The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-03-19
idaho CLUB WOMEN
REVIEW LEGISLATION
MRS. DAVIS, CHAIRMAN, TELLS OF
THEIR SUCCESSES AND
DISAPPOINTMENTS

y state federatlOn OF WOmen'S CLUBS
: on what was accomplished and whar
failed of accomplishment in the Idaho
legislature will be of interest. Hell
letter, under the title of Estate Fed
Grafton News follows:
State Federation News
Now that the sixteenth session OF
the legislature is a thing of the past,
the club women of the state find that
while some OF the measures that were
dear to their hearts have failed to be-
come laws, on the whole they feel
satisfied with the new legislation
which has been put through.
The Students rate bill, introduced
IN the senate was killed by a vote of
"a to 10. This bill had received the
special endorsement of the State Fed
Grafton.
The indefinite postponement of S.
g.. 3O8, saved the Payette Hospital.
The measure if passed, allowed this
appropriation to. be turned back into
the general furd.
). b. 226 PASSED both houses. This
hii. compells doctors, or those i'll at
tendance at CHILD birth to use nitrate
OF silver on the baby's eyes to prevent
blindness.
n anti-cigarette bill has had a
sorry career. The Harding bill was
discovered to have a Joker" attach
ed, and tho passed by both houses,
failed to receive the governors sig
nature. A new bill was introduced
which repealed the Harding bill, and
was passed by a vote of SO to 10. I'm
der the provisions of the new bill
which it is believed the governor will
sign-tobacco in all forms may be sold
III the state, but the law is so severe
that many believe that dealers will be
very careful to whom they sell.
H.. b. 206, known as the American
lzatlon Bill, failed to pass. This had
to do with the compulsory education
OF the foreign born. H. B. 60 how
ever passed. This gives independent
school districts the right to use two
per cent of their funds for night
schools, Tor the education of foreign
ers above the school age, and for in
jured soldiers.
AS yet the governor has not sign
ed S. B. ia, creating a teachers re-
tlrement fund. 1t is understood that
a majority of teachers do not favor
this bill, as drawn.
Under S.. B. 157 a married woman
does not lose her right to act as adj
mlnlstrator or executor. This bill
passed both houses.
Mrs. l.. B. Green, state President
of the Federation of Women's Clubs
was in Boise on Wednesday of last
week in conference with those chair
men of standing committees residing
in that city. At this time she an
nounced the appointment of Mrs. T.
c. Hollingshead of Boise, to the posi-
ton of Art Chairman, Mrs. Hollings-
filling the place left vacant by
the resignation of Mrs. George Steele
of Occur d'Alene.
Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, President
of the General Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs will be in the west this
and has SO arranged her itine-
rary as to be present at the district
meeting in Weiser prob
the first of June. Mrs. Winter |
has arranged to stop off a day in !
Pocatello, and the women of Boise I
are hoping that she can range to (
spend some time in their city. In this :
way it is hoped that many who can I
lot arrange to go to Weiser can have i
he privilege of hearing Mrs. Win +
;er; all who have had that privilege !
ay that it is an inspiration to listen
o her, and unless all signs fail the +
meeting will be one long to E
re remembered in the annals of club l
ife in this state. 1t is not too early +
o begin making plans to see that s
very club in the state is represented q
t that meeting. E
Mrs. Winter has sent out to each e
tate president an appeal for their CO. 1
peration in the work of American e
citizenship. To quote a part of her 9
stter: s
You know how our boys-and we :
re thankful to say now our girls al :
slip into maturity and voting :.
ights all unnoticed. I
"You know how our foreign born 4
re huddled in squads into sordid and 4
ribald courts, where citi- 3
is ground out to them with no. 3
lore dignity than potatoes are sold !
YER the counter.
yet to become a citizen of the
nited States ought to be a profound 3
x%perience. 1t ought to rank with
le two or three great occasions of !
fe.
"The plan of the department of !
merican Citizenship is this: In
cry little town and hamlet, in every E
rye city let the club women of this -
aderation start a movement to make -
ourth of July Citizenship Day. No
what other celebrations go on,
t a part of that day when American
.tizenship became an actuality in the
orld be given to a noble welcome
by the whole community to
e boys and girls who have come of
,e during the year, and to the for
gn BORN who have become citizens. I
,th of these groups should be in
lded and recognized at the same
ne, thus intensifying in the minds
both the spiritual significance of
E occasion. There should be proce-
ms and flag.-flags of all the peo-
IS included, which should at the
oper moment bow before the Stars
d Stripes. There should be music
: young feet to march by, there
ould be wise words uttered on the
,aning of citizenship in this great