The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-21
''claration Made Before
H. he National Council.
NOT SINK Her WOMANLINESS
Miss Clara Barton Greeted
With Hearty Applause.
THE AGE WE LIVE IN
Delegate From salt Lake City Com
pavcs Ii with Ancient Times-Rev.
Anna q. Spencer "OrEnnized
E.ToI't for Social Service

Mrs Gahney presided at the evening
session Of the National Council of Women
which opened with an address by Miss
Law. representing the Business Woman S
Association. She said in part:
The business woman has come to stay.
The economic problem of whether women
should dlsplace men is 200 large one
to DISCUSS here. as is also the marriage
problem. Woman's necessity has created
her success in business. She IS apt to
learn; keen in noticing the way things
are done. She is putting into use quail
ties fer which all through the ages wo-
men have now and again become noted"
Miss Law then briefly reviewed the lines
of work in which women have earned sue
cess
Does Not Sink WOmnnIiness.
THE business woman" she said. sinks
her fcmininity but not her womanliness."
Mrs. Taylor next rendered a solo, ac
compsnied by Mrs. Richardson.
Miss Richards then delivered an ad
dress on the work of the Federation of
Nurses. She paid earnest tribute to the
memory of Florence Nightingale. and
spoke u the positions which have been
attained by trained nurses in various
cities.
The appearance of Miss Clara Barton
was greeted with hearty applause. She
expressed a few words of greeting to the
council.
"The Age We Live In.v
Mrs. Emmalinc B. Wills, of Salt Lake
City. then presented paper entitled
Tho Age We Live In" She said in part:
This is the age to which our fathers
looked forward and of which they
dreamed, but all the tales that are told
of the grandeur of buried cities can con-
vince the man of the dawning century
that those days were more enlightened
than our own.
I'm this age we have organization and
cooperation such as were never thought
of before. and this is but the beginning,
as it were, of an age of marvellous works
and wonders. One of the tremendous
forces which have as yet lain partially
dormant is the influence of woman.
1.-The old saying Man must work and
woman must wait might well be revised
10 read Woman must work while she
waits"
Taxation of Church Property.
The next speaker on the programme
was Mrs. /. c. Manchester. president of
who spoke on the taxation of church
property. She said in part:
To make the State pay tribute TO the
Church. instead of Church to the State, is
q glaring Standardization in an Ameri-
can State. 1t theoretically. as well as
practically, adopts the principle of
Church and State. Exemption from taxa
ton is Indirect State support of the
Church. virtual subsidy for its support.
and at the expense Of the general public.
and the State gets her redress on non
exempted property. So the exemption is
as much a gift as would be the same
amount If directly appropriated from the
public treasury. Tax churches and only
those who could afford it would build
such extravagant structures.
The correspondent OF New York club
expressed his views in a plain and con-
else way, as follows: I would go so far
in the application of this principle as to
be willing to see all our churches taxed
as in other property. We have no right
to tax unbelievers that churches may be
maintained; no more right than they
have to tax churches for the support of
infdel clubs
sa.s D., To- IL
lery which has been managed for years
by a religious institution, which had
agc nts and barrooms in various parts of
the State and ESCAPED not only the city,
county. and State taxation but up to
bhort time ago was never compelled to
pay the internal revenue taxes. suit
was brought for taxes TO the United
States Government, but The officials
pleaded they were running a charitable
institution All the leading sects and
stood in opposition to the
Of church property, but there are
many of the lay adherents who advocate
this reform in all parts OF the Union"
Rev. tnnn &. spcnccr's Address.
Rev Anna Garlin Spencer, the recording |
secretary of the council, made the clos |
ng address on Organized Effort for So
iaI Service"
she said in part:
We have organized effort for further |
domestic science and art, for the |
= ming OF children. for the protection Of |
.4s interests. and for the Improvement |
domestic service and OF dress" |
"re speaker then reviewed the modern !
Methods Of teaching. referring 10 vaca- I
lon schools. city park associations, free
etc.
Our country" she said. lis the country |
Of opportunity. The soul of all this new |
Effort is the oneness Of humanity. No ,
,ne can be perfectly good till all are
good
PROGRAMME FOR TODAY.