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Show ih fih remedial lis Suffrage Association Asks Reforms in Meet Pack- ing Industry. ST. LOUIS, March 29. The jubilee convention of the National Woman Suffrage Suf-frage association adjourned here shortly after noon today after indorsing the action ac-tion taken by the League of Women A oters, composed of suffrage members from franchise stated, looking toward remedial legislation affecting the meat packing industry, and adopting principles princi-ples of an Americanization program. Mrs. C. H. Brooks of Wichita, Kan., , was elected, permanent chairman of the League of Women Voters to serve until un-til the next national convention of the suffrage association, which will be held 1 in February, 1920, as a centennial cele-i cele-i bration of Susan B. Anthony's birth-; birth-; day. By that time it is expected that the federal suffrage amendment will have been passed and the National Suffrage Suf-frage association will take the name of League of Women Voters. The League of Women Voters is composed com-posed of women of twenty-five states, ; in which there are more than 13,000,000 women voters. As other 6tates are granted suffrage they become units of ; the league. The league today invited the territory terri-tory of Alaska to become affiliated with the organization; decided to erect a monument in Cheyenne, Wyo., where women were first granted the franchise; indorsed a plan of Americanization for the United States, and appointed committees com-mittees to take up at once the study of laws on citizenship, elections, social morality and hygiene, unification of laws, food supply and demand. The Americanization plan as approved, ap-proved, provides: Compulsory education for all children between the ages of 6 and 16. with school attendance provided for pip6 months of each year; education of illiterate, illit-erate, adults; stricter provisions of naturalization; nat-uralization; votes for women to be given only to those who are naturalized in their own person or through naturalization nat-uralization of their father or mother or husband after a residence of five years; naturalization laws to be so changed as to permit a married woman to be naturalized on her own qualifications; qualifica-tions; English to be the language of all public and private schools: oath of allegiance al-legiance to the United States as qualification quali-fication of the vote of all citizens; establishment es-tablishment of schools of citizenship in all school districts and an educational qualification for every voter. The Illinois delegation has invited the next national convention to be held in Chicago. |