Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 142, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1928 — Page 8

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WOMEN You Who THINK for Yourselves VOTE for YOURSELVES Elect ALFRED E SMITH The undersigned women of all parties believe Alfred E. Smith to be a statesman with an unparalleled record of achievement in humanitarian legislation; a gentleman incorruptible in office; a distinguished father . of a family unusually accustomed to the formal demands of official life; a great American who will make a great President.

A successful President is a man who is interested in all the people of the United States. A great President is a man who can induce Congress to fight with him for the rights of the people. Alfred E. Smith, during four terms as Governor of New York, has always had a legislature of the opposing party to deal with, but has led it to constructive action. Do YOU UNDERSTAND Governor Smith’s position on PROHIBITION? He says: 1. “I shall to the very limit... enforce the 18th amendment and all other provisions of the Federal Constitution and all laws pursuant threto ... I believe in reverence for law. Today disregard of the prohibition law is insidiously sapping respect for all law.” 2. “I will never advocate or approve any law which directly or indirectly permits the return of the saloon.” o. “I believe in temperance. We have not achieved temprance under the present system. The mothers and fathers of young men and women throughout this land know the anxiety and worry which has been brbught to them by their children’s use of liquor in a way which was unknown before prohibition.

Mrs, Thomas Marshall Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston -Mrs. Evans Woollen Mrs. Charles Greathouse Mrs. Albert Stump Mrs. Frank C. Dailey Mrs. Isaac Born Mrs. Benjamin D. Hitz Mrs. Harriett Brooks Mellett Mrs. Thomas Taggart Sr. Mrs. W. Richardson Sinclair

Indiana Democratic State Committee

The women voters of Indiana are impressed with the record of Governor Alfred E. Smith and will vote for him because of his outstanding achievements. He stands for that equality of women which those of us who seek the highest and best appreciate. He said in his acceptance speech: “I believe in that true equality of women that opens to them without restriction all avenues of opportunity for which they can qualify in business, in government service and in politics.” .. He called the Legislature in special session to ratify the Federal Suffrage Amendment. He sponsored, with the Democratic organization of New York tSate and New York City, absolute equality of women with men in all political undertakings. As legislator, and later as Governor, he sponsored 'and signed legislation protecting working women and children in industry. He sponsored and signed the most advanced child welfare laws of any state in the Union, including widows’ pensions, children’s courts and a code of laws affecting child welfare. He sponsored the most enlightened factory legislation and workmen’s compensation act of any state in the Union. He has supported, protected and increased the appropriations for the public schools of the State of New York, and has been the best friend that public education

Mrs. L. Ert Slack Mrs. John W. Kern Mrs. Thomas Garvin Mrs. L. J. Keach Mrs. Ineva B. Reilly Mrs. Frank B. Hunter Mrs. Fred Duesenberg Mrs. Charles Weliver Mrs. M. A. Ryan Mrs: Louis Ludiow Mrs. Edna Ragsdale Price

Alongside is the record of some few of the things Alfred E. Smith has done in his state. It is a guarantee of what he will do in the Nation.

WOMEN The principles upon which the United States is founded are dear to you. A fundamental one is being violated by whisperes in this campaign. They are saying that Alfred E. Smith should not be President because of his religion. This is unworthy and un-American. Articles 6of the Constitution of the United States says: “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States.” In 25 years of official life Governor Smith has never shown favoritism to members of his church. Read the record. His Cabinet includes: Protestants Catholics Jews 10 3 1 There is nothing in this fear of a Roman Catholic in the White House. SEND SMITH THERE

Mrs. Carl Wood Mrs. Frederick Van Nuys Mrs. John M. Corwin Mrs. George W. Werbe Mrs. John R. Wilson Mrs. George Brydon Yeazel Mrs. Katheryn S. Meyers Mrs. Lewis Hoover Mrs. Clarence T. Wheatley Mrs. W. H. Coleman Mrs. Frank T. Dowd Mrs. Marshall Williams

