Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-07

gree Of master Of arts IN the department
OF philosophy. Mrs. Hallam IL the presi-
dent Of the Iowa Equal Suffrage assooia-
ton.
The women who want votes are making
use Of the leisure Of the summer to plan
/ hostilities for next winter The campaign
in New York will be formally opened on
| October % with a street parade--a most
spectacular affair II all the plans are car
ried out. Three OF the city organizations
are to unite in getting up a pageant-the
Equality League OF Supporting wo-
men, the Collegiate Equal Suffrage league
and the Co Operative Service league.
! The first woman to preside at a gather
ing OF noted scientists is Mrs. Kate Trim
bic woosey Of Kentucky, who sailed the
other day for Brussels, where she will open
the International Free Thought congress
on August q. Mrs. woolsey is the dele
gate-at-large from the United States. The
only other woman delegate to the congress
is Nine. curie. the discoverer Of radium.
Mrs. Woolsey is a worker in the reform
movements Of women. and holds the record
in club membership being active and hon
orary member of seventy-five women's
clubs, organizations and societies In this
country and Europe
She comes from a family of scientists
jurists and patriots One ancestor saved
the manuscript Of The Age of Reason
from destruction, when Tom Paine was i'm
prisoned In Paris. during the French revo-
luton. The first bill drawn Ia this coun-
try to secure to married women legal con-
troll of their property was written in 1902
by her grandfather, assisted. by his brother,
John Trimble, afterward Justice of the
supreme court.
Sixteen hundred and nfty-seven women
in Saginaw, Mich, registered on a recent
Saturday in order to become eligible to
vote on a bond issue for 100000 to build a
water and filtration plant.
Mrs. Mamie Coffroy is the head of St.
Pavl's school. which is in community of
fisher folks near Beaufort N. c. The work
was begun by her mother, who, dying,
pledged her s-year-old daughter to take
her place. Mrs. Geffroy took up the work
when she was 10 by hiring room and en-
/ gaging a teacher at IS a MONTH At first
every NAihB " We oupplleuf 0NSh viz
clothes for the children to wear to school.
One fishernans son was put in training
for the ministry and to take charge Of the
school after two years. At the same time
a friend contributed $500. with which a
small school house was built.
At the end Of two years, when the young
minister returned to take charge, the
school had outgrown the school house and
It was again necessary to rent quarters
and more teachers. After ten years the
school has property worth $4,000, and be-
sides Mrs. Geffroy and a secretary there
are twelve teachers. There is a self-sup-
porting printing plant and carpenters
shops. sewing and cooking schools and a
kindergarten. The last term there were
in the neighborhood of 800 pupils. Among
It's graduates there are four clergymen in
mission fields. There are also two lawyers,
ten bookkeepers. four printers and many
women school teachers.
When Mrs. Ella Flagg Young was in
stalled as president OF the National Educa-
tion association she gave a short talk
which fully exemplitied the sterling quality
OF her Americanism She said:
TT is with a deep consciousness OF the
honor you have conferred upon me and OF
the responsibility which the office imposes
that 1 accept the position to which you
have elected me, am well aware that in
one short year the president cannot dc
much.
But there is one thing that the president
can do, and that is to be the conservator OF
all the good that has been accomplished by
the association, and see to 1t that no back
ward step be taken in the work Of the as
ISOLATION. BY my predecessors much has
been DONE and there is much to do. And
the chief thing to do is to abolish the
distinction between the rank and file In the
teaching body--between those who can pay
the large annual dues and those who can.
not.
Never will this be a truly democratic
association until all the men and womer
teaching in this country are In this associa
+ ton, OF this association, and for this as
: ISOLATION in everything that belongs or per
$ tains to the association. hope that may
] do something toward democratizlng th'
spirit OF the association, so that ever.
teacher In the land shall help forward thu
, cause OF education for the nation"
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