Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-28

Washington, D. c.. Oct. 25.-With
one great legislative victory-the
passing of the Gable law making a
woman's citizenship a thing independ-
ent of her marriage-the National
League of Women Voters will take up
as Its next objective an adoption of an
amendment to the constitution for
bidding child labor. The announce
ment OF the campaign, to begin IN
earnest this winter while AZ state
legislatures are in session. has been
made by Mrs. Maud Wood Park, presi
dent of the league.
Ever since the existing child labor
laws were declared unconstitutional BY
the supreme court, there has been 4
widespread sentiment in the country
in favor of writing into the consfitu-
ton itself a provision for the protec-
tlcn of children from the exploitation
of factory owners. But though the
moral support of the public has been
present, the movement for a constitu.
tional amendment has lacked an or
ganlzation to crusade for it. Consti-
%tutional amendments nowadays are put
across by organized effort, as the mem
hers of the National League Of Women
voters are well aware. they themselves
having constituted the bulk of the
non-militant equal suffrage organiza.
ton which shared in the successful
crusade to give women the ballot
With its five million members, the
league is looking forward to a busy
winter as it opens the campaign fos
a child labor amendment.
There are five resolutions now
pending before congress, each one pro.
viding for a child labor amendment to
be submitted to the states for ratifi.
cation. The National League OF
Women Voters has not yet endorsed
any one of these. All are being
studied, and eventually the league will
either get behind one of them. OF havs
Il new one drawn and introduced il
congress as a resolution. Meanwhile
a campaign will be started throughout
the United States in favor of such ar
amendment. With nil but two of the
state legislatures in session. the at,
tempt will be made to deluge congress
with resolutions adopted by these
amendment. In addition, the womer
will work directly upon congress With
petitions and in committee hearings II
Washington,
The women expect to secure tht
/ aIDDLIbU Oil SuIH dh dAllCL4t1IChI dhN
that at no remote date in the future
Their attitude toward the successful
outcome Of their Eewcst campaign is
something more than ono Of CONT
dence. 1t is complete assurance o.
victory. As one of the general Off
GERS expressed il: ANY reasonable
thing that the women OF America
want of congress they can get
Mo Other Issue More important
The announcement that the league
would take up the campaign tor a chlit
labor amendment came after Mrs. Paff
and other officers of the organization
! had made a thorough tour of the %
try sounding out the sentiment of tht
women voters. 1t is evident that thu
women of the country place no naflona
| issue ahead of the protection OF FAC
tory children.
While awaiting the adoption of {
| federal amendment. the members Of tn
league intend to see to it that all exist
ing state child labor laws are enforced
MANY of the states already have laws
forbidding the commercial employment
of children of tender years. In states
| which have no legislation Of the sor'
that the league considers adequate. tins
women viii work for the adoption o.
additional laws.
The League for Women Voters il
the natural o%utgrowth Of the suffrage
organization which for so many year:
battled for the ballot. Now, having
| secured the vote, the organized womei
Of the country are going ahead C
secure the legislative reforms which
the vote enables them to demand ant
obtain. The league. however, is by NJ
means made up entirely OF the oFIglna
s~uffragists. Many Of the present lead
ers were among the ''anti,s" during thu
old suffrage fight. These former "an'
ti's,' as well as the suffragists them
selves, agree that, women now haVlns
votes. the next important thing IS II
educate them to vote iutelligently ant
thus confound the former male ants.
who held, openly or not, that womeE
do not know enough 10 vote
Being Educated In Politics
In being educated" In politics. i
may be said that hundreds of thousand
of American women are having a splen
did time. 1t has always been assume
for them that they knew how TO cool
and bring up children but lacked tn,
instinct for politics that Is mans birth
right. The I'M themselves are per
fectly willing to accept all these as
! StLlIiBLt'llF- Ill AiNiA lN"i49 tbAtI
know that they had TO learn cookins
and the care of the children: and so i
is restful not TO be expected TO know
politics by instinct. but TO be the oh
iect of male concern that they b.
properly educated, The process o
civic education they are finding pleas
ant. 1t gives them club life and IN
domestic interests and activities. ant
they are basking in the enjoyment of it
Equal suffrage has now been in eff
feet long enough to make valid Ger
tain congratulations. No millennium
has resulted: none was expected b.
the intelligent leaders of the equa
suffrage movement. The country il
its politics wags along about the SAM
as ever. In proportions, the ignoran
vote is as large as, ever, the intelligen
as small. Only the numbers Of ballot
have increased.
But one rather unexpected discover!
has been made. one attribute Of Womel
as voters brought to light which witt
plenty of exceptions to prove the rule
distinguishes them from men. The at
tribute is this: women are distrustf1l
of political orators and oratory. III
good fast talker in politics who ono
had the voters flocking after him i
now wearing a dazed and puzzled eX
preston; the spellbinder seems u
have misIaid his formula,
The plain fact is, as shown by tW'
wears of experience, gentle woman q
a voter is just plain hard boiled. Mel
voters are always seeking a Moses il