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to state and local board of health. Much study and detail work were evident in the report presented by Mrs. Rusti. She gave outstanding features of three bills now pending in Congress that should vitally affect the welfare of children. The "Shepard - Towner Bill" "The Physical Education Bill." and the Curtis - Gard Bill." The Childrens Bureau has been granted by congress one half of its request for funds which is 1/10 of the sum spent by the Federal Government for Annual Industry. Mrs. Devitts report as Chairman of "Women in Industry" was given with the decision and euthusiasum that characterizes every thing Mrs. Devitt does. Mrs. Devitt calls Iowa one of the six worst states as far as laws relating to women in industry are concerned. The other five are in the south. We need laws to regulate the hours of work for women. A minimum wage law and a law to raise the age of consent to eighteen. This age has been raised in Iowa in recent years twelve to fourteen and finally to fifteen where it now stands. Mrs. Devitt calls the Oregon Law in the Age of Consent "the model law. Oregon protects boys as well as girls to the age of eighteen. Mrs. Devitt announced that Miss Anderson, who is in the employ of the Womens and Childrens Department at Washington will come to Iowa in October to conduct a research campaign in co-operation with the League of Women Voters to determine the need of the women and children of Iowa to the end that better legislation may be asked of our state. Mrs. Devitt says emphatically that there is no such thing as duplication of work concerning women in Industry as far as the numerous women's organizations are concerned - that co-operation is the word to Keep ever present in
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to state and local board of health. Much study and detail work were evident in the report presented by Mrs. Rusti. She gave outstanding features of three bills now pending in Congress that should vitally affect the welfare of children. The "Shepard - Towner Bill" "The Physical Education Bill." and the Curtis - Gard Bill." The Childrens Bureau has been granted by congress one half of its request for funds which is 1/10 of the sum spent by the Federal Government for Annual Industry. Mrs. Devitts report as Chairman of "Women in Industry" was given with the decision and euthusiasum that characterizes every thing Mrs. Devitt does. Mrs. Devitt calls Iowa one of the six worst states as far as laws relating to women in industry are concerned. The other five are in the south. We need laws to regulate the hours of work for women. A minimum wage law and a law to raise the age of consent to eighteen. This age has been raised in Iowa in recent years twelve to fourteen and finally to fifteen where it now stands. Mrs. Devitt calls the Oregon Law in the Age of Consent "the model law. Oregon protects boys as well as girls to the age of eighteen. Mrs. Devitt announced that Miss Anderson, who is in the employ of the Womens and Childrens Department at Washington will come to Iowa in October to conduct a research campaign in co-operation with the League of Women Voters to determine the need of the women and children of Iowa to the end that better legislation may be asked of our state. Mrs. Devitt says emphatically that there is no such thing as duplication of work concerning women in Industry as far as the numerous women's organizations are concerned - that co-operation is the word to Keep ever present in
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
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