The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-09-27
REFORMS IN STATE
ARE Being BACKED
BY KY. CLUB women
Executive Board Of Kentucky Fedora
uon Announces Drastic Program
For the Coming Year
In State.

A bill to take the state penal and
charitable institutions out of politics
by the establishment of a civil service
commission to examine superintend-
ents and employees will be submitted to
the 1920 session of the Kentucky Cen
eral Assembly by the Kentucky Fed
Grafton of Woman's Clubs, it was de-
cided at the meeting of the executive
board held at Lexington Friday.
The federation will also have pre-
sented bills to raise the age of legal
protection of girls to eighteen years
and to provide equal protection for
both sexes, to provide farm to which
delinquent women may be committed
for indefinite terms, and to obtain
state aid for tuberculosis sanatoria.
All of the bills to be presented will
be drafted and submitted to the Ken
lucky Cooperative Council, which will
meet at the University of Kentucky.
October 16, for corrections and addi-
tions.
The bill providing for a civil service
commission will take the appointment
OF heads and employees of all charit-
able and penal institutions out of the
governor and political leaders, and
provide for competitive tests of effic-
iency and ability Of appliances for po-
sitions. The bill asking state aid for
sanatoria for the treatment Of tubercu-
losis is endorsed because there is no
state sanatorium and no county nor
group Of counties would be able to f.
nance alone the district sanatoria
planned.
The farm for delinquent women
which will be asked in another bill,
should be equipped for mental, NOR
| al, physical and Industrial training to
satisfy the needs of inmates who may
be committed to 1t, according to the
Recommendation of the Social Hygiene
Department. The same department
asked and was assured Of the Cooper
alton with any agency seeking the re-
vision and betterment of divorce laws
of the State.
Members Of the board engaged in a
long discussion of the need for better
motion picture censorship in Kentucky
after Miss Anne Gullion, of Carrolton,
chairman of the Department of Civic
advocated a State board of censors.
No action was taken except an agree
ment to continue the spreading of pro-
paganda for better censorship
The board voted to ask club men,
bers to act as solicitors in the cam
paign to raise 100000 for Kentucky
Memorial building on the campus OF
the University of Kentucky in view OF
the shortage of workers available
President Frank L. McVey, Of the uni.
versity, and Edward W. Hines, of Lou
isville, chairman Of the general COM
mittee, addressed the board and ask.
ed the aid Of the club women Of the
State In the campaign, which has al
ready been endorsed by the Fedora
tion.
Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, chairman
of the Department Of Education, re-
ported the campaign to raise $4,000
in the State to purchase supplies fol
the use Of illiterates in the moonlight
schools would continue until Decem
ber 1. The board will urge districts
which have not raised their quotas O.
the fund to increase their efforts.
The resignation of Miss Alice Lloyt
of Maysville, as manager Of the cam
paign. was announced by Mrs. Stewart
who will conduct the remainder of thu
campaign herself.