New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-11
Women Obtain
Recognition in
Party Platform
Seven of Fourteen Sug-
gestions Incorporated in
Planks Approved by the
Committee ON Resolutions
To Remedy Living Cost
Suffrage Endorsement Ask,
Republican Governors to
Speed Up Ratification
By Hannah Mitchell

CHICAGO, June 10.-Women's con-
.r;butions to the Republican platform
m.ke q good showing. and they stand
so-night we'll satisfied with their ac-
embellishments. Many of the points
recommended by women were adopted
bv the Resolutions Committee to-day.
me first point in which several groups
Of organised men and practically all
women in the country are interes ted
was that on the high cost of living.
The report made by the sub-commit-
zoe of the Advisory Committee on
Policies and Platform is summed up
IN the plank on the high cost of living.
Mrs. Helen Rogers Reid. as a member
Of the Platform Advisory Committee
and chairman of the subcommittee on
the high cost of living. made the re-
port from which the plank was drafted.
Yrs. Reid was the only woman chair
man Of 8 subcommittee of the Com
nit.ee on Policies and Platform,
In its hearings before the Resolu-
ions Committee the National League
Of Women Voters asked for plank
on the cost of living. Its suggested
plank however, was not as comprehen-
sive as that recommended by the sub
committee and concerned itself chiefly
with the effect of high prices on the
home. This phase was, of course. in
Guided In Mrs. Reid's report, and thA
plank adopted by the committee en-
braeed it.
Citizenship of Married Women
Another plank for which the League
Of Women Voters asked that was
adopted was that on independent citi
senshIp OF married women" According
"a 10 z-fc
American-born women married 10
aliens should not forfeit their Ameri-
can citizenship, and foreien-born
women married to Americans should
be required to go through the Same
naturalization required OF alien men
Marriage to an American citizen now
automatically naturalizes a foreign
born woman
woman suffrage was not overlooked
IA the Republican platform draft.
Night before last the National Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Association pre-
sensed plank to the resolutions com
mittee advocating immediate ratilca-
ton Of suffrage by the thirty-sixth
state. The suffrage plank in the plat
form welcomes women into the party
ans urges Republican Governors whcse
states have not yet acted upon the
suffrage amendment to call special
sessions Of their legislatures for i'm
meoiate ratlncatlon. They urge this
50 that all women may vote in the com
Inc elections.
In the plank on education and health.
Federal aid TO states for vocational
RAINING includes one Of the principles
asked by the women. The paragraph
upon the awakening of spirit of
ame.,ea and of sense of patriotic
DUTY also incorporates 2 suggested
gank Of the League of Women Voters.
PHYSICAL education and pubic health
activities also are points in which
women were Interested and these are
dealt With IN the platform as drawn up
The platform stands for rigid en-
ioreenent Of the child labor law and
recommends a new law. if the present
one is found unconstitutional or in
elective. There is strong sentiment
tnong all women for this move
Inc subject OF women in industry is
taken up in the platform and the rer-
bureau in the Department of Labor
recommended. Federal aid for voca-
lenai training for women in branches
( o. study for which they show aptitude
suggested, and the principle of equal
pay Tor equal service to be applied
throughout the Federal departments in
saeir treatment of employees also was
ADOPTED Federal limitation of the
asurs Of employment of women can be
sasctlve only where they are employed
u intensive industry the product of
saich enters into interstate commerce,
aac this also is recognized in the Re-
publican platform
fns women at headquarters Of the
League OF Women Voters are pretty
ven satisfied tonight with the number
:, their suggestions which were
saopsed They presented fourteen sug-
ssssions and Of them seven are actually
provided for.
Another organization which has wom-
8 members interested in these meas
s Is the National Education AS
1oeiation. Mrs. Josephine Corliss
Preston, of Washington. represented
,ais organization before the committee
me "omen's Trade Union League is
ssaf' and soul with the recommends
.ons concerning equal pay for equal
Nlyiee and the establishment of
seman's bureau.
- IN commenting on the adoption Of
as Fiatforn Committees report by the
.sasension, Mrs. Maud WOOD Park,
s.aaiman Of the League of Women Not-
~, tonight said:
re are gratifed 10 note how large
number Of specific women's measures
resented to the Republican conven-
ssa oy our board were adopted. In
s''eaiar we appreciate the fact that
- Plank assuring Independent citi-
i-snip to married women has been
asorporated.
we feeL however, that the Repub-
gu a p1rty has committed an over
i 80, N turning down the plank re
-.-s % infancy and maternity care"