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New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Julia OConnor, who the strike of the Boston tele.
phone operators
phone operators

best, Miss O'Connor has been an
organizer since high school days in
Medford, where she has made her
home with her family since child
hood. In high school she was active
in school organizations and when
she graduated we'll up in her classes
and went into telephone operating
she carried the knack of organizing
with her.
That was about ten years ago
Telephone operators then were not
as we'll paid as now and the work
ing conditions were not so good,
especially in smaller towns. The
girls had for years talked organiza-
ton, but had got nowhere. partly
from the inherent difficulty in or
ganlzation, bat mainly because of
the opposition of company oiieials,
There Ia nothing to indicate that
tho New England Telephone and
Telegraph Company ever officially
prohibited uniens among the gipls.
lMt leaaes onleials did, aud the re-
nut waH the uAme. That Ia, q waa
until Mias O'Cohnor. MIea May
Matthew'S, Miaa Anna Mollcy and "A
few others took It upon thomsclvcs
in 1912 to form tho Telephone
Operators Union Of Boston. They
made Roadway slowly.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Student as Well
As Yorker

Meantime Miss O'Connor had be-
come active in the affairs Of the
Women's Trade Union League
there; so active that she became its
president, an Office she held for sew
eral terms. The league thought so
much Of her it decided she would be
moro useful did she possess a bet
ter knowledge Of economics and the
technic of organizing, so it sent her
to the University of Chicago. There
she took special course-she did
not have time to wait for a degree
and returned to Boston.
A big organizing movement
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The Theatre
Assembly

Over twelve hundred members
and guests of the Theatre Assem-
bly,, Miss. j. Christopher Marks
president, attended the annual
luncheon of the Theatre Assembly.
which was given yesterday in the
Grand Ballroom, the Rose Room and
the Laurel Room of the Hotel AS
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Bad in the City
Worse ''Upstafe''

Upstate there are practically no
prenatal clinics at all. There a
woman registers with nursing A.
ISOLATION and a nurse advises her in
her home.
That clinics reduce the death rate
is pointed to in the fact that in
New York City, according to the
report of the Bureau Of Child Hy-
giene, in the clinics the average still
births were "a for each one thousand
births, while the general average in
the city was 449 for each one thou
sand births. This reduction of 10.5 a
thousand births mean that the clinics
saved ten babies out of every thou
sand who otherwise would have died.
Pre-school education is in an even
less developed state than prenatal
education, it was said at the hearing
of the commission. There are no
accurate statistics in regard to the
mortality of children between the
ages Of two and six The Bureau of
Child Hygiene of New York exam
ined 1912 Of these children and
found that 272, or 25.37 per cent,
did not breathe properly through
the nose; that 260 had enlarged ton
sils, that 227 were suffering from
undernourishment, and 1862, or
more than 80 per cent, had defective
teeth.
In this group of children 74s
were physically defective; that is,
10 per cent.
The Reconstruction Commission
pointed out that the remedy for this
was to enlarge the scope of infant
welfare stations so as to include in
them children of this age-group.
There is a common meeting place
for babies in milk stations. There
Is comon meeting place for older
children in school. The proper care
can be brought to children by ex-
perts in common meeting places,
but }om two to six there is no get
together of the babies.
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row. The business meeting will con-
vene sharply at ~ o'clock. There
will be speakers on subjects of
general interest at the business
session. Members and friends are
being asked to bring canned fruit
or foodstuffs for the crippled chill
dren at the Seaside Home. The
luncheon and formal programme
will be at the usual time. Addresses
will be given by Colonel Haywood,
General Azgapatain and Hyacinthe
Rlngrose. The subject of the day
will be ''The League of Nations. .
Miss Jennie Slater, chairman of
music, will present a musical pro-
gramme. The guests of honor will
be Major G. E. Owens, Miss Evelyn
Goldsmith, Mrs. Robins Lau, Mrs.
Laura Burroughs and Mrs. A. M.
Palmer.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
No Supervision During
Pre-SchooI Age

