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week, the three days set apart 70
the meeting being June 10, 20 an
21, at which a number of wome
speakers of national reputation will
be heard, as we'll as some prominen
Montana men, including Associat
Justice w. l.. Hollaway of the Mon
tana supreme court, former Associat
Justice Sidney Sanner and Judge f,
K. Cheadle of Lewistown.
Other speakers will be Mrs. Maut
Wood Park, national chairman o
the league; Mrs. Percy Pennybackel
of Texas, who will discuss child vel
fare work; Mrs. Katherine Waugh
McCulloch, of Chicago, who will con
slider the unification of laws relating
to women; Mrs. James Paige of Min
neapolis, regional president; ant
Mrs. Louis Slade of New York.
o. S. Warden, president of the
Great Falls Commercial club, will
make the address of welcome, and
E. H. Cooney, editor of the Great
Falls Leader, will make an address
also.
Mrs. Edwin L. Norris, wife of for
mer Governor Governor Norris, is
president of the Montana branch OF
the league, and she has sent out the
following letter to several thousand
Montana women, urging them to at
tend the convention:
Dear Madam-The first regional
convention and citizenship school for
the fifth region of the National Lea
que of Women Voters will be held in
Great Falls, Montana, June 49,, in
elusive, 1920.
The convention will open Saturday
morning with an adress by Mrs. Jas.
Paige, director of the fifth region, on
the League of Women Voters, it's rea-
son for being and its aims. This will
be followed by an address by Cover
nor Stewart.
The school for instruction in citi-
zenship will continue Monday and
Tuesday, June 21 and %. We have
the rare distinction of having as in
structors Mrs. Maud Wood park, of
Washington, D. c., chairman of the
national child welfare committee,
Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, of
Chicago, chairman of laws affecting
women; Mrs. Louis F. Slade, of New
York city, director of second region;
and our own Mrs. James Paige of
Minneapolis. These women will be
assisted by prominent educators and
jurists of Montana, also each of the
six states In the fifth region will be
represented on the program.
There will be a drive around the
city Sunday afternoon and a big
meeting at one of the churches Sun
day night, at which time Mrs. James
Paige will speak on Christian citizen
ship.
Og paramount Importance to Mon
tana women will be the session on
Monday afternoon at which time a |
permanent Montana League of Wom-
en- Voters will be formed. A banquet |
to all delegates present will be given
Monday night.
You are cordially invited to at
tend this convention and school, and
upon sending in your name to Mrs.
F. R. Brown, chairman of housing
committee, Great Falls, a reservation
will be made for you. All women
coming to the convention and regis
tering will be considered delegates
and Montana women will have voting
privileges at the state organization
session. 1t is very necessary that
every part of our region be represent
ed.
AS it is not possible to reach every
in your community by let
ter we urge you to give as much pub
licity to this meeting as you possibly
can so that any woman who is suf-
interested may avail her
self of this opportunity of attending
a school of instruction in citizenship
under the direction of women of ma
tionaI - reputation and prominent
Montana men. We are looking for
ward TO the pleasure of having you
with us.
Very cordially yours,
(Mrs. E. Id Betty Wilkins Norris.
Following are the planks which
nave been submitted by the national
eague to the platform committees
If the various political parties:
/. Child welfare. Realizing that
he hope of the nation Hes in the
children of today, the citizens of to-
morrow, we pledge ourselves to sup
,ort:
Adequate appropriation for the
hildren's bureau.
The prohibition of the child labor
throughout the nation.
The protection of infant life by
ederaI program for maternity and
infancy care.
Q. Education. We recognize that
he appalling percentage of illiteracy
mong both native and foreign born
q the United States is blot upon
ur civilization; the lack of under
tanding of the essentials of good
a menace to our future.
We, therefore, advocate:
A federal department of educa-
ion;
Federal aid where necessary for
ne removal of illiteracy and for the
lcrease of teachers salaries;
Instructions in the duties and
leals of citizenship for the youth
t our land and the newcomer to
ur shores.
8. The home and high prices. AS
means of increasing the efficiency
{ the home and reducing the cost Ell
living we favor: d.
Increased federal support for vo- c.
ltional training in home economics; he
Such federal regulation and SUI, al
srvision of the marketing and dis is
ibution of food as will tend to su