Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-14
WILL URGE HOME
BETTERMENT ACTS
Women Expected to Give New
Turn to Next Presidential
Campaign.
BOTH PARTIES RECEPTIVE
Ready to Listen to Constructive
Ideas of Millions of New
Voters.
ny MRS. GEORGE BASS,
Chairman Womann Bureau. Demo-
crntic National Com mittee.

crntic National Committee.
WASHINGTON. Dec. l3.-Whcn mil
lions OF women in the United States en-
gage in the next Presidential campaign
they will register their sentiments on
great national issues with an unrnis-
taxable emphasis.
II would be most presumptuous for
mo to predict what they will demand
deed. it seems to inc that BY the time
the con ventions arc held ii will not be
necessary 10 make demands. for Demo-
Gratis and Republicans alike will recog-
niZe womcn's claim q, special considcra-
ton. 1t is. OF course. to be expected
that women will be delegates TO the
conventions and have a voice in the
framing OF Platforms
Conventions PersonneI.
Each State at the National Convcn-
ton is entitled to twice as many dele
congressman. The matter of their
election and the personnel is determined
by the States. sometimes by primary
and sometimes by convention. a Ger
tain number OF these delegates are al
ways elected at large. Women have
ana they will be in the future in in
c-eaSinE NUM- ers.
Twenty States have ratified sun q
(Norih Dakota November 23). Rem.~.
States will do so soon. This makes
thiriy-onc States start are certain 10
On account o, the referendum in
Ohio. an effort will be made to get at
ieas: six OF the nonsuTrage States TO
ratify. so as to have thirty-seven. Ten
ncsscc's Constitution does not allow
special season on ratification. and that
is the reason we have to get six out
IL the nonarnrase group.
Intense Interest in Homo.
In my travels back and forth across
the continent find that the women
who have recently received the risht of
f nrnad or are sx'vct!nG it, have snr
may insist or making the high cost OF
living an issue, they will focus atten-
tbe on the le1gq he OF n5f01s shouid
10 have the final disposition OF the
league still in doubt.
Everywhere / go l hear the women
that they are for the great pact that
has been framed for the purpose OF pre-
To them the league of nations means
Just what the men who sat around the
peace table at Versailles still believe
provisions and analyzed them during
tense weeks. while an anxious world
waited.
impaired his health and peopardizcd
his life TO present the points involved
cepted. He carried directly from the
peace table in France tho message that
the great world powers had agreed on
covenant to prevent the slaughter and
sacrifice. the waste and ruin possible
under old conditions. The message
ing when Voiced by the head Of the
national government. will not be for
gotten. no matter what ISSUES may pre-
sent themselves.
Support Living Cost Reduction.
Since the signing of the armistice the
high cost OF living has become each
month a more serious problem. 1t is q
problem that affects every human be-
eminent has been working to solve. The
women. who spend the larger part o.,
the, average family's income for the
maintenance Of tncir households. will
support any movement that gives as
surance of fair prices for commodities
and protection against eNtortion.
Turning from international and ma
tional problems one comes inevita bly, to
the home. in which centers the interest
that is the nucleus from which all de-
relopment must start. Women will focus
their efforts on the welfare Of the
dren.
Strong Cor Maternity Bill.
To my mind the maternity. bill. in
te by Senator Morris Sheppard.
measures now before legislators.
The maternity bill provides for Fed
of maternity and infancy. so that every
SCIENTIFIC care for. herself and her child.
Through the Chldrens Bureau of the
Department OF Labor the nation has
been made cognizant of shocking facts
concerning the wanton waste of human
life.
II is safe to foreteil that the new era
in which women stand side by side
with men in politics well as industry
Will bring 10 the front many reform
efforts. Women in industry have learn
ed much: and the day has gone by when
their abor can be successfully ex-
plotted. They will demand equal pay
for equal work. and when they have the
vote they will come into economic as
we'll as political equality.
VETERAN SANE ENOUGH