The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19
LETTER FORM NATION PREsI
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 Dear Friends of the League:
 Summer is over. by every token even in Washington where summer fingers. The political conventions for the nomi- nation of candidates for president and vice president of the United States have come and gone, leaving echoes of faults and failures which every now and then reverberate in favor of sdirect prlma- ries as nominating methods. Thousands \ of copies of the national political plat forms have been mailed from this office since July, selling in success of the Get Out-The-Vote manual, though it has gone like the proyerbial hot cake.
 Washington headquarters huns with the activities of Get-Out-The-Vote, fo- cusing and reflecting the amazing and encouraging activities of state leagues and cooperating organizations. At the same time the full staff, returned from vacations, is addressing itself with renewed vigor to autumn work. The executive committee has just met, and | the annual conference of department and standing committee chairmen has outlined progressive plans looking through the work of legislative win ter to improving upon convention con- ferences. A ...
 The executive committee takes pleas ure in announcing several events and decisions: The time and place of the 1925 convention, April 1922, at, Rich mond Va., have already received pub licity. From many quarters come ex- pressions of approval of the choice of a southern city usually so attractive in. early spring, in a region in which the League of Women Voters has not heretofore held a national convention.
 The end of the vacation period proved an opportune time to secure for the leagues new special committee on inn migration q distinguished chairman, Miss Frances Perkins, member of the New York state industrial board of the department of labor, and chairman of the New York state council of immi- grant education. This committee was authorized by the 1924 convention for purposes of study and presenting re- port on policy to the next convention.
 As the campaign to Get Vote enters its last stage, urging in the weeks before November 4 the registra- tion of all citizens who are not legally disqualified, the league announces the appointment of committees to award the prizes in two lively contests.
 A silver loving cup is to be presented to the state league whose official cleo tion returns show the greatest per centage of increase over the returns in the vote for president in 1920. To award this cup staunch friends of the league, who have not been identified with the campaign and who are we'll known throughout their respective sec tions of the country, are to be named by the regional directors.
 The judges in the cartoon contest are Mrs. Anna Steese Richardson, Mir. William Hard, MT. 'Dayid Lawrence, MT. Bruce Bliven, MT. William Allen White, Miss Elizabeth Fraser and Miss Katharine Ludington, all eminently qualified to determine which competing cartoon is best designed to stir voters to perform what Mrs. Park called q year and half ago ''the simple duty of every citizen"
 Legislative prospects The execu- tive. committee has voted to make the entrance of the United States into the permanent court of international jus. tice the leagues major legislative meas ure when congress convenes. Members of the league in all the states will soon seek and be reminded of ways in which to strengthen public opinion in support of the court at home and in congress
 Events have pushed the ratification of the child labor amendment by the state legislatures in session in 1925 into the foreground of state league ac- i tivity. The facts for the case are ready for use in two leaflets, prepared by the women's committee for the chil- dren's amendment; one more extended tban the other; both containing author | itatiye information on the text of the amendment and the debates leading to it's passage through congress, as well ae the need for legislation following the ratification of the amendment. These leaflets are now going out by the hun dred, following advance notices of their publication. League Publications: The appetite for printed matter of current political