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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Reasons Why the
Theatrical Worm
Has Turned
An Ex-Actress Proves bv
Her Attic Trunk That
Theatrical Contracts Are
Only Scraps of Paper"
BY ELENE FOSTER

pROBABLY no strike in al! the
a. history of the struggle between
capital and labor ever came SO like
bolt from the blue to the employer
as that Of the actors.
Il never thought that they'd >>ye
the nerve to do it," was the remark
which passed from one to another
of the magnates of the theatrical
world when the news of the closing
Of their theatres was broken to them
They were absolutely habbergasted
they had come to look upon actors
as spineless individuals, and when
at last the worm turned they re-
fused to believe it,
AS one of the first members of the
Actors Equity Association l we'll
remember the attitude of the theatre
cal managers when the founding of
the first protective society for mem
bers of the dramatic profession was
made known to them. can associ-
alton of actors quoth they; at
won't last six months. Actors never
have stood together and they never
will, they are too much afraid of
losing their jobs. Furthermore,
there are plenty of actors in the
world outside of the membership of
the new association whom we can
get to fill the places of any who don't
like the way that we do business. F."
And so they continued the even
tenor of their way
The Actors Equity Association
was founded on purely altruistc
principles = it was a banding to-
gether of the strong for the protec-
ton of the weak. What difference
do you suppose it would make to men
like John Drew, Francis Wilson,
Thomas A. Wise, Bruce McRae, or
women like Ethel Barrymore, Mar
garet Wycherly, Marie DRESSER or
Laurette Taylor, whether or not
they were given an Equity contract?
Yet these are the men and women
who to-day have left their rehearsals
and the opening of their new produc-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Future of Women Lies
In the Hands of Labor
A Woman for Federal
attorney in California

'HE United States Senate has
confirmed the recess appoint
ment by President Wilson of
Mrs. Annette Adams, of San
francisco, as United States Dis
trlct Attorney for Northern Cali
fornia. This is the first Federal
appointment Of the kind to 20 to
a woman.
Legal gossip from the Depart
ment of Justice has it that this
district had more prosecutions
during the war than any CORE
spending territory in this coun-
try. San Francisco is the prin-
cipal city in this district.
Mrs. Adams has been acting in
her present office for about q
year. She was originally a
school teacher, but left this
work to study law and was
graduated from the University
of California with an LIB. For
a number of years Mrs. Adams
practised law in partnership
with another woman lawyer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17


tional Executive Committee
in document which is being
placed in the hands of every woman
voter IN the close political states
says that Republican rule in the ma
ton means political equality in
practice-that Republicanism means
deeds, not words. The document, in
the form of small folder carrying
a political map of the United States
is regarded as the strongest one is
sued by the Republican women, and
for that reason is receiving nation
wide distribution.
"Within two weeks after the re-
turn of Republican control the
Sixty-siXth Congress passed the
Federal suffrage amendment bv an
overwhelming Majority says the
document, which summarizes the
vote as follows:
House-304 "for" to SO against"
Senate-56 "for" to 25 "against.'
Ninety per cent of the Republ-
cans of the House voted "for.'
Seventy-nine per cent of the Dem
ocrats of the House voted "against.'
Eighty-siX per cent of the Re
publicans of the Senate voted "for. "
Forty-six per cent of the Demo-
Gratis of the Senate voted "against.'
The Democrats in control of Con-
gress for the last eight years talked
about it-and did nothing.
The first eight legislatures to
ratify the Federal suffrage amend
ment were Republican.
The first man who secured recog-
milton for women's cause in Con-
gress and arranged committee hear
ings was Senator James Harlan, of
Iowa, a Wing (the forerunner of
the Republican party.
The first man to introduce and
speak for suffrage in Congress was
Senator Aaron A. Sargent, Re
publican, of California.
Republican sentiment for suf-
frage, steadily growing through the
years, eliminated in final passage
of the Federal Suffrage Amend
ment in 1919 by a Republican Con-
gress.
Republication means political
equality in practice, according to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Education for
Children Who Work

The reconstruction programme
of the British government is so
farreaching," she declares, that ten
years ago most of us would have
called it socialistic, but people have
moved forward to meet it. Perhaps
there is nothing of more interest to
women than the new education bill,
which makes it compulsory for all
boys and girls between fourteen and
eighteen who are working to have
part time education. Employers are
forced to allow their juvenile work
ers between these ages to have at
least eight hours schooling a week.
Then there is the great housing
programme. Cottages are being put
up in all the cities and villages, and
an endeavor is being made to make
them things Of beauty as we'll as
usefulness. This, to my mind, is an
expression of the spirit of the Eng
lish people. They are determined to
bury the frightfulness of war and to
spread abroad as much cheer and
beauty as possible. Flats = the
equivalent of the American apart
ments-are being put up by the
municipalities. Even in the little
villages the housing question is
capably handled.
''The creation Of the Ministry of
Health is another forward step. 1t
is handling in the schools everything
from housing to dentistry and
has already taken drastic steps
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Republican Record
On Woman Suffrage

the women of the committee. More
than a year ago Will H. Hays,
chairman Of the Republican Ma
tlonal Committee, appointed the
Republican Women's National Elk
ecutive Committee Thus, clearly
and definitely, was the advent of
women into politics recognized by
the Republicans. The women, more
over, take their places as CUNTS in
the party membership" with the
same rights Of authority, of formu-
lating policies, Of working, as those
accorded men.
Coordinating and cooperating
with the Republican National Com
mittee from the beginning in Great
ing an effective organization of
Republican women and men, the
Republican Women's National Elk
ecutive Committee called a confer
ence of Republicans in May, 1919,
and for two days party problems,
state and local conditions and sug-
gestions for meeting them, and a
general plan of organization were
discussed. For facilitating discus
sion the states were placed in, three
groups: Suffrage, Presidential or
part suffrage and non-suffrage.
Delegates met with their own
group, discussed their problems and
changed their plan of organization
to meet the particular need of their
own state. Women's organizations
state, district, county and pre-
cinct-are being formed, not sep
arately, but in connection with the
mems committee, that, together,
all Republican men and women NAV
carry out the principles and ideals
Of the party.
"What the Republican party is:
The party of action-get in line.
The party of vision-let it express
yours. The party of justice-it
gave you the ballot. Vote its
ticket is the message to women
voters from Republican women.
One side of the document is a
political chart map of the United
States, showing the electoral vote
of each state, with its political and
suffrage status. The chart shows
that there is full or Presidential
suffrage in twenty Republican states,
with total Of PAP electoral votes, as
against seven Democratic states
having full Presidential suffrage,
with tifty-four electoral votes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Iventy Million
Women Recruited
To Fight Food Prices

Wanted Twenty million wom-
en- to interview the butchers, bakers
and grocers of America and inquire
INTO the high cost of foodstuffs" is
Z me call which the Women's Ma
sonal Economic Committee is send
ag across the country to the home
makers Of the nation from its head
quarters, % East Seventeenth
Street, New York.
Investigate the grocers, the
butchers and the bakers and you
Will likely find the real food
pfohteers, declared Mrs. Charles
o. Hirst, president of the Daily
rood Alliance, in sending out the
'ali to the women Of America to
set together ~ the high cost of
Wing problem.
BE exceedingly wary of legisla-
I'VE cure-alls, however specious
"ey may appear
