The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-16
COX ADVOCATES
CONGRESS WOMEN
Call National Meeting
to Frame Program of So
CiaI Legislation.
PLEDGES TO AID REFORM
Presents Arguments for En-.
tering League-Nominee
in Cleveland.

Cleveland o., Oct. ts.--A national
Monehs congress 10 frame a pro.
aran OF social legislation and adj.
mlnlstratlon for presentation N ,h.
president and congress was sdvo'
GATED here today by Governor Coy
democratic presidential CANDIDATE
W addresslnu an audience Of women
no candidates address preceded
nls political speech here and foI.
lowed a morning OF oanpaIonIn. IL
winch he spoke at Sanduskv ana
elyrla en- route here from DetroIt
governor Cox Will remain mere ovsr
Sunuay ana tour northern New York
Urging larger participation Of women
In national AFFAIRS and citing social
legislation enacted during his rnher-
Material administration the Rovernor
told his women auditors at n non-
partisan meeting at a local hotel that
mere was much 20 he done for human
Weltare and social progress. He aiso
.uuillplohed the league of nations as a
geasure TO protect women and children
from the horrors OF war.
49,, Judging From Past Record.
bo from o my experience in Ohio" said
ome soNerhor' you may know what "a
expect whom l am elected uraaident
Ihere Is much 10 be done for hnnar
welfare and social progress. Wa mnaa
n n,'.p out disease, oppression and IL.
,"n,, ara eliminate neglect. with
Women only at tho threshold OF political
work IN America | cannot can unon
you Tor congressional action hnt ~.
u"n Work In common purpose with corn
nlon counsel, and II would seem 10 ma
RRp nnof proper and ntting that a ma
uonRl meeting he called OF representa-.
yves OF every. woman's Organization IN
AlneIlca TO formulate a program for
tH"nsicSs ana the executive for socIal
legislation and administration
ro "1TSsn oa,, cox pledged his support "a
platform. including federal co-onerss
non win the states for protecting in
lants ana to remove illiteracy. In mi,
connection no urged establishment NJ :
educate a "HsSsa OF Amerie"nization q
Bureau Of Education.
Regarding the bureau of~. aa,,natt4.
Governor Cox said: sN"'"'i"n'
~ present tho federal bureau a
SnIcation ~ buried with varied as.
Sortmeht OF national business I'm lie
department Of the interior Nv n,,, Wy
mont mas spoken recently for n new I,,
pattmont OF public welfare under wbic,,
10 sroun certain social welfare activI-
ues' While ! am In hearty accord vitt
mcnt 'C Ia ., mouse cleaning our govern.
ut departments and sorting out the
human from tho technical problems
IVoi thRt we should look forward u,
ewing education and health equal cor.
sluern ZION with labor. Instead OF hmm.
lng nj! social questions again IN annthr,
sInn nag. ill-dohned department"
IN NE last congress Governor On,
charged n "babys hln' providing N,
mn efhltv and infant care 'waltel IN
VAN, while reRctlonary Leaders snent
thtr time 'scrappIne' the league az
y am In favor OF going into ~.
/. eaElAe@or aniAtioAaih4hs-aai mot ATOMS
10 Keep your children from the tarrIb,.
experience OF war hut 10 enrich fbeI,
owes ~ turning our national resource
from hattieShips and armaments into
school houHea. Fairgrounds. work for
health. chlld hygiene and child hae.
Dlnoss.
Have Been Calamity
Not TO have given the right OF 4-
rage TO tho women OF America I'm MS
'eAr when tho greatest OF all issues <.
lefore the people would have been ulse
mort OF calamity Theirs was m,
yroRtest suffering In war. and theiis
no creator understanding OF the lesscp
" war. II We arc TO be deprived oil
yorld pence as result OF the action
u our own country under leadership at
partisan conspiracy. Il IL womans
lght that her voice be heard, II tho
women OF America may express Their
VIZ have no doubt Of the result"