DR.. Henry Dwight Chaplin, chair
man Of the committee on public
health Of the State Reconstruction
Commission, said when interviewed
yesterday;
"fhe school age is the time
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

the most neglected age, ac-
cording to the Committee on Pub
lie Health of the New York State
Reconstruction Commission, which
met on April % at the Academy of
Medicine, II West Forty-third
Street, to discuss the prenatal care
of children and the care of children
of school age.
During infancy q great many
agencies, such as milk stations, diet
kitchens and child welfare stations,
care fer The baby, During school
age there is oversight of children by
nurses aid seheel physicians, But
the time between one form of super-
vlaieh and the other is left neglected,
Yet nfe-seheel age is important
from the physiological point Of view
In tho ehild's life. II Ia a time Of
rapid growth If child la under
nourished the frat four or five years
the effects Of this underfeeding
will be noticed throughout life in his
impaired physical development.
The law of compensations does
not apply to the first four or five
years.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
4 Real Test of
Leadership

At no time, however, did Miss o.
Connor lose control of the meeting.
She simply followed the tactics of
older, but perhaps not shrewder,
labor leaders, and let the opposition
talk itself out. Then she laid down
the law. She speaks we'll, but is
not what one would call an orator,
and, as the veteran of the night be-
fore at the Quincy had predicted.
she had her way. The strenuous
lieutenant who, the night before had
gathered all of the obstreperous ones
about her, did exactly as she was
expected to bellwethered the
kickers into line.
1t was a greater test of leadership
than to bring the women-and for
that matter the 5000 male employees
of the company-out on strike; for
it Is not a difficult task to start q
strike. 1t is, however, something of
a job, job that has broken the
heart OF more than one male leader,
TO bring strikers back to work once
they are out and have tasted some of
the blood of victory, Even at that,
there was task no other labor
leader had to faee-to get the girla
back to work Immediately in the
Face Of Easter Monday celebration,
dance dales and all that these IN
volve.
In no olher American city Ia
lshater made 40 much Of au IN lloH.
ton, Hundreds OF cluha and organ.
iantions celebrate the passing Of the
1entcn acnson with balls, theatre
parties and the like; there Ia the
usual crop of Easter weddings and
hundreds of the girls, believing the
strike would last several days. had
made dates" for Monday night. To
them tho most important thing was
to prepare for the evening--that Is
those Of them who were not on night
schedules. They would not be back
until Tuesday. Neither would the
night girls, who had taken advantage
Of the unexpected to make other ar
rangements than for work.
But they listened to "Julia"-
and went back.
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Demands Suffrage as
Simple Iusiiee

Net that ehe thinks II Ia cure
all for the Ills of tho body polite
~mahp Ia too clever for that~but
she inHlata equal nAIfrage la a mat.
tor OF Bimrle juatice and that.
though 1t Will not cure all the lila
of the state, it will help materially
to that end.
Nor is she afraid that Bolshcvism
will get any considerable foothold
in this country.
So much for Julia O'Connor who,
by the way, Ia believed to be the
highest paid woman labor leader
in the United States, II not in the
world. Her salary Is said to be
$4,000 year, with all travelling
expenses paid, and she Is on the
road much of her time. Some in
quasi~labor movements may and
probably do receive more than this,
but none in the simon pure labor
organization. For that matter, the
heads Of some of the bigger Of the
mems organizations receive less.
One highly successful union that
spends hundreds of thousands Of
dollars each year pays it's president
but $4,000. Others do little better.
The average would probably not ex-
ceed $4,000.
But the phone operators say Miss
O'Connor is worth $4,000 and more
if she cares to ask for it. Women s
unions. at lNast. are not ungrateful.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Neto York Tribune
Washington Bureau

NX WASHINGTON, April 26.-
M A conference of public
Y Y health nurses, holding
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I'm the Women's Clubs

r 1NERvA Club, Mrs. Mary
Stokes MacNutt presi-
dent, will hold the last
luncheon Of the club year
at the Waldorf to-rnor-
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"Juia'' to Everybody

