Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-14
WAR MOTHERS BILL
NOW IN CONGRESS
Object To Make More Effective
BY Limited Action The
War Work
TO EXTEND MUTUAL AID

A copy OF the Bill TO Incorporate
the War Mothers of America, which
was introduced in the House of Rep
resentatives last June %. by Con-
gresham Denton, of Indiana. and was
referred to the Committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia. is as follows:
A BILL
To incorporate the War Mothers of
Ameria
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representative of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, That Mrs. Alice Gresham
Dodd. Mrs. Albert ]. Schulz, Mrs.
George Vann, Mrs. William weintz
Mrs. James w. Spain, Mrs. Boaz
Crawford, Mrs. L. f. Karcher. Mrs.
James NJ Hitch, all of Evansville,
Indiana, their associates and success
sors, are hereby created a body cor
porate and polite of the District of
Columbia.
Sec 2 That the name of this cor
poration shall be the War Mothers
of America, and by that name it shall
have perpetual succession with power
TO sue and be sued in courts of law
and equity within the Jurisdiction of
the United States; TO hold such real
and personal estate as shall be nee
essary for its corporate purposes and
to receive real and personal property
by purchase, gift, devise, and be-
quest; to adopt a seal and alter the
same at its pleasure; to have offices
and conduct its business and affairs
both within and without the District
of Columbia and in the several States
and Territories of the United States;
to make, adopt, and change from time
to time bylaws, rules, and regula-
tions not contrary to law; to elect
appropriate officers and agents; and
generally to perform all such acts
and things as may be necessary to
carry into effect the provisions of
this Act, and to promote the purpose
of said corporation.
Sec. 3. That the object of the cor
poration shall be to promote, encour-
age, increase, and coordinate the war
work of mothers, wives, sisters, and
daughters of American soldiers and
sailors; to make more effective by
united action all war work, including
food conservation, war financing, and
war charities, and for the further
purpose of extending mutual aid,
comfort, and sympathy while their
sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers
are in the military and naval service
of the United States.
Sec. A. That membership in the
corporation shall be limited to moth
ers of American soldiers and sailors,
who shall be known as honor MEM
bers, and to wives, sisters, and
daughters of American soldiers and
sailors, who shall be known as asso-
ciate members; that all members of
either designation are entitled to
equal voice in all meetings to equal
vote at all elections.
Sec. s. That this corporation may
form within itself certain divisions,
such as State, county, and city or
village chapters, as may be decided
upon by the persons named in the
first section of this Act, or majority
of them.
Sec. 6. That a meeting of the in
corporators, their associates, or sue
cessors shall be held once in every
year after the year of incorporation
at such time and place as shall be
prescribed in the bylaws, when the
annual report of the officers and ex-
ecutive boards shall be presented and
members of the executive board elect
ed for the ensuing year. Special
meetings of the corporation may be
called upon such notice as may be
prescribed.
Sec. T. That a copy of the consti-
tuition and bylaws and of all amend
ments thereto shall be filed with the
Congress when adopted, and on or
before the first day of April each
year said corporation shall make and
transmit to the Congress a report of
the proceedings for the year ending
December thirty-first preceding, in
Guiding in such report the names and
residences of the officers and full
and itemized account of all receipts
and expenditures.
Sec g. That the said corporation
shall have the sole and exclusive
right to have and to use in carrying
out its purposes such emblems and
badges, not conflicting with those of
other organizations, as the corpora
ton shall hereafter adopt.
Sec. g. That Congress shall have
the right to repeal, alter, or amend
this Act at any time.