River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-02-25

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stores, telephone offices, factories
and restaurants are found women
and girls, until today there T e
eight million Of them in the United
States working for wages outside
Of their homes. What would be-
| come Of industry if these women
were suddenly withdrawn? Men
have been tried in these places
but they cannot do the work 0 f
women. Just as truly does Wom-
an support the department store,
her wants and tastes are studied
and everything is arranged f o r
her comfort, but she demands
more-led by New York Consum-
ers' League she demands that the
industry be carried on under con-
ditions favorable to the health
and comfort Of the workers.
Waverly House in New York, IN
der Miss Miners supervision, and
Hull House under Miss Adams in
Chicago are doing inestima BILE
good, and either one is worthy Of
an afternoons study.
Many Of Americas first women
are deeply interested in social
purity. From great num-
bers of individual cases they are
seeking the cause which tends to
draw young peo pie downward.
One great cause is the desire for
recreation after a long, h a + d
days work, joined with the char
acter Of amusement for which they
are able to pay. Social settlement
workers are now providing centers
Of recreation.
One might go ahead for hours
and enumerate the philanthropic
deeds Of individuals and clubs, or
expand on each step through which
woman's condition h a S been bet
tered; for, viewing her primal
condition, we know she had moth
ing to lose, SO in her increased
opportunities was ever on the
gain, but her highest wisdom is
shown in club federation.
Individual clubs become mem
bers Of state declarations, individual
clubs also 6eco me members OF Se1-
eral declarations, and still higher
than this general federation is an
organization which practically eve
ry country has, known as it's Council
of Women. To this council belong
various organizations, such as the
General Federation Of WOmen's
Clubs, W. c. T. u. Associations,
Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, National Congress Of Moth
ers, etc. There are more than one
and one-half million of women in
America affiliated with our Coun-
ell of Women. Great Britain has
four hundred and twenty = six
women's organizations belonging to
her Council Of Women; Austria
has fifty, Switzerland sixty-four;
Netherlands thirty-five. Russia
has no organization Of this kind
because in Russia no organization
is legal.
There is one more organization
higher than this Council of Wom-
en-, and it is the Inter National
Council of Women, which meets
once in five years. 1t has exist
ed for twenty years and repre-.
SCENTS more than eight million
women as far apart as Iceland,
Australia, South America, Africa
and Japan. Russia sends women
to this council. Our president is
the Countess of Aberdeen. This
Council discusses every important
question presented, but makes no
decision until the opinion Of the
delegates is practically unanimous.
1t lends itself to no movement
until that movement is no longer
a matter of controversy.
Those who persist in clinging
to the old notion that women are
constantly at war with each other
may be surprised to learn h
these eight million women, f
all temperments, religions and ma
tionalities are agreed on at least
four things: Peace and Arbitra-
ton: Social Purity; Removal of Lee
gal Disabilities of Women; d
Woman Suffrage.
Some may question whether the
fourth has passed the controver-
sal stage. 1t may not have with
all individual clubs, just as it may
not have with each Individual of
our club; because individuals, as
individual clubs, may be conserva-
tive; but the Inter7National Coun-
ell of Women is democratic. 1t
is true that it's president is an
English peerless, but one of its
vice presidents is the wife of a
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