/ say they listened to Julia" for
that is what everybody in Boston
calls her. A stranger in town may
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

The annual May luncheon Of ths
Maine Women's Club will take
place next Saturday at / o'eloek
at the Hotel WoIeott.
The various state clubs of this
city ara endeavoring thraueh tha
congress OF states to eoaperata in
making the afth Victory Loan "a a
suseess, and any member wishing Ia
sehseFihe through the Maine Wom-
eha Club may do so at the luaeheen,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
By John ]. Leary, Jr.

Special Correspondence
hOSTON, April 25.-"What
Julia says goes. This strike
-0 is over and you can bank
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

tor. The luncheon was preceded BY
reception for the guests of honor,
among whom were General Oliver
Bridgman, U. S. A.; Commander
Newton Mansfield, L. S. N; Captain
Charles Z. Courtney, U. S. n;
Commander T. Wickersham, u. S.
n; Colonel Clarence Wilbur Smith.
y. S. A; Captain Charles A. Adams.
Y. S. N; Captain L. S. Barrett.
U. S. A.; Captain F. J. Barrisford.
Y. 5. a; Daniel Frohman, Brainerd
Avery, Amelia Bingham and Samuel
Forrest and Mary Ryan.
Following the luncheon, the mem
bers and their guests greatly en-
Joyed the Theatre Assembly Follies.
which included skit on the Theatre
Assembly Canteen, the music for
which was written by DIR. J. Chris
topher Marks, the lyrics by Mrs.
Marks. and the book by Mrs. James
N. Ballantine, who also staged the
production. nav
"A Week in Old Virginia." writ
ten and produced by Mrs Ballan-
tine, followed the Follies.
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TTNHE preschool which oha
pe"eeh TWO ana siX most sadly neglected,
n "os important age and family is sufficiently
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better for all
New-York tribune., 1919-10-05
Fancy Innings
are in vogue

Fashion DEGREES that the
new fall wraps must be
smart without and gay
within. You will surely find
Just the thing for the lat
ter requirement in our large
selection of fall Innings.
Printed lining satin, with strong
cotton back. in white, pink,
rose, Nile, gray and tan. with
attractive floral and figured de-
signs in colors. [ yard wide,
$1.64 yd.
Printed silk and cotton lining,
light weight and strongly woven,
very serviceable; floral and fig
ured patterns on grounds of
gray, tan, taupe, Copenhagen
and navy. l yard wide,
s1.le yd.
Printed Venetian, we'll wear
ing fabric with mercerized face,
S'NilS Cne appearances OF Sdtln,
smartly figured on grounds of
tan, rose. Copenhagen and
gray. yard wide, 94c yd.
Printed sateen, with a bright
surface; fancy designs and at
tractive colors-pearl, taupc,
tan, brown and black. ! yard
wide, 49c yd.
BlGsgyv:s-Linng Dept, Second
Floor Front.
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C0lOred silks

Colored dress satin; fine quality
good weight; in colors suitable for
street and evening wear; over 25
shades: :35 inches wide. Our usual
price, S249
S1.9S yd.
Colored charmeuse dress satin;
IN navy, brown. taupe; 40 inches
wide. Our usual price, S3.49.
$3.50 yd.
Colored silk faille, fine quality
IN the following colors: navy, dark
navy. taupe, brown, green gray
and white; SO inches wide Our
usual price, S2.97.
S2.49 yd.
Fancy printed satins for coat lin
lngs; all silk; this seasons designs
and colorings; sc inches wide. Our
usual price, S2.49.
S1.9S yd.
Colored China silk; good quality;
ivory. white, rose, light blue.
maize. pink. Copenhagen, flesh.
coral; 80 inches wide. Elsewhere.
S1.50.
81 10 ,-1
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w Omen's
genuine mocha
gloves $1.89 pr

