and to the former the improved child labor law must be
credited. In 1917 she was re-elected and Dr. Grace Stratton Airy and
Mrs. Daisy C. Allen became members of the Lower House. During
1915-1917 laws raising the age of protection for girls to 18 and
requiring equal pay for equal work were enacted. Mrs. Hayward, at the
request of the women's Legislative Council, introduced the resolution
calling on Congress to submit the Federal Amendment. In 1918 she was
elected State Senator. In 1919 Dr. Airy was re-elected and Mrs. Anna
G. Piercy and Mrs. Delora Blakely were elected to the Lower House.
Altogether there have been thirteen women members of the Legislature.
No State has better laws relating to women and children than Utah.

It has been difficult to persuade the women to stand for important
offices. The modern furious pace set by campaigners and the severance
of home ties for long periods are not alluring to wives and mothers
but they find many public activities through which to exercise their
executive abilities. They sit on the boards of many State and local
institutions and serve on committees for civic and educational work. A
considerable number have filled and are now filling city and county
offices. Mrs. L. M. Crawford has a responsible position in the office
of the State Land Board. Mrs. McVickar was State Superintendent of
Schools. In 1917 a new department was added to the office of the
Adjutant General to secure pensions for those veterans who had served
in the early Indian wars of Utah. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Cohen was given
custody of the old Indian War Records and was named Commissioner of
Pensions. In order to prove the claims of these men and women she
cooperated with the Pension Bureau at Washington, D. C. Up to date out
of a possible 1,500 whose claims have merit nearly 700 pensions have
been granted, bringing into the State the sum of $400,000.

When Brigham Young established those monuments to his name, the
Brigham Young University of Provo and the Brigham Young College of
Logan in 1874 he placed women on their boards. Mrs. Martha J. Coray of
Provo served ten years for the former and Professor Ida M. Cook for
the latter. Mrs. Gates was made a trustee of the university in 1891,
which position she still occupies, while her sister, Mrs. Zina Young
Card, has been a trustee since 1914. Mrs. Gates was on the board of
the State Agricultural College 1905-1913. Mrs. A. W. McCune was on
this board ten years, seven of