ho are experienced in
public affairs and that every agency, including that of publicity, be
employed which will tend to increased interest in the teaching of
citizenship. 7. That the States try to make the study of citizenship
compulsory in the public schools from the primary grades up.

The following resolutions were adopted: 1. That a copy of the
legislative program as selected by the Board of Directors shall be
submitted to all State presidents and presidents of national women's
organizations for approval, and that a deputation from the League of
Women Voters be sent to the conventions of two at least of the
dominant political parties to present this program to the delegates
and to chairmen of the Resolutions Committees if announced in advance,
leaders of these parties having been previously interviewed or
circularized. 2. That the recommendations of the standing committees
as accepted by the convention be referred to the Board of Directors of
the League of Women Voters; after consultation with the chairmen the
Board in turn to pass on its recommendations to the State chairmen
with the request that they use as many of them as possible. 3. That
resolutions relating to Federal legislation, after submission to the
National Board, be considered binding; that resolutions affecting
State legislation be considered recommendations to be submitted to
States. 4. That in order to create a better understanding of the
purposes of the League of Women Voters and its relation to other
national organizations of women, the directors of the league make the
purposes of the league exceedingly clear to local groups--namely, that
its function is for the purpose of fostering education in citizenship
and of supporting improved legislation; that as far as possible
organizations already existing and doing similar work be used and
asked to cooperate in the work of educating women to an understanding
of these purposes; that a Committee on Congressional Legislation be
created with headquarters in Washington and that in addition to a
chairman the committee be made up of a representative from each of
the great national organizations of women.

It was moved by Mrs. John L. Pyle (S. D.), seconded by Mrs. Harriet
Taylor Upton (O.) and carried by the convention that, Whereas, all
women citizens of the United States would today be fully enfranchised
had not James W. Wadsworth, Jr., misrepresented his State and his
party when continuously and repeatedl