Smart gloves arc essential to the
smart costume. These are well
made and serviceable and Will
supply Your needs.
One clasp, half piquc sewn, Paris
point backs. In desirable street
shades of gray.
ElngyS-,lain Floor, Broadway.
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Drop stitch tricolette
A knitted silk jersey material,
for dress Or street wear; navy,
brown. taupe and black; SO
inches wide. Our regular price,
1924.
Special, 1924 yd.
Llxr-,.=Second Elnor- 2ath Street
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Of particular interest to Manufacturers Dress
makers and theatrical costumers and n1lLiners
$4,000 yards of imported
plain metal ribbons at below
today's s wholesale cost

These ribbons of superior grade and the that VIC
are selling them at what far below todays wholesale cost
can be explained only by having bought them long be-
fore prices began to They may be had in
New-York tribune., 1919-10-05

standard weave and quality, from the best
foreign and American manufacturers. In
the black silk sill vFi, which h'cz'l car Md1cAlmzA55
Tles our high recommendation for salts
factory service.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-05
Why not go to business?

If you have asked yourself this question: and have
hesiated TO because you could not make up your
mind, you TO yourself the duty of investigating.
We have openings in this progressive for widc-awakc
ambitious women. boys and girls
And will cheeruly tell you all about your ehances of
if you will take into your confidence
Good salaries pleasant surroundings promotion for the
capable recreation, social opportunities lunch room--n
fact, this home co-workers during business
hours. You will like the life
Apply at any hour of the day the Employment Office
Second Floor Balcony.
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autumn sale 0fblack and col0red dress silks


So simple are the fashions of fall that the
thrifty woman can be her own modiste and
save many dollars. So low are the prices
IN this sale that the woman who attends and
buys can save many more dollars.
lhese silks are from our regular stock, of
New-York tribune., 1919-10-05
Lace curtains

large and varied assortment of lovely curtains
moderately priced because OF early purchase There
be nothing novel about lace curtains but such curtains
at such prices have all the force of very pleasing novelty
American made Marie Antonete lace curtains mounted
on durable net white Arabian.
21a yds. long, 1924 S5.74 Sc 49, TAG a nair
3 yds. long S649, $S.24 S13.49 pair
Irish point lace curtains from Switzerland
Yards long, S1574 to $3.50 a pair
81 yds long. S1S49 to S39 80 a pair
Scrlm curtains trimmed with hand drawn work
212 yds. long, 1895 to So 40 a nair
Scrlm curtains trimmed with hand work. lace nser
tons, motif and borders: lace trimmed; lace insertion
motif and borders
yards long, S1374 10 800 40 . n.;r
Lace trimmed net curtains made of durable net with ma
chime made cuny lace edging Others with both edginc
and insertion.
~ yards long, lace edged S396 and ST od . n.;r
2 yds long lace edged and nsertion S674 and 81 40 mr.
yds lace edge and insertion. 1924 and S1O49 pair
Nottingham lace panels, white and Arabian COLOR large
"i ''ie'' ol attractVe designs S9c to S2.97 each
Amure portieres four attractive patterns in gold rose
Oue' mulberry and red, SS74 and $11.S9 pair
E1EZvo-Fourh Floor
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Back satin charmeuse
Excellent quality: rich black
with even surface; an excep-
tional value 40 inches wide. Our
regular price, $3.49 yd. $3.50 yd.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-05
American dress silks

American dress silks
Our own brand
sMdzrAY0ao3a black dress satin: a
good quality. firm and lustrous;
yarn dyed; 35 inches wide. Our
usual price, $2.49.
Special S1.9S yd.
sl17cAtn70oj black dress satin:
good weight and quality; lustrous;
closely woven; yarn dyed; 35
inches wide.
S2.19 yd.
;M07c&m7nS black dress satin;
heavier and frmer quality: 35
inches wide. Usual price. So 30
S2.79 yd.
e)H0sch/011AN black satin de luxe;
superior quality; high lustre close
~ woven; 40 inches wide. Our
regular price, 1896.
1929 yd.
.NdscAlm,o3S black dress taffeta:
fine quality; we'll woven; 36 inches
wide. Usual price, 1929.
$3.50 yd.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-05
Imported black silks

