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February 12, 1927 WINNETKA TALK 53 Winnetka Women CURRENT LAW-MAKING| Voters' League Elated Over Passage | of Sheppard-Towner Bill; Sponsor Educational Laws (By Mrs. M. H. Lieber) The Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act, for which League of Women Voters have been working, was passed by the U. S. Senate last week. The House of Representatives had previously passed the bill. It now goes to the President for his signature. We have every reason to believe that he will sign the bill. This means that the forty-three states that accepted the provisions of the bill, and also Hawaii, will have two years more of educa- tional service for the care of mothers and babies. Much credit is due our own Senator Deneen for the passage of this bill in the Senate. Another bill before Congress at pres- ent is the new Educational Bill known also as the Curtis-Reed Educational Bill. This bill calls for the creation of a Department of Education, with a secretary in the President's cabinet. The United States is the only nation in the world which does not have an official of cabinet rank devoting his en- tire time to Education. The chief work of the department will be educational research. Twenty-seven national or- ganizations have endorsed this bill, among them the National League of Women Voters. Assembly Starts Grist The Fifty-fifth General Assembly of our own state has completed its or- ganization of officers and committees and is well started grinding the usual grist of bills. Hundreds of bills are introduced at each session in both Friend to Women Mrs. Charles E. Butler is chairman of the Courts committees of the Wom- an's City club of the Chicago Woman's club. She is also vice-chairman of the State committee on an Illinois Re- formatory for Women and is a mem- ber of the Winnetka League of Women Voters. Mrs. Butler has vis- ited the municipal courts for three years and is actively interested in the effort ta establish a state institution for delinquent women. houses. Few are passed in proportion H A to the number introduced. \ t ---- mittee on arrangements. Here again the members of the IlI- BR } | linois League of Women Voters are \ Zi greatly interested in a number of bills AR T Sgmtine that have been introduced and that x EEC Observe "Know Your are to be introduced. Three bills-- 3 ae 3 » (Continued on page 54) SA i r Precinct Day . ANN! 7, February 14 = CONN RT % i . | N\ =. NN > ~200, -- ---- a = ; : t k oN - \ ; No lito i ANG | =3 cf 3 N =~ H 5 A > i "1 " : ; CX nd BANS > as % . S I> ; - 8 \ 5 i = = hem x = BE = 5 14 ws 2 © |B La EN KH - baad 25 =D ina | Xl 5 1 = 1--iw & > CGE EEE EAN Med 5c | WC - : ! \ - IEE Hl El # | ms BN] i R 3 T See | if TT : | | {rom "Se ul E=INGS Y 2 | NP ER =a NN v i BY | i | a IS] 20|21 3 AY ! 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Mrs. Burton Atwood, Jr., will register those present, and Mrs. Hymen Raclin and her Members of the board will do the serving, thus enabling all precinct members to be favor for each member present of the pr Monday at Community House, precinct will set the tables. seated together. U niversity Again With Women Voters in Education Work! | For a second time, Northwestern | | university is co-operating with the II-| linois League of Women Voters in a statewside educational enterprise. The first time was a school of citizenship, held in 1923. - This year an Institute of Government, under joint auspices, is to be held March 2, 3, and 4, in Har- ris hall, on the Evanston campus. This institute will be similar to those held at Columbia University, and the Uni- versities of Michigan, Chicago, Illinois, and California. The lectures of the Institute have been arranged in four courses, making possible both thorough study of one field, and a survey of all fields. The first, on the Federal Constitution, will be presented by Professor Kenneth Colegrove, the second, on Public Wel- fare in Government, will be addressed by Professor William Bailey and Dr. A. J. Todd, the third, on Election Laws of Illinois, will include a lecture by Professor Albert Ellingwood, and the fourth, concerned with International Relations, will be addressed, by Dr. Frank Whitmore, and Dr. Isaac Cox. Aside from these, who are all North- western University professors, there will be several lectures by members of the University of Chicago faculty. Mrs. May Wood-Simons, state chair- man of citizenship training for the Il- linois League of Women Voters, is general chairman of the Institute. The program has been arranged by a joint committee of Northwestern university professors and league representatives. Mrs. VanderVries, president of the Winnetka league, is assisting the com- The members are Voters Study Delinquency Problems SOCIAL HYGIENE WORK IS FEBRUARY SUBJECT Winnetka League of Women Voters Ponder Many Phases of This Branch of Service The February meeting of the Win- netka League of Women Voters is in charge of Mrs. Gross T. Williams, chairman of the Social Hygiene com- mittee. At this time it will be interest- ing to note just what the Social Hy- giene committee stands for and ac- complishes in the league. . An excerpt from the bulletin of Plan of Work for the Illinois League of Women Voters explains this very clearly. Strengthen Family Unit "Social Hygiene seeks to preserve the individual and strengthen the fam- ily as the basic social unit. It aims to bring about the best adaptation of the sex factor in human life to the growth, happiness and character formation of the individual, and the best good of society. "The field of this committee covers a general study of all phases of social hygiene including preventive and cor- rective measures. The object of such study is to prepare League members to understand the social hygiene prob- lems with which the government deals, to estimate the character and the effi- ciency of the service given, and to be ready to aid in the development of progressive programs. List Many Phases "Of special interest to this commit- tee are: 1. Provision for sex education and character training for a high single standard of morals in our schools. 2. Provision for the facilities needed in the administration of justice in its protective and correctional machinery. 3. Removal of discriminations against women. : "There are 2 types of work in this field; one deals with study and the other with legislation. Points for study are Health department, Social Hygiene activities, Community con- ditions which are responsible for de- linquency, dependency and demorali- zation of our young people. "Legislation contains various head- ings, such as, state reformatory for women, repeal of Illinois law which places the power of quarantine an ex- amination for venereal disease in the courts, sufficient appropriation for adequately trained men and _women, state parole agents, presupposing that the cases of women and girls be as- signed 'to women agents, establish- ment of study groups of parents, de- velopment of community responsibility in regard to recreational facilities, in- troduction of social service in our courts, an increase in the number of adequately trained police women, ucation of the public as to the dangers of venereal disease, and the best meth- ods of diagnosis and treatment." ATTEND COUNCIL SESSION Mrs. John N. VanderVries, Mrs. R. S. Childs and Mrs. Harry M. Lay at- tended the sessions of the Cook coun- ty council of the Illinois League of Women Voters held at the state head- quarters offices in Chicago Tuesday, February 8. MORE VOTERS LEAGUE NEWS ON PAGE 54