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Identifier: chicagohistoryfor00harp (find matches)
Title: Chicago, a history and forecast
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Harper, William Hudson, 1857- ed Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959 McIlvaine, Mabel
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- Description and travel Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Publisher: (Chicago) The Chicago association of commerce
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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le to vote in all elec-tions. Under existing state laws 17,000,000 had alreadybecome entitled to vote for President of the United Statesand 7,000,000 to vote for members of congress. Chicago, the Illinois contingent of this imposing host,is in the organization period of vast future service. Thepublic welfare work of Chicago women already has itsmonuments in settlements, kindergartens, vacationschools, school lunch rooms, women matrons in jails andschools in jails, child welfare society, parental schools,juvenile court, pensions for mothers, civic music associa-tion, childrens orchestra, corrective schools for girls,policewomen, community kitchens, day nurseries, andwith the advent of the great war it was women who stabil-ized the home forces, who saved the food, whose tireless 93 needles augmented the clothing and sanitary supplies ofarmed millions. Woman and Housing Problem Now come the requirements of peace to be satisfied bysocial or political action, or both, and the call to women
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Projected building of Womans Club of Chicago, Nos. 62-72East Eleventh Street. Permission of Pond & Pond, architects. as citizens is to be practical, not too partisan, and fulfillthe possibilities of golden opportunity. Woman as acitizen will not long leave Chicagos neglected problem 94 of housing untouched. Into matters of education, house-keeping and recreation her sympathies, her intuitionsand her constructive powers will enter for distinguishedaccomplishment. The urgency of the housing situationis already making her an advocate of a zoning system,and her service for the betterment of physical conditionswill develop corresponding forces to strengthen thecitys spiritual life. While womans entrance into municipal politics mayimply a degree of temporary submission to its evils, itshould be the expectation of the sex which gave itselffirst the franchise, and has far to go in its corrective use,that the sordid conditions of a great city, in moral andphysical transformation, will enli

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