New-York tribune., 1905-08-01

support by the State. Cat Of these travelling
hhFaries and out OF the labor OK women's clubs
IT the villages and smaller ss.sss Thousands OF
local circulating Libraries have been brought
xistence- Any conversant with the great
library movement of the last fifteen years In the
United States. which has made this country the
best furnished in the world with public libraries.
knows that the women's clubs. with their insisteut
demand for and labor for Libraries. have been the
backbone OF the movement MeIvil C. Dewey.
State Librarian OF New-York, has acknowledged
this in public speech. and any librarian cOnversant
with the movement in it's wider aspects through
the country will confirm his opinion.
Judge Lindsey. OF the Chlldren's Court of Denver.
the leading authority on this question. wrote in
recent issue Of a well known publication: For the
last five years have been actively engaged in the
interest OF better laws for the protection OF the
home and the children In this behalf have Wis
wonderful progress and scarcely without exception
have championed eveSy good law and secured the
passage OF nearly all the advanced legislation upon
the statute books for the protection of the horne
Any one who has followed the wave OF Iegis-
lation which has swept over this country in the
last few years securing new laws or amending
that it dates from the General Federation OF won-
ems Clubs convention at Los Angeles AT that hat
Industrial committee. had been Working up the
sTamme and secured the passage Of resolutions and
the adoption OF plan OF work which sent repre-
to arouse public opinion ad demand legal protec,
tiOn for the child labOrerS. Tne NeW-1 ork chlld
labor committee has been organized since then
The National Child Labor Committee has been or
.anIzed since then. Laws in half dozen great
States have been passed since then, and agitation
proceeds in others The men best cohverssIL MN MttH
the movement have publicly acknowledged fnd.ot-
edness to the clubs. -, -,
Are these things '.platitudes," and are they less
practical and definite than sending two post
graduates from each State to oxford?
Furthermore. were the 900 clubwonlen OF
America to decide TO drop all other work for the
sake of sending college girls to Europe for grad
uate work, they would send them TO the German
universities. not to oxford That IS where Anerl-
can college go when they pay their own way
They go 70 Oxford only when they win a senoar, s
German university is the last word in the educa-
tonal world; the highest mark OF ability that a
student can WIN The German universities are
the court OF last resort IN research and scholar
ship Nothing else In the world equals them Why
then take anything but the best when one Is pay
ing for ones self? Mr. Rhodes gave MS scholarshIps
because he wished TO attract American men 20
Oxford. and knew there was no other way 70 90
II But the General Federation of Womens Clubs
could have no possible interest in inducing Am
erican girls to go to Oxford Their only interest
would be TO provide American girls with the oest
opportunities in the world for gaduate work, and
those would be found in such German unievrslties
as are now open TO women Sincerely.
Manhattan. CLC6NOMAN-