ole officers; as State and local police; as protective officers; as
court officials, as jurors; as physicians in institutions for women
and on all State and local boards of health. The committee recommends
the establishment of local protective homes for girls in all the
larger cities, proper detention quarters for women awaiting trial and
separate detention quarters for juvenile offenders, as well as
Travelers' Aid agents at all large railroad stations and steamship
embarkation points.

Child Welfare--Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, chairman. The resolutions
adopted covered: 1. The endorsement of the Sheppard-Towner Bill for
the Public Protection of Maternity and Infancy; (2) of the principle
of a bill for physical education about to be introduced into Congress
to be administered by the Bureau of Education of the Department of the
Interior; (3) of an appropriation of $472,220 for the Children's
Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor; (4) of the Gard-Curtis Bill
for the regulation of child labor in the District of Columbia.

American Citizenship--Mrs. Frederick P. Bagley, chairman. Resolutions
provided for: 1. Compulsory education which shall include adequate
training in citizenship in every State for all children between six
and sixteen nine months of each year. 2. Education of adults by
extension classes of the public schools. 3. English made the basic
language of instruction in the common-school branches in all schools
public and private. 4. Specific qualifications for citizenship and
impressive ceremonials for naturalization. 5. Direct citizenship for
women, not through marriage, as a qualification for the vote. 6.
Naturalization for married women made possible, American women to
retain their citizenship after marriage to an alien. 7. Printed
citizenship instruction in the foreign languages for the use of the
foreign born, as a function of the Federal Government. 8. Schools of
citizenship in conjunction with the public schools, a certificate from
such schools to be a qualification for the educational test for
naturalization. 9. An educational qualification for the vote in all
States after a sufficient period of time and ample opportunity for
education have been allowed.

Laws Concerning the Legal Status of Women, Mrs. Catharine Waugh
McCulloch, chairman. Following resolutions presented and adopted: 1.
Independent citizenship for married women. 2. Equal interest of
spouses in each other's real estate. 3. The married wo