Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-14
CHURCH WOMEN
HEAR OF VOTES"
Mrs. Nina c. Van Wrinkle
Speaks Before Meeting of
Ladies' Aid Society.


That the question of woman suf-
frage is vending its way into the
notice of local church organizations
was noted yesterday afternoon by
the keen interest the members of the
Ladies Aid Society took in the adj
dress delivered by Mrs. Nina c. Van
Wrinkle. Mrs. Van Winltle is presi-
dent of the Women's Political Union
of New Jersey. The meeting was
held in the church parlors of the
Central Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Van Wrinkle related the
experience of delegation of
women who tried .unsuccessfully
for seven years to induce the Board
of Health to issue a pamphlet dealing
with the care of infants, and how the
public welfare committee at it's first
visit to the City Hall obtained an
appropriation of $4,000 to carry on a
crusade against infant mortality.
She pointed out the injustice of
forcing mothers to send their chill
dren to schools in the management
and the selection of the teaching
force in which they have no voice,
declaring that there are some schools
in the city of which she could tell
Shocking things"
In some of the schools down
BILE for the children to enter the
building until a certain time. The
PARENTS of many of them go to work
early in the morning and send the
children out in the street. If it is
raining they have to remain without
shelter until the doors of the school
are opened and then sit all day in
their wet clothing The hools
should be open for them at all times"
In speaking of the attitude of the
anti-suffragists who do not appre-
eiate the necessity of woman's enter
ing into politics in order to better
the community, Mrs. Van Wrinkle
said that she would like to be able
to show every one of them conditions
existing on Halsey street "just one
block away from Broad street."
Rev. Harry Y. Murkland, pastor of
the church, in q brief talk declared
that suffrage, like Christianity, has
been injured more by people within
its ranks than those without. He ex-
pressed the hope that the women
would not become SO filled with en-
thusiasm that, they would follow the
example of their sisters across the
sea and take to abducting officials.
What an awful thing it would be
If some of the ladies should go up to
the City Hall and abduct Mr.. Nu-
gent" he exclaimed.
Although expressing himself as
fully in sympathy with the move
ment, he warned the women not to
be deluded into the idea that the day
after suffrage is granted the mil
lenium will be at hand. He declared
that as a matter of justice women
should be permitted to register their
opinions in political matters. He
said that prohibition will receive
mighty stimulus when women vote.
This great social uplift movement,
woman suffrage, is bound to come
he concluded.
Mrs. Howard Vanderpool chair
man of the day, presided.
The following officers were elected
at the meeting of the Home Mission
airy Society that preceded the pro-
gram: President, Mrs. George Duns-
ter; president, Mrs. Harry Y.
MurlSland; recording secretary. Mrs.
M. s. Drake; treasurer, Mrs. Herbert.
Church; corresponding secretary,
Mrs De Forrest Lozier; mitebox sec
rotary, Mrs Frank B. Estell, and
secretary of literature, Mrs. Julia
Osborn.