Evening star., 1920-07-02

have not yet ratified the federal suffrage
amendment, to unite in an effort to COM
plete the process of ratification and
secure the thirty-sixth state in time for
all the women of the United States to
participate in the fall election. We COM
mend the effective advocacy of the
measure by President Wilson.
Women In Industry.
We urge cooperation with the states
for the protection of child life through
infancy and maternity care in the pro-
hibition of child labor and by adequate
appropriations for the children's bureau
and the women's bureau in the Depart
ment of Labor. Cooperative federal as
sistance to the states is Immediately re-
Quired for the removal of illiteracy, for
the increase of teachers salaries and
instruction in citizenship for both native
and foregn-born; increased appropria-
ton for vocational training in home
economies; re-establishment of joint
federal and state employment service
with Women's departments under the di-
rection of technically qualified women.
We advocate full representation Of
women on all commissions dealing with
womens work or womens interests and
a reclassification of the federal civil
service free from discrimination on the
ground of sex; a continuance of appro-
priations for education in sex hygiene;
federal legislation which shall insure
that American women resident in the
United States, but married to aliens,
shall retain their American citizenship
and that the same process of naturali-
zation shall be required for women as
for men.
Disabled Soldiers.
The federal government should treat
with the utmost consideration every dis
abled soldier. sailor and marine of the
world war, whether his disability be due
to wounds received in line of action or
to health impaired in service, and for
the dependents of the brave men who
died in line of duty the governments
tenderest concern and richest bounty
should be their requital. The fine pa
triotism exhibited, the heroic conduct
displayed by American soldiers, sailors
and marines at home and abroad con-
stitute a sacred heritage of posterity
the worth of which can never be recon-
pensed from the Treasury and the glory
of which must not be diminished by any
such expedients.
The democratic administration wisely
established a war risk insurance bureau,
giving 4,500, 900 enlisted men insurance at
unprecedentedly low rates, and through
the medium of which compensation Of
men and women injured in service is
readily adjusted and hospital facilities
for those whose health is impaired are
abundantly Afforded.
The federal board for vocational edu-
cation should be made part of the
war risk insurance bureau in order that
the task may be treated as a whole, and
this machinery of promotion and assist
ance must receive every aid of law and
appropriation necessary to full and ef-
fective operation.
We believe that no higher or more
valued privilege can be afforded to an
American citizen than to become a free
holder in the soil of the United States,
and to that end we pledge our party to
the enactment of soldier settlements and
home aid legislation which will afford to
the mep who fought for America the op-
portunity to become land and home
owners under conditions affording gen.
uine government assistance unencum-
bered by needless difficulties of red tape
or advance financial investment.
The Railroads.
The railroads were subjected to fed
eral control as a war measure without
other idea than the swift transport
OF troops, munitions and supplies.
When human life and national hopes
were at stake profits could not be
considered and were not. Federal op-
Grafton, however, was marked by an
intelligence and efficiency that min
imized loss and resulted in many and
marked reforms. The equipment taken
over was not only grossly Inadequate.
but shamefully outworn. Unification
pra cficeS overcame these initial ham