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. a ut Hoel me January 8, 1927 WINNETKA TALK 9 Women Voters Here for Legislative Forum Monday, January 10 Forum Will Hear of Many Needed . Reforms in Laws Monday, January 10, will be a red letter day in tse history of the Win- netka League of Women Voters, for it is on that day that the local unit of the great national organization will join with the Lake Forest and Kenil- worth groups in conducting a Legis- lative Forum at which measures to be brought to the attention of the current Illinois state Assembly will be dis- cussed by eminent authorities on legis- lative matters. Among the speakers to be heard at the all-day Forum session at Com munity House will be such notable leaders as Miss Agnes Nestor, Miss Edith Rockwood, Miss Jessie Binford, Mrs. Frank Hixon, Mrs. Percy Eckart, Mrs. Walter Benson, Anthony Czar- necki and Mrs. Maurice H. Lieber. Subjects to be discussed include: "Turning public opinion into law," "Interviewing our legislators," "Back- ing our children's rights to an edu- cation," "Better election laws," "Jury service for women." A state training school for women offenders," "Protect- ing Illinois child earners," "Shorter hours for working women," "Motor drivers' license." The hours of the Forum will be from 10:45 a. m. to 3 p. m. Urges Support of State Reformatory for Women More than 18,000 women are arrested cach year in Illinois, nearly all of them between the ages of 18 and 30. The majority of these cases are misde- meanants and cannot be sent to Joliet. Nothing can be done for them as there is no place to send them where they may, at least, have a chance to become decent, self-supporting women. From statistics we learn that be- tween forty and sventy-five percent of the inmates of the right kind of in- stitutions "make good." An amended bill asking for a State Reformatory will be presented to our State Legisla- ture in January.--Elizabeth Gemmell. President Mrs. John N. Van derVries, president of the Winnetka League of Women Voters has, of course, had a leading part in bring- ing the Legislative Forum to Winnetka. Mrs. Van derVries has been an active worker in the local league for several years. Prominent at the first Legislative forum to be conducted by the Winnetka League of Women Voters Monday, January 10, will be Mrs. Frank Hixon (left), acting treasurer of the Lake Forest League of Women Voters, and Miss Edith Rock- wood (right), director of field work for the Illinois League of Women Voters. Mrs. Hixon attends the Forum as representative of the Lake Forest league and chairman of the afternoon session. ing session. Miss Rockwood will speak during the morn- Lauds Legislative Forum Valuable as the work of the Win-| Mrs. Robert H. Ripley netka League of Women Voters is, we can understand its real significance only when we extend our vision to in- clude all ILeagues of Women Voters. When we real- ize that there are groups of Women, like ourselves, scat- tered far and wide over the great nation, from the At- lantic to the Pacific, all of them working along the same lines, toward the same ob- jective, which is to get out an intelligent vote, then we begin to esti- mate the im- portance of Will Be Hostess at Tea Mrs. Robert H. Ripley, 29 Indian Hill road, and the board of di- rectors of the Winnetka League of Women Voters will be at home to_new members who joined the league during the recent drive. The ing whose butions possible contri- make the of the league will be guests of honor at the tea Mrs James W. Morrisson, this movement president of --for these the Illinois groups collec- I A league will be tively are the as . the special League of Mrs. Wiliam G. Hibbard shonor guest Women Voters--clearing through na- tional officers with an office in Wash- ington. The work we have set ourselves is not easy. It is often very difficult to see how it can be done. Every ac- complishment, therefore, that any lo- cal or state league makes is of sig- nificance to every other league. It gives new hopes and new courage. And so the national board broadcasts with real pride Winnetka's increase in membership, its citizenship schools, its success in getting voters to the polls, its fine study groups and its new legislative Forum. It congratulates and will give words of greeting from the state board. The guests will be received by Mrs. Ripley, Mrs. John N. Van derVries, president of the Winnetka league, and Mrs. George F. Suker, membership chairman. HOLD STATE POSTS Mrs. Gross T. Williams, chairman of the social hygiene committee of the Winnetka league is chairman of the membership committee of the state committee on an Illinois Reformatory for Women. Mrs. Charles E. Butler, {a member of the Winnetka league, is : : | : : : . the Winnetka league on these achieve- | second vice-chairman of the committee. ments and wishes it Godspeed for the New Year. --Mrs. William Gold Hib- bard, Fourth Regional director. The Winnetka league has always been well represented in the state or- organization. sustain- | members | extensive work | Reapportionment Needs Backing of Illinois Citizens Representation upon the basis of population is a fundamental principle of American constitutional govern- ment. By the terms of the Constitu- tion of 1870, the state of Illinois is divided on the basis of population into fifty-one districts, each electing one senator and three repre- senatorial sentatives. This constitution requires a reappor- { . . . tionment every ten years, beginning with the year 1871, by dividing the population of the state by the number fifty-one and the quotient shall be the ratio of representation. No district shall contain less than four-fifths the ratio. There are now twenty districts falling far below the ratio. Since 1901 no legislature has reapportioned the state. The best residential districts in Chicago have only one fifth of the political power of the nine districts of Chicago. (This is probably true of the suburbs adjoining Chicago). How can such a state of affairs promete the general welfare of the state or work good to any part of it? --Extracts from an address given by Mrs. J. Paul Goode, representative of the fifth district, Illinois Assembly. Mrs. R. S. Childs to Have Charge of Forum Tickets Mrs. R. S. Childs of 906 Oak street, is in charge of tickets for the Legisla- tive Forum. Mrs. Harry Marshall will assist Mrs. Childs. Members of the league may procure tickets either from their block captains or from their pre- cinct chairmen. Those not members of the league, or those who did not ar- range for their tickets before the meet- ing, can get them at the door. Mrs. Burton Atwood, Jr., of 904 Elm street is to have charge of registering at the door. Chairman Mrs. worker in the Winnetka League of Voters is a member of the Winnetka group of the general Legislative Forum committee. William B. Hale, a diligent Mrs. Hale Relations League. is chairman of the Internal committee cof the Winnetka