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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
La,U for EleratOr
Girls Goes Into Effect

THE law, sponsored by Assem-
blywoman Ida Is. Sammis,
regulating the employment of
women as elevator operators, be-
came effective September !.
According to the provisions Of
the law, no woman less than eigh-
teen years old shall be employed
as an elevator operator, and the
hours of work are limited to six
days and fifty-four hours each
week, not more than nine hours
a day, or before I o'clock a. m.
or after 1 o'clock at night.
Seats for the operators were to
be placed in all elevators before
September /. Exceptions for
women operators are given. in
working hours only, to those over
twenty-one, employed in hotels.
Enforcement Of the law rests
with the State Industrial Com
mission. Inspectors from the
commission will shortly visit all
buildings where women are en-
ployed as elevator operators.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Men. and Women Voters
Show the Same In.
difference to Minor
Local Issues
Leaders Are
Disappointed
City and County Offices
Should Have the Most
Vital Interest for Our
New Citizen

~ IEW YORK'S women voters
did not turn out we'll at last
weeks primary elections. All
parties conceded that there was
little excitement in any Of the con-
tests and neither the men nor the
women came out the way 1t had
been hoped they would. The fact
that there were few local contests
of any importance was one OF the
reasons for the sluggishness of the
primary vote. However, a number
of women Interested in politics ex-
pressed themselves Wednesday as
very much disappointed over the
poor showing the women voters OF
all parties made.
1.-THE election and the nomina-
ton of candidates to state and
county Offices ought to touch women
more closely than the election to
national Offices" said Miss Helen
Mccormick, assistant district at
torney in Brooklyn. "The men
elected to city and county Offices
are the men who really have most
to do with the things in which the
women are most interested.
"The primaries should express
the will of the people. They are
the direct way Of reaching the vot-
ers. But when party members are
lax about going to the primaries 1t
is not always to be assumed that
the nominees are the real choice of
the majority"
A statement from the Republican
State Committee last week said:
"In New York City there was
little interest in the primaries on
the part Of either the men or
women enrolled voters, as the nom
nation of President for the Board
Of Aldermen, the selection of candl-
dates for the Assembly and judici-
airy Offices did not prove exciting.
Upstate, where the Mayoralty Of
fees were on, the women outcis-
tanced the men in many instances
in doing their full duty as Republi-
cans and citizens. In Syracuse,
Utica, Schenectady and other cities
where the nominations for city Of
fees were contested women worked
like veterans at the polling places
to nominate the best men for office
and so pave the way for the sue
cess Of the G. 0. ?. on Election
Day."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
" oman to Supervise
10000 Census Takers

nor THE average woman; keep
l. ing ones correspondence up to
date with only few persons is diff
cult enough. But Miss Emily Far
nun, said to be the first woman to be
named chief of a division in the De-
partment Of Commerce, will have the
job Of supervising the correspondence
Of the 10000 census takers engaged
next year in counting Uncle Sans
folk. Miss Farnum. originally from
New York. but for many years WITH
he Department o. Commerce, has
been named chief Of the appointment
division Of the Office Of the Director
of Census, Sam Rogers. She Will
have the general supervision of the
welfare and working conditions OF
the four thousand census clerks TO
be employed here in the work OF the
bureau. She has had experience IN
census work, and ner appointment Is
regarded in the directors office as
.hc logical outcome of her long
period of good service. She will not
have the direct appointment OF the
thousands Of census workers, as 4
chief clerk of the appointment dlvi-
sion has this to do, but she will have
general supervision of the other
work of the division.
1t is understood that the appoint
mcnts made by the Director Of Cen
sus for the positions Of supervisors
of the census in the Congressional
districts of the country viii include
women. Thee positions are of An
executive nature, lasting some five
months in time and paying abou.
$500 Tor the period. The super
yisors organize the men and women
who are to take the census, instruct
them in so far as instruction can be
given. and attend to all the prelimi-
naries necessary to set the census
wheels in motion. Mr.. Rogers would
not state definitely what proportion
Of this work would be done by
women supervisors, as Secretary
Redfeld had Sot made public the list
of proposed appointments. lie is
known to regard women as being
highly fitted for this work because
Of their tact and good judgment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
N. l.. w. S. Issues Its
Second Report on
Progress of Work
Organization Based OH Miss
Grace Parkcr's Study
of the English Women's
War Activities

