Show doting av doting Is patriotic leader S says ays 1 ballots help nation more titan than knitting needles women advised CHICAGO the american wom ans right to vote gained two years after the close of world war 1 I now for the first time provides her with a an n opportunity ito to be more than than a back seat driver during a period of national peril mrs melville mucklestone president of the national f consumers tax commission ciori declares in a message to the 2500 units of her organization in 43 states the former national president of the american legion auxiliary said th that atIf if we women sei seize our opportunity we shall find the ballot a far more effective to tool olto to use in patriotic service than the knitting needle ever was A crying need in the U S is thoroughgoing improvement of state and local governments mrs mucklestone said by cutting costs and lowering local taxes such improvements would make it far easier for the taxpayer to bear the national defense bur burden declaring that this is an important job which the men in the main have left undone she urged organized women to adopt a 10 point program tor for civic betterment and then to put the program through this is possible she said because since the adoption of the nineteenth amendment on august 26 1920 women have had the franchise the 10 points proposed are as follows for municipalities and counties 1 adoption of afi a budget plan 2 preparation of an understandable annual report 3 reduction of debt 4 adoption of centralized purchasing 5 adoption of the merit system 6 0 preparation and adoption of a long term plan tor for counties 7 centralization of authority 8 consolidation soli oli of small counties tor for tates states 9 elimination of state trade tax barriers 10 reorganization of state administrative machinery adoption of any of these 16 10 points joints would result in greater governmental efficiency and therefore in lower tax levies yet not one would curtail any essential governments governmental service ll 11 mrs mucklestone added moreover not one of the suggestions is experimental all have been tried tested and found successful in august american women will celebrate the twenty first anniversary of the passage of the nineteenth amendment by pressing such a program as this in local loca governments they will demonstrate that they have come of age politically |