Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-20 | Page 12 | Women's League Aims to Educate

llffl'SlISS S TOpUTEj National Suffrage Leader Outlines Objects of the Organization. "Thu object of tbo Leniia of Women Wo-men Voters is to have all voton able to reail their own ballots, ami to cast intelligent votes," said Miss Margaret fthuler of Now i'ork, a incinlj(.'r of the national congressional committee of the National Americun Women's Hul't'rao association, at a special meeting of the Utah branch of the organization yea-terlav yea-terlav in the Hotel Utah. "Tho league is non-partisan," continue! con-tinue! Miss tiehuler, "in the same sense that an organization is non-sectarian. Jt is not a thirty party. Our campaign cam-paign has been to get to the point where we could work in co-operation with the men, not against them. l''or this reason rea-son oGvernJ committees have been appointed ap-pointed who will look after the subject sub-ject of American citizenship, industry, child welfare, improvement of election laws, social hygiene, unification of laws relating to civil status of women and children, food control and research. "The national executive committee, which will include a woman representative representa-tive from each stato, will direct all movements. Tho league will only indorse in-dorse such legislation as tho national convention votes to indorse." Miss Shuler described the work the national association has done to carry to completion the ratification of the federal amendment in time for women to vote at the 1920 presidential election, elec-tion, and outlined plans for tho future. "We have nearly finished our work, " sho said, "and now should we go out of existence? We Bhould not, because wo know we have to fit people, and especially women, for the greater work to come. When one reulizes that there are flvo and a half million people who can't road or write the English language, lan-guage, and that a largo portion of these are voting, the need for helping in educating ed-ucating thorn is dominant. Wo should also give our moral support to bring all just legislative laws to pass." Miss Shuler will leave for New York tomorrow. Mrs. Ben Hooper, a mcrrtber of the national executive board of the Woman's Wo-man's Suffrage association, and Mrs. M. P. Cunningham, president of the Texas suffrage association, left yesterday yester-day for Washington, D. C.