The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-11
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WOMEN OF VERMONT
ARE REGISTERING
Alive to New Duties and Responsible
ties Says President Of Voters
League.

Alive to New Duties and Responsible
ties Says President Of Voters
League.
Burlington, Sept. 10.-About 70 wo-
men from all over the state gathered
in. the parlors Of the New Sherwood
hotel yesterday for the first convent
ion of the Vermont League Of Woman
Voters. Mrs. Lillian H. Olzendam OF
this city presided and Mrs. John u
Paddock Of Saxons River was appoint
ed secretary of the convention. Mrs.
Olzendam said in opening that 1t was
imperative TO have the convention be-
fore the primaries SO that the women
could be made to realize the import
ance Of exercis ng their new right.
She then spoke briefly of the different
problems before the women, and told
of the committees into which the lea
que would put some Of its special pro-
blems.
AS Miss Berenice Tuttle Of Rutland,
chairman of the child welfare commit
toe, which Mrs. Olzendam described as
one Of the most important was pres
ent She was asked to tel some
thing of the plans of that department
Miss futile said that she was proud
of the work that has been done for
Children II Nlrmcrt lrt that there was
stu mo, Ii To d.. She laid one impor-
tart hing tor the women OF the league
to do was to max, themselves author :
ties IN tn, law Of the state and then
[ III those who need them Of the pro-
v,sl,us l. ace. Sic Told Of the moth.
ers pension law that was made for
" Cows who rt eGed help in supporting
- ctr children ut who, because they
Id.d net knew there was such a law,
did not apply for aid. This is a cons
d ton to work against, said Miss
futile.
Mrs. O,zendam then lappointed the
following women to dFawaH UP resoMr
tons Mrs. Howard Of ssMMdlebuIy
Mrs. Russell Porter OF Springfield, and
Miss Berenice futile of Rutland.
Miss Marjorie Shuler OF New York
associate editor of the Woman Citi-
zen, was then called on and she
brought a message from Mrs Gait.
"Tell the women OF Vermont Mrs.
Gait said. that all of the states appre.
ciate what they have done and how
plucky they have been in their fight
for ratifcat on and tell them not to
give up but to work until their Legis-
lature does ratify in January, for the
other states will never forgive Yer.
mont If its Legislature does not rati-
lfy when it is called
! ."Wemann said Miss Shuler,. 'is
com ng into vote when she is needed
, as never before. and we plan to give
1.-THE women the training to vote that
men have never given men voters The
= Republicans say that the League Of
Women Voters Is Democratic organ
i2atlon and the Democrats say 1t is
: Republican, but have been in Repub
=, liean states and in Democratic states
and know it IS non-partsan
Women voters have got to find
! new way of running the political par
r ties. The old method of letting some
/ body else do it until mistakes arr
made and then trying to smash thu
Organization gets no one anywhere. !
4 women are going to do onetenth OF TIL
i good things they promised II they go
the vote, they must begin by gettnl
; hand on the lever that moves thu
n real inward machinery Of the parties
Q They must begin by helping to choos,
Y candidates who know issues when the,
G see them and platforms that will a
:. least hold up the speakers glass o
S water.
Il THE League of Women Voters i
n not intended to keep women out of tn
& parties 1t is TO teach them how to b
# the best kind of party members b.
q giving real service not as decoration
8 in the windows for election days bu
8 as actual co-keepers Of the shop ever
y day all the year round
+, "Vermont has some foreigners VIII
need citizenship schools and 1t ha
college graduates just as much In nee
4 of practical political education We
g mont could stand the Improvement G
', some Of her own laws and to help
u make better legislation for the natio
o as well. The National League of w,
e men Voters is suggesting some legii
n lat'on for which Vermont wome
l. should work
S, The work of the league, accoFdin
to Miss Shuler, could not be truste
e to clubs, it must be put into the hand
e Of people who meet simply to do thu
work and not to have it as a side issui
THE aim of the American citizel
ship committee in the league Is
!. make every voter able to read his ow
. bal OF and vote intelligently The
+" there is the committee on improv
. ment OF electoral laws, the committt
on unitication of law relating to W
So men and children. the child welfal
committee. the committee on wome
in industry, the committee on soci
d hygiene and the committee on FOE
=. supply and demand, which, by the wa
| said Miss Shuler, cannot do a thin
for you unless you take your mark
basket and go out and buy food you
| self And last is the committee {
surveys. That collects informatlC
| and keeps it for all the other depal
| ments'
| 1t was voted to have the executi'
committee elected at st. Adams co
| tinue in office and to have them ele
I the IS directors called for in the co
stitution, one for each country and TO
| at large. The committee now consis
- Lof Mrs. Lillian Olzendam. chairman