Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-09
ASKS, BETTER USE OF
~ WOMEN'S WILL POW Eli
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for a woman's department in the
State Bureau of Labor, an approprla-
tion for citizenship education IN the
extension DEPARTMENT of the Umver-
sitv of Virginia, were the direct re
snit of the Leagues legislative Ell
forts. in cooperation with the Chil-
dren's Code Commission, and other
agencies. Child Welfare laws pro-
nosed by the Children's Code Com
mission embraced acceptance OF the
Sheppard Towner Act; the establish
ment of State Board of Public Wei
fare, with local boards; extending the
Juvenile Court System throughout
the State; Mothers Pensions; Child
Labor Law; Compulsory Education
Law (seriously amended); laws regu-
latiny child placing and child caring
institutions; boarding houses and nur-
series and maternity hospitals; a law
establishing local recreation centers.
"a law establishing indeterminate
sentences for young women delin-
tuuents; appropriation OF $4,000 tor
educational nti-tuberculosis work
and for chiIdren's pavilions in the
white and colored tuberculosis sana--
toria: appropriation for the care OF
the feeble minded; laws simplifying
the administration of rural schools;
law relating to the care OF idiots
and feeble minded; law providing
for commission on mental health;
a law creating Director of the State
Budget: one strengthening the en-
forcement of the prohibition; a law
nroyidine that a wife may select a
separate voting domicile from that OF
her husband; an amendment to the
law on dover and courtesy, and one
making the inheritance laws equal as
between husband and wife, father and
mother, were endorsed by and enact
ed into law largely through the IN
fiuence Of the League.
Lists of these laws, of other laws
of interest to women, and Of proposed
laws which feiled of passage may be
had upon application to the League
and the text of the Child Welfare
laws may be obtained from the otaVe
Board of Public Welfare.
National legislation in which the
League was interested, included the
Sheppard Towner Act for the pro
lection of maternity and infancy. Inc
Virginia representatives in Congress
and in the Senate, with one eXcep-
tion, favored this bib.
Ranking with Importance with the
legislative work was the Conference
on Governmental Efficiency, caile1 ny
Governor Davis at the request OIL tle
League. 1t was held in November
1921. and attended by men and wo-
men from all sections of the state
The subjects considered were otaCe'
Comfy and Municipal Government
Primaries. Juvenile Courts and tne
Civil Service. The details OF TINS
Conference were carried out by
committee under the Chairman OF the
Efficient Government Committee, CO.
operating with the Governor ana 4i ms
Aide. Acting on the recommeild1a4t.u,,
of the Conference, the Leglslaeule
created a Commission on Simpiiliica-
ton of State Government win
membership of nine persons, one OIL
whom. bv appointment OF Governor
Trinkle is the President OF the otaIe
League Of Women Voters. ..'
at is more and more apparent tnat
ono Of the main aims for the Ma
tional League of Women voters mus
be World Peace. At the last ConVen-c
ton the Committee on Reductloh, oI
Armament was changed into the De-
partment of International Co-Opers-
tion to Prevent War and became one
of the Leagues major divisions. In
Virginia. cooperation of Women's or
PLANTATIONS contributed to the sue
cessful work of carrying out the pro-
grammes of the National COMMITTEE;
and the suggestions of the Natlohai
Council for Reduction of Armaments'
before and during the Washington
Conference Zone detail Of which was
the securing of about seventeen Inou-
sand names in Richmond alone 10
petition to the President) and IN other
efforts which gave to the American
Delegation information and support.
Members of the State Committee
helped to draft the Resolutions adopt,
| ed at Baltimore in April, 1922, and
Virginia took part in the worldwide
demonstration for peace held on the
anniversary of the outbreak of the
Great War, July, 1922. A mass meet
ing was held in Richmond with the
cooperation of thirty other organiza-
tions and the clergy of all denomina-
lions from WHICH the following mes
sage embodying the aims Of the
League, was sent TO the President OF
the United States.
"The power that ruus government
is. will power. Is your will power be.
ing used for good government in your
community, state and nation
"Will you not join the League Of
Women Voters and so help TO secure
efficient government ?" .~