Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-13
IDAHO WOMAN IS
H0N0RED BY THE
SUFFRAGE LEADERS
Miss Margaret Roberts Made
Member of Constitutional
Committee for the League of
Woman Voters.

Recognition was given another Ida
no woman by the suffrage leaders of
the country when Miss Margaret Rob-
erts was named a member of the con-
stitutional committee for the League.
of Women Voters while a delegate in
attendance at the jubilee convention
of the National American Woman Suf-
frage association.
When asked to give her impressions
or the convention which was held at
st. Louis, Miss Roberts said:
1T was considered the greatest wo-
mems meeting of the century Mrs.
Gait presided at nearly all of The ses-
sions. There were 600 delegates in at
tendance from all parts of the United
States. Mrs. Gait is looked upon as
one of the women Of the world and
as an executive officer and organizer
has few equals.
THE western women had the oppor-
tunity of meeting many women who
are in the public eye: DR.. Anna How
ard Shaw. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell,
Mrs. Raymond Robbins. and Others
Mrs. Maud Wood Park, chairman of
the congressional committee from the
National American Woman Suffrage
association, told me that Representa-
tives Smith and French of Idaho had
helped her much in her work and had
shown her many courtesies.
IDAHO ONLY A VISITOR
1T was one of the best arranged
meetings to the minutest detail ever
attended. The president of the st.
Louis Suffrage League and chairman
of all local arrangements Mrs. George
Gellhorn, was really marvellous in her
executive ability and extended to each
and every delegate cordial welcome.
Il regretted very much that Idaho
had never had branch of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION and had never paid any dues
as an organization, and could there
fore be only a visitor Idaho could
not, on this account, have a vote. But
as chairman of the ratification com
mittee l have the honor of having been
appointed a member of the constitu4
tional committee for the new organi-
cation, the League of Women Voters.
NINE PRINCIPLES GIVEN
Fright here, L would like to speak
of the nine principles which were
adopted by the National association
and the League of Women Voters,
which is a branch of the old original
body.
They recommended that the follow
ing principles be adopted as means
of furthering Americanization in the
United States:
Compulsory education of all chill
dren between and IA, and attendance
at school nine months of each year.
Education of illiterate adults in the
common school branches.
'Stricter aturalization laws includ-
ing one that the vote be given only to
foreign women who have been natur-
allied in their own person, or through
naturalization of father, mother or
husband and after a residence of five
years in the United States.
Change in naturalization laws to
permit married women to be natural
lied on their own qualifications.
THAT English be the language of
instruction in all public and private
schools teaching general subjects.
Company publication of lessons on
citizenship in all foreign language
newspapers.
United States be voting qualification
for all citizens, native and foreign born.
That school of citizenship be es-
tablished in every rural and city school
district in connection with the public
schools.
THAT there be an educational quail
ification for the ballot"