Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-25
'|O IGNORE P|)unCS
Mothers Congress Avoids Discussion
ofAll Partisan or Political
Issues.
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Equal Suffrage, Expansion and Kin.
dred Topics Tabooed by the
Association.
Dress Reform Not Extensively Prac.
ticed by Members Some Ex.
cellent Papers.


Des Moines. May 25.-The committee
on resolu tions will bring no politics into
reportstoday. Its work was practically /
finish he'd last night. tho another meeting
was held tostinally adopt the platform"
this morning.
An atte rnpt was made yesterday to get
| a resolution reported denouncing the
army canteen. but the committee voted
lit down. Neither will the question of
expansion be brought before the con-
gress. All political questions have been
| voted out.
! Miss Harriet A. Marsh, of Detroit,
/ chairman of the committee, says No
/ one has asked the committee to take up
| the woman suffrage question and 1t will
4 not be ken up
! Thesreso olutions will be purely aduca-
tional, along the congress lines of work.
! Free kindergartens for colored children
intf1e south will be favored. as asked by
Mrs. Murray of Washington.
\ Prof. Mary Roberts Smith of Leland
! Stanford University Joined in the criti-
4 cisin of modern education of women In
her address before the congress today
on INN aculate Womanhood."
\ The colleges she said, "are attempt
Ing tomake womenalike men. Let US be;
4 ourselves. Let us have wider and d5more
4 comprehe ensives view of life, and we shall.
a then be the great inspiring and uplifting
4 force of the world
She said that men and women We're
growing apart and failing to understand
each 9th er because of the exaggeration
& of sex differences; that In this century
4 the majority of the average women We're
chosen forSraarrlage, not because they
would be good mothers or useful In do
/ ing their part in the world, but because
! of physical beauty and attractiNeness.
= tho the world was beginning to recog-
! l5nize woman, thru the influence of dem
ocracy, asa human being on her own
account The logical result must be to
give equality with mankind.
The future moi ther, she said, must
!, be trained to obedience in the largest
e isepse, to the obligations Of family life
t the laws of nature affecting her owr
e body and the laws of our country: tc
q love work and to recognize hey ability in
z Irnadern life.
|. Instead of this declared Professor
Smith, we have few women who know
: the laws, of their beings. of woman's
Iprimary function. and still fewer the
. laws of their country. Many women
: think the charin8of life lies in getting rid
D lsof work. / have no quarrel with tht
Il woman who stays at home. but only
: with those who stay at home and dc
$ badly that which they Were made TO do
e There must be n deeper and wider prep
- o. set~- IL, -
e fe. The average woman should go back
: and understand her primary functions
d in life"
These sentiments We're we'll received
by the audience of nearly 5000. % pei
cent women, and so many hundreds un
able TO get into the auditorium tha
Professor Smith and Mrs. Gafrney de
Illvered their addresses To an overflow
+ meeting attended by ] 900 women.
y Mrs. Frances Humphrey Gaffney, o
- New York, president of the Nationa
e Council of Women. said in her addres
i on 1.-The influences of Women, that j
"A is the greatest factor in the world, am
: that no thinking man had ever denie,
e 1t.
IS Yet she observed. ''how ishtl
De some of lis WELD it. 4 do not MAINTAIN
y. tha woman is superior to man; she |
II iitttt,t. i.Ta1 grained, iiut Better.
e. Iequazing partner and restrainin
lie ma n IS proud strength. We are Just be
D ginning to put away childish thing
4 and to realize tha to be a womanis Il
IN great as to bea man.
rt ..Wome have been too willing to b
martyrs. Too much sacrifice makes n
overfnw Of seltishness somewher,
The cry ing need of woman is to us
wisely the influence she now has an
- NOT Try toturn8everything upside dow
lin the hope of getting something rigt
=. side up.
= Susan b. Anthony has written a lie,
= tier urging the congress osdeclare II
q wornan suffrage. and it will be read
y the congress. Mrs Evelyn H. Beldel
: president of the Iowa Equal Suffraa
81 Associa tion, the leader of the womn
y suffragists in Iowa, is very much OF
:, posed To bringing this question into II
: congress.
=, The leaders Of the congress are OF
~, posed to it, especially Mrs. Isirney, Il
"a "a they say their organization has bet
-. kept together by keeping out all sue
vexed questions that would divide the
ranks.
Mrs. Beden thinks it would be
of great injury to the suffrage work
AZ Iowa IL such a fight should be made
IN the. congress. But some suffragist
nj likely, nevertheless to move that Mi
,or An,hony's recommendations be adop
IN ed The committee on resolutions HI
ire Inc suffrage resolution and will not +
-, Iportone to the congress.
Ter Changes made in the constitute
nd and bylaws of the congress broad
,st the scope Of its work, making it inclu
de promoting cooperation OF parents a
,nt teachers. care of defective and depen
,r- ent children and circulation of liter
he ture. Large clubs are to be Civ
nal proportionate representation in I
,sk congress and per capita dues reduc
lte from % to 10 cents per year. half to
hat to state congress, where state is orga
J. lied.
Teachers and fathers are joining
mothers club work in all parts OF
country. This was brought out by
am reports received from clubs from Co
E. RADIO to New England.
his Col Francis w. Parker. OF Chica
addressed the congress- last night