Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-07
PLEAD FOR WOMAN
ON SCHOOL BOARD
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School before her marriage, and has
taken an active part in the civic and
educational organizations of the city;
and be it further
"Resolved. That, while indorsing a
woman for this position, we call at
tention to the absurdity of finding a
woman worthy of an Office for which
women are not found worthy to vote
in this state, and we point to the
now widespread demand for woman
on the Newark School Board prof.
fered by large numbers of persons in
no way allied with the suffrage
movement, as a proof of the ever
increasing need of women in the ad-
ministration of public affairs.
Mayor Haussling then said he had
given close attention to all the argu-
ments advanced. Personally. ne was
in favor of a woman on the ooaru,
but he intimated that a woman would
not be appointed at the present time;
He told the delegation that he could
not promise anything definitely at
this time. However, he felt That some
s day women would be represented on
the board. ooo
IA Miss Hayes. the first speaker, rep
81 resenting the Contemporary Clup, SAID
s. the club represented 1900 people from
q all parts of the city. She asserted
81 the recent trend of public events mas
Brought woman more and more
4 into prominence in public life. espe-
zcially in educational matters. she
referred to appointments of women
in many of the large cities of the
country.
Miss Hayes said that in the New
ark suburbs women have been serv-
ing on school boards with great sat
isfaction to all concerned. board
having the supervision of so many
women teachers should have wom-
an representative on the board, the
speaker added, because they were
better fitted by nature to look AFTER
the needs of children.
Mr.. Hamburg advanced the argu-
ment that the strongest ~eason for
the appointment of a woman to the
Board of Education was the fact that
there was no good reason why a
woman should not be appointed. Mr.:
Hamburg explained that he appeared
merely as a private citisep.
The women of the city w-Eld make
good in a position of public trust II
given an opportunity, Mr.. Hamburg
Not An Experiment
Mr.. Moment declared that there
were certain problems in educational
matters for which woman was I'M
uuestionably better fitted than a
man. The proposition of women serv-
ing on school boards was not an I'M
tried experiment. 1t had been adopt-
ed in various cities throughout the
country.
Rabbi Foster declared, in prefacing
his remarks, that the woman's suf-
frage movement as political meas
ure did not appeal to him at all. The
recognition of women in civic work
he was interested in, he added.
Mrs. Colt asserted that the teaching
4 force in the public schools was com
posed so largely of women that it was
8 only fair that there should be women
81 representatives on the board.
Mrs. Smith, a member of the East
81 Orange Board of Education, briefly
81 fecited her official experiences. she
81 said that one of the objections cited
81 against the appointment of women
81 was the drudgery of committee work
e and late hours.
8 The service on committees with men
81 had been one of the very pleasant fea-
lures of the work, and the appoint
fnent of women would do more to
unite the community than anything
she knew of. -sf
81. ,s.,.azA Founded on Reason.
81 Miss Andersen declared that the re-
ouest that a woman be appointed TO
the Board of Education was not based
q upon mere sentiment, but was found
W ed upon reason. The reasons she
S. enumerated as follows:
.The problem of our schools is that
a of efficient education of the youth OF
the city, irrespective Of sex for the
81 activities of life. The Board OF Edu-
cation is the directing body OF these
schools.
"Sinoe there is no sex line drawn
with regard to the pupils who attend
the schools, that line should not DC
drawn in the composition OF the ol-
recting body.
..In the schools vcational training
for the boys is well under way Thls
problem. as it effects girls, has not
vet been solved. new impetus TO It's
solution may be expected by having
the women represented on the Board
of Education. :
1.-THE teaching of sex hygiene is
finding a place in our educationai sys-
fem 1t involves delicate problems:
The character, extent and time OF
such teaching must be determined py
the board. In that determination the
views of the women of the community
should have an opportunity OF direct
expression. .,.
aThe u.s.. of our school buildings as
social centres is extending. ms
raises the problem of their use ana
Its proper I1UllldtlOnS lSi ritN
ton and entertainment of the young
Here. too, the sex line cannot be
dawn.
"In determining the uses for sociai
purposes to which these buildings
may properly be put, and the regu-
lation of such uses, the Judgment OF
the women of the city should play a
direct part.
1.-THE teaching force of the city Is
made up very largely of women. The
views of these teachers should find
direct. full, free and frank ex-
preston The presence of woman
in the directing body should be con-
dncive TO this end because the teach
ers could present to her the delicate
problems which confront them
1.-THE maintenance of the school
buildings in Clearly and sanitary
condition is problem of. municipal
housekeeping. Woman from the be-
ginning has been the housekeeper.
The problem is therefore peculiarly
within her province.
TN refusing woman place on the
board the city is loosing the expert
ence and aid of that part of its peo-
pie who are accustomed to solve this
problem of housekeeping every day"