Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-02
Last Day Of the National Council
of Women.
ADOPTING SOME RESOLUTIONS
Program for This Evenings SEES
sion, Which is the Last.
T HE NEW OFFIC E r S


has been holding its tricnnial session In
Metzerott Hall for the past two weeks
will reach an adjournment this evening.
when the final meeting will be held. open to
the public.
The program for the ex. rcises of the
evening Is as follows: Introduction of
newly elected officers. Mary Lowe Dickin-
son. president; Rev. Anna H. Shaw. vice
president: Hannah J. Bailey. treasurer;
Louise Barnum Robbins. corresponding
secretary; Emeline Burlingame Cheney.
first recording secretary; Helen Finlay
Bristol. second recording secretary: address
by the incoming president, Mary Lowe
Dickinson; farewell address. May Wright
Sewall, president Of the National Council
Of Women: address by the president OF the
International Council of Women, the Count
ess of Aberdeen. Scotland.
Business Session.
A business session of the council was held
this morning behind closed doors. only the
members of the council being admitted.
Two or three important matters were dis
posed Of and several hours were taken up
with the consideration of the resolutions
to be adopted as expressing the sentiments
OF the council on number Of points of
particular interest to women. They were
presented by the resolutions committee,
and embodied the more important recon-
mendations made in Mrs. May Wright
Sewalrs report as president. The commit
ganization represented in the council. to-
gether with three Of its patrons.
The membership Of the committee Is as
follows; Clara Bewick Colby. District of
Emeline Burlingame Cheney. Maine; En-
ma r. Wallace, Illinois: Emmeline b.
Wells. Utah; Henrietta M. Banker. New
York: Minnie J. Snow. Utah: Caroline B.
in1,f. olx
District of Columbia: Sarah A. Stewart
Pennsylvania; ]. Ellen Foster. District of
Columbia; Mrs. /. G: Manchester. Rhode
Island Hannah ]. Bailey, Maine; Sarah c.
Sadie American, Illinois; Mary F. LOWELL
Pennsylvania: Josephine r. Nichols, In
diana; Cornelia Collins. Illinois; Gertrude
Stevens Leavitt. Maine; Rev. Anna How
ard Shaw, Isabel King and Margaret Ray
Wickins
Financial Affairs.
The report of the retiring treasurer of
the council Mrs. In N. Stevens of Maine.
which was received this morning, showed
the council to be in a very prosperous con-
dition financially.
Fraternal greetings to the council were
presented by Miss Olive Risey Seward of
this city. on behalf of the National Catholic
Womens League of America.
The membership of the council was still
further increased today by the admission
OF new organization. the Florence Crit.
tenden Mission. This brings the number of
national organizations in the council to
eighteen.
Important Resolutions.
AS a rule the resolutions were disposed
of without much delay, but several of them
were debated at length and were not
adopted until a large section of the council
had had a chance to express their Views.
Locally the most interesting paragraph
was the one favoring the establishment of
a national university at the capital.
The resolutions cite the great advance
ment of woman and woman's work during
the years since the last session of the
council and say that the council rejoices
In these evidences of the advancement of
woman and the race, and sees in them
the bright forecast of the time when the
last restriction which exists in society, in
the church and in the state. to prevent
woman from the full exercise of all her
powers for the best good of humanity, will
be eradicated from custom, creed and
statutes.
Cooperation Favored.
Further. the resolutions say, that as
Labor and capital have no natural and
permanent diversity Of interests, and all
conflicts between these Industrial factors
are the result of artificial conditions, equal
ly at variance with the spirit of our repub-
Hcan institutions and of the golden rule;
therefore, recognizing the fact that SELFISH
ness is a social di5integration, and behev-
ing it to be the duty of every patriotic
citizen to give serious and candid attention
to the questions involved in economic con-
ditions, and to use all possible personal
influence to establish society upon a basis
Of love and fraternity, the council urges
that cooperation, instead Of competition,
should be adopted as the standard to which
Industrial relations should be brought. As
an immediate remedial measure, 1t urges
that all disputes between capital and labor
he referred to national, state or voluntary
tribunals of Cancellation and arbitration,
and that the whole strength of public opin-
ion be brought to bear to compel such ref
erence and the acceptance of the decision"
Since justice requires that in all depart
ments of service efficiency and not sex
shall be considered, the council demands
that the United States government shall
set the standard for the country by paying
its employees equal wages for equal work,
and by holding women equally eligible for
all competitive examinations and for en-
plcyment and promotion.
In the best interests Of education and as
a matter Of justice, the council asks that
women as well as men shall be elected or
eral states and territories. 1t earnestly
favors the establishment of national Uni
versity at the nations capital for post
graduate study; heartily Endorses the eff
fort to give the youth of the country scien-
tific temperance instruction in the public
schools. Since a simultaneous training of
the Cn1lQ nanQ ana brain IS demanded
for its harmonious development, the coun-
Gil earnestly requests the school boards of
the United States to adopt the kinder
garten method and to combine manual
with mental training as a fundamental
part of our public school system.
Closing BUSINESS.
Subjects vitality connected with patriot
ism and patriotic teaching. philanthropy,
womar's legal rights. temperance, missions
and other matters were also considered
in appropriate resolutions. The thanks of
the council were rendered to the press
"for their splendid reports of the meet
ings," to Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton. chair
man of the councils press committee; to
Miss Lucy e. Anthony, chairman of the
committee on railroad rates; to the COM
mittee of local arrangements, and to it's
chairman, Mrs. Jennette N. Bradley.
A memorial was also adopted appropri-
ate to the loss OF the council by the death
of q number of it's patrons and active
workers, among them Mrs. Rosa Miller
Avery, Ruth o. Delamater. M. Adeline
Thomson, Lucy Stone, Amelia Bloomer,
Mary ]. Seymour. Mary T. Lothrop, Mary
A. Woodbridge. Julia Ames and Mary Allen
West.