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Good Citizenship
Goal of Women
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system resulted in "either fixing OF
prices. or curtailment Of production to
produce a panic buying market" he
said.
'As long as those who control them
are human beings" he asked. after re.
counting the experience In several in
dustrles, "is it possible to avoid the fix
ing of prices and the tendency to cur
tailment Of production?"
The speaker concluded that it was
"time we should open the channels of
trade, so that the cycle from producer
to consumer and back again should be
unfettered."
Social Hygiene Stressed
Fifty-five measures relating to social
hygiene were passed by State Legisla-
lures out Of 1S2 introduced in 1921,
Mrs. Ann Webster, Of Washington. u.
c., chairman of the Social Hygiene
Committee Of the National League of
Women Voters, said in her report today.
Declaring that preventive measures
were of primary importance, Mrs. Web
ster said: ''We often hear, now that
the war is over, that there is no longer
necessity for continued vigilance: that,
after oil, segregation is the only way
to control vice and to prevent crimes
against women.
These are all defenses Of the under.
world and of those who profit by its sue
cess. We have been educated away
from liberation of vice. and 1t is too
! late to turn back. The American plan
Of no tolcration is succeeding, and with
body of informed voters we will have
no fear of the repealing Of laws decent
citizens have fought for"
Asks Safeguards for Workers
Pointing to the 100000 wage
earning women in the United States,
Miss Mary T.. Mcdowell, of Chicago,
said: THE handicaps Of the women
wage learner demand that society for
its own sake shall safeguard her health
upbuild and do not debase the American
standard of community morale.
"Our social security lies in ar un-
pauperized. healthy working class. We
ask for minimum wage boards to pre-
vent any group Of wage earning women
being paid pauperizing wage, because
low.paid group is menace to social
and industrial life.
1--WE ask for an eight hour day for
one days rest in seven and for prohibl-
tion of night work for women. We
want every safeguard thrown about the
millions of young women wage-carn.
ers."
Child Welfare Work
The work Of the Child Welfare Com.
mittee of the league has met with great
success in the passage Of the Sheppard
TOwner act for the public protection OF
maternity and infancy, Mrs. LaRuc
Brown, Brookline, Mass. chairman Of
the committee, told the convention.
only nine States" she said, "Cadi.
fornia, Louisiana, Maine, Mnssachu-
sets, Nevada, New York. Rhode Is
land, Tennessee and Washington-havc
not yet taken the steps necessary to
enable. them to receive the benefits the
act offers. 1t Is important for us TO
perience of New York and Massachu-
sets, both of which refused to take ad-
vantage Of the act. has shown that in
regions where anti suffrage feeling Is
still strong, and where the modern ver-
sion Of the States rights sentiment is
effective, definite campaign Of educa-
tion will be necessary.
1.-The significance of the passage of
this act will only be fully understood
when it has been in effect for year or
more. 1t must be proved by actual ex-
perience that the services of pubic
health nurses, and education in prenatal
and infant care can be made available
by the aid of this act, and under the
direction of the State Health Depart
ments, to women in the most remote
parts Of our country. When this is
demonstrated and when it is shown
that life and health can be saved by
these simple methods in the rural re-
yiOns of the United States as they have
long been saved by private effort in our
great cities, there will be no longer any
need to argue that it is worth while for
the government to spend money on
health cducation.'