The Daily Missoulian., 1914-05-03
WOMEN IN GERMANY
SEND DELEGATES
TO ROME
THEIR REPRESENTATlvE AT
THE WORLDS CONGRESS
WILL BE BRILLIANT.

Berlin. May 2.--It is announced byI
the League of German Women's asso-
Citations that over a hundred leaders
of the woman's movement in Germany
will be in Rome next month for the
quinquennial meeting of the Interna-
tional Council of Women and the gen.
eral women's congress.
DR.. Gertrude Baeumer, president of
the German league, will present a re-
port on the PROCESS of the movement
in Germany during the past five years
and will also deliver an address be-
fore the council on The Value of the
Work of the Housewife
Among the other German represent
atives at Rome will be Frau Ernst
Bassermann. wife of the leader of the
national liberal party. DR.. Alice Salo-
mon. who as honorary corresponding
secretary has done a great share of
the preliminary and organization
work for the meeting of the council;
Fraulein Pappenheim of the Jewish
Woman's league and Fraulein Paula
Muller OF the Evangelical Woman's
league and Fraulein Israel. head of
large and recently organized associa-
ton for female clerks and business
employees.
Only some 20 Of the German repre-
sentatives can sit as delegates and al
ternates at the meetings of the coun-
Gil; the others can attend only the
public meetings and the subsequent
| general congress organized by the
Italian women, but the presence of
more than hundred German women
at Rome under these conditions is a
striking testimonial to the enthusiasm
in Germany for the feminist cause,
| The work of the women's organiza
| tions in Germany since the last meet
| ing of the council in 1909 has been
| largely directed toward legislation,
and the league. with its more than
| half a million members. has become
! a power before which the government
and parliaments have frequently had
| to bow. Petitions and demonstrations
have been launched repeatedly against
measures affecting the economic stat
us of women, and this aspect of the
program of the Rome conference will
receive the particular attention of the
| German delegates.
The question of female suffrage. on
tbc olISI Ilduu, 10 IoI tilt Nal
women more a matter of academic in
| terest. Practically all the orgalfiza-
tions connected with the league are In
| favor OF giving the vote to women, but
| it is generally recognized that this
cannot be won in Germany in the i'm
mediate future, and attention is con-
centrated on other efforts Women's
associations have been organized
within most of the political parties
even among the conservatives. in spite
of their general attitude that the
| proper sphere of woman limited to the
| three Cs, children, church and cook
Ing
| The flight from the church, the
| movement Of protest against the con-
nection OF church and state. more than
| doubled in 1913 as compared with 1912,
| according to statistics submitted at
| the annual meeting Of the Berlin mu
nicipal synod OF the Evangelical
uutheran) church. Some 1871 Bcr-
liners left the church last year and
24.090 in the last three years, In re-
sronse to the agitation OF the Anti
| church committee" which aims to
abolish the compulsory taxation Of
church members. In some parishes
as high as II per cent of tho COM
municants have withdrawn.
DR.. Lahusen, general supcrinten-
dent of the synod, declared that con
ditions were most serious and dis
| tressing, the church suffering from
dissensions within (referring to recent
heresy trials against clergymen of the
modern liberal schooD as we'll as
from attacks from without. He de-
clared that in more than 10000 in
stances las. year the church had tc
apply to the courts land the police .tc
collect the sums due for the service ol
its affairs.