Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-07
vIvTSEtTION WiDENS
W.S. PC. A. BREACH
Ants Quit Headquarters of
Association Recently Rufled by
Bitter Contest for Control

So strained are the relations of the two
factions Of the Women's pcnusvIyania So
clety Tor Prevention Of Cruelty to Ami.
mals that today they split on the antlvivi.
sectionst question.
while the fact was not generally known.
the anti-Nivisecton question figured very
I"rselE III that momentuus election several
weeks ago when the so-callcd conservative
group headed by Mss Lda Helen Ash.
orldRe, ol Rosemont, routed the so-calle,l
Progressive faction, captained by Miss Kath-
erine Biddle, 2OS3 Pine street II was not
generally known because many Of the voters
were too new in the : T. G 4 f. know
anything at all about 1t. and to them the
hght was largely one of religious issues
But back Of it all lay the affairs Of the
Anti-NiviseCtion Society
Since the election the pr0grcssivcy are
no longer factors in the s. g. G. A.. but
theN do still control the anti-vivisection
organization Today they got out hag and
baggage from the Headquarters of the : r
{. y at 36 South Eighteenth street and
moved bit north to the Fuller building at
10 South Eighteenth street
Thus M split Is made compete
the anti-viviseCtionists were organized
about the same time as the Woman's s
y. 9. y. almost fifty years ago and by
he same woman Mrs Caroline Earle
White. Two years ago she was active in
me Prosecution Of some University Of Penn
'%lNan'a professors for cruelty to ANNALS
u was then that the division on the anti
v'visection business started Some of the
: !. =. y. women Thought her action purely
II the interest of anti-viv.seCtion aud could
'ot see that II was confined to what she sa id
II waS-a prosecution on account Of cruelty
a. animals
The breach widened aud since Mrs
Nhites death has grown wider. By the
Ume the crisis was reached at the election
ome time ago the successful conservative
action was saying that the prograssives
were trying to control the :. p. G. A in
he interest of promoting anti-vtviS Ction.
ana that therefore the professors wanted
he 5. r. e. As assets of $50 900 This
met with ind gnaut denial
Qui'e aS large a prOpOrt iOn OF the con-
"rNatiNes belong 90 the Observation-Disclosures
- do the prugress.ves but they hold them
selves To be Of mllder stripe and are
able. they say. to distinguish between the
'ruelty'wDrli and the Hnti-vivisection work.
The growing irritation, however. reached
us climax today when the antivivsec-
tion sts got out Of the :. T.. e. A. building
II had reached a point where ;ney could not
stand the friction was the word given ont
This may be the nucleus out of which
may grow another and separate Woman's
:. j. &. y. The defeated progrcsS.Ves do
not share the optimism of the success sful
conservatives that the breach will be healed
1T will never I've healed" said one toda v
IF we fail to oNerturn the result when our
protest is heard before Judge Barratt Feb
ruary 20. then we will all res gn and start
I new women's society. We won't go in
with the mems society, because we think a
woman's society is needed. and we can't
associate with 'he group now it control
They have the money. S25OOOO but they
VIII find that the soul has gone out of their
organzat ton"
Meanwhile detect. YES still are on guard al
SO South Eighteenth street to shoe away
any one who comes to interfere with con
serNatiNe control,