Evening star., 1926-12-12

| IidtOTS, UeSlkueTS, SCulplOESr-stIiu WIZ
| be in a colorfui studio costume OF blue
| silk smock, lavender trousers and pur
| pie velvet tam.
Various crafts of the league will be
represented by the Pencil Doll, which
will be dressed in classical costume, a
long toga Of royal purple, embroidered
| in gold with a Grecian band of gold
about her head.
From the wrist Of each doll will be
suspended the tool Of her craft--pen
pencil or brush-and a ribbon bearing
the name of the League of American
Pen Women. On each costume will
be embroidered the insignia of the
| league, an owl within a triangle of
the pen. pencil and brush. In add
| ton each doll will carry special
poetic greetings to the Japanese chill
dren, two Of these being written In
the special form Of the Japanese
Tanka. The poems were contributed
by members of the New York League
Of American Pen Women.
These dolls, with numberless others,
will be on exhibition in New York
City December 18, at the "send-off
party" to be staged at the Hotel
Roosevelt, under the auspices Of the
committee, of which Mrs. Seton is
chairman, assisted by a number of
subcommittees.
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ID ENEWAL Of the appropriation for
the Sheppard-Towner maternity
and infancy act heads the list of the
measures on the legislative program
to be stressed by the National League
of Women Voters in the present ses'
sion Of Congress.
Six measures have been specified
for the active legislative program OF
the league. It Is first concerned with
the maternity and infancy act, the
Cramton bill placing the prohibition
unit under civil service rules and the
continuance Of negotiations for the
entry of the United States into the
World Court.
Support of the development Of
Muscle Shoals as a national asset, op-
position to the proposed amendment
which would make amending the Con-
stitution more difficult and opposition
to the so-called equal rights amend
ment, should any or all these meas
ures become active, complete the
leagues national legislative program.
The leagues stand on the measures
specified for immediate active support
is set forth in the following statement
issued by the executive committees:
Renewal of the appropriation for
the maternity and infancy act heads
the legislative program. The measure
already has passed the House and is
on the calendar Of the Senate. It Is
important that action be taken
promptly In order that State legisla.
lures meeting in January may be as
sured of continued Federal aid In car.
rying on the work after the appropri'
In,
July, 1927. Although the act has
been in operation less than Ave years,
substantial progress in reducing the
infant death rate already is apparent,
and the benef1cent results of the law
as reported from various parts of the
country amply justify a renewal of
the appropriation. Moreover. unless
renewed the foundation work which
has just been laid in many States
would be largely wasted. Approx.
mately 10000 fewer babies under 1
year Of age die annually now than at
the time the act was passed in 1921.
Considerations of human welfare and
public economy alike point to the
Next on the program 10 the Cram.
ton bill which would place so per cent
Of employees of the prohibition unit.
now exempt from civil service regu-
iations, on the classified civil service
list. This bill is in line with the
leagues policy of support of the merit
system in public employment.
"The league is committed to the
policy of international cooperation in
the settlement of disputes between
nations and therefore reaffirms its
support of the entry Of the United
States into the World Court. With re.
gard to Senate reservation 5, we
are convinced that a basis for unity
cerned can and will be found"
Over 100 members Of the League Of
Women Voters from 30 States at
tended the Women's Conference on
the Cause and Cure of War. Several
hundred delegates attended the tea
which the league gave last Tuesday
at its headquarters on Seventeenth
street. Receiving the guests were
Miss Belle Sherwin, president; Mrs.
Maud Wood Park, former president;
Miss Ruth Morgan, third vice presi-
dent, and Mrs. Albert H. Putney,
president of the District Of Columbia
League.
MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN. fed.
AVA Grafton head, was honored re.
Gently by having named for her the
prize unnamed chrysanthemum" ex-
hibited at the Midwest Horticultural
Exposition held in Des Moines, Iowa.
A prize of 800 was offered for this
flower by e. T. Meredith, former
Secretary of Agriculture in Mr.. Will
sons cabinet, who expressed the de-
sire that the bloom be named the
Mary Sherman Chrysanthemum." =
In accenting the nmnlimenf Mra