"HE second annual report of
the National League for
Women's Service was sent
out from headquarters last week.
The growth of the organization ard
its evolution from an emergency,
wartime to practical after-the-
war association is the theme carried
out in the report.
The introduction says that the
National League for Women's Ser
vice came into being as the result
Of a study of the work of English
women made by Miss Grace Parker
in 1916. she worked with several
# the largest women's organizations
in England, saw the work OF many
others, visited many of the large
munitions plants, shipbuilding yards
and other war industries. Upon her
return to America Miss Parker pre-
sented a programme for the National
League for Women's Service based
upon her observations at the Con-
cress for Constructive Patriotism in
Washington, d. G., January, 1911.
An organization committee was APP
pointed and the National League
for Women's Service came into
being January 81, 1917.
Service was the purpose of the
league. Its workers are great
army of volunteers. The work Of
government departments, of official
and unofficial organizations was sup
plemented by the league. Whenever
any independent piece of work is
undertaken experts are engaged to
direct and the volunteers to work.
Plans for continuation of the WORK
of the league and the use Of the
volunteer workers who made good
in the emergency have been made
this summer and will be given out at
the directors meeting in October.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Woman Defeats
Negro Opponent
Social Worker and Athlete Re-
publican Nominee for Assem-
blv From Harlem's Black Belt

AIRY L. SMITH was desig-
Nj mated as the nominee Of the
1V1 Republican party for mem
Der of the Assembly of the 18th
District of New York City last
Tuesday. She defeated a negro
who was her opponent. Miss Smith
resides in the Harlem black belt
and a large portion of her con-
stituents are negroes.
Miss Smith is social worker, an
athlete and an all-round American
girl, still in her early twenties.
"To vote is serious duty and a
great responsibility" she says, land
every city should study political
and social problems"
Her platform includes vocational
training for returned soldiers and
their preference in the matter OF
employment; equal pay for equal
work, regardless Of sex or color;
government control of the cost of
living, and the curbing of profiteers
in every field, and liberty, but
not license, Of speech and press.
She is a teacher Of hygiene and
physical training at the Horace
Mann School and received her de-
gree at Teachers College in the
same subjects. During her student
DAYS she was president of the ath-
letic association, captain Of the
basketball team, an expert SWIM
mef and dancer and a star hockey
player.
The daughter Of DR.. J. Gardner
Smith, president of the Harlem
Board of Commerce, she has lived
in the district for the past twenty
years and numbers many friends
among the residents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Experience Endorses
Our Women Police

WELFARE workers from all
w over the country tell me that
they find New York the cleanest
city in the country.
The policewomen have helped
to bring about this condition, and
if their services are necessary to
the cleanest city in the country
the need for such policewomen
must be even greater in other
places.
1t is well known fact that
boys and girls are becoming way
ward and manageable at a
younger age to-day than ever
before. The work Of the police
women is protective and proven
tive. We must place a staying
hand or the youth OF the country
and who is more capable or bet
ter qualified to do this than
woman?
While policewomen were ap-
pointed for the period Of the
war, the necessity was there long
before. OF the many good things
brought forth by the war / con-
slider the appointment Of police
women one Of the most inn
portant.
ELLEN A. O'CRADY,
Fifth Deputy Commissioner Of
Police, New York City.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Girl Scouts Make Ready
For Membership Drire
TIME Girl Scouts of America are
making ready for a nation
wide campaign for sustaining

