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Show 'COIEil JONES FOil : OPPOSIIW iWant a Modern Minded Senator Sena-tor Capable of Comprehending Comprehend-ing American Principles ' j ! CHICAGO, Feb. 17. The League or 'Women Voters yesterday condemned I Senator James W. Wadsworth, Jr., of j New York, for "misrepresenting to the i women of New York in their determine tlon to send to the United States senate sen-ate a "modern minded senntor capable of comprehending the great American principles of freodom and Democracy" to replace Mr. Wadsworth. The league also took a stand for a single standard of morals when it accepted ac-cepted the report of Its social hygiene committee, of which Dr. Valerie Par-.ker Par-.ker of Hartford, Conn., is president. A"iiong recommendations for control 'of commercialized vice were: I Punishment of frequenters of disor-jderK' disor-jderK' houses. j Abolition of segregated, protected ; vic j districts. Heavy penalties for pandering. Prevention of solicitation whether by man or woman. ' O.mtrol of venereal diseases with recommendations for proper laws war urged. I Passage of laws to protect minors, defectives and delinquents was urged Among these was a law providing for me.ual examination of all children and to rare for defective one3. j A law was urged to make the legal age of consent at least IS years and 'to piovide protection for the hoy as well as the girl. Would Put Women on Boards, it was recommended that women bo put on Ike governing boards of all charitable and penal Institutions aa twell as in other public positions which Ideal with problems of delinquenev or health. j The report of the committee on food j supply and demand was adopted with its endorsement of the Kenyon-Ken-drick-Anderson bill for the control of pacirers. despite a talk from the pack ere' point of view by L. D. Wells of I Swift and company. History of Suffrage Exhibit. I Mrs. Helen Gardener of Washington announced the installation .of an ox-i ox-i nihil, connected with the history of the suffrage movement in the United i States, in the Smithsonian Institution, j Among the exhibits are pictures of Susan B. Anthony. Anna Howard jShaw and Carrie Chapman Catt the first women to be so honored because !of their achievements. The round ma-Ihogany ma-Ihogany table is there on which the ;wo;n?n's bill of rights was written at the first suffrage convention in thp v.'o.ici, IS IS, at Seneca Falls, N." Y. |