Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19
Wonen's Clubs
FINDER the head line of How Many
Hours Shall a Woman Work. the

II / NDfL1N lllC ltCdO llllS VA AApN
Hours Shall a Woman Work?" the
~ Federation Bulletin for April
cuotes at length from an opinion hand
ed down by Justice Brewer Of the su-
preme court in an oregon case In Wnlch
he claims that woman is entitled 10
more protection than man.
Through Justice Brewers declslon'
saws the Bulletin, laundries ana otner
concerns employing women in meclail-
ical labor in Oregon may not require
such employees to work more than ten
hours a day, in compliance with the
law enacted by the legislature of that
state in 1903. ,,s;-
Curt Miller, a laundryman doing busl-
ness in Portland, attacked the law as
unconstitutional, claiming that II puts
a limitation on che power OF CON a. es
The oregon supreme court uPieio ~ ,Ioiine
statute on the ground that 1t Is d Po4lto ~
regulation, and it's decision was al
armed bv the federal supreme court.
Holding first that woman's rights can
he no more infringed than those OF Lleii,
Justice Brewer went still Lurther any ~.
held that on many accounts woman ts 10
entitled TO greater protection than hel
brothers. On that point He S0AN'
part: .,.o++or- from
+bo other sex she is probably placed III
a class by herself, and Legislation ue-
signed for her protection may DC su
tanned even when like legislation Is no'
necessary for men ana coulu not lS oe oon's
tained 1t Is impossible 10 ciose ol'S
eves to the fact that she still LOOKS u
her brother and depends upon hlh'
"Frver though all restrictions on poill-
;caI nersonal and contractual rlBnIs
were taken away, and she STOOD SO Ia
as statutes are concerned, upon an as az
eol,1telv equal plane with him, II Woul1
that her DhNSlCdl
structure and a proper discharge OF her
maternal Misunderstanding in view not
,,1ere11y her own health, but the Well-
being Of the race-justify legislation 10
nrotect her from the greed as wen as
the passion of man. The hmlta tloils
which this statute places upon nel ao cotl
tractual mowers, upon her right 10 asree
s,;+b bar enployer as to the time she
shall labor, are not imposed sOlely lol
her benefit. but also largely for the pen
eft of all. Many words cannot hiahe
this plainer. The two sexes diner III
structure of body, in the funcuoils 70
he performed by each, in the amount Vi
physical strength, In tne capaIlly ~
long continued labor, particularly Wneh
done standing, the influence OF vigorous
health upon the future Well-being OF
ttoe race the self-reliance which en-
abIes one to assert full rights, ana IN
the capacity to maintain the slrussie
for subsistence. This difference JustI-
Soc a difference in legislation ana up
iaoids +bot which is designed to compen-
t.otoo 80 for some of the burdens which rest
upon her"
Friday Morning Club
George H. Stewart, president of the
Los Angeles chamber of commerce.
was the speaker Friday before the
Friday Morning club. Although an
nounced to deliver an address on made
in Los Angeles" his subject, translated
in the light of his address. should nave
been La Belle Los Angeles" for FER
1,id and sincere was the tribute OF ad-
miration he paid the state that mas
been his home since early mahhoou
and the 'city where he has made MS
home. .o,d
"In 1S45 the republic of Mexico said
he sparted with an immense DOMAIN
bordering on the Pacitle coast, anu
September 9, 1885, a part of it addeo'the
+hirtv-first star to our flag and became
the state of California-an area Oh
15S 36o square miles, equal to Maine
Now HAMPSHIRE, Vermont, Massachu-
setts. Rhode Island, Connecticut, Penn
svlvania, Delaware, Maryland, the DIS
trict of Columbia forty-f1Ve tlines-
once for each star in our flag-and SUN
leave tWentY-SlX acre., more VI 1883
for a chil6ren's playground.
"Gold had Just been discovered ana
the forty-niners started the tide OF
immigration. They came to get rich
and go home, but when daWned the |
comprehension that in agricultural pos
sibilities the state was far r1cher tnah
in mere yellow treasure, the hospltaple
climate Joined in attracting the mi
grafton of families; a stream, small at
first, but increasing in geometrlcal
ratio, has since 1888 caused our CITY
of the Angels % outstrip more tnan loV
cities then numerically greater. ana
now with the largest proportionate
telephone rervice in the world.
I'm spite of the town lot craze and
other forms of high pressure rampant
periodically throughout the state, there
has heen constant advancement in all
that makes for real progress and pros
perity. Among the factors in this ad-
vancement have been our manu1ac-
lures, and California stands first on all
states in the average wages paid to
employees. Then come our agricultural
products, IN which she ranks first IN
oranges, lemons, olives, honey, prunes'
Valnuts, almonds, beans, grapes,
peaches, cherries, apricots, etc; flrst
in wine, variety of fruits, canned fruits
dried fruits and barley; first in irrl-
gated farms first in boraX, asphal'
quicksilver, platinum and petroleum.
"Its reported wonders drew me to
California before a college course was
comnleted. I have never regretted the
move. Although always most opti-
rnistic as to the grandeur of future de-
Velopment, the chievements have sur
prised me by their early date.
''When | arrived in the Santa Clara
valley things doomed; after / left times
were reported dull; the Same thing
happened in Butte county; then the
San Joaquin valley advanced and stood
still. next San Francisco was the vic
tim of my departure, and finally when
I reached Los Angeles results came so
fast, and have kept coming, that for
our city's sake | fear to go away and
am led to believe that somehow / am
bound up in the fate of Los Angeles
and fortunate in being a participant in
her advancement. 1t is fair to say that
the dullnes9 in other localities, to which
I referred, has disappeared in the long
ago.
In my trips eastward, whenever off
the beaten track, l find frank wonder
ment at what California has been re-
ported to produce and manufacture.
But when I tell of the nearness of
mountain and sea, with fruits and flow
ers between; of the thousand miles of
ocean front over whose breakers come
to us the cooling summer breezes; Of
our mountains, with their snow caps;