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eve enacted two health bureaus AZ a
result Of which Ohio is organized into n
public health district with full-tme
health commissioner and n department. OF
health nursing, under the supervisor oil
the commissioner In this connection, To
guarantee pure food products, we secured
n cold storage act under which cow ct'ons
have been had OF cold storage operators
who were holding back food products
beyoud time in order 20 boost prices.
'Some of the planks in this program
| think | can anticipate now and oher
thereto my definite support. =, :,
"All women are concerned with the
fact that every year quarter OF mil
lion little children and 10000 mothers IN
child birth die from preventable causes.
The maiority of these babies and mothers
die, not in cities, despite the heat and
congestion, but in farm and mountain
settlements where medical help rs out oil
reach. In the last session of Congress, a
baby's bill carrying Federal help to the
States for maternity and infancy care,
waited in vain while reactlonary leaders
spent their time 'scrapplng the League
Of Nations Our platform urges CO.
operation with the States for the protec-
tion Of child life through infancy and ma
ternitv care No t only do stand upon
this platform, but if within my power, i.
will act SO promptly that this toll of Amer
lean child life shall not be needlessly pro
longcd
Likewise. the Democratic platform
asks for immediate cooperative federal
assistance to the States for the removal ot
ilitcracv This does not mean encroach-
mcnt bv the Federal government on local
control II means that the central gov
ernmcnt has a responsibility To help the
States through appropriations and dem
onstratinn in reaching our five and one-hhlt
million illItcratcs nearly three quarters
native born
al present the Federal Bureau Of
Education IS buried with varied assort-
mont az national business IN the Depart
ment of the Interior. My opponent has
spoken recently for new department OF
puhhc welfare under which 70 group GER
tain social welfare activities Nhhe
am in hearty accord with the idea oi
house cleaning our govc nment depart
mcnts and sorting out the human from
the technical problems, | tcei that we
should look forward to giving education
and health equal consideration with labor,
instead ot Jumping all social questions
again IN another gab-bag, ill-detined dc
p3rjment :,
tual welfare, gaining a fifty-hour law Tor
working mon. measures 60 end sweat-shop
labor. laws creating a state Industrial
commission and q workman : compensA-
tlon not which has been pronounced the
model of its kind IN the world by both
The american Federation ot Labor and
thc Ohio Manufacturers Association and
winch has reduced personal litigation
I ,ascs m Ohio from 1900 ~ 1910 % less
! ,han 50 m 1919 We have recognized that
\ covcrnrpcut is for humanity and upheld
/ ,hc right of working people 70 organize
Z ard "a publicly express thclr views, Dom
nretrations If the bcCCiitS Of this prlnciple
came during the recent steel strike he
+ rIcht az free spccch and assembly was not
lrfrlnrrd although across the border ~
PENNSYLVANIA, the exact opposite was the
case and Pennsvlvanla iaborors were
compelled to gather on OHIO soil 70 hold
I thclr meetings. III my SLY wears rs gov
I erpor, | have never uScd the mlitaTN m an
+ industrial controversy or frcd a shot to
settle q strike, and yrt law and ortier nave
hccn maintained aDd property has occa
protected II has been my privilege ard
/ pleasure toleud support ~ tia paSsagc OF
Il l.ySs fnr the bctfcrTncut uf conditions Of
ftg attU lAt1T. iEtNt tt-tIft'i et'tt't y go :
~ detail rs these matters that the record
NAV ~, understood ard that | may ren-
der fuN credit u he Womanhood Of the
State for their share II the work
From the experience n Oho YOU may
know What tx expect whca ! am elected
President There i much q X douc ter
human wcliaIc and for social progress.
We must stamp uut disease, oppression
and }ruoraucc. and eliminate rCglect
. With woman only n the threshold Of tic
pSTitIcal world IL America / cannot call
upon YOU III cor gTcSslonal action, but
Va. ,an work for j common purpose with
common counsel and II would seem To
me peri ectly proper ard httf & that a
national meeting H. called oi representa-
tlves 0f every woman 1rr-hizatIon IN
America 80 formulate a proglam for Cor
Crtss ana the executive for social iegIsla-
ton and administration.
The question in real efficiency IN
any government service hinges, ot course
upon adequate funds. ,Fhe supply bill oi
Ia30 passed by the Sixty-sxth Congress
appropriated Just 1.0l per cent OF total
of I'VE and a half billion dollars for welfare
and development purposes a dlstln-
, gIliShed from commercial and military
/ purposes
This leads me to reasScrt to you that
IA, or gong INTO the League OF Nations,
not alone 10 keep your children from the
terrible experiences Of war, but to enrich
ther lives bv turning our national re-
sources from battlcshps and armamcnts
into school houses Fairgrounds, work Tor
health. child hygiene ami child happiness
In sI1ca king to those twelve and a half
million women among you who labor daily
! in factories. stores an q workshops, | Will
remind YOU that NY course has already
/ been chartered by Democratic achieve
/ mcnt. During the war, government agen-
cies set upstandaTds for the eight hour
/ day. a LIVING minimum wage. equal pay Tor
equal work A Democratic Congress es-
5 tablshed the Federal EN- mployment service
with its U0mcns departments which
after placing 100000 people IN Jobs
was virtually abolished by n Republican
/ Congress Such IS the path behind me.
/ 1t is enough to say that | am going for
ward along this same Democratic road OF
justice and fair play for working women.
Moreover ] believe that the Federal
/ government might render a real service tc
the great number Of our workers who ART
foreign born women and men by the
/ establishment OF a Federal Bureau oi
F. Americanization To cooperate with IN,
states in educating aliens for citizenship
and 10 stimulate the work Of Americaniza
ton on the part Of churches, schools
| community agencies, state government.
and industry itself Ii has been my oh
! servation that the men and women VIII,
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