The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-12
DAY IS TAKEN UP
 W|THCONFE
Women Preparing for Opening of Convention Proper at
 Cleveland Today
By Associated Press

Cleveland, Ohio, April 1L--Onfy three of the seven standing committees of the National League of Women Voters sec ond annual convention which opened a weeks meeting here today with seven pre-convention conferences were tonight able to report the recommendations to be offered to the convention proper, which opens tomorrow morning with more than 1000 delegates and alternates attending
 The entire day was devoted to these pre-convention conferences, morning and afternoon meetings Being held by all seven and continuing this evening with seven separate conference dinners. Con- ferences were held ons American citizen ship, child welfare, election laws and methods. food supply and demand, so- cial hygiene. uniform laws concerning women, and women in industry.
 The conference on child welfare, food supply and demand and uniform laws concerning women, completed their rec concentrations late tonight after day of intense effort. These reconlmenda- tions or blanks will be submitted to the opening session of the general con vention tomorrow morning for considera- tion
 not be available until tomorrow noon, it was said tonight. because of dead lock in each conference.
 NOT TO RECOMMEND LAWS
 The child welfare conference decided not to recommend the enactment of new Legislation this year: recommended ask ing for congressional action on the Shep- pard- -Towner bill, providing for federal aid for maternity and infant care; rec ommends the indorsement of the princi- pie of physical education in the school, through state action urges the enforce ment of all child labor and school at- tendance laws and improvement in reg ulations of child labor and school at tendance in the District of Columbia.
 The food supply and demand confer ence recommended a national programme for continued indorsement of prompt and effective legislation by Congress, providing federal regulation of the meat packing industry, for the acquisition of stockyards by the railroads, continued support of the federal trade commission for the prevention of unfair trade pfac- tices, and for operation with all fed eral agencies to secure the proper pro- duction, distribution and use of food.
 WANT EQUAL RIGHTS
 The conference on unlIOrm iaWS coI- corning women recommended demanding equal property rights for women with their husbands, uniform state Legislation on marriage and divorce, abolition of ''common law marriage standardsi leg islation requiring health certificates as one requisite for the marriage license, statutes prohibiting the evasion of mar riage laws. wife and child abandonment be made criminal offense. mothers pensions and exemption from jury serv- ice of mothers of young children. In today's conference on election laws and methods, Mrs Charlie Chapman Catt, dean of the suffrage organization, and Miss Mary Garrett Hay, national republican leader of women. sounded a war cry in defense of the direct pri- mary.
 The Smith-Twner bill an educational measure TOT the federal standardization of schools was one of the topics on which the American citizenship confer ence was deadlocked, it was reported The national board decided several months ago not to press the bill again this year. following it's defeat in Con eress. but some of the stapding commit tee on citizenship are satk>to be in favor of reindorsing it.