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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Miss Louise Weir Mrs. Ida Cardarelli Miss Mayme O’Connell Miss Mayme Clickner Mrs. G. E. Feeney Mrs. Garrett F. Kirby Mrs. Mark V. Rinehart Mrs. B. J. T. Jeup Miss Julia Landers Mrs. E. P. Woolery Mrs. W. C. Smith

has ever had. He has increased appropriations for public schools from $8,000,000 to $86,347,855. He has secured adequate appropriations for public health; fosteerd and made effective laws protecting maternity and infant welfare; taken especially care of crippled children; sponsored proper institutions and adequate care for the sick and helples wards of the state; created a crime commission for the study of preventive measures on broad modern lines. He created an sponsored a unified system of state parks, affording recreation and health to thousands of city dwellers. He has protected human life by a oMtor Vehicle Law requiring the licensing of all automobile operators and by appropriation to eliminate railroad grade crossings. For all of these reasons, which show him to be a great humanitarian, and because he has been a great administrator as well, and reorganized the state government and established an executive budget, placing the government on an efficient businesslike basis, we, teh undersigned, believe that he has those qualifications which make him a leader of American thought and opinion worthy of our support, and we shall advocate his election and work for it.

Mrs. Aletha McNaull Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Miss Carrie Sweet Mrs. W. C. DeMiller Miss Eugenia Kennedy Mrs. P. C. Kelly Mrs. Frank P. Baker Catherine S. Myers Mrs. Olive Beldon Lewis Mrs. Bernard Korbly

*7 believe that with the exception of Abraham Lincoln no one in Amer* lean history has possessed Alfred E. Smith’s genius for deep and tender sympathy with humanity ’* LILLIAN WALD, the Jane Addams of New York City.

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What Alfred E. Smith Has Done for Women READ HIS RECORD

Factory Workers Smith secured for his state the most advanced Workmen's Compensation Law in the. United States. It provides that women receive benefits as well as men, and also safeguards the welfare of the family of the worker. He secured the 4S hour law for New York, making a shorter working day and week for women employed in factories. lie secured the pnssSge of 40 laws protecting children and stopping the outrageous overworking of women in his State In the canning industry. He secured the passage of laws prohibiting night work by women. Store Employes Smith secured the passage of a 48 hour law which gives clerks in stores in New York State a shorter working day and week. Office Women Smith has ended discrimination against women seeking positions under the New York Civil Service. He has insisted that women doing the same work as men must receive equal pay. Widows and Orphans Smith secured the passage of

HE HAS EARNED WOMAN’S SUPPORT

Mrs. Howell Landers Mrs. R. Earl Peters Mrs'. James R. Riggs Mrs. Adelbert P. Flynn Mrs. Vesta Perdue Mrs. Benjamin Bossc Mrs. Frederick Lauenstein Mrs. Gilbert Bosse Mrs. L. G. Ellingham Mrs. Alice Foster Mullins Mrs. Ralph Coon

the Widowhood Compensation Law in New York. Under its terms women left penniless are supported and allowances for their minor children are made. Mothers and Children Smith has always championed everything which makes for better lives for children in both city and county. Their helplessness deeply touches his humanity. He secured the acceptance of the Shepard-Townor Maternity Bill. He has fought for and secured ample School Facilities and better and more Schools in Rural Districts. He has safeguarded and improved the Mill Supply of New York State. School Teachers Smith has secured an appropriation of $74,843,000 in order to Increase the salaries of teachers in New York State. He secured equal pay foe women and men in both City and Rural Schools. Club Women Alfred E. Smith has sponsored and fought for and, to a .large extent, brought to pass hi New York the program of humanitarian legislation for which you women of Indiana

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have been working for years. Cost of Living Smith pioneered the enactment of laws prohibiting profiteering in food and fuel in his State. He sponsored laws causing radical improvements in the distribution of food in the State. He secured State title to water power resources in his State in order that all might benefit from the development of water power for electrical energy. League of Women Voters Alfred E. Smith convened the New York Legislature in Special session to ratify the Women's Suffrage Amendment. He has made no discrlmlnation against women in State Appointments, He considers only the fitness of the person for the place regardless of sex, party or res ligiou. His Governor's Official Earn, 11 y is composed of 8 Republicans. 3 Independents and 14 Democrats. Two of these are a omen. And many women urC serving 4 on important Cabinet- Committees.

Mrs. Pearl Lee Vernon Mrs. John Hitch Miss Telia Haines Mrs. Lillie M. Kurfess Mrs. Charles Staff Mrs. Nellie Catlin Miss Inez Montgomery Mrs. John Gubbins Miss Katheryn Maish Mrs. Thomas Meara Mrs. Mary Arnold Mrs. Hazel Luckey Miss Florence Smith