Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16
WOMAN VOTERS
PLAN TO SUPPORT
JOBLESS AGENCIES
Coordination of U. S. and
State Employment Serv-
ices Recommended.
RECOGNITION OF INDUSTRY
NEEDS OF SEX STRESSED
Mrs. Gait Speaks at dwelling of
Tablet Honoring 70
Pioneer Workers.

The support of an effectively CO.
ordinated system of Federal and State
employment Offices, in which system
there is due regard for the interests of
women, was proposed as a modification
of the program of work Of the National
League of Women Voters at their morn
ing session of the general council of the
organization.
DR.. Dorothy w. Douglas of Massa-
chusetts, chairman of the Committee
on Women in Industry, presented the
recommendation, explaining that State
organizations of the League advocated
such change in the light of present
conditions.
For number of years now the
League of Women Voters has advocated
adequate support of the United States
Employment Service" she said. "but Of
late it has become evident that in or
der to function effectively the service
will have not onlyNto be adequately sup
ported but to be reorganized internally
and to be closely cc-ordinated with
State and local services. The whole
program hangs together; adequate State
services are absolutely essential to any
system OF State unemployment preyen-
ton, but since unemployment is a prob
lem that extends across State borders,
State services, in order to be adequate,
must be co-ordinated."
Although it is not now specifically
stated" continued Mrs. Douglas, "the
leagues interest and emphasis has al
ways been in the effect of unemploy-
ment on women in Industry"
Scope Of Discussions.
A discussion of finances, business and
plans for continued disseminating OF
information and education of woman
voters occupied today's late morning
and afternoon sessions.
Mrs. w. w. Ramsay Of Chicago, for
merly vice president Of the league, who
for some time has conducted a voters
school" and has visited local organiZa-
tons throughout the country to aid in
the establishment of voters schools"
spoke on the subject of educating wom-
en for participation in government.
Mrs. Ramsay, an authority on the
subject, invited questions from men,
bers sitting in at the general round
table this morning.
Last evening at the Wardman Park
Hotel at a dinner given in honor of the
Three Women Chiefs" Miss Grace Alb
bolt, head of the Children's Bureau in
the United States Department Of Labor;
Miss Mary Anderson, director of the
Wcman'S Bureau. and DR.. Louise STAN
ley, chief of the Bureau of Home Eco
Monies, each chief" explained the work
done under her supervision. Mrs. Ros-
coe Anderson of st. Louis, vice president
of the league, presided.
Pioneer Workers HonOred.
One of the principal events on the
weeks program of the meeting was the
unVeiling yesterday afternoon at the
league headquarters, of the bronze tab
let, honoring the 70 pioneer workers for
the nineteenth amendment.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, veteran
suffrage worker, recalled those who had
pioneered for the cause nearly a half
century ago. OF those who had eIeg-
inally started campaigning for women's
suffrage. only six are living today, Mrs.
Gait reminded her audience.
Referring to the women, who had
against popular sentiment and through
much difficulty, worked to obtain the
vote for women, Mrs. Gait said:
People who walk Yin the middle of
the road make the population of the
country and people who get outside of
it make its history"
President Speaks.
Before the curtain was drawn, re-
vealing the bronze memorial, Miss Belle
Sherwin of Cleveland, Ohio, president
of the league, explained that the cree
ton Of the tablet marked the compile
ton OF the leagues anniversary and
memorial plan designed in the tenth
year OF Woman'S suffrage to honor suf-
frage and citizenship workers
This tablet which we unyeil today
is in no way an attempt to name the
greatest women sin the United States"
Miss SherWin said. 1T is a sincere me-
mortal, established with earnest expec-
tation by those who wish to preserve
for future generations the work that
these leaders and others unrecorded
have done"
The curtain was drawn by Mrs. NAL
colin Mcbride of Cleveland, Ohio, one
of the members of the Committee on
the Anniversary and Memorial Plan.
A small bronze plaque, commemorate
ing James Lees LaidlaW, retired banker
of New York. and the National Mems
League for Woman Suffrage, of which
he was president from 1910 to 1918, also
was unveiled at the ceremony.
This evening at O'Clock council
banquet will be held at the Wardman
Park Hotel. at which the speakers will
be Col. William j. Donovan, former
Assistant Attorney General of the
United States; Miss Frances Perkins,
industrial commissioner of the New
York State Department of Labor, and
Alexander Meiklejohn, PRECEDENT of the
Experimental College, University of
Wisconsin