Imported black silks
French dress satin; fine quality
and lustrous; 35 inches wide.
SIP yd.
French dress satin; good quality:
chiffon finish; 80 inches wide.
S2.39 yd.
French dress taffeta; fine quality;
good weight, firmly made and
lustrous; 335 inches wide.
S1.9S yd.
American black silks
Black dress satin; medium weight,
soft tinish 35 inches wide. Our
usual price $1.98.
S1.69 yd.
Black satin duchess; heavy weight
and fine quality; SO inches wide.
Our regular price, $2.49.
Special S2.19 yd.
Black silk faille; good quality and
weight; 36 inches wide. Our usual
price, $297.
S2.49 yd.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-05
Dainty embroideries

always in demand and they douby desirable when
the designs embroidered on servceable materials
The prices quoted the fooning items are Noteworthy
they 1a TO u less than onn lopest-1-thc-
city prices.
Chinese and Madeira hand embroidered bands edgng and
ouncings. Formerly priced at from SO to S2975 yd
Now SOC to S19.74 yd.
Hand embroidered medaions at 3 less than usual For
merly priced 79c to Sl.39 each Now Acc to SOC each
Embroidered semmade prettiy embroidered
patterns on good quality welwearing cambria Formerly
priced 9Sc Specially priced SOC ca.
SY0sgy-Embrodery Section Second Floor
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5NacTs-second Floor, s5th Street.
Evening journal., 1919-09-19
HARD LIVING
NOW IN RUSSIA
Children Chief Sufferers
From Scarcity of High
Priced Food
DEPRECIATION OF
MONEY CHIEF CAUSE

PARIS. France sept. i9.-The frsi
ana last thing which impresses a yis-
itor TO Vienna today is the enormous
depreciation Of Austrian currency and
its offect on prices, It is worse, per
haps, in German Austria than in any
other country in Europe save Russia
FOR instance, before the war an Amer
nan dollar brought Z 70 ; kronen In
Vienna; now 10 brings 40. In 1914
Vienna, like Paris, offered a moderate
scale OF prices to-lhOse who wished
10 ind them. Now, according TO the
Neue Freie Presse, living has risen no
less than 2000 per cent
A few details are necessary 10 bring
home the full force Of the situation. On
the open market, meat potatoes,
SUGAR, coffee. butter, etc, can scarcely
be bought at all, but by a system OF
smuggling for which Central Europe is
famous, they can be obtained in res
iaursnts. At what prices? An average
meal costs from 30 10 40 kronen. with
out wine or any unnecessary frills
Whatever. A good meal, consisting OF
three or four courses, costs 80 kronen.
These are only estimates
Al a few restaurants, backed by the
Government. prices are lower, and IN
she mnchroms run by the American
Association for Child Feeding food Is
sold at cost But, unfortunately, this
Nst category does not reach the whole
~ the population.
Cloihing. too, costs approximately as
Snuch. Bad shoes bring over 400 kronen
Her pair, a mans suit 2000, shirts 4O'
necklics, %, etc.
Reduced into terms Of dollars these
Nrices are not extoriienate; indeed, for
an American they are fairly reason
hble But for average Austrians they
ere terrible. All their property, secur-
bites snd fortunes are estimated in
hronen- They have no more OF that
commodity now. with the exchange at
so. than they had in 1919. when il
stood at 5. Salaries have risen TO some
sNlenl. but nowhere like 2O00 per cent
Besides. work Itself is almost impos-
sible TO fnd Austria has no coal nor
raw materials at homo and in the pres
Snt chaotic condition OF commerce can
smporl little from abroad. Therefore
her factories stand idle end useless.
one concrete example will Illustrate
ihe plight Of the middle classes. A man
who had been a colonel in the olg
Ausiro-Hungarian Army came TO the
American mission in Vienna and asked
tf they could give him work OF some
bind to do. lie had heard. that Amer
scans were going 10 form a stock COM
Aany to exploit the timber resources
of Germsn-Austria, a report In reality
auite unfounded. He came OF good
family and had the large measure OF
bride inherent IN officers OF the old
siual monarchy. This, according TO his
story. was his last RESORT He had
fried every other clue. As a father OF
Iour children, all under - years OF
age. he was receiving POO Honen 4
month pension from the Austrian Gov
.rrnment. This was absolutely all he
had 10 live on. Besides, his wife was
Evening journal., 1919-09-19