TIME Girl Scouts of America are
making ready for a nation
wide campaign for sustaining
membership. 1t will be made the
last week in October. The scout
membership is increasing so rapidly
that the organization cannot carry
the demands made upon it if drive
is not made at once for sustaining
members. The girls who become
scouts pay only 25 cents IA year to
the organization; the sustaining
members will pay at least 81.
There are now more than $4,000
girl scouts in this country. Lately
the applications for membership
have averaged 5000 a week. Ma
tional headquarters of the organl-
cation announced last week that the
drive, which will be put over in a
way similar to that Of the Boy
Scouts, is absolutely necessary to
keep pace with the growth Of the
organization.
Leaders, or captains, have to be
especially trained for every local
chapter of girl scouts. The summer
camps. which are such an important
part of scout work, must be greatly
increased to meet the demand.
The committee in charge OF the
drive for membership consists of
Dunlevi Milbanh, chairman; Mrs.
Frederick Edy, Mrs. Arthur Choate,
of New York: Mrs. Frederick Brooke.
of Washington. and Mrs. Arthur W.
HART, of Brookline, Mass.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Amendment Up for Rati'
fication by New Hamp'
shire and Minnesota
Legislatures
Ants Stage Fight
In New England
Minnesota to Act With
No Delay; Utah and
Washington to Hold
Special Sessions
Rx HANNAH MITCHELL

WOMAN suffrage will elbow ITS
w way into the limelight again
this week. Minnesota and New
Hampshire state legislatures VIII
hold snecial sessions to vote on ratl-
6cst;on September s and 9. Wash
;rc.on and Utah probably will meet
- vote on the matter later in the
month.
The situation in New Hampshire
: ono If the most interesting since
rat;6cation started, according 10
members Of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, be-
cause the ants are making a strong
6cht there. When the Federal
amendment on suffrage was up IN
the United States Senate New
HAMPSHIRE was one Of the PIVOTAL
states. A campaign was mace 10
40, the vote of Senator Moses by a
resolution in the New Hampshire
legislature instructing him to vote
favorably. Senator Moses himself
nublicly announced that he would
vote for suffrage if he we're so IN
s.ructed. He paved the way for I'm
inc nm with the suffragists by max
ING public a personal letter he had
,sceived a short time before from
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in which
the Colonel urged him to support the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
A Full Staff
OF Thirty

The Endorsement Of the Interna-
tional Policewomen will be ore Of
the facts presented to Congress to
show that the local women's bureau
has been effective since it's inception
about one year ago. When it is
fully stated there will be thirty po-
liccwomen. Fifteen have already
been chosen. Because OF the diff
Guilty of finding the type of person.
atty exactly suited to the work, the
personnel has been selected slowly.
Many Of the young women attracted
to the work are applying from their
positions as clerks in the various
governmental departments.
The policy of employing girls who
can do stenographic work as well as
the outside Investigations is grow
ing, so as to vary the activities for
the whole force and to give the out
side worker a knowledge of the in
side procedure OF the office. One Of
the applicants accepted recently was
the young widow of doughboy
killed in France. She gave up a
position of $1,400 in a government
department to become a policewom-
an at $3.50 year. Having the in
surance from the government, she
declared that for once in her life
she was going to be able financially
to do the work she preferred. The
salaries for these policewCnen po-
sitions are fixed b. law and cannot
be made any higher except by an
act of Congress. The policewomen
of Washington are paid on an equal
basis with the policemen Of the city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Work Has Made
Some Enemies

The barrage Of criticism from one
Of the local newspapers and other
quarters has only served to stinu-
late the number Of women making
application for the positions, says
Mrs. Van Wrinkle. women know
that we must be doing splendid work
through our W0men's Bureau or
there wouldn't be such an organized
fight to have US 0usted," she ex-
planned in giving the reason for the
increased number of applicants.
Besides indorsing the Washington
plan Of service through its Women's
Bureau, the international Police
women also favor the House of De-
tention sought by the bureau. The
national capital has made no pro-
vision for the delinquent or strand
cd woman or girl over seventeen
years of age. The city's growth dur
ing the war was felt in the limita-
tions of the Women's Bureau,
when 10000 young women were sud
.e..y brought into town to meet the
demand for clerical workers at the
same time that thousands of mar
ried men, away from their homes,
were also there.
The following is an outline of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Appropriation for Women
Police Squad Under Fire
Washington System Endorsed As a
Model; Criticisms Caused
BY Activity
BY LILY LYKES ROWE

