pennybacker. the incumbency
of the presidency. who was to be offered
the traditional second term. Mrs. Samue
B. Sheath OF Tiff1n. Ohio, was named tc
succeed Mrs. L. l.. Blankenburg Of Phila.
delphia. who has served two terms as
first vice president. Mrs. Eugene Reilly
of Charlotte. N. c.. was slated for sec
ond vice president. and Miss Georgia A
Bacon of Worcester. Mass, for cor
responding secretary. Other officers
named were the incumbents standing for
reelection except two directors, Miss
Mary Garrett Hay of New York and Mrs
w. Brooks Young of Jacksonville, Fla.
Home economics and public health were
the subjects of the days sessions, as out
lined in the program. Eugenics, santa
ton. pure food legislation, tuberculosis
and compulsory education were among
the leading topics.
Miss Julia Lathrop. head of the chill
dren's bureau of the Department of La
Dor, made.a strong plea for compulsory
registration of every birth
Legal record of birth is the only
means of preserving the lives and rights
OF children, and no American baby
should be deprived of that right" she
said.
Prompt Registration Needed.
only by prompt registration can
nurses and doctors discover the children
who most need care. 1t is only thus
that we can stamp out blindness of the
newly born"
. Miss Lathrop urged the delegates to
plan to have a meeting of every club
unite within the next six months to take
action to protect the babies Of their own
communities. DR.. Charles s. Rockhill of
Cincinnati urged the women's clubs to
work for Fairgrounds and breathing
spaces In conSested city districts as part
of the fight against tuberculosis. The
most important work the women's clubs
could do he said, would be to urge the
establishment of a federal tuberculosis
commission.
Demand for rigid laws in every state
In the. Union that certificates of freedom
from communicable disease should ac-
company every application for a mar
riage license was formulated in a reso-
luton submitted today by Mrs. g. 8.
Crockett. chairman Of the public health
department Of the federation
Wants Knowledge Utilized.
A plea for the utilization of scientific
knowledge acquired in recent years and
its direct application to household af-
fairs was made today by Miss Helen
Louise johnson of Cincinnati, chairman
Of the home economics committee in her
report.
The mighty strides which have been
made by women, their achievements ms
leaders in the world and the part they
have played and must play in civilization
were reviewed by Miss johnson, who
declared: There is too much static learn
ing. too little dynamic utilization of all
we have learned in the lives of the world
workers.
Resolutions were adopted as follows:
Protesting against suggestive stories
in magazines and pledging members of
he federation to subscribe for only those
publications whose columns are clean.
Pledging support to national centen-
nal celebration at Baltimore in commem-
oration of the composition Of The Star
Spangled Banner
''Censuring immodest forms of dane
ing"