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it to $392,000,000. That is a saving of $600,000,000 in one year on 
one thing. If we can get along without some of these unnecessary 
things, don’t you think it would be very much better to do it and be 
able to put some money in great movements like this that would be 
of material benefit to the people of our country ? 
Mrs. Ward. Now, you are introducing a discussion upon which 
I do not want to enter. But T will say that one of my family sleeps 
in the Argonne, and nevertheless there is no one more interested in 
keeping down the expenses than I. But we have not reached the 
millennium. We have got to consider the people of the lowest stand 
ard in the world and not the people in the highest. At any time 
there may be a war. While I believe the surest way of preventing 
the war is to come to an understanding between England and 
America, I believe that we must reasonably prepare for it, and I 
think it would be a grave mistake if we did not appropriate 
Senator McKellar. May I ask the question whether it is your 
idea that we should continue to expend 90 per cent of all our revenues 
for war purposes and economize on the 10 per cent for the people 
of our country and for the good of our people ? 
Mrs. Ward. I am not an expert on war. The infant mortality 
in one town in Pennsylvania is 19.1 per cent and I do not believe 
that all the instruction in the world would lower it. I do not be 
lieve there would be any reduction in the infant mortality. Of 
course it is a good bill, but is it an indispensable bill ? I think only 
the indispensable bills should be passed now. 
The Chairman. We are very glad to have heard from you. 
Senator McKellar. I do not think we took this economy fea 
ture into consideration so much when this Government appro 
priated $100,000,000 last year for the children and women of Eu 
rope. 
The Chairman. And $25,000,000 the other day. 
Senator McKeller. Yes. 
STATEMENT OF MRS. LARUE BROWN, CHAIRMAN CHILD 
WELFARE COMMITTEE, NATIONAL LEAGUE OF WOMEN 
VOTERS. 
Mrs. BROWN. Mr. Chairman, at the recent hearings upon the 
Shepp ar d-Towner bill the statement was repeatedly made by op 
ponents of the measure that the indorsements of it by the women ’s 
organizations were not to be taken at face value, and this was true 
even of that of the League of Women Voters. These statements 
reflect upon the good faith of those who have presented these in 
dorsements. It is desired, therefore, to present a brief supplemen 
tary statement setting forth the facts. 
Mrs. Park has already told the committee how the League of 
Women Voters determines upon its legislative program. At the 
annual convention of the league, held this year at Cleveland, the 
following resolution was adopted on April 15, 1921: 
The League of Women Voters again indorses the principle of Federal aid to the 
States for the protection of maternity and infancy and requests the immediate pas- 
age of a bill designed to bring about this cooperation. _ It urges that the adminis 
tration of its measures be by the United States Children’s Bureau, and asks that the 
appropriation be adequate to carry out the purpose of the act. 
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