Ncu YorL Tribune
Washington Bureau
TN THE investigation Of the local
Metropolitan Police Department,
ordered by Congress and now
under way, the women's bureau Of
that department has come in for its
share of the fire Of criticism and in
quiry.
The Washington system was Sc
lected by the international Assocla-
ton Of Policewomen as the model
to be suggested wherever municipal
police organizations should be at
tackled or under question.
Members Of Congress will have
the final decision about the retention
CT the women's bureau. 1t is being
investigated along with the entire
Police Department, from the chief
Of police down to the newest police
woman. Mrs. Nina Van Wrinkle, the
head of the Women's Bureau of the
Washington Metropolitan Police De-
partment, is also president of the
international Association Of Police
women. This body, at its convention
held in Atlantic City short time
ago in connection with the Social
Workers Conference, authorized
Mrs. Van Wrinkle to name state
chairmen throughout the United
States pledged to bend their efforts
toward having the cities Of their re-
spective states adopt the Washing
ton method. In addition to this
work the state chairmen will be ex-
pected to aid in the making of a
census of the policcwomen Of the
country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Preventive

1-Supervision and general sur.
vey:
Movies,
Dance halls.
Skating Kinks,
Railway stations,
Parks,
Large public gatherings.
2--Welfare work by special work.
ers:
Voluntary probation,
Finding positions for girls,
Advising as to associates
amusements, etc,
Working with family on be-
half Of delinquent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Corrective

1--Noluntary probation and vol.
untary commitments to public
institutions in other states. OF
first offenders over seventeen
years, because there are neither
laws nor institutions to cover
their needs in the District Of
Columbia.
2-Psychopathic and physical ex-
aminations with the view to Sc
curing proper disposition Of the
case, and treatment.
3-Thorough investigation to find
all negative and positive facts
in a case in order to arrive ut
the inrcr mental life Of the girl,
so that intelligent help can be
extended.
4-Earnest attempt 10 remove or
mitigate causes of delinquency.
5-Locatirg missing girls and
working with their families TO
prevent repeating.
6-Return of fugitive children to
parents, guardians or institu.
tons.
General Police Work
1--Detection OF crime and appre.
hension of criminals: Sex OF.
tenders, shoplifting, etc.
2-Helping the courts by furnish.
ing The judges and prosecutors
with the results OF oar investi-
cations.
Care Of socially diseased
through voluntary and court
commitments to hospitals.
4-Co0pcration with men of the
Police Department in securing
information; being present with
female offenders in identitica-
ton bureau; interviewing and
searching female prisoners.
5~Ilscortins wDmen and girls 10
homes and institutions in other
states.
The National Women's Trade
Union League has asked Senator
Calder and Representatives Gould,
Rowe and Sullivan, Of New York,
who are on the District Of Columbia
committees OF the Senate end House
Of Representatives to vote for the re-
tention Of tie Women's Bureau, II
the question should be brought t.
an issue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Hospitality for Young
Strangers in New York

AS a natural outgrowth Of their
comrade service to men in uni
form during the war the Girls
Division of the New York War Camp
Community Service will concentrate
their efforts this winter on the es-
Establishment of hospitality centres
for strangers in Kew York City.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07

service of the Women's Bureau Of
the Washington Police Department,
which was pronounced a model by
the international Association of Pc.
lice Women:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
The Last of the
Aristocracy

