The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-27
Course in Citizenship VIII be Con.
Quoted by Mrs. Max Mayer and
Professor O. E.
kiingaman.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Iowa Has Taken Lead in These At
fairs and One Next Week Will
be No Exception in Popu-
larity.

4 Plans are being completed for the
citizenship school which will be held
here Monday and Tuesday Of next
week All of the sessions will be
held at the Y. W. C. A., and they will
begin on time every time. The
women are again reminded that all
lof the programs are to be free, and
that the women all over the city and
surrounding country are urged to at
tend the school.
| The official program for the two
+ days is given below:
Monday.
$50 p. m.--Origin and Significance
! of the Political Parties-Mrs. Max
Mayer.
$3.50 p. m.-Units of Government
Prof. O. E. klingaman.
7:30' p. m.-American Institutions
and Ideals-Prof. o. E. Klingaman.
$50 p. m.-Boards and Commits
isions of Iowa-Mrs. Max Mayer.
$50 p. m.-Schools and School
Laws of Iowa-Prof. o. e. Kfingaman.
$3.50 p. m.-"Madam, Who Keeps
Your Home ?''-Mrs. Max Mayer.
1880 p. m.-Primaries-Mr Max
Mayer.
$50 p. m.-Election and Voting
o. E. Klinga-
man.
The year 1920 seems to be the
open season for citizenship schools,
and so constantly are they on the
increase in the United States that
the federal bureau of education is
gathering data upon the growth of
the civic ideal as it IS being developed
by the women Of America.
In almost no state is greater in
terest being manifested in these
schools of citizenship. which endeavor
to teach the women the fundamentals
of good government, good politics and
good citizenship, than in Iowa, which
now stands almost at the top Of the
list of states, in the number OF
schools held thus far.
Many Schools in Iowa.
\ Since February, schools have been
held in many Iowa towns, and so great
is the interest, and so many the de-
mands for an expert instructor, that
the Iowa League of Women Voters.
which has been largely instrumental
in promoting the schools. has been
hard put to it to supply an instructor
for all the towns requesting schools.
Since February, three different In
structors have been employed at diff
ferent times, by the league; and
when the work closed June /, thirty
three Iowa towns had held schools in
co-operation with the league. not to
mention many towns which held their
schools or study courses under local
instruction.
The first three schools held in Iowa
were put On in February in Council
Bluffs. Marshalltown and Ottumwa
under the direction OF Miss Marie 3.
Ames of Missouri, former state or
ganizer for the National Suffrage as
ISOLATION. She returned again in April
to hold schools in Charles City, Rolfe
and Humboldt.
Miss Alice B. Curtis, former Iowa
woman, was the next instructor en-
ploved hY the league. and directed
successful schools in burlington, Des
Moines, Charlton, Oskaloosa and
Wash ington.
Mrs. Max Mayer Of Iowa City, as
sistant in welfare work in the exteI,-
sion division of the state university,
has been loaned to the league for the
purpose OF conducting citizenship
schools, her spring schedule includ-
ing seventeen towns. This fall Mrs.
Mayer will return to the league for
another two months III order to hold
schools in the towns which were I'M
able to get time with her this spring.