nt chairman, who will also be chairman of the legislative
committee, will conduct correspondence, direct organization in
unorganized States and visit States with the view of stimulating
organization and clarifying the objects of the league, the work for
suffrage to remain in the National Congressional Committee and the
State Ratification Committees. 3. The State Leagues of Women Voters
will consist of individual members and organized committees with the
addition of associations already established which subscribe to the
principles of the league. At the regular State convention or at a
special State conference to be called the object of the league will be
set forth and each department presented, with publicity and
advertising to bring it to the attention of the public.

Eight departments each composed of a national chairman and one woman
from every State were recommended, the members of these departments
to become familiar with all laws on the subjects under consideration,
recommend legislative programs, prepare and issue literature on their
subjects and work in the States through the State committees. A
"budget" of $20,000 was recommended.

The program for the Women in Industry Committee presented by Mrs.
Raymond Robins (Ills.) was adopted. The greatest needs for Unification
and Improvement of Laws defining the Legal Status of Women were named
by Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch (Ills.), such as joint guardianship
of children, marriage and divorce laws, property rights, industry,
civil service, morality, child welfare and elections. Education was
set forth as the best means to Social Morality and Social Hygiene by
Dr. Valeria Parker (Conn.). Miss Julia Lathrop (Washington, D. C.),
chief of the Federal Child Welfare Bureau, spoke on present needs,
saying: "Child labor and an educated community, child labor and modern
democracy cannot co-exist.... Time does not wait, the child lives or
dies. If he lives he takes up his life well or ill equipped, not as he
chooses but as we choose for him."

The following needed Improvements of Election Laws were named by Mrs.
Ellis Meredith (Colo.): _Federal_--A national amendment guaranteeing
women the franchise on the same terms as men; restricting the
franchise to those who are citizens; repealing the Act of 1907 which
disfranchises women marrying foreigners; an extension of the present
five-year time after which a foreigner becomes a full citizen by
virtue of having taken out two set