"In England the old aristocracies
are departing. They are selling their
estates. Nationalism is bound to
come. But national consciousness
has come too soon, for the educa-
ton with which to meet its prob
lens is lacking. What I think we
need is a larger international con-
seriousness. think that America
and England are to be the great
rulers of the world.
"But men have got to make the
money and women have got to make
the nation. This war has shown
women their possibilities. Women
are just finding themselves
Mrs. Dalton will speak tQ subur
ban housewives associations next
week on the subject Of woman's
place in the new world order.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Englishwonan Says
Nationalism | S
B Ound to Com e
Closer Relations With Great
Britain Urged by Mrs
Dalton, of Royal Geo.
graphical Society
MRS. HERBERT DALTON, Eel

MRS. HERBERT DALTON, Eel
low of the Royal Geographic
cal Society and Lyceum Club, Of
London, world traveller ard lect.
urer, will tour the United States
to address various organizations on
the subject of closer relations with
Great Britain.
Il suppose" she said recently
commenting on the West Indian
problem, that you will get our
West Indian colonies. 1t is logical
and right that you should have
them, but TO us it is ike selling our
jewels.
IL have recently spent some time
in the West Indies and find that the
natives want American ownership.
They feel that American capital can
develop their resources as England
has not been able to do.
II have also spent several years
in Palestine and other parts Of
Egypt and have travelled thou
sand miles up the Nile. In my opin-
ion Palestine will not be admins
tered by Jews, but by Christians.
The practical reason for this is that
Palestine is too small for the Jews.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
House and Senate
On Opposite Sides

When the resolution TO instruct
cero.or Moses came to a vote IN the
New Hampshire Legislature 'ne
House voted to instruct him to favor
suffrage. but the Senate defeated the
measnre. Senator Moses said at that
time that. although he was quite IN
different about the matter. he would
NOT vote for the amendment because
10Th houses Of his Legislature hao
not passed the bill instruc'lng hi"i
20 TO do.
Senator Reyes, elected at the last
Election. did not announce his stand
on the suffrage amendment uh'''
after the sixty-fourth Senatorial
vote necessary for passage had peen
announced. However, ..epubllcans
insisted that they had known Tor
weels that the new Senator from
New Hampshire would favor the
amendment and had counted HIM as
the sixty-fourth vote. even though
Senator Harris of Georgia made
a public declaration first.
Women opposed to suffrage have
been working in New Hampshire for
weeks. They have comparatively
strong forces there, and so have the
suffragists. There is little to lndl-
cate which side has the advantage.
One United States Senator from the
State voted for the amendment, and
one against. One branch Of the
legislature voted to have the Sen
ator approve the amendment; the
other defeated the resolution. The
Governor is known to favor the
measure. 1t was he who made a
special poll of the Governors of the
United States as to whether they
would call extra sessions or not and
as to how they thought their legls-
latures would vote.
The Present
Outlook
In Minnesota it is to be expected
that the measure will go through
without delay. The Governor favors
it; both United States Senators and
all members of the House OF Rep
resentatives voted for the amend
ment in Congress.
Washington and Utah are both
States having woman suffrage, so
there is no question about their rati-
fication.
Gradually che women who already
have the s1frage are getting around
to helping those who haven't it. The
last state to ratify was Nebraska.
1t was the fourteenth. Suffragists
expert to have won half the number
Necessary by the end of this month.
The four legislatures to hold special
SESSIONS this month will make eigh-
teen that have ratified, and thirty
six is the number needed.
Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, New
York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Missouri, Arkansas, Texas. Iowa,
Montana, Nebraska, Ohio and Mich.
Jan have already acted favorably.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-07
Disintegration of
The Empire

"This is my first visit to America
and l am astonished at the wonder
full nation that you are. think
the attitude toward women here Is
interesting. There is no such
reverence Of womanhood in Eng
land.
And in this world upheaval
everything seems to point TO the
disintegration Of the British En-
pire. believe that England will
surely lose her colonies. The affec-
ton and sentiment with which the
British people regard their king
may hold the empire together dur
ing his lifetime, but the time of re-
lease will not be, think, deferred
longer. There is a great deal of
Bolshevism in England. / have been
speaking of its perils to factory
workers and the masses, and have
also spoken for the election of
seventeen candidates for Parlia-
ment, all of whom have been elected.