New-York tribune., 1910-09-03

Tavinfa I. Dock Of the Nurses Settle
nnent of this city, whom nothing tires If
it's q good cause. was discovered with a
big yellow badge over her shoulders, dis
trihuting woman suffrage literature up and
down Madison street.
Miss Dock was interviewed with some
difficulty, owing to the fact that the entire
population of Madison street had turned
out to see what she was doing, anyhow.
But an obliging janitress with a broom and
an extensive command of Yiddish cleared a
nsth through the crowd, and Miss Dock
invited the reporter to share the top Of a
street vendors pickle barrel with her While
she talked.
MANY women's societies have promised
TO cooperate in the fight against the OBJ
fectfonable clause TO the new law she
said THE Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union has gone into it heart and soul
and will be among the signers to the TWO
circulars that are just ready to be issued
circulars showing from the medical, social
and moral sides why the section of the law
we object 10 is unjust and wrong.
"Other signers are the state branch Of
tho Council of Jewish Women, the Fedora
tfoU of Nurses. the Equality League of
seIfSupporring Women, the Consumers
League, of Brooklyn. and the Prison As
sociation. of course. We'd have many
more only, you know. the officers and
members of most of the clubs are still IN
the country.
Mrs. Hooker is fine" continued Miss
7o,o1, ss she handed out a votes for
women poster to an inquiring small boy
"sre started this agitation. She swept
dovn on New York like the Light Brigade
with her weapons sharpened. You should
have seen her talking to Chief Magistrate
NcAdoo at the night court He was quite
purDIe-although, I am bound to say pohte
before she got through with hlIn-
Mrs. Hooker studied medicine at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
though she never practised, because she
married Mr.. Hooker instead.
she has given her life to working for
wayward girls, and it is the things she
has seen in her work that make her feel
so deeply about this law.
We object to the Iaw-or to the clause
referred to-not only because it discrim-
mates untustIy against women, but be
cause il will effect nothing. If the people
Of 4 town are drinking bad water that
gives them typhoid, there's not much use
in doctoring for the fever; one must see
to the cause And so with the social evil
we must go to the source.
Wen never" said Miss Dock firmly,
as she resumed the distribution of her
woman suffrage circulars, cure this evil
till women get the vote
At the headquarters Of the National
Woman Suffrage Association, No. 505 Fifth
avenue, it was said that the executive
board would probably take action in the
matter a. its next meeting. fearing that
similar laws may be passed in other states.
Meantime. Mrs. Hooker will make week
" visits TO New York to stir up the night
court.
Louis Marshall, lawyer. was consulted
yesterday as to the possibility of getting
the law declared unconstitutional, but gave
the women small hope.
Mrs Gabrielle Stewart Mulliner, chair
man Of the legislative committee of the
State Federation of Women's Clubs, which
initiated the agitation for a separate
woman's court left town early yesterday
morning for the week end and therefore
could not be seen. but on previous occa-
sions she has stated that she is unable
TO see why the clause objected to can be
productive of evil results.