The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-02
ROOSEVELT AND
NEWARK WORKING
GIRLS HAVE CHAT
President Tells Them lie Is IN
terested in Their Ma
tiOnal Association.
WI TING FANG WITTILY
PAYS THEM COMPLIMENTS
Twelve Local Young Women At
tending Convention of Their
League in Washington.
Especial to the Evening start


WASHINGTON, May Twelve
Newark working giBls are now having
the time of their lives in the Capital
City. They have been received by
President Roosevelt, who shook hands
with each of the happy dozen; they
have been feted by their sisters of the
National League of Women Workers,
and have had pretty things said to
them by witty WI Ting Fang, Chinese
ambassador to the United States.
The fortunate young Newark women
workers are the Misses Mary and
Emma Campbell, Lucy Hallan, Minnie
Schoeck. Levina Branum, Alice More
land, Teresa Murphy, Mae Brewster,
Izena Rogers, Mamie Neid, Margaret
Wertz and Mamie Mulvey.
Some of us are stenographers, some
of us work in offices and stores. some
do homework two are library clerks and
are almost literary said Miss Esther
Igar, president of the Sunshine Club.
when speaking to President Roosevelt
at the reception late yesterday after
noon.
we are working girls, and pretty
Woodworking girls at that added Miss
Isabella Mcneil, president of the Shaw
nut 1luD, WIZ SdlQ llldl she was SIuuY-
ing philosophy.
The young Newark women belong 10
the small army of working girls thai
stormed Washington yesterday, pre-
paratory to today's annual convention
of their organization.
Addressing the Newark girls and
other members of the league, Presi-
dent Roosevelt said:
1T is a very real pleasure to greet
you today. l would not be fitted to
hold the position that | do hold, |
would not be a good American. if did
not take a peculiar interest in exactly
the kind of club which is represented
here today.
Il think it is highly typical of our
people that we should be able to gather
together in organizations for social and
intellectual betterment; and interested
though l am in such organizations of
men, l am even more interested when
they are managed by and controlled in
the interests of women, n particular
ly working women, working girls. If ]
were asked to point out what in my
judgment was the fundamental differ
ence between the United States and
any European country, eve the mos
advanced. 1 should say that the funda-
mental difference in our favor was tht
different attitude taken here toward
women; the greater chance that the
woman has for combining with a life OF
duty the chance of self-improvement.
"Of course, in any movement for bet
terment there are always dangers. !
do not know very much about women's
clubs, girls clubs. But l do Know about
mems clubs, and thoroughly, too, I be-
lieve in them. | now and then meet a
man who mistakes the means for the
end, whose life is led as an adjunct 20
the club instead of the club being an
adjunct to his life. / suppose there are
occasional instances of this kind in the
women's clubs.
I'm any movement it is always a lit
tie difficult to combine the two prin-
ciples of doing you work well. and yet
of having as good a time as is COM
patible with doing your york. There
are always a certain number of people
who neve try to be anything but
drudges, and a certain number of
Others who make having a good time
the be-all and end-all of life. / think
these working woman's clubs strike the
happy medium as we'll as any %organiza-
tons that 1 know. 1 believe in them
! with all my heart"