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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 19 Dec 1930, p. 16

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GMANDK4OTHER'S Bread, i00 WhoI. Wheaf or Whif. 16-OZO LOAF -i11 De U rc. %,ail you wait? Hardly! But here's a way to make the time pass quicker. Decide that you'll enjoy a real old-lfashioned Christ- mas and begin pre- paring nôw. A ý& P off crs everything.you, needý at low prices. 5cý GRAWXOTXBE'S Doughuts iu (Plain or Siagared) Let's Eat More Wheat!of Macaron~i or Spaghetti. AUNT JEMINA Pahoake Flour Gold- Medal Cake Flour Quaker Puffed Wheat Crcam of . Wheat Shreddect Wheat VIRG*NIA SWEET Buckwheat Flour . . . 2 03 PG.20C e ** * SMALL i VK.22C p«.lic LAIaGE PKGS. 24c 19C SMAIbL25 pKGs.25 Freâh Fruits and Vegetables,. Idaho Potatoles New Cabbage TEXAS SEBDLESS Grapefruit *16-1b. bag 49c * * * .* * * Bib.. * * * .~1ses 8O-~S 15C 25c oh Meats: , * 0 approval, this year if amendedý to limit the session of Congress in every other year to a date, preferably not later than May. The proposed Con- stitutional Amendment would provide for. the convening of' Congress'jan-, uary 2,. two months, instead of thir- teen after elections. The league sup- ports this resolution as a mneans of ptigprom.pily into effect the will of the country. 131,U$ TO IELIP MOTHERS AND BABIES A . new appropriation, for the con- tinuation of the work done in, Pro- moting hygiene for. mothers and: babies is foremost among the incas- ures sought. Several. bills are be- fore the Congress, the one the League favors being the Jones Bill S,255, which aski for'a million dol- lars annual appropriation 'te be ad- ministered by the Children's Bureau and ecpeffded li, states which rmatch on a 50-50 basis the federal funds available. A unanimous vot 1e of the recent White Hôuse Conference was given to the recommendation for int- creased federal appropriations for. child hygiene activities. The Pres- ident's congressional message urges further consideration of his recom- tuendation of last year for the con- -tinuation of the Sheppard-Towner work. MUSCLE SH*OALS CLMIMS ATTEN4TION The problem of Muscle Shoals re-' mains before the Congress. In the senate the:Norris Resolution, provid-, ing for government operation as re- quired by the National. Défense Act of 1916, for the purpose of.the devel- opinent of the Tennessee River Sy3- temn for hydro-electric Power, .naviga-, tion, flood control and experimenta- tion ini cheap fertilizer has again been passed and is favored by the league' In the House, however, the Resolution has heen so changed as * * .. PtTae& Ioa vu -z 'r,'ý 1'3 FAVOR U. S. ENTR.M<CE INTO WORLD COURT In addition thie league supports the administration in its request for speedy1 ratification of the Rootý Formula for entrance into the World Court. This Formula provides for a solution of the difficultiescfthe Èth Reservation passed by tbe Senate in 1926 when the Senate voted. (76 to 17) for entry, into. the Wor1d Court. The Sth, Reservationwhc proved the stumbling block, conc.erns advisory opinions, and the. Root Formula provides for machi nery of negotiation and actual withdrawal of. the~~~ UntdSae rom the Court, "1with no, imputation of unfriendli- ness y",if ne agreement ,can be made ini regard to the asking of an ad- visory opinion.. WANT REVISION 0F ELECTION LAWS As an opening. gun in the ca.nipaign which the Illinois League cf Women Voters will urge for the revision 1)f election laws, comes a sixteen page- pamphlet entitled "Iniproving the- liii- nois Election System." This ýpain- phiet includes a summary of niodel election laws, as compiled by the National Municipal league, a discus- sion of permanent registration, the short ballot and the Massachtisetts. ballot. These last three items are the reforms which the leaguie seeks as immediate relief to the over bur- dened Illinos 'voter. A sample of the. 1930 Sangarnon County ballot is re- produced as arranged in the compact office' group or Massachusetts style, and is the most telling denionstration of the advantages of this ballot. A vote of the delegates 'at the recenit. state convention directed that 'the rf.- vision of election laws should be the major. concern of the, leagule at the* 1931 session of the. legisiature. IN WEDDING PARTY Several young people f rom the,.nortih shore were in the wedding party oi Miss Laura jacoby Wednesday eve- 10,

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