man's wages and
business under her sole control. 4. Just civil service laws in all
cities and States now under the spoils system; amendments to existing
civil service laws to enable men and women to have equal rights in
examinations and appointments. 5. Mothers' pensions with a minimum
amount adequate and definite; the maximum amount left to the
discretion of the administering court; the benefits of all such laws
extended to necessitous cases above the age specified in the law, at
the discretion of the administering body, and residence qualifications
required. 6. The minimum "age of consent" eighteen years. 7. Equal
guardianship by both parents of the persons and the property of
children, the Utah law being a model. 8. Legal workers should read a
book published by the Department of Labor entitled Illegitimacy Laws
of the United States. 9. A Court should be established having original
exclusive jurisdiction over all affairs pertaining to the child and
his interests. 10. The marriage age for women should be eighteen
years, for men twenty-one years. The State should require health
certificates before issuing marriage licenses. There should be Federal
legislation on marriage and divorce and statutes prohibiting the
evasion of marriage laws. 11. Laws should provide that women be
subject to jury service and the unit vote of jurors in civil cases
should be abolished. 12. Members of committees of the League of Women
Voters should not use their connection with the league to assist any
political party.

On February 17 Miss Mary Garrett Hay in an appeal for funds secured
pledges of $44,450. Of this sum the amount of $15,000 by the Leslie
Commission was offered by Mrs. Catt as follows:

(1) The _Woman Citizen_ as an organ of the league until Jan. 1, 1921,
at which time we believe that it should issue a Bulletin of its own.

(2) The full use of the publicity department of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association until May 1, 1920.

(3) The remainder for the use of the league during the year.

Following the convention Mrs. Catt conducted a School of Political
Education in the Auditorium of Recital Hall, in Chicago, February
19-24. Its aim was to train women already equipped with competent
knowledge of civil government and political science to teach new
voters the ideals of American Citizenship, the processes of
registering and casting a vote, the methods of making nominations and
platforms, the nature of political parti