East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-01
Discussing this very subject the

| Spokesman Review says:
The amount of work performed by
women in the new crusade against the
social evil Is amazing Their activity
ard achievement in this field would
alone suffice to justify woman's eman-
cipation and education, We're justifi
cation required for it is through their
new knowledge and new power that
women have been enlisted in this new
redemption.
The studies of the new women in
science and sociology have taught her
/ that immortality is the greatest foe of
the home and enemy to her daughter,
/ She has no desire to be sensational or
court publicity, but she is taking up
social reform with terrible earnestness.
She is solemnly resolved to check the
waste of life involved, as reliable sta
tistics show, in the annual sacrifice
of 1900 American girls to CONNER
cialized vice
The entrance of woman into social
Iservice and the medical calling has in
formed the modern mother as to the
horrors of the diseases inflicted on the
pure and guiltless by the social sinner.
Womens clubs to great extent con-
slider work against the social evil a
Legitimate part of their care for their
homes. They regard a committee on
the social evil as being as important
as one on children's welfare. The
great federation of American women's
clubs has itself taken this matter in
hand. American women throughout
the country are generally urging laws
requiring the presentation of a doc
tors health certificate by men intend
ing to marry before the state grants
them a license,
Women are studying the causes that
lead girls astray. They are fighting
against meager wages for feminine
workers. They are lifting the tabu
from their wronged sisters. They are
working for strict enforcement of the
laws against the social evil and FOL
severer punishment to the white SLAYER
land the male sinner They are q
mighty reinforcement to the workers
for social righteousness.
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Seventy years ago tomorrow ore
CONS provisional government was
formed and this
In Seventy Years. territory was
saved to the Unit
ell States. The meeting was held al
, Champoeg where a little band hac
gathered to decide whether Oregon
should seek shelter under the star:
and stripes or under the banner o.
Great Britain. The man who cast the
J deciding vote, F. X. Matthieu, is still
alive.
It is not in the fact there was con
test, however, that interest lies. NJ
; issue of importance is ever settlee
without spirited contention. The am
azing thing is that the provisional
meeting was held only 70 years ago
That is a short time comparativel!
, speaking and yet oregon has gone fal
in those 70 years. a great transfer
nation has occurred and is still in pro-
gress. 1t is amazing to think of it and
then to reflect on what oregon was
when the Champoeg convention was
held. What will be have here 70 years
hence?
Pendleton has an athletic stadium
that would be good enough in which
to hold a worlds Olympic meet. II
will be used Saturday by the students
of the Eastern Oregon high schools
for their annual track and field meet
Help make the occasion a big success
S%>~SSS~~
The house Is doing fast work with
the tariff bill and If the senate shows
Iequal speed it will not be many weeks
until the job Is finished and all Will
know where they are at.
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What great event happened before
breakfast in Manila bay just 15 years
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