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Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 42 | Suffragists Show their Patriotism

Type issue
Date 1917-03-25
Paper Salt Lake Tribune
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Suffragists Show their Patriotism
Type article
Date 1917-03-25
Paper Salt Lake Tribune
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 42
OCR Text 'SUFFRAGISTS SHOW THEIR PATRIOTISM Statement Issued Pledging Support of the President as Far as Possible. WASHINGTON, March 24. Officials of the National American Woman Suffrage Suf-frage association announced tonight that although they would not Jay aside their "constructive, forward work to secure the vote for women," they were prepared to aid the president as far as possible in the present crisiB. In a statement the "specific undertakings of the national association, some of them already under way," are outlined, as follows: 1. The establishment of employment bureaua for women, with the promise to protect these women against exploitation. exploita-tion. 2. The increase of the food supply by the training: of women for agricultural work and the elimination of waste. 3. Americanization, i. e., by means of ! classes in school centers to teach im- mijrrants national loyalty and intarna-i intarna-i tional tolerance. 4. Continued co-operation with the Ked Cross, in which many of the members mem-bers already are active workers, also is promised. The statement says -that since Secretary Secre-tary DanielB is calling for women's services in the navy, and still further demands for women in men's places are increasingly probable, the registration of available women workers will be undertaken un-dertaken at the various local, state and national headquarters of the association. associa-tion. A suffrage agriculture committee, under chairmanship of Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers of New York, is already at work forming farm and vacant-lot clubs, and Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Missouri is in charge of a suffrage thrift committee, com-mittee, which is conducting a campaign for the elimination of waste, both these committees co-operating with the department de-partment of agriculture.
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