Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-13
National Council of Women Say
Presidents Social Set Com
nit Race Suicide
SOCIETY WOMEN sHlRk DUTY
Claimed That Women in Official Life
DO Not Live Up to the Ideal of the
President--"ouaIity, Not Quantity"
In Children Is Preferable - Other
News Of Interest.

Washington, April 10. President
Roosevelt's observations on race sui
eide are receiving attention from the
delegates at the triennial session of
the National Council of Women.
Some Of them take issue with the
president on this subject and say he
should look to the women of his own
social set for race suicide. 1T is the
pace set by our society women, partic-
ularly in official life" one of the dele
gates declared, (which makes race sui
eide a subject for profound thought.
The women of the middle classes and
the women Of the submerged half' alb
we call 1t, do not practice race sui
eide. II Is the business burdened, the
determined to-g et-rich father and. the
society crazy mother who refuse the
cares Of parenthood.
Today resolution will be reported
on the question of parenthood which.
It Is said, will take issue with the
presidents views on the question of
race suicide, and will declare that
equality, not quantity" in children Is
preferable.
Last night Rev. Anna Howard Shaw.
the president of the National Woman
Suffrage Association, made an address
in which she openly spoke her mind
on the question Of parenthood, saying
In part:
ut is said that women should rear
more children, but I say that you
must first make your country fit to
rear children In. Why should women
maintain a government saloon or a
daughter maintain an evil that pays
its graft TO the government? We need
to make this world safe for children.
To do so we must give them social
heredity, so that they will be born
in safe conditions and protected until
grown. This can not be done until
women have rights in the state to
protect them. We must have city
mothers as we'll as city fathers. We
desire the suffrage as means to an
end,
An appeal to the womanhood to
save the childhood of the nation was
made by j. A. McKelway, assistant
secretary Of the committee on child
labor.
Anne ndlnents to their constitution in
creasirg representation in the annual
executive session as well as in the tri
ennial session, We're adopted by the
council yesterday. Miss Susan b. An
thony was designated founder of the
International and national council of
womerl.
Reports Of representatives from aux
iliaries, consumed the time Of the at
ternoon session, of the council. Mrs.
Elizabeth B. MCGOWAN OF Buffalo, in
presenting the report Of the National
Catholic Benevolent Association, said
that in twenty-eight states the assoc
citation has total membership Of 100,-
900 persons and $3,O00.0O0 has been
paid to beneiciaries.
The work Of the National Council of
Jewish Women was detailed by Miss
Sadie American of New York. Religion
basis Of the council work. The council
taught philanthropy, which, she said,
Is the practical side of faith Recent
~ in New York in our fight against
the white slave trade we sent fifteen
men and women to the penitentiary
for misleading girls and boys. The
work Of our organization has been ex
tended successfully to England, Ger
many and Japan"
A defense of war was made by Mrs.
Belinda S. Bailey, of California, who
submitted the report of the Ladies of
the Grand Army of the Republic. There
IS, she said, a growing sentiment
against war, as If the public mind had
had 81 surfeit of DIT. Yet. she continued,
as horrible as war appears in some of
its aspects, all it's flowers are not red.
She spoke of the American wars from
1776 down to and including the Span
ish war and said all had been waged
in the interests of constitutional gov
eminent, union, civilization and pro-
gresa Periods Of peace or war are as
tools to the workmen and can be judg-
ed only as good or evil by what has
been accomplished in them for the adj
vancement and progress of the human
family.