North Carolina community progress, February 20, 1922

              NORTH   CAROLINA
PUBLISHED   TWICE A MONTH BY THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN . GREENSBORO. N.C.
VOLUME 3.
FEBRUARY  20,   1922
NUMBER  10
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS HOLDS SUCCESSFUL
ANNUAL MEETING
The North Carolina League of Women Voters
brought its second annual convention to a successful
end in Greensboro on Feb. 16. The session was
swiftly and smoothly conducted through morning,
afternoon and night sessions; a legislative program
was adopted, officers elected for the coming year, and
delegates chosen for the Annual National Convention
to be held in Baltimore.
Endorsements were passed giving assurance to
the Board of Health of the League's ardent support to
the Shepherd-Towner Bill, support to the Board of
Education in the fight to reduce adult illiteracy,
endorsed and complimented the State Board        ^	
of Charities and Public
Welfare. The League
went on record as being
entirely in favor of better movies and requested the Legislative Council to promote more
wholesome moving pictures. The League presented a plan for a state
reformatory for delinquent women, feeling
that the work at Samarcand did not cover
the entire field. State
aid for mothers who are
able in all ways except
economically to care for
their dependent children was also urged.
The    League,      then,
pledged itself to the following program which it will
work for at the next meeting of the State Legislature.
1. Australian ballot on voting; 2. Retention
of the state-wide primary law; 3. Equal guardianship for mothers over their children; 4. Raising the
age of consent from 14 to 16 years.
The new officers of the League were then elected
as follows:
Miss Louise Alexander, Chairman; Mrs. H. F.
Seawell, Carthage, First Vice-President; Mrs. Jose-
phus Daniels, Second Vice-President; Miss Gertrude
Weil, Third Vice-President; Miss Lassie Kelly,    Re
cording Secretary; Mrs. J. W. Cone, Corresponding
Secretary.
Delegates chosen to National Convention at
Baltimore were: Miss Gertrude Weil, Miss Louise
Alexander, Harriet Elliott, Mrs. J. W. Cone, Mrs.
Palmer Jerman, Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Mrs. C. W.
Tillett, Jr., Miss Lassie Kelly, Miss Sallie Dortch and
Miss Mary Owen Graham.
Mrs. Bickett, who is connected with the State
Board of Health, explained the Shepherd-Towner
Bill and the work that the State has done in this line.
The first big work of the women after gaining the ballot was the work on this
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bill to safeguard mothers and infants. The
Board of Health has
been actively engaged
in carrying information
to mothers in the remotest corners of North
Carolina. Its chief
work has been to have
all prenatal cases carefully registered. "We
want the people of the
State to feel that they
have a staunch friend in
the Health Department," said Mrs. Bickett
in conclusion.
Mrs.    Maude    Wood
Park   discussed   various
technical  phases of  the
_.._„_.._„_„_.,_„_,_^t,        development     of      the
League. She reminded
her audience that the League was attacked in the beginning because it was feared that it might result in
a new woman's political party. The next objection
to the League came from the fear that it would become partisan and throw its strength to one or the
other of the two major parties. The current opposition to the League, however, comes from the fear
that it will come to be an independent body which
can be controlled by neither party.
Mrs. Park then discussed some of the    achieve-
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
Adopted by the N. C. League of
Women Voters
Australian ballot in voting.
Retention of the State-wide primary
law.
Equal guardianship for mothers over their children.
Raising the age of consent from 14
to 16 years.
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