The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-07


Miss Maude +. Miner, chairman Of
the committee on protective work for
girls of the war department commits
sion on training camp activities, in an
, address before the convention said:
There is great need of more pro-
tective and probation officers, more
places Of detention, and reformatories,
better lays for the protection of girls,
and above all, more educational wors
which will reach the mothers of the
| girls. the girls themselves. and the
men who have the greatest power to
safeguard young women
Tits necessary to ave better laws
so that Georgia, which has three large
military consent laws, can not have
an age Of consent law of ten years.
lstill on its statute books: tits still
more necessary to the power of public
loDinion to demand of men the same
high moral standard that men demand
OF women
The call comes 10 woman as never
il came before to mobolize for SER
vice One of the first groups of work
ers to be modelled must be the 5000
telephone operators, aundry workers.
post exchange workers, nurses. and
other workers in the military training
camps. This group. and the large"
force OF women who will be needed.
should be organized as a woman army
under military authority and control,
as IS the women's army auxiliary corps
In England"
Nevada Sage Brush.
The Nevada delegation in the con
vention received much attention THE
morning when at the entrances their
committees stood during the entire
session and pinned little boquets Of
sage brush on all the delegates BY
the time the hall was filled the fra
grant aroma of the sage brush had
been transplanted from Nevada to thu
convention hall
Mrs. John Ike Moore Of Helena.
Ark, offered a motion which was
unanimously adopted, providing thai
kilograms Of love and affection be sent
from the convention to the three for
mer presidents who we're not present
The war victory work has now
10000 available for the establishment,
! OF furlongh houses in southern France.
Mrs. Delphine Dodge Ashaugh of De
trolt, reported that the plans had nor
been passed on for this work as We.
but would be when the other gov
I eminent plans were reported by Mr.
Raymond Fosdick. Mrs. w. b. Sharr
, of Houston, Texas who had indiy:d-
ually given $4,000 10 this fund. and
whose state reported a subscription OF
i$25,OOO, has since been able to report
that another $25 900 will be pledged
| by Texas.
The Illinois delegation pledged it.
self to poin in the work as soon as the
definite plans were outlined
Captain William H. Stayton. volun
teer worker for the shipping board
and q representative of the NAVY
League, appeared before the CONVEX
tom and said that the main trouble
4 -NN@ f' III AAAft tAA' Nui u men " no arc
Building the ships were only driving
; riyets day when they could drive
? 700, and he asked that through the
women an appeal be made to the wives
laLd relatives Of these won kmen 10
hurry up their work He said thar
IN failure to provide ships now We
we're only the murderers of the men
at the font. lie said the workers were
taking picnics ana short hours when
shey should he exerting all the time
shey could possibly give to this work
s' patriots du'5 in support of the
men who are in the trenches
Social cona,:'a' Conference.
AT the industrial and nocial condi- I
ticns conference Mrs Edith Durham /
Foster Of Massachusetts in a talk On
Movies on the Transports" said the
moving pictures constituted a. per
cent OF the aUdss ment of the sailors
Of these we're chosen by the Y. NJ. G. +
A. She urged that good pictures I
might be shown to the men on leave,
and that TO do this it would take
seventy nine million Of feet each week.
She said that these films could be
used for work In France, explained |
that in the hospitals arrangements
were made that the pictures could be
shown on the ceilings for those who !
could not turn aside.
Miss Jean Gordon of New Orleans
In a talk on Observation-Disclosures
Menace" maintained that this was the
present menace of the war Espe-
Gially did she believe that the feeble
minded children were the product or
criminals. She said that people who !,
adopted children found after many 7,
years they were feeble minded, and /
that she suggested that to avoid |,
broken hearted parents. It was best |,
that persons who were going to adopt /
children should first send them to in
stitutions for physical and mental ob- !.
servation that this might not happen
Mrs. b. NJ. Bogen, of Atlanta, the
only woman representative of the Y.
NJ G. A., told how she had been in
in giving 100 concerts at
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