The Semi-weekly leader., 1921-11-23
HEAD GIVES AIMS
OF VOTERS LEAGUE
Citizenship Classes, Women on
Boards Among Objects
Aimed At.

mas issued the following statement
THE Mississippi League of Wo-
men Voters, which is branch of the
national organization of that name,
Is nonpartisan, nonsectarian, non
militant organization, the constitu-
ton of which states explicitly that
it shall be allied to and support no
party. Its officers and members are
lice to join the party of their choice.
THE Mississippi league does not
wish to control any woman's vote.
1t has no selfish ends to serve. 1t
will neither blacklist nor work for
certain candidates, nor for the fac
tlons they represent. 1t will work
for measures, not men; for principles
not parties. 1t is not woman's par
ty in any sense of the word. 1t
hopes to work with like-minded men
to make life happier and richer for
the masses of people in our state.
WANTS HEALTH CERTIFICATE
THE Mississippi League of Women
Voters will attempt nothing radical
We have begun our work by holding
citizenship schools throughout the
state. We expect to work for equal
guardianship Of children by both pa
rents; for health certificates as a
basis for the issuance of marriage Ii
censes; for better laws governing
the age of consent; for capable wo-
men On all boards of education; for
women on text book commissions;
and for the teaching of citizenship
in all public schools.
The League of Women Voters not
only gives TO the woman voter some
thing which no other organization
supplies, but it furnishes aid to those
worthy and forward looking men
Who have long worked for better
qualifications in the voter as a
means of government reform. 1t is
the only organization devoting it's en-
ergles exclusively to organization in
citizenship and to the interests of
women as voting citizens.
'Nonpartisan in it's operation,
since it lends itself to the support of
no party candidates, the league is
all-partisan in it's sympathies in that
it includes all parties in its effort
to reach the altitude of better, wis
er citizenship, to make intelligent
use Of the ballot and to secure en-
actment of nonpolitical measures for
human betterment, for human health
and happiness.
NATIONAL BODY NOT RADICAL.
"At the beginning of the year
1920 the women who had worked
long and valiantly for political E.
quality realized that the fight was
won, that the vote was theirs. 1t
seemed the natural thing for these
women to say We have fought
good fight; the ballot is won; we will
rest from our labors and enjoy the
fruits of our victory but the two
million consecrated women who con-
stituted the National American Wo-
man Suffrage Association-not the
radical element, the Women's Party
that used militant methods and pick
eted the White House, but the old
suffrage aSsociation-these women
did not say this natural thing. What
they did say was, The ballot is
tool God has given us to do His work
with. In our long struggle for the
vote we learned how to cooperate;
let us go on working together for
noble cause, let US do our part in
helping humanity
1T was thus that the National
League of Women Voters came into
'eX1stence-an organization Of pa
triotic women banded together to
work and vote for holy ideals, for
real love of country, for true Amer
icanism, thees being imperative needs
then as now.
Thinking people agree that the
salvation of America is through
higher type of individual citizenship.
Every man, woman and child living
under the Stars and Stripes should
be made into a good citizen, a more
unselhsh citizen, who will put pub
lie good before private advantage, a
more intelligent citizen who is ca
pable of judging measures on their
merits,
GIVES MEMBERSHIP AS 2,500,000
The National League of Women
Voters, although less than two years
old, has membership of over O.
100000, with state league in each
OF the forty eight states of the I'm
ion. At the second convention of
the national league, held in Cleve-
Hand, O., last April, the two matters
claiming most attention from the
body were:- The effort to secure
through president Harding the call
Ing of an international conference to
discuss proportional reduction of
armament and support of the Shep-
pard-Towner bill for the protection
TO infant life and women in mater
nifty.
"The principal work Of the ma
tional league is to send, on request,
trained women to the state leagues
to teach classes in citizenship, to fa-
miliarize women with the machinery
OF government, to teach women that
true citizenship is applied Christian
ty and not simply the right to vote
on certain legally appointed days Of
the year."
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