The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-24

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Estate, and who is now working with
Harvey O"Higgins to create a stage
production in which Detective William
j.. Burns exploits will he dramatized,
With Robert billiard starring as. the
sleuth. Miss Ford believes that n,anv
hf the successful PLAYS of the next
few years will have politics as their
theme and has therefore come on t.
get into the atmosphere of the most
strenuous convention in wears" She
is a Roosevelt supporter.
The daughter of Representative Hill
of Connecticut Wil head the votes for
women" march for the benefit of the
democratic national convention. She
is a Nassar graduate and resident of
the Wo,nen's Equal Suffrage league in
Washington.
lively airrg at the national conference
of Charities and CORRECTION now III
session at Cleveland. Ohio Miss Jane
adams spoke Tuesday afternoon To
Urge the appointment of suffrage cam
paigners among foreign women in
American cities. She added thai the
movement is better Organized in Kan
sas and Wisconsin than elsewhere.
A report that the antt-suffrasi lists are
"i@' n'tiNc di ne conference !l'l1lIlGs
The information that the women III
charge are especially pleased at the
large number of self-supporting wom-
en- Who wish to register themselves as
opposed to suffrage.
DIR. Ira s. Mile. lecturer of the So
ciety of Sanitary and Moral Prophv-
laxis of New York, save an address
in which he advocated the oral in
struction of children in sex hygiene,
and said the most important way of
wins this instruction was through
parents, who should. themselves. be
taught the best methods of imparting
knowledge.
Higher city taxes and greater mu-
niclpal expenditures for the greater
GOOD of the greater number of people,
was advocated by Mayor Baker of
Cleveland. in an address before a ser.
ton of the conference. The cities
he said. are no longer built for mill
tarN purposes, nor for social purposes.
and they must be held very seriously
responsible for what happens to their
citizens"
Government agents." he said. re-
enntly have completed IN investiga-
li"n of the restricted district of Cleve-
Land. and have reported conditions far
h@'fer than in any city of twice its
SIZE This has not ome about THROUGH,
s~tro1ls-arn methods of the police, nor
hv raids. NOR hr talking about it. 1t
has come about through a growth of
general sentiment. and for that CON
d1flon Tom l. johnson is responsible
The conference reafirned resolu-
tions passed some time ago with re-
gard to prison labor. A protest was
cntered against the system of contract
labor in operation in many prisons, al.
thouSh employment of all prisoners
was advocated.
A silver loving cup is to be awarded
TO the chapter sending the largest
delegation to the twenty-second bt-
ennial convention of the Pi Beta Phi
sorority which is to be held this week
at Evanston, III. The Minnesota dele
cation will leave tomorrow night.
They will join the Washington dele
gates and go with them in a special
car to Chicago. Miss Martica Byrnes
Is the official delegate from the Min
nesota chapter. Others going are the
Misses Florence and Alice Lewis, Alice
Berry. Elsa Scheldrup. Ethel Har-
wood, Margaret Barnard. Ruth Byres.
Nellie Churchill, Ruby Rurtness and
Helen Barker. Miss Louise De Ia
Barre and Miss Elizabeth Foss, al
umnae, will accompany the girls as
chaperons. and Miss Vera Smith, an
other Minnesota alumnae. will meet
the girls in Chicago. All delegates
will be entertained in Frances Willard
hall at Evanston, which will also be
the headquarters of the convention.
Of course, the Northwestern univers-
ity chapter of Pi Beta Phi will be the
hostesses. The program for the week
Is as follows: On Tuesday morning.
registration of delegates. and Tuesday
evening. a reception in Frances Will
lard hall. Wednesday morning bust
ness meeting. in the evening. enter
tainment by the Chicago Alumnae
CLUB. Thursday morning, swimming
party in h gymnasium and a break
fast on the beach. At 10 O'Clock. ex-
hibition of the life saving crew on
Lake Michigan. Afternoon and even
ing, launch ride on Lake Michigan;
Friday evening the convention ban
quet and election of officers; Saturday,
sightseeing tour of Chicago, and
weekend house party.
Mrs. George Harrison visited the
general conference of the Young Wo-
mans Christian association of the
Pacific coast while she was in San
Francisco and she gave an interesting
account of the gathering at the meet
IiS u llle directors or the ST. Paul
association last week. The conference
was unique in the history of the Y. w.
c.. A. for the 300 young who
attended, were the guests of Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst at her country home,
Hacienda, near Pleasanton, Cal.
where Mrs. Hearst had a model camp
erected and which she maintained for
ten days at her w expense.
There were seventy-fve tents. each
containing Jour beds with hair mat
t%resses. blue blankets and white
spreads: uniform dressing tables
dainty with white and blue dimity.
There was a tent with long distance
and local telephones and telegraph ar
raneements. The chef from the Be-
hemian club. one Of the exclusive or
CARNATIONS of San Francisco, had
planned for the we'll equipped kitchen
and dining, tent and he was enthusi-
astic over the arrangements for the
entire camp which it was estimated
had cost Mrs. Hearst about $50, 900.
AT the close of the conference the
camp equipment, with the exception
of the range, which was destined for
q hospital. was presented tt the Y.
w. c. A..
During the conference distinguished
women We're entertained at the
Hearst home and they gave talks at
the meetings. Mrs. Harrison, who liz
a former president of the Minneap-
oils association, was one of Mrs.
Hearst's honored guests at luncheon
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