The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-04-08
WOMAN'S WORK

Proposed Measures Recommended by
Department of Legislature to be
Presented to the Legislature by the
Florida Federation of WOman's
| Clubs.
! Providing for equal suffrage.
Statewide compulsory school at
tendance.
Act to provide for the furnishing
| by the counties of free text books for
the use of the pupils of the public
free schools.
That women may be made eligible
for election to official school positions.
An appropriation of $4,000 to es-
tablish a model home for the use of
the home economics department at
the Woman's College in Tallahassee.
Equal division of the Smith-Lever
state appropriation between the home
economics and agricultural demon
ton work.
An appropriation for the boys and
girls industrial school, sufficient to
establish and maintain them on the
standard basis acquired by the best
institutions in the United States for
similar purposes, and providing for
the erection of board of managers
for these schools of five members, one
of whom shall be the president of, and
the other woman recommended by the
Federation of Women's Clubs for APP
pointment.
An act creating and establishing an
institution for the feeble-minded and
epileptic, thereby relieving the con-
gested and over-crowded condition
with now exists in the state hospital
for the insane at Chattahoochee.
An appropriation sufficient to make
available federal appropriations for
state aid in establishing reforma-
tories and detention houses in Flor
ida.
An act to provide and enforce ade-
quate fire protection for all public in
stitutions in the state.
An act to amend the laws regulat-
ing the employment of minor children
in the state of Florida and providing
fer violations thereof. Creating the
office of state labor inspector and as
sistant, defining the duties of the said
officers.
An act to create a woman's indus
trial bureau, providing for the ap-
pointment of a woman as chief of the
bureau, and making appropriation
therefor.
An act to provide matron for
prisons and institutions where women
and children are in custody, and sep
arate quarters for men and women
inmates.
Separate quarters for tuberculosis
inmates in state, county and city in
situations.
An act to make public executions
illegal.
Enactment of stricter marriage
law.
An act directing the trustees of the
internal improvement fund of Florida
to deed to the federal government,
for use as a Seminole Indian reserva-
ton, the land set aside by the 1917
Legislature, consisting of 100000
acres.
An appropriation for upkeep of the
Royal Palm state park.
An act granting additional land to
Royal Palm state park for bird con-
servation purposes.
A sufficient appropriation making
available Florida's portion of the fed
eIal good roads state aid bill.
An act creating a state conserva-
ton department with five commits
sioners, one of whom shall be the
chairman of the conservation depart
ment of the Federation of Women's
Clubs, and another recommended by
the federation, to have charge of for
estry, waterways, birds and game
protection for Florida.
County local option fire protection.
An act increasing the number of
members of the school board from
three to five, and recommending that
two of them be women.
An act regulating the quality,
cleanliness and adulteration of milk
and other dairy produces offered for
sole ha