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Show WOMEN TO WORK A REFORM. A moBt Interesting news dispatch, dated Chicago, conveys tho information informa-tion that a campaign has been started by the women to fix responsibility on thoBO who bring into the world illegitimate illegiti-mate children. It is related that in twelve suffrage stales plans are being made to procure legislation to removo the bar sinister from the child born out of wedlock. This may mean that the Utah legislature, which meets in January, will be confronted with this problem. It Is stated the- proposed legislation will make marriage automatic auto-matic between parents of children born out of statutory wedlock. From the moment of its birth the child, under un-der tho proposed law, will bo entitled to bear Its father's name and legally to demand tho support of its father. The National Council of Woman Voters, wo are told, began this movement move-ment last fall at Its national convention conven-tion Jn Cheyenne, Wyo., and in each suffrage state where tho legislature moots this fall a bill to wipe illegitimacy illegitim-acy from the list of Bocial handicaps will be presented by woman voters. To lead this agitation against tho age old "bar sinister" from the children chil-dren of unmarried mothers, says a special dispatch, the National Council Coun-cil of Woman Voters has appointed Dr. Lucy Walte of Chicago, who ).wen-ty-flvo years ago became interested In the nameless babes and began to work for their redemption. Dr. Waito in each suffrage state will appoint a chairman to prepare legislation along these Hno3. Dr. Waite already has prepared a bill which she will present to the legislature leg-islature of Illinois this winter, providing pro-viding not only that when a man and woman not previously joined in wed lock become the father and mother I of a child they shall be deemed le-j le-j gaily married, but that, should the I father of the child be already married, g the illegitimate child will be his heir g at law, the same as children born f In wedlock. I "Wo must lift this terrible handi-cap," handi-cap," said Dr. Waite. "We must save the baby that is dropped In the river t. or left on the doorstep because the I unmarried mother knows the world has no place for a nameless baby. "I believe this law will reduce Illegitimacy Il-legitimacy 60 per cent in a year. "As to this law being used by unscrupulous un-scrupulous womon to collect blackmail, black-mail, we have laws to protect people from blackmail, and 'better one man be blackmailed than thousands of babies suffer social ostracism.' y |