Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-12
Club Celebrates Tenth Ami
versary With Function at
the Raleigh Hotel.
43O MEMBERS ENROLLED
FROM IS INSTITUTIONS
Addresses Delivered by DR.. Kath'
crime Bement Davis of New
York and Others.

The tenth birthday anniversary of the
College Women's Club of Washington was
celebrated with banquet at the Raleigh
Hotel last night. Miss Emma Harper
Turner. who was chiefly responsible for
the formation of this organization, is
president for the first time this year and
acted as toastmistress at the birthday
party.
The organization now has 430 members
representing eighty-f1ve colleges and uni.
versties and every state in the Union
DR.. Katherine Bement Davis, commits
sioner of corrections, New York, who is
chairman of the commission on parole
and head of the Bedford Reformatory
for Girls, was the principal speaker
She advised the banqueters of their
duty to see themselves not as indi-
viduals, but as members of a social
group, and also of their duty to bring
this group to the highest plane. AS edu.
Gated women who have enjoyed SUI
perior advantages, she said, it is their
province to direct other women to g
broader realization of life and per-
form real social service.
l IL.
She paid a high tribute to Thomas NJ
Osborne, saying that he had organized
a democratic form of government with
in the walls of Sing Sing, where the
mates had failed to adjust themselves
to society. While she maintained that
violators of the law should be made
self-directing, she pointed out that
they could not succeed in the world, be-
cause they had not respected the
wishes and rights of others.
DR.. Davis said o sborne was con-
demned by the outside world for car
rying his ideas of democracy behind
prison bars, and that he had been pre-
vented from accomplishing his ideal by
this criticism. She said he wanted the
men behind the bars to know that they
had a place in the world and sought to
give the good in them a chance for ex-
preston. project, she said, which can
scarcely be accomplished by punish
ment and solitary confinement.
"All the object of municipal govern
ment.' she commended, lis to make the
city a good place to live in and a fit
place to, bring up our families"
She said that many inmates of penal
institutions do not want self-govern-
ment, for they do not know how to
value it-for example, she said some
do not think it is proper for them to
govern where men are paid to do that
work for them and others stated to her
| that they can not trust themselves
much less others, to govern.
Experience With the Maynard.
Telling of her experiences in hand
ling Maynard and incorrigible girls
Dr. Davis said when she took charge
at the New Bedford reformatory there
| was talk of adopting rules. She said
there should be no rules, for what
| would fit one case would not fit an
other since there were various grades
| and degrees of moral turpitude. She
| cited, as an example, that there was
| discussion of rule prohibiting use OF
pens and paper SO that the girls could
not write notes. DR.. Davis recalled
that when she was a schoolgirl she
| often wrote notes in school to boy
who has since become a preacher OF
national reputation. and she did her.
self the credit of saying she believed
| herself "a fairly responsible member
| of the community"
Other Features of Program.
| Mrs NJ c. B. Munford of Richmond
| spoke on The Effort to Establish a
Co ordinate College for Women at the
| University of Virginia" She is chair
hol,