New-York tribune., 1920-06-11
Women Obtain
Recognition in
Party Platform
Seven of Fourteen Sug-
gestions Incorporated i'm
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-
tributons to the Republican platform
make q good showing, and they stand
to-night well satisfied with their ac-
eompiishments. Many of the points
recommended by women were adopted
by the Resolutions Committee to-day.
The first point in which several groups
Of organized men and practically all
women in the country are interested
was that on the high cost of living.
The report made by the commit
tee Of the Advisory Committee on
Policies and Platform is summed nm
in TIE 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
Mrs. Reid was the only woman chair
man Of subcommittee of the Com
mi.tee on Policies and Platform.
In its hearings before the Resolu-
tons Committee the National League
Of Women Voters asked for plank
on the cost Of living. Its suggested
plank. however, was not as comprehen-
sire 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 the
plank adopted by the committee en-
braced it.
Citizenship of Married Women
Another plank for which the League
Of Women Voters asked that was
adopted was that on independent citi
zenship of married women" ACCORDING
to the women's recommendation.
American-born women married to
aliens should not forfeit their Ameri
can citizenship, and foreign-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 foreign
born woman.
woman suffrage was not overlooked
IN the Republican platform draft.
Nisnt before last the National Ameri-
can woman Suffrage Association pre-
sen.eo i plank to the resolutions com
mlttee advocating immediate ratilca-
ton OF suffrage by the thirty-sixth
state. The suffrage plank in the plat
form welcomes women into the party
and urges Republican Governors whose
states have not yet acted upon the
suffrage amendment to call special
sessions of their legislatures for i'm
mediate ratification. They urge this
SO tnat all women may vote III the COM
ing elections.
In the plank on education and health.
feaerai aid to states for vocational
training includes one of the principles
asked by the women. The paragraph
upon the awakening of spirit of
america and of a sense CT patriotic
duty" also Incorporates suggested
plank of the League of Women Voters
PHYSICAL education and public 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-
forcement of the child labor law and
one Is found unconstitutional or in
effective. There is strong sentiment
among all women for this move
The subject of women in industry is
taken up in the platform and the per-
msnent establishment of the woman's
bureau in the Department of Labor
recommended Federal aid for voca-
tional training for women in branches
Of study for which they show aptitude
suggested, and the principle of equal
pay for equal service to be applied
throughout the Federal departments in
their treatment of employees also was
adopted. Federal limitation of the
hours of employment of women can be
effective only where they are employed
IN intensive industry the product of
which enters into interstate commerce,
and this also is recognized in the Re-
publican platform.
Inc women at headquarters of the
League Of Women Voters are pretty
well satisfied tonight with the number
OF their suggestions which were
ADOPTED. They presented fourteen sug
gestions and of them seven are actually
provided for.
Another organization which has wom-
en- members interested in these meas
ures Is the National Education AS
soeiatlon. Mrs. Josephine Corliss
rfeston, OF Washington, represented
.nis organization before the committee.
me Women's Trade Union League is
aeart and soul with the recommenda-
uohs concerning equal pay for equal
service and the establishment of a
Wornan's bureau
:, IN commenting on the adoption Of
she Platform Committees report by the
convention, Mrs. Maud WOOD Park,
chairman OF the League Of Women Vot-
efs, tonight said:
We, are gratified to note how large
number Of specific women's measures
presented to the Republican conven-
oon by our BOARD were ADOPTED. In
ysHleuiar we appreciate the fact that
.ae plank assuring Independent citi-
a1ehsnip 10 married women has been
Incorporated.
Acan party has committed an over
s'sns In turning down the plank re-
.a.shg 20 infancy and maternity care"