The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-05-20
JUSTICE TO THE
WORKING WOMAN
BIG BIENNIAL MEETING OPENS
IN IOWA CITY.
SIX HUNDRED VISITORS PRESENT
Mrs. 3. 3. Clark, President Of FEEDER
alton, in Opening Address Makes
Eloquent Plea for Betterment
Of Women in All Ways.


of Women in All Ways.
Iowa City, May 19.-To learn to
vote intelligently and above all to
vote with justice to the working
woman was urged upon the women of
Iowa by Mrs B. B. Clarke, president
of the Iowa Federation of Woman s
Clubs in her address to the club wo.
men of the state in the opening of
the big biennial at Iowa City today.
In part she said:
1T is generally taken for grant
ed by women, at least, that when
she votes her sympathies will be
with the underpaid and over
worked. ] am not sure that our
past bears ont this conclusion.
| Housekeepers are employers of
help In small way. We employ
what we sometimes under our
breath call servants Club wo-
men In general have less friction
| with domestic help believe than
women of different type but some
times women full of sympathy
for girls who work in factories
or stores change to less SYM
| pathic attitude when their own
| household help is considered
Self interest, you see, just as in
other lines of business. 1t is
undoubtedly true that employers
/ of this class of labor have raised
! their standard as mistresses but
even with the advantage to the
employe of insufficient supply |
do not believe we have raised
our standard Of justice in
greater degree than have men
employers of girls in factories"
Mrs. Clarke recommended among
other things increased educational
advantages for country girls and
I boys of Iowa. She declared that the
Iowa farmer is so immersed in stock
raising and grain production that his
sons and daughters are less we'll
equipped with schools than would be
tolerated in new and poverty
stricken land; that the legislative
committee of the Woman's Clubs OF
! the state be strengthened in organ
ization of power; and that women
and girls be taught home making.
Six hundred visitors, probably
more, five hundred of them aCcredit-
ed delegates to the biennial, began
arriving in Iowa City yesterday TO
attend what promises to be one OF
! the greatest sessions in the history
of the organization.
In the four days OF this big con-
vention there will be laid down all
l,,1 60, ts,ySN 81 hn
scores of women's clubs all over the
state in the next two years.
Every delegate and visitor is full
of enthusiasm. 1t radiates at every
meeting, in every group and the spir-
it of the meeting as a whole.
Headquarters yesterday were at
the Jefferson Hotel and today at the
Natural Science hall. The Greek
play given last night marked the OPP,
ening of the convention.
This morning Mrs. Clarke, the
president, declared the conclave in
session. Rev. d. w. Wylie offered
Invocation and addresses of welcome
were made by Mayor Koontz, Mrs
A. N. Currier and others.
Slate of New officers.
With the withdrawal Of Mrs. J. G
,Grundy of Des Moines from the race
for the presidency, affairs in the
state federation meeting took on a
political aspect, with Mrs. Francis
Whitley of Webster City, Mrs. John
Wetzek of Davenport, and Mrs. Jen
ME |. Berry of Cedar Rapids in the
field for the chief honor. Specula
ton is rife as to the outcome OF the
election and one possible result is as
follows:
President-Mrs. Jennie l. Berry
Cedar Rapids.
Vice President, Mrs. Max Meyer
of Iowa City.
Corresponding Secretary, Harriet
Lake of independence.
Recording Secretary, Mrs. A. c
Mueller, Davenport.
Treasurer. Mrs. NJ. S. II. Johnson
of Humboldt.
Auditor, Mrs. Francis Whitley, o
Webster City.
General Educational Secretary
Mrs. B. B. Clark, Red Oak.
! Delegate to New York City, Mrs
Theo. Philus, Davenport.
Mrs. Clarke. the president, an
nounced the district chairmen will
three exceptions, as follows:
First district, Mrs. Chas. w. David
son, Burlington.
, Second District, Mrs. A. w. Price
. Dewitt.
Third District, Unnamed.
Fourth District, Mrs. James G
Blythe, Mason City.
Fifth District, Mrs. Flo Schelling
State Center. ...
Sixth District, Mrs. Harry Taylor
Bloomfield.
Seventh District, Unnamed.
Eighth District, Mrs. Like. Shenan
doah.
Ninth District, Mrs. Joseph Junkir
1 Red Oak.
Tenth District. Unnamed.
, Eleventh District. Mrs. John "
Garry Snancar