Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-06
QUIZ Of NOMINEES
FORNEXT CONGRESS
Woman's League Sounds
Sentiment on Its Reform
Legislation Program.

During the weeks that still remain
before election day all candidates for
the Senate and House will be can
vassed as to their views on the legis-
lative program put forward by the
National League Of Woman Voters,
according to announcement at the
Washington headquarters. This word
has gone broadcast to all the state
and district branches of the league,
which represents some 100000
women.
The women, it is explained, are not
attempting to defeat any of the candi-
dates for Congress in this effort to
obtain their Views on proposed legls-
lation. They merely desire to learn
who are their friends and to whom
they shall look for support when the
new Congress meets. They figure that
with such advance information, OBJ
tanned in their home districts and
home states by women who reside in
those districts and states, they will
occupy a strategic position when they
advance upon Congress with demands
for the enactment of laws to carry
out their reform program. The wom-
en- believe, too, that the candidates
for Congress will be inclined to eX-
press more freely their views to the
women in their own towns and cities
than they would be to give their
views to representatives of the league
In Washington. say, with whom they
are not acquainted.
Big Task Assumed.
This is a big task the women have
set themselves. But the National
League of Woman Voters is the sue
cessor Of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, which labored for
years to arm the women with the bal
lot. Its members are accustomed to
work. They are well organized. And
when the records of the views of the
sIok Id
collected it is likely. that data on
hand will be quite complete. Then
the Washington representatives of
the league will know just where they
stand when they undertake to have
certain bill put through the Senate
The league adopted it's program of
legislation at a convention held in
Chicago months ago. when it was de-
termined to transform the old suf-
frage organization into a non-parti-
san league of woman voters. The
league is pledged to work in the in
tereSt of women and children and to
foster education in citizenship. Its
program of legislation has been sub
mitted to both the democratic and re-
publican presidential candidates, and
both Harding and Cox have given the
women encouragement. With the ex-
ecutive branch lined uD in advance,
the leaguers are hoping to find sup
port for their measures among a ma
5ority of the members of the legisla-
tive branch of the government.
Measures Up for Consideration.
Included in the list of legislation
which the woman voters are urging
IS adequate appropriation for the
children's bureau in the Department
Of Labor. The leagues digest shows
that the republican platform is silent
on this demand. while the democratic
platform supports 1T. Incidentally, the
prohibition party adopted all the
planks offered by the National League
OF Woman Voters.
The prohibition of child labor is
second demand. The republican plat
form pledges this, while the demo-
cratic Platform urges cooperation
with the states in the prohibition of
child labor"
The protection of infant life through
a federal program for maternity and
infancy care is third demand of the
women. The republican platform is
silent on this subject, while the demo-
cratic platform urges cooperation
with the states for the protection of
child life through infancy and ma
ternity, care"
Department of Education Asked.
The league asks a federal depart
ment of education. Neither the plat
form of the republican party nor that
of the democratic party makes men
ton of such department. Federal
aid for the removal of illiteracy and
for the increase of teachers salaries
is another demand. The democratic
platform pledges cooperative federal
assistance for these objects, while the
republican platform says wherever
federal money is devoted to educa-
ton, such education must be so direct
ed as to awaken in the youth the
spirit of America and a sense of
patriotic duty to the United States"
There are many other subject.