Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-24
VOTES OF women
Did NOT ELECT
WOODROW wilson
iCe-PreSident College Equal
Suffrage League Gives
+. T. u. Her Opinions

One OF the interesting members
OF Honolulu.s present visiting colony
is Or. Adelaide Brown, a prominent
physician and educator OF San Fran
cisco who is spending a month at
Mrs. l.. NJ Gray's.
DR.. Brown bears the distinction OF
being the first woman in the United
States to be appointed on state
board of health, having been a mem
Der Of the California board for the last
two years, and in 1911 she was one Of
the most enthusiastic workers for
suffrage in that state as vice-president
OF the College Equal Suffrage League.
Il do not think woman suffrage had
anything to do with Wilson'S win in
California" she said this morning,
for the women do not vote in body
any more than the men do But there
are some things in California which
the women as body are interested in
suCli as education and environments
for their children and in such mat
tiers they WELD a tremendous in
fIuence for the common good
Practised p Years
/ For - years DR.. Brown has prac
tiScd her profession in San Francisco,
taking only women and children as her
patients and in this connection be-
came vitality interested in education
al problems Of the Golden Gate until
she has become one of the foremost
women in the Civic Center and the
Collegiate Alumnae conducting sur
veys Of the public schools.
As the president of the medical
Il. 4. -,
about So branches in the United
States. Dr. Brown assists in the GER
tifiCatiGn of milk for babies This
follows a fight of several years there
for the present rigid laws governing
the sale of milk But as a member
of the Civic Center and Collegiate
Alumnae committee which had under
taken thorough and systematic sur
vey Of the school system she had
done her best and most enjoyable
work
Made Voluntary Survey
Two years ago these women. repre-,
senting about 5000 prominent club,
church, professional and social women
of San Francisco, voluntarily studied
the schools of the United States and
then began All investigation Of those
in San Francisco, looking especially
for deficiencies which they later re-
ported, thus raising a storm of pro-
test from the school authorities,
Later this same body Of women OBJ
tanned about % Of the best educators
OF the East who came uDon invita-
ton from the board of education to
make an impartial survey and truth
frl statement Of conditions in the
schools, just as they found them
The report of this delegation is in
the making now and win soon be
printed DR. Brown and all those
connected with the movement hopes
the press will give it all the publicity
2 report of that nature deserves.
commends Schools Here
81 am looking over your school Sys-
TEN here in very informal and
unofficial way" admitted the physici-
an, and shall have many things to
report when l return. Considering
the great educational problems in
volved here by the large number of
Municipalities and race combinations
and considering the ranidity with
which the island schools have grown,
= .l'tilt'e Tue S) SIeHl mere is 6ACel-
lent. 1 must say, however. that
statement that the requirements of
the Normal school here are the same
as in any mainland normal is hardly
correct for there are several in Cali
fornia which require considerably
more .~.
The California physician is not par.
ticularly interested in prohibition but
says she never heard of booze doing
anyone any good and hopes for abso-
lutte prohibition in California in due
time.
2. If the map of our state were ex-
amined with an eye to local option
one would find that we are pretty
dry after all" she says. ''for many
towns and counties are on the water
wagon.