Arizona republican., 1910-02-02
LEADERS IN MANY IMPORTANT
 MOVEMENTS.
In This Country They Started Settle ment Work, Playground Associations, School Nursing, School Farms, Pure Works.

| tHeHi, WoHleii are HldhlHS over tIlt
 world according to their iaeas of wha,
 d world should be
 This may seem like an extravagant ] statement. but it is easily proved ir l three sentences:
 1 Of the great reform movements oi 1 the present a large number have been ! originated by women.
 In almost all great sociological or reform movements women have al ! least helped with the launching
 "There is hardly one great move
 ment today in which women are not 1 taking an active part"
 | The above statement is made bv a
 writer in the Van Norden Magazine who adds some instances out of the | many available for backing up her l contention. Right here in New York
 the work done by nurses in the pub
 lie schools. an important development of the modern educational system, was started by Miss Lillian D. Wald Previous to 1902 such a thing as a school nurse had never been heard of | in this country. School physicians | there were but they merely examined the children and sent home those found to be suffering from any sort of com municable disease.
 Miss Wald found that thousands of
 children were being deprived of an
 education because they had some trifl- ing trouble, which could be taken care
 of at the school. She got the consent
 of the boards of health and of educa-
 ton to begin the experiment with one af ba
 of the month this nurse was appointed
 city official and had twelve assist
 ants Today there are TAO school
 nurses in New York under what is
 called the department of child hygiene,
 having a woman, Dr. Josephine Baker, at its head.
 Tn other American cities other wo-
 men started the same work. Two
 nurses did it in San Francisco. the Wis
 iting Nurse associations in Philadel-
 phia and Chicago. the Mothers" in
 Boston. The movement begun by Miss
 Wald has now spread to a score of American cities.
 The school farm work now adopted by many towns in this country was originated also in 1902 by another New
 York woman, Mrs. Henry Parsons. It is now directed largely by the Interna- tional Children's School Farm league. with thousands of members all over the world.
 . The playground movement was started and worked up to success by club women In San Francisco. Denver. Chicago. Pittsburg, Detroit, Boston and other cities. In every case the wo- men. after working against almost overwhelming odds to bring their project to success, demonstrated it's worth so undeniably that the city au- thorities assumed control.
 In the fight for juvenile courts the women. though the power behind the throne, have nevertheless been the power. Judge Lindsey says that in his early struggles for "a square deal for the kids" the women were practically his only supporters. Women's work and women's votes kept him on the bench. In Chicago women not only worked to get the juvenile court, they paid for its probation officer when it was established.
 In Philadelphia the fight was led by the Mothers congress and the New CtUtuIN iWOiiidH SD Club hdiiSdS ,itN and St Louis owe their children's courts primarily to the work of the Humanity society. In fact every city that has a juvenile court has it be- cause the women worked for 1t.
 The pure milk agitation that is now being carried on by official and semi official commissions all over the coun- try began with the diet kitchens found ed by New York women to furnish suitable nourishment for expectant and nursing mothers. bottle fed babies and sick persons requiring special diet.
 At first the paid little attention to the source of milk supply. Today the diet kitchens not only give out the certified milk that their crusade has secured. but they keep matrons in charge of their stations to show moth- CTS how to modify milk to each baby's needs and to give systematic instruc- tion in child care.
 And here is another movement start ed by women, instruction for women in the care of children and the busi- ness of home making. The Visiting Nurse association, founded, supported and made up of women, began it. Then 1 other organizations such as the Lit tie Mothers association and the League | Df home Economies took it up.
 Recently the women physicians of | the country formed Public Health | league to give popular in- | structiOn-particular to women-in | general hygiene. The 39S day nurseries | m America in addition to giving i'm | nensely better care to the children of | mothers who have to go out to work | han the mothers could are carrying on | m extensive and intensive campaign | If education.
 Among the first persons in America o point out the evils of child labor and O prevent children from working were Miss Jane Addams, Mrs. Florence Kel- ey and Miss Lillian D. WalG. They ak child labor until they had all the clubs in the country stirred ID about it Even the me nbegan to ake notice. Then the national child | abor committee, composed of both nen and women, was formed.
 A few years ago a number of rich | md influential Chicago women. led by Il irs. Charles Henrotin. got together to onsider the case of the working girl | nd made up their minds that they night just as well stop trying to get | he employers to do anything. If the working girl was ever to get square eal, they decided, it would be because