Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04
PRINCIPAL PLANKS IN PLAT
FORM OF LEAGUE OF WOMEN
VOTERS.

SppoS3liSo oAy
National Prohibition Law.
Indorsing the Sheppard-T Towner bill
for the protection of maternity and
infant care.
Asking for generous appropria-
tions for the Federal Children's Bu-
reau.
Urging the enforcement of all child
labor and school attendance laws.
Urging Congress to make adequate
appropriations for the Interdepart-
mental Social Hygiene Board.
Urging equal punishment for men
and women offenders. against the
moral law.
Indorsing the eight-hour day, and
the prohibition of night work for wo-
men in industry, and the establish
ment of living wage commissions.
Urging the appointment of quail
fed women in all boards having to do
with women's work.
Asking for a reclassifcation of the
Civil Service on merit basis, with
out discrimination against women.
Recommending an equal interest
by husband and wife in each others
property, acquired after marriage.
Asking for direct citizenship for
married women.
Supporting increased appropria-
tions for vocational training in home
economics.
Indorsing jury service by women,
with exemption for mothers of young
children.
Indorsing the principle of the
Towner school bill, but leaving action
in support of it to the discretion of
the Board of Directors.
Indorsing the principle of protec-
ton of National Parks and Monu-
ments and keeping them inviolate for
the use and enjoyment of the people.
Indorsing the creation of federal
department of Public Welfare and
urging the appointment as head OF
the department of woman who is
an expert on social problems.
Recommending the regulation by
Congress of the meat-packing indus
try.
Encouraging the organization of
legitimate cooperative associations
with the states.
Asking Congress to appropriate
money to complete the Alabama nj
trate plants for the benefit of agri-
culture and to furnish needed cleo
trio power to a large territory in the
South.
Urging the National Government
to do everything possible for the wo-
men held in harems in the Near East.
Asking Congress to make August
26th, the date of ratification of the
Federal Suffrage Amendment, a ma
tional holiday.
Opposing any attempt to repeal
state Direct Primary laws, and in IA
vor of making nominations more rep
resentative of the voters.
Urging each state to call state
conference of men and women to dis
cuss ways and means of improving
election machinery.
And the resolution on disarma-
ment, which follows:
WHEREAS, The organization Of
a nation for modern war mobilizes
its entire human and economic re-
sources, wipes out old distinctions be-
tween combatants and non-combat-
ants and takes a toll of material re-
sources and human suffering hitherto
undreamed of, and
WHEREAS, Eighty per cent of the
federal appropriations of the United
States go to pay the cost of wars,
past, present and to come, and
WHEREAS, The cost of the last
war has driven other countries to the
very verge of bankruptcy, and for
them to assume additional taxation
to keep up in the race for military
and naval supremacy means incal-
culable suffering, the indefinite delay
of reconstruction and economic dis
integration in which we also will be
involved, and
WHEREAS, The President has
stated in his message that "While
prudence forbids us to disarm alone,
we are ready to cooperate with other
nations to approximate disarmament"
THEREFORE, Be it Resolved,
That we urge the President and Con-