Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-16
NATIONS PACT
OPENS WAY FOR
DEVELOPMENT
Cox Tells Cleveland Women
League viii Free Funds
for Welfare Work.
CITES G. O. P. NEGLECT

CLEVELAND, Oct. 16.--Governor James
NJ. Cox promised here today that If
elected he will ask representatives of all
women's organizations to hold a national
meeting and formulate "a program Of
human welfare and social progress for
congressional and legislative action.
Speaking before a partisan or
ganization of Cleveland women the Dem
ocratic candidate attacked the Repub
lican Senate for being so interested in
''scrapping the league" that it neglected
questions Of public welfare
He asserted that out of total appropria-
tions Of 100000 by the last Con-
gress only 1.O1 per cent was allotted TO
welfare and development purposes.
The Governor left the inference that he
favored a Federal Department of Educa-
tion and Health by saying that equal
consideration with labor should be
given these two features of public life
by the Federal Government.
He declared in favor Of q Federal Bu-
reau Of Americanization to cooE crate
with the States in educating aliens.
''The surest safety valve for law and
order is to teach foreigners our Ian
guage. to treat them justly and to in.
spire them with American Ideals" Cox
said
Now that the war is over, urge the
prompt restoration OF our ancient civil
liberties Of free speech, free assemblages
and free press"
LEAGUE WILL DIVERT
FUNDS TO WELFARE WORK.
Throughout his speech he claimed that
by entering the League of Nations ap-
propriations heretofore made for military
and naval purposes can be diverted to
hghting disease, maternity educational
work, stamping out Of illireracy, Aine-i-
eanization work and the enlargement Of
educational facilities.
Not to have given the right of sui.
1rage to the women-of the country this
year when the greatest of all issues is
before the people would have been little
snort OF a calamity" the Governor said.
Since the mothers Of America can ex-
press their will have no doubt Of the
result"
The Governor said he believed he could
anticipate what a national meeting of
women would demand and that he could
indorse many of "the planksn
Women are concerned with the fact
that every year quarter of a mI.Hon
little children and twenty thousand
mothers in child birth die from pre-
ventable diseases. The majority of these
babies and others die. not in cities. de-
spite the heat and congestion, but in farm
and mountain settlements. where medical
help Is out of reach. In the last session
Of Congress a baby's bill carrying Fed
eral help to the States for maternity and
infancy care waited in vain while reae-
tionary leaders spent their time scrap
ping the League of Nations. Our plat
form urges cooperation with the States
for the protection Of child life through
infancy and maternity care. Not only
do stand upon this platform, but II.
within my power. Will act so promptly
that this toll Of American child life shall
not be needlessly prolonged.
FAvORs SORTING OF
NATIONAL PROBLEMS.
AT present the Federal Bureau of Edu-
cation is buried with a varied assortment
OF national business In the Department Of
the Interior. Ny opponent has spoken re-
Gently for a new department Of public
welfare under which to group certain
social welfare activities While 1 am In
hearty accord with the idea of house
cleaning our Government departments
ana sorting out the human from the
technical problems, I feel that we should
look forward to giving education and
health equal consideration with labor. in
stead of Jumping all social questions
again in another grab-bag, iu-defned de-
partment.
The question Of real efficiency In any
government service hinges, of course.
upon adequate funds. The supply bill Of
1920 passed out Of q total Of five and a
half billion dollars for welfare and de-
velopment purposes, as distinguished
from commercial and military purposes.
This leads me to reassert to you that
favor going into the League of Ma
tions, not alone to keep your children
from the terrible experiences Of war, but
to enrich their lives By turning our ns-
donal resources from battleships and
ornaments into schoolhouses, play
grounds, work for health, child hygeine
and child happiness"
The Governor declared that he had
lent his support to the passage of ffty-
four laws to better conditions of life and
labor.
Before a large crowd at Detroit last
night Governor Cox attacked Elihu Root.
Charles z. Hughes, Herbert Hoover and
other pro-league Republicans for their
statement in support Of Harding, and fol-
lowing his declaration at Des Moines for
rejection os the Versailles covenant.
In brief address at Elyria, Ohio, Cox
characterized Senator Hardings remarks
on the covenant at Indianapolis last
night as his twelfth somersauIt on the
League or Nations issue"
This thing of trying to wiggie into
the presidency viii not do in this mod
ern day of advanced civilization he