New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-17
u.s.
SAYS MRS. HEATH
The National Housewives
League Head Denies Jer-
sey Women's Charges.
OFFICE THEY VISITED
NOT IN ORGANIZATION
Never Got Cent for Indorsing
Food Products-Will Not
Expel Her Accusers.

Tho Housewives League started with
seven members and $40 four years ago.
It has to-day 100000 members and Sc
in the treasury, according to Mrs.
Julian Heath, its founder and presi-
dent
This was Mrs. Heaths answer to
charges brought yesterday by rebel
lous New Jersey members OF the
league. Mrs. John II. Yocum, presi-
dent of the New Jersey branch of the
Housewives League, has threatened to
go TO Albany TO ask Attorney General
Woodbury. TO investigate its affairs.
Eve will welcome an investigation,
and gladly" said Mrs. Heath last night
at her home, at IT'S West Eighty-eighth
Street. I'VE haven't many books, be
cause we haven't money enough TO pay
for many, but such as there are any
one can see. The treasury now con-
tains Sc. | believe.
1.-THE real source Of complaint on the
part of our New Jersey friends, | be-
lieve, is the Offices at rs West Forty
fifth Street. Those are entirely lnde-
pendent of the National Housewives
League, and are paid for by renting
space to manufacturers OF food prod
ucts which we indorse. We are glad
TO have a chance to recommend pure
foods to our members-that is what we
exis, for-and they, of course, are glad
TO pay us for value received IN table
space and advertising in our rooms.
What about the baking powder con-
Germ they say you refused to indorse
because it wouldn't advertise" Mrs.
Heath was asked.
"All remember about that baking
powder is that it had alum in 1t, and
we never indorse any alum products.
They say you are self-constituted
leader"
swell, maybe I am. So was Column,
bus self-constituted explorer"
laughed Mrs. Heath. "You must re-
member that this league was my own
invention and that | have built 1t up
myself
"They say you are an agent for GER
tain food products"
$50 | am. I'm the agent for every
pure food product in the country, but
never got a cent Of money for indorsinS
ANYTHING. Money for rent for exhibit
ing purposes, of course, do accept"
what is back Of this New Jersey re-
bellion, them"
81 don't know. It's perfect surprise
to me. or course, we have become very
powerful now. Many producers Of i'm
pure food products are afraid OF US.
do not say that these New Jersey
women are tools Of these powers. |
only know that many powers would be
glad TO undermine the league and in
lure it's reputation, and that the action
OF these women certainly will not help
the league"
A meeting Of the New Jersey rebels
was held yesterday at the home Of Mrs.
Chauncey Marsh, president Of the
Montclair Housewives League. Mrs.
John Yocum, Mrs. William Hard and
Mrs. John Contrell, Of Newark, were
among those present. These were
among the women who called at the
Forty-ffth Street headquarters on
Monday with a request to see the
books Of the league, and did not sue
coed They will make a report to the
state convention. which will meet to-
morrow at the Young Women's Chris
tan Association in Newark.
Uppermost in the minds of the mem
bers yesterday seemed TO be the
thought Of expulsion from the national
organization. They had discovered that
according to Article Is the board OF
directors have full power 20 expel
any member or officer whose conduct
shall be pronounced by a two-thlrds
vote to be prejudicial to the welfare
Of the league. Mrs. Heath, however,
said that she had no intention of LAX
ing any action against the unruly sub
urbanites