The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-22
Mrs. Harry Campton FavOrs a
Federation as Means to
the Best Results.
FAITH IN THEIR ABILITY
TO BENEFIT HUMANITY
Writes a Comprehensive State
ment of the Need of Uni
ted Effort.

The advisability of a city federation
has been discussed often, but it seems
that most of the clubwomen are not
ready for such an organization, not be-
ing instructed as to the work that
might be done by such a body. Mrs.
Harry Campton, one of the most popu-
lar clubwomen of the city, has been
one of the prime movers to organize a
federation, and has given this matter
much thought and attention. She is
anxious that the women in this city
stand together and show what their
ability in working together may bring.
In discussing the matter Mrs. Campton
says:
1.-THE time has arrived when women
are assailed on every side with pleas
or demands hat they get right in line
and work unsel1shly for the public
good. This is precisely what women in
this yea of grace 1908 are willing, nay,
eager, to do. 1t behooves them, then,
to examine their fitness, or they will
be shocked TO discover hat willingness
alone will only lead them into diff
Guilty, n not out of 1t.
IF a preliminary or civil service test
could be applied it would be shown
that but a few scattered individuals
would be found competent to enter the
ranks'of social service. Some would be
lacking In n or more essential;
others, though full of zeal, totally in
competent. But for their comfort and
encouragement let it be said this is
through little fault of their own SO let
them keep their zeal, and set it to
work, first fitting themselves for the
demands and opportunities OF the day;
then work to amend the system which
has produced their inefficiency,.
'sThere Are Two Kinds of Women
''There are indeed women still to be
found who turn a deaf ear to this call
for service, and who declare that, We're
the city fathers to call upon them, ask
ing advice or assistance in the matter
of public veal or woe, it would be 'un-
ladylike' to lend a hand or show they
knew anything more of public affairs
than whists, \. euchres, after-theatfe
suppers and vaudeville matinees, where
they are to be found in great numbers
every weekday afternoon with their
little children, breathing the impure air
and getting their nervous systems shat
tered. and the mothers themselves. inl-
billing mock heroics and false stand
ards of woman's sphere.
This, then, is one more reason why
right-minded women should get to-
gether and confer, not only on the
shortcomings OF misdirected man and
the opportunities he creates for the UNI
thinking women, but to show there are
two distinct kinds of women-'those
who lift n those who lean
"The time, then, is admittedly ripe
for women to come out and go a step
higher. thereby doing their share for
the progress of civilization. The men
are standing in the ranks in single file.
waiting for their comrades. the women,
to complete the marching order, when
both can go forward side by side.
MAN. by nature of his m%asculinity,
is aggressive. ~combative. cruel. This
creates the existing commercial war
fare, and is what our gallant Admiral
Evans calls hell.
Men weary of warfare.
1T matters not what the fighting be
for, whether to open up country in
Cuba, the Philippines or the Far East
for, commercial purposes. or to drive
it is warfare. n causes In one case
the losing of blood, in the other, the
loss of soul.
These conditions men, most of all.
wish were bettered. as it is not natural
to be always OF the warpath. and while
il is true that women are Invading ter
ritory heretofore reserved wholly for