The Washington herald., 1920-06-23
VOTING URGED
AS PATRIOTIC
Appeal to American Women
Made at Social-Industrial
Conference.
FARM EXODUS Is TOPIC
Multitude of Problems Oc-
cupy Attention at
Des Moines. :.
ny ELLEN FOSTER STONE
(Pubfic Ledger service.)

Des Moines. Iowa, June 22.-The
home. the mother. the child. were
given paramount consideration in
today's meeting in each of three
programs arranged under the de-
partments of public health. home
economics and industrial and social
conditions. These subjects, on
which reports were made by the
chairman in the morning were
further elaborated in the afternoon
conferences The home economics
department, Mrs. Charles w. Greene,
chairman, had a virile meeting in
the auditorium, where five speakers
discussed child welfare. AS a home
economics problem in subdivisions,
the points elucidated were:
Special and moral standards, food
and development, physiological re-
action during sleep.
In the industrial conditions con-
ference. Mrs. John Dallas Wilkin-
son, chairman, prepared a program
including these SUBJECTS: Mother
hood and the Social Fabric" "Ap-
piled Industrial Humanics." Indus
trial AmericaEization," New Oppor-
tunities for Education"
Weighing Infants Fascinntes.
Out in the women's and children's
building in the State Fair Grounds.
the public health conference was
held Interest here was divided be-
tween the program full of valuable
subjects and the fascinating fea-
ture of weighing and measuring in
fants. Mrs. Elmer Blair chairman
OF public health, presented seven
. speakers for as many topics in the
conference. In the morning session
Mrs. Philip N. Moon had outlined
even a larger program in that it
included the diffusion of health in
formation through the "woman's
Foundation for Health" This foun-
dation. made up of twelve national
organizations of women, plans to
carry to higher efficacy xhe health
work of the naticn.
The credentials committee in final
report shows the strength of voting
body to be 1900 There is a similar
number of non-voters attending.
Two Up for President.
The report of the nominating
committee gave only two names
Miss Georgia Bacon and Mrs.
Thompson G. Winter-for the pres
lucnCy. Only trained ear could
discern any shade of varying VOL
ume in the applause given each
name. The vice presidency looks
like a keen contest. Florida Is
urging Mrs. W. S. Jennings for first
vice president. New Jersey is efec-
tioneering for a vice presidency for
Mrs. ]. R. Schermerhorn. the State
president. Tuesday, however. will
be the deciding day at the polls.
The first resolution adopted to-
day calls upon all American women
to use the voting privilege as a
highly patriotic service and to
make the ballot the effective link
between the home and the govern
, ment. The second resolution urged
the Endorsement of the Fess bill,
which makes appropriations for
home making education equal to
those available for promoting
trades and industries.
The Smith -Towner bill was in
dorsed in the third resolution,
which urges the passage of this
bill In the Sixty-sixth Congress. Be-
cause of the seriousness of the ex-
odus from the farm. the women
adopted another resolution calling
greater attention to the problems
of rural life. The Barker bill max
ing Illegal the misbranding of tex
tile products was also indorsed.