Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt, President of National American Women Suffrage Association to Grace Abbott, Children's Bureau

NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, President NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 171 MADISON AVENUE TELEPHONE, 4818 MURRAY HILL NEW YORK 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT DIRECTORS MRS. STANLEY McCormick, Mass. 429 MRS. CHARLES H. BROOKS. 2NDVICE-PRESIDENT Kansas Miss MARY GARRETT HAY, NEW YORK PRESS DEPARTMENT MRS. J. C. CANTRILL, 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT Kentucky MRS. GUILFORD DUDLEY, TENNESSEE Miss ROSE YOUNG, Director MRS. RICHARD E. EDWARDS, 4TH VICE-PRESIDENT 171 Madison Ave., New York Indiana MRS. RAYMOND BROWN, New YORK MRS. GEORGE GELLHORN, 5TH VICE-PRESIDENT Missouri MRS. HELEN GARDENER, WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. Ben HOOPER, Wisconsin TREASURER MRS. ARTHUR LIVERMORE, MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS, CONNECTICUT New York CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Miss ESTHER G. OGDEN, MRS. FRANK J. SHULER, NEW YORK New York RECORDING SECRETARY 6 sc MRS. GEORGE A. PIERSOL, MRS. HALSEY W. WILSON, New YORK Pennsylvania AUG301921 August 29th, 1921. OF Miss Grace Abbott, Children's Bureau, Washington, D. C. My dear Miss Abbott:- I want to congratulate the Nation upon your appointment as head of the Children's Bureau. Miss Lathrop has made too splendid a record not to be followed by an able woman, and as you were her choice it confirms the opinion of the rest of us that you were the one and only possible candidate to carry forward the good work. I congratulate you upon the opportunity it affords. These congratulations require no acknowledgement, but I do have a question to ask. I am reviewing for the Citizen the record of the Republican Party for its first six months Under Child Labor and its platform occurs the following: "The Republican Party stands for a federal Child Labor Law and for its rigid enforcement. If the present law be found anconstitutional or ineffective, we shall seek o ther means to enable Congress to prevent the evils of Child Labor". May I ask whether the present Child Labor Law has been found unconstitutional? Is it in operation, and if so is it in- effective? So far as I know, no action has been taken to secure any amendment or different law by Congress. Is this true? An early answer will greatly oblige Yours Faithfully, Carrie President