New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-10
EDUCATORS FOR
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Association CenSures Car
negie and Rockefeller
Foundations.
SAYS THEY MENACE
ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Equal Pay for Teachers for
Equal Services Without Re-
gard to Sex Approved.

81. Paul. July g Women's rights
were recognized to the fullest extent
TO-DAY BY the National Education As
ISOLATION. which passed resolutions in
Gorsing woman suffrage and equal pay
for teachers. regardless of sex, and al
!otted five of its ten -presidencIes
10 women.
The delegation Of active suffraglsts
left the hall with broad smiles. we
were given everything we asked they
said.
Without dissenting vote DR.. David
Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford
Junior University, was elected presl-
dent of the association for the ensuing
year. South Carolina members, who
were active in the campaign IN behalf
of DR.. ID. b. Johnson, were first TO pre-
sent DR.. Jordan's name. DR.. Johnson
Withdrew two days ago. Miss Grace
Strachan. of New York, was elected
vice-president
The resolutions adopted to-day IN
dorse pensions for teachers. increased
salaries, vacations to permit teachers
to travel. simplifed spelling. lnterna.
tional peace, physical inspection o.
children and cooperation OF parents IN
teaching sex hygiene. President Will
sons attitude in the Mexican situation
also was Endorsed.
One Suffrage Protest.
Only one incident married the har-
mony of to-day's meeting. When w. U.
Thompson, University of Ohio, chair
man Of the resolutions committee, had
finished reading the report pertaining
to woman suffrage, w. NJ. Sheets, OF
Florida, shouted:
81 want to know what the committee
means by political equality of tbs
sexes"
"Any man that does not know what
political equality means is in the kim
dergarten of American politics. retort-
cd Mr.. Thompson, with heat
"As a representative Of the South,
cannot but present the protest of two
thirds Of the Southern women against
woman suffrage" persisted Mr.. Sheets:
His last words died amid a storm of
I laughter, and loud applause greeted
the passage Of the resolution.
The clause in the resolutions dealing
with suffrage reads:
"The association regards efficiency
and merit, rather than sex, as the prin-
chile on which appointments and selec-
tons should be made. and therefore
declares itself in favor of the political
equality of the sexes, and equal pay Tor
equal services"
Censure Carnegie and Rockefeller.
Charectcrizing the Carnegie and
Rockefeller foundations as agencies
menacing true academic freedom and
tending to defeat the primary purposes
OF democracy in the schools, the nor
nal school department unanimously
adopted a resolution censuring these
/ funds. The resolution says:
I'VE view with alarm the activity of
the Carnegie and Rockefeller founda-
tons. agencies not in any way respon-
sible 70 the people, in their efforts to
control the policies of our state edu-
cational institutions; to fashion them
after their conceptions; 10 standard
izc our courses Of study. and to sur
round the institutions with conditions
which menace true academic freedom
defeat the primary purpose OF
democracy as heretofore preserved in
violable in our common schools, nor
NAL schools and universities"
Mrs. Katrina Trask, Saratoga
Springs. y. Y. was awarded the medal
of the American School Peace League,
which is presented to the person whose
efforts toward world peace are con-
sidered most valuable. Mrs. Trask is
author o. book with a stirring ap-
peal for world peace.
The league elected these officers:
Honorary president, William Howard
/ Taft; president, Randall J. Condor,
Cincinnati; treasurer, i. +. Spalding.
Newton, Mass; secretary, Mrs. Fannie
Fern Andrews, Boston.
Miss Emma Fcldbaum, Trenton. n.
j., won first prize in the Seabury
peace essay contest.
Crowding Out Children.
"The so-cailed need OF dresses and
hats and pianos is crowding children
out of the home" said DR.. David Snc-
den. Commissioner of Education in
Massachusetts,. before the department
of manual training education. I'VE
are depending upon the ten or twelve
children family Of The immigrant TO
keep up our population, but we are
letting our own stock die out. Modern
tastes are preventing men from mar
rying"
Regarding sex hygiene. committee
report was adopted which directed at
tention to the grave dangers. ethical
and social, arising out of sex con-
seriousness, stimulated by undue en-
Pima 3 on sex problems and relations
and urged parental care and instruc-
ton on the subject. If taken up in
schools, it vas declared, the subject
should be handled delicately by per-
sons qualified by scientific training
and teaching experience, in order to
assure a safe moral point Of view.
Fears Too Many "Sissies.'
81 fear our schools are turning out
too many 'sissies,' and that the rough
element is taking advantage of it,
said Edward A. Ross. Of the Cniver-
sity Of Wisconsin, at to-nght's session
"Six -scvenths Of American teachers
are women. and there is danger lest
they, with their ladylike ideas of con-
duet. qucnch the natural pugnacity of
our boys below the point of chivalrous
'spunk.
Certainly woman-taught genera
ton is showing an alarming willing
ness to take oppression and robbery
lying down. The good government
movement. notice. attracts many
mild hammered, gentlemanly citizens,
quite 'bluhed' By the ward heelers'
invitations 10 the use of natural
weapons | deplore ladylike citizens
Education for social service ought not
to dampen the primal impulses of
moral indignation"