Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-09
CLUB WOMEN NOT
FOR RACE SUICIDE
OHIO MEMBERS STATEMENT
C0NTRADICTED
Leaders in the EbelI and Wednesday
Morning Organizations Prove East
erner's Ideas Do Not Hold
Good in Los Angeles

The statement of Miss Olga Louise
Cadish of Ohio to the effect that the
club woman is a destroyer of the home
in the genuine meaning of the word,
and woman who praises race suicide,
Goes not meet with the approval of
Los Angeles club women.
Many of them have come back with
answers expressed in language as
forcible as that used by the Ohio
woman, and more than one of them
pointed to a group of little tots of her
own and laughed at the idea as ridic-
ulous.
Miss Cadish has compiled statistics
which she defies club women to deny,
and the club women in turn are ready
to take up the gauntlet and deny them.
Following are Miss Cadish's ideas:
"The average number of children to
married members of the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs are two,
while the average number of children
that blessed the mothers of these same
women was three and one-half.
'The average age of the membership
of the women S clubs in the country is
30 years. The average age of the
youngest children of the married men,
bers is II years. A careful investiga-
ton of the membership of women's
clubs shows that only one married
woman in sixteen becomes a mother
after she has allied herself with
women's clubs; that only one in forty
three during a period of eight years
has become the mother of two children
after her alliance with women's clubs"
Mrs. King Denies. Statement
Mrs. Frank King, president of the
Ebell club, came to the point in very
direct manner when asked for her
opinion yesterday.
"As far as figures go, 1 cannot tell
offhand. l cannot answer in a minute
what the woman of Ohio has probably
spent much time in figuring out" said
Mrs. King. Il can only speak for the
club of which I am president.
"It was our custom until this year to
send a bouquet of flowers and a little
Eote of congratulation to each member
of the club upon the birth of child to
her The flowers were so numerous
and our, bills ran up so high that we
had to discontinue the practice. Then,
too, there were so many that we did
not hear about all until so long after
ward we thought it best to give it up.
1--WE invariably notice that the young
married women among the club mem
bers drop out from time to time or
ccme very irregularly to the meetings,
as their duties as mothers occupy them
at home.
"If you think club women encourage
race suicide all you need to do is to
come to the children's party which
the Ebell club will give December 2S.
"All the children at these parties are
the little sons and daughters of Ebell
CLUB members, and there are so many
or them that you feel as if you must be
seeing double. All are under the age of
II and most of them many years on
the baby side of that age.
"Women's clubs fit women to be bet
ter mothers"
Members of the Wednesday Morning
club are other women who resent the
allegations made against club women.
A familiar feature at the meetings of
the club is a group of merry children
quietly having a good time while their
mothers study.
1.-THE Wednesday Morning club men,
hers have children and lots of them"
said one of the members. "Our club
could almost be called a home club, for
we take our babies and meet together
that we may he better mothers and so
better able to bring them up to be the
right kind of men and women