The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-08
Newark Woman Gets
South Jersey Delegates
at Federation Meet.
is GATHERING SUPPORT
IN OPPOSITION TERRITORY
Present Indications Are That
She Will Defeat Mrs.
F. A. Pattison.
Especial to the Eveninr star,

IoprCiai 10 tfe evening star.
ATLANTIC CITY, May S.-The criti.
cal period Of the two-day annual ses-
sion Of the New Jersey State Fedora
tion OF Women's Clubs has arrived and
the delegates are balloting upon the
names of Mrs. Thomas s. Henry, of
Newark. and Mrs Frank A. Patfison,
of Metuchen. for president of the or
ganization. along with other rival can-
didates for the other Offices NFbile
Mrs. Pattison has a host of supporters,
including many active workers in her
camp. it is said. if surface indications
mean anything, that Mrs. Henry viii
be elected
In spite of the opposition Of the re-
firing president. Mrs Henry H. Daw-
son. also of Newark. there is every in
dication that Mrs. Henry has the al
most undivided support Of the dele4,
gates from Essex and Union counties.
and that she is favorably regarded for.
the office of chief executive by many
of the club-wolnen from South Jersey,
Mrs. Pattisons stronghold.
Much Campaigning.
Throughout the morning busy cam.
paigners fitted about the convention
hall eIectioneering for their favorite
candidates. Added zest was given this
pursuit through the knowledge which.
came with polls of the delegates upon
their arrival yesterday that q SUR
prisingly large percentage of them had
no choice for the presidency. It wak
this wavering, doubling element which
may and probably does hold tha bal
ance of power that the workers sought
to win for their respective candidates.
Most important among the measures
of the session this morning was the
decision Of the members of the fedora
ton to establish a George Junior Re-
public in New Jersey. The State Fed
GRAFTON has been paying for the tuition
of two boys at the George Junior Re
public in New York The boys have
completed their course and returned
home
The delegates felt confident. after the
success of this experimental venture.
that the establishment of a junior re-
public in New Jersey win prove the
most successful enterprise ever em-
barked upon in the interest of the boys
of this State. The new republic will
be established at Pennington. and VIII
be entirely governed by the boys who
are sent there.
Mrs. Snowden's Address.
In the course of talk on Industrial
Education this afternoon Mrs. Albert
A. Snowden, of Newark. produced facts
education for those who need it Is ura-
democratic" The speaker asserted
further, that whether Americans wish
it or not they are rapidly tending in
this country toward a system OF edu-
cation in which the stratification Of the
schools win be quite ike that of Ger
many France or England. The great
majority of individuals, the country
over. drop out of the public schools al
about the age of fourteen, hence the
subject matter of the first five or six
years of the elementary school curri-
culum must be entirely reorganized IN
recognition of this fact To teach his
tory, reading, arithmetic and other sub
jects for those who are to have but
five or six years in the public ele-
mentary schools is one thing. and to
teach these same subjects for pupils
who are destined to go on through the
elementary school. the high school. and
perhaps through the university, de-
mands an entirely different organiza-
ton of the subject matter.
The speaker discussed the attitude
of trade unions toward industrial edu
cation as indicated by her recent in
vestigations. and demonstrated that
the worker has only to know what
technical training means that 1t may
meet with his entire approval
BilIboards Hit.
Following the selection of commit
tees, the reading of reports and the
disposition of other routine business
yesterday, the delegates surrendered
themselves to the discussion of such
questions of the hour as the hldeous
billboard; noiseless Fourth Of July.
and the child labor law and its viola
tions. The federation had previously
gone on record as being opposed to
such feathered ornaments for hats as
necessitated the death of birds and a
Doll of the hats Of the room showed
but a very small percentage of the
members with such headgear embel4
lishment. Only three or four aigretteS
we,e found among the four hundred
delegates.
The lone man. Mayor Stoy Of Allan
tic City, who braved the unknown ter-
rors of the convention hall and offered
the keys of the city to the visiting
delegates. received terrific jolt be-
fore he managed to escape when Mrs.
r. nouy I2olIieff of this cffV in reuI1r-