Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-29

diner, Me.
After the program was given tea
was served by the following hostess
es: For the Heath Relief Corps, Mrs.
Henry n. Bates and Mrs. Joseph Gl3-
zier; for the Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Sons of Veterans, Mrs. Dr. VIM. o.
Cobb and Mrs. Buel Merrill.
After extending her greeting to those
assembled and thanks to the hostess
es of the afternoon in words that were
a treat to her listeners, Mrs. Richards
read a short story from the Atlantic
Monthly, in Negro dialect. which IL
Illustrated the trend of the articles of
the afternoon.
The first paner, Women in Indus
try," by Margaret D. Robins. was read
by Mrs r. s. Pinkham and gave in
detail tie work planned by the Ma
tional Women's Trade Union League
for the next two years. This work in
cludes the establishment of a train
ing school for women organizers;
correspondence course in trade union
ism and current labor legislation: in
dustrial educatio under public mann
tenance and control. co-education in
trade training; the Introduction IN
public schools of a special course OF
study of the laws that have been en-
acted for the protection of workers.
the issuance of working certificates
only to young people who show Ia
miliarity with such laws; the eight
hour day for men and women and fuii
citizenship for women.
Mrs. Charles Jackson had the sec
ond paper, which was entitled wages
and Hours" by Florence Kelley,
lady who has spoken before a Car
diner audience and who is deeply in
terested in the National Consumers
League The league hopes to see the
number of states having State COM
missions with power to deal with
wages increased and at least four
added to the present list which COM
prises Washington, California. Ari-
iona and Colorado, during the pres
ent year. Congress having bestowed
the eight-hour law upon all the d.
rect employees of the government, can
hardly refuse the same to working wo-
men in the nations capital city, and
the La Toilette bill will doubtless be-
come a law within the next rev
r,orths. 1t Is also reasonable to ex-
pect that at least one of the pending
child labor bills will also become a
law. The Kenyon bill embodies
principal that is already upon the
statute books of 80 states, all those
Of the north and seven southern states.
The president then read an article
on Child Labor" by Owen Lovejoy,
in which the various phases OF the
child labor question in different states
was touched upon. A UNIFORM chlio
labor law will be introduced in the
District Of Columbia in the hope tnat
such a model law will serve as an ex-
ample to the states as we'll as pro-
feet the children Of the district. IL
is also believed that the study when
the child labor committee are now con-
Quoting viii result in a radical change
In method and policy in regard to fac
tory inspection.
Miss Eleanor panforth, Gardeners
talented elocutionist, read two brief
poems in a charming manner, the first
being Beyond the Rainbow" and the
second, 1.-The Children in the Street"
which ends with the touching lines
Mrs. Langdon Quimby read 1.-The
Church ana the community, W 1Ao-
ham Taylor, in which the hope was
expressed that the interdependence OF
each upon the other will be so recog-
n.zed that the success OF either Will
seem impossible If the other fails; that
the church will seek to build up the
community instead Of building itself
out of the community; that to this
END churches Of different faiths will
draw together in a cooperative fed
Grafton; that the social consciousness
thus evolved will be applied as iden-
tilted with spiritual consciousness;
that both church and community will
promote constructive efforts to real
ize the ideal of life.
MRS Charles II. Gray gave a paper on
Tuberculosis" by Livingston Farrand
In which 1t was stated that the past
decade had so firmly established the plan
of operation that the task of each sue
ceeding year is chiefly to increase efiicien-
cy along already well tried lines. The
demand of the hour is the effective treat
ment of the disease In the homes OF
poor patients, with the family intact, and
the solution of the problem of the care
and after occupation of the discharged
constructive, The declining death rate