New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
CLUB WOMEN IN SESSION.
D'scuss Reports Of President and
Too Committees.

Dosooh' June 27.-The club women in attendance
'e ninth biennial convention of the General
regular sessions ~ ' '0'h fAp 'i'0ii
Ioiehoon was busy one, two division meet
regarded as of much Importance because
80 Nohsloered the general subject of household
80 a. ana education, taking place in addition
=, tie business sessions. The meeting under the
oi household economies considered a report
ioin The chairman Of the committee of that name
GU ehe subject was discussed by Mrs Burton
'.iAti OF Atlanta; Mrs. Robert J Burdette of Los
niseles' Mrs Virginia c. Meredith of Cambridge
.y ino-' and Mrs. Juniata Sheppard of ST. Paul
euucauoa committee reported at the meeting
held under its supervisic7 The co-operation of
oeh organizations for good schools was de-
SSiioed by Miss Laura ID. Gill. and Mrs Desba
T,iose of Lexington. Ky, told of "The
educational Awakening in Kentucky English
'0nolarsh1ps for American Women" was the sub
Ject OF an address by Mrs Ella d. Gnes
ne annual report of the president. Mrs Sarah
Ialt Decker, of Denver was discussed at the sew
erai business sessions, following which the commit
zee appointed to consider changes in the bylaws
inaoe lis report Arrangements were made for a
ouphcation of the proceedings at a meeting in the
afternoon
After to-day's general session had been formally
called TO order Mrs. Decker announced the death
OF Mrs Henry Wynn, of Maiden Mass as the re-
SUIT or injuries received in the coaching accident
at Newport yesterday afternoon and also the
oeath from heart disease of Mrs. Sarah Shute of
coon Rapids. Iowa. on board the steamer Mount
nope near Newport. yesterday.
Mrs d. n. Cooley of Iowa honorary vice e-presi-
oeht OF the general federation then offered a
prayer for the dead delegates, and those in the
pls gathering bowed their heads in response
AT symphony Hall tonight the legislative and
industrial session was presided over by Mrs. May
Alden Ward, and the evenings programme opened
with the report of the chairman of the committee,
Mrs Clarence Burns of New York
Ihe opening address was by Mrs Joseph Medill
Mccormick, of Chicago, whose topic was Wei
fare Work" Mrs. Sarah Louise Arnold, dean of
Simmons College, of Boston. spoke upon indus
trial Education, giving the practical and technical
points Of view.
The closing address by Senator Albert J.
Beyeridge of Indiana. who spoke upon National
Legislation on Child Labor His remarks were
In part follows:
American child slavery shall cease and it will
cease Take your stand against any candidate
not end this infany; take your stand for any
candidate of any party who is willing to enact
constitutiona1ity The lives Of American chill
cess of this great human reform is more vital
than the success Of any candidate. .
be passed 60 forth and work for this great moral
reform and If your interest flags let this be your
Suppose that these children that 1 have told you
burning in your soul answer the. cunning sophis-
sfes s If PoGans Who w9gd 9egue b5 you 1o an9
confuse you by saying that if Congress had
passed more than twenty laws keeping various
articles out Of interstate commerce and trusted
the Supreme Court to decide their constitutional
coa to to ee It's it's m
tionality. Ask the enemies of this reform why
they unwilling to let such law go before
the Supreme Court for its decision. Ask them
why they hesitate TO pass this law when the Su-
preme Court has upheld every similar law ever
passed from the foundation of this Republic.
At the overflow meeting at Chickering Hall Mrs
Sarah S Platt Decker presided and the principal
address by Owen r. Lovejoy, general secre-
tary of the National Child Labor Committee, whose
topic Industrial Education.
A civic conference on tuberculosis occupied the
attention of the delegates part of this afternoon
The chief speaker Mrs Rufus 2. Williams, of
! Cambridge, who talked the need Of arousng
the public to activity in this matter and creating
public sentiment which shall result in general
enlightenment how the disease can be pre-
| vented and in the establishment of sanatoriums,
camps, etc.
A conference Forestry also held this
! afternoon. Many of the delegates went on excur-
sions 10 various points about Boston