Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-03-10
9TH DIST. LEAGUE
OF:W0MEN VOTERS
Will Be Organized at Willmar at
Postponed Meeting Next
Week.

The postponed League of Women
Voters Conference for the purpose of
| organizing a League in the 7th Con-
gressional District will be held Thurs
day and Friday, March 18th and 18th
at Willmar. The Conference is an
nounced by and is under the direc-
ton of Mrs. John Serrin of Glen
wood, Chairman of the District. The
meeting which was to have been held
February End and Bird, was called off
on account Of the epidemic of influ-
| enza. Mrs. Serrin wishes to renew
the invitation of Willmar Committee
to all women in the District interested
in the work and platform of the
League.
The program will be divided into
Conferences on American Citizenship,
Child Welfare, and League of Women
Voters and the high light of the affair,
and the only social meeting will take
the form of banquet Thursday even
ing with live-l list of toasts by good
speakers.
Frank Murphy of Wheaton is one
of the high lights on the program.
The topic of Mr.. Murphy's address
will be american Citizenship" and
the lettering of the quality of Citizen
ship in the State and Nation will be
the keynote of the whole Willmar
program. Among other speakers will
be Miss Marguerite Wells of Mime
apolis, First Vioe-President of the
League; Mrs. Andreas LELAND, Presi-
| dent of the State League; Prof. Rarig,
University of Minnesota; Miss Mary
Margaret Muck1ey, State Chairman
County Nursing for Red Cross; Will
liam Hodson, Director of the Mime
sofa Children's Bureau; T. O. Gilbert,
Judge of Probate Court; 0. O. Ulvin,
County Superintendent Schools; Rus
sell Spicer of Willmar; Mrs. John
Serrin, Glenwood; Miss Emily Kneu-
buhl, State Civic Director.
It is confidently expected that every
county in the District will send dele
gates to the Convention and many
| names have already been sent in.
The strong sentiment in favor of the
League in the 3rd District Confer
| ence at Faribault has encouraged the
| women of the 7th District to expect
| an equal success.
TO DISCUSS FEDERAL LEaIsLA-
TION.
Important Federal Legislation will be
discussed at the Organization Confer
ences of the League of Women Voters
at Mankato, March 18th and 18th and
at Willmar March 18th and 18th. Two
bills of vital interest to the Departments
of American Citizenship and Child Wei
farewere endorsed at the National Con-
vention in Chicago-the Smith-Towner
Bill and the Sheppard-Towner Bill.
Miss Hope Mcdonald, State Chairman
Of the Amarican Citizenship Committee
| for the League, will preside at the Citi-
| zenship sessions of the Mankato and
Willmar meetings and will open for
| discussion the provisions of the Smith
Towner Bill, considered SO vital in the
carrying out of the League Citizenship
program. This bill. provides for the
| establishment of a department Of edu-
cation in the Government with a seat
| in the cabinet upon an equal footing
| merce, agriculture and all other de-
partments. This bill also provides for
| the transfer of the Bureau Of Educa-
ton to the department Of Education
| and authorizes the President to trans
| fer other such educational bureaus,
commissions, boards, divisions and
| branches, as in his judgment should be
| administered by the Department Of Ed
ucation. It authorizes the appropria-
ton of $100,000,000 annually to be ap-
portioned among the states for the fol-
lowing purposes: The removal Of illi-
teracy, the Americanization of foreig-
ners, equalization of educational OPP
portunities, physical and health educa-
| ton, recreation, sanitation, facilities
| for raising the educational standards
| of teachers, survey reports on educa-
tional systems Of other countries.
The Sheppard-Towner bill was en-
dorsed by the Child Welfare Depart
| ment Of the National and will he Dre-
| scented and discussed at Mankato and
Willmar also. This bill is mothered by
Julia Lathrop, Head of the Children's
Bureau at Washington and provides for
| the Public Protection of Maternity and
I Infancy. The endorsement of the Sec
| ond District and Seventh District Con-
| ference will be asked for both these