Also Satin, in combination
with georgette, at the price.
Newest autumn shades. All
sizes
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oonsumptiye and required mountain
air.
! venture 10 say that strictly mini
mum income for family Of that size
would be 500 crowns a month. What
VIII become OF them? Probably they
viii die OF slow starvation, like 80
Central Europe.
A strong government, which could
make and enforce food restrictions,
might improve the situation, as was
done in England and France during the
war. But strong Is exactly what the
Government Of German-Austria IS not,
its rules and regulations are dis0beyed
with laughable impunity. On mestless
days all the big restaurants serve meat
White bread and pastries are forbidden
by Jaw, yet can almost always be Cd
talned at a certain price. All this
goes under the name OF smuggling.
Common people resent il only mildly.
They say that they cannot live on Gov
crnment ratlons; that now, as durlng
the war, they must obtain little cX-
ira by Illegal trading.
Perhaps the root OF the whole mat
ter lies in the corruption OF the
bureaucracy, which, instituted for life
by the old regime, has not been re-
moved by the Socialists. Food imports,
The parrSion OF the harvest and barrier
with other countries come under It's
control.
The consequences OF This situation
are dlfflcult to imagine. They mean the
siunting or annihilation OF The pres
ent generation OF children. They IN
spire a feeling OF listlessncss In adults
which complicates eth further the
possibility OF Improvement Hunger.
unemployment and despair are cardinal
principles for the spread OF Bolshe-
vism, or. II the character OF the peo-
ple be adverse to that, for the reDirh
Of absolu.ism.
This applies not only TO German Aus
tria. but also TO ell the other new
countries Of Central Europe. For them
the problem Of living is a terrible
one. As long as the present disorgan-
izatlon OF commerce continues ahey
need all ahe help that we can give
them.
Evening journal., 1919-09-19
BEST SKIN CREAM
FOR The BABIES
Keeps Baby's skin Free of Sores and
Blemishes, Soft and smooth.

Careful mothers will find that they
can keep baby's skin in perfect condi-
ton. Free OF contagion. skin disease
and eruptions easily II they use NoX-
zema skin Cream frequently. II is
harmless. Doesn't soil the linen and is
a non-greasy, highly medicated, vanish
ing skin cream that sinks into the skin
soothing and cooling the itchy, sore,
and feverish spots and leaves skin soft
and velvety.
Il heals almost over night the pim-
pies, eruptlons and red spots that often
come on the baby. Many a child has
gone straight 60 sleep after. rubbing its
little body with NoXzema Skin Cream.
Mothers find it a splendid cream for
complexion, too. Sold by all good drug
gists or sent direct by Noxzema Chem
ical Co, Baltimore Nd, upon receipt OF
26c.
For sale by y. B. Danforlh. Market
and Second streets.
Evening journal., 1919-09-19
ASIATIC CHOLERA
RAGING In RUSSIA

NOVORlSsR. Russia. UNITED Press /;
BY Courier 20 Constantinople).-An
epidemic OF Asiatio cholera is raging
IN this city.
During the past week the death rate
from the disease has averaged t2O per
day. Sixty-1ve per cent Of the cases
prove fatal. Shore leave from ships In
narbor has been discontinued.
Instructions against the use OF I'M
boiled water and uncooked food have
been issued, but careless living habits