The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-19

give them the opportunity of taking part in the meeting by asking ques- tions. There was great necessity for closer union between employer and en- ploye. If, he contended, they were bet ter acquainted there would be more confidence. and they would not look on each other with suspicion. Mir. Gun shannon highly commended the vaca- ton school and approved of Sunday recreation for the Workmen. He gave an account of how the Hartford work ingmen have started playground there for children, paying the cost of it, and how finally the city of Hartford, seeing the great good it was doing, adopted it and ran 1t, paying the expense. (Ap- plause)
 Mrs. Sara T. Kinney, in handling The Woman's Part" spoke, in part, as follows:
 Mrs. Sara T. Kinney said she was on the platform as result of a controver- sy between herself and her conscience, controversy in which she was out classed. Hrs. Kinney gave long and Interesting address on the "Women's part" Some people thought that wom- en had more time than men. She was sorry she could not substantiate this thought. The average Wotnan's duties were never done, and continued from sunrise until sundown' She thought women ought to be represented in such bodies as the school board. They were deeply interested in the education and bringing up of children, and there should at feast be one woman who would be officially recognized on the school board.
 The loss of civic pride is a serious matter, and the total or even partial eclipse of ideals, is still greater ca- lamity. A guiding principle which is based upon even one fine ideal, is worth more to man or woman than a knoWl- edge of half the arts and sciences-and it is ideals that we need all along the line-in our homes, and in official life. 1 Men have ideals-men who have shown themselves capable of ethical loyalty to l the principles of good government, should always stand at the head of af- | fairs in city and state-and the appeal 1 of the women of New Haven is that the uplift in connection with our own civic affairs should begin at the very 1 beginning, and the foundation of all righteous government, as we under I stand it, rests upon clean, honest, u1l- purchaseable ballot in the hands of in- corruptable voters Given so much, it 1 may be doubted if we should ever need to exert ourselves very greatly in be- half of reforms. It would be reasonable to expect that all good and honest and Glelpful things would follow in the wake of an unsmirched ballot, and for pre- cisely the same reason that birds sing and buds blossom-becanse they must
 The women of New Haven have been asked to give their moral support tc l the new movement which we are here
 to inaugurate. They are ready and | eager to cooperate, and to do their full share in any and every effort that may
 be made in behalf of civic betterment
 I do not believe I sapalhgo far afield Il I affirm that the women of this city
 stand practically as a unit In behalf ot
 measures and methods for the uphuild'
 ing of city with conscience.
 'The Part of the Individual was the next theme, The speaker assigned fol this topic, Rev. A. J, Haynes, Professor
 Kent said, had been ordered by his
 medical adviser to take muchneedet
 rest of two weeks, at least, and ac'
 cordingly MT. Haynes was unable to bt
 with them. He thought, however, they ought to congratulate themselves on be- ing able to have with them Rev. Dr Watson L. Phillips, who had kindly con sented to take MT. Haynes place. Dr
 Phillips said, i'll an eloquent speech
 that, in the first place, they must re
 member the value of the unit. A citi zen was not only a person of immens'
 privileges, but also one on whose shoul
 ders rested great and sacred responsi bilities, and who would be held strictl.
 responsible for the use of them. HI
 must rid himself of personal ambition
 If he has no thought concerning his cit
 izenship, unless from a selfish point o
 view, he will prove an utter failure
 There should, of course, be politica
 parties but partisanship should be lai aside in city government, and thos who stand for office should do so pledg
 ed to do the city's business as it shoul' be done, viz, on business principles
 The citizen should place himself on tn side of that which worked for the bet
 terment of the greater number. H should cooperate for the best interest of all, laying aside personal prejudices Dr. Phillips was warmly applauded.
 At the closing Professor Kent an nounced that the next meeting woul
 be held on Sunday, April 1, and tha
 William H. Maxwell, superintendent o
 schools, New York city, would speak O
 Making Citizens in Public Schools an
 Colleges" Other features would be dul
 announced.
 The big audience then dispersed, a l but a, few hundred, who fingered t hear the rendering of one or two selec l tions on the big organ by Professo Harry B. Jepson.
 Congratulations were exchanged b t those upon the platform over the sue ? cess of the meeting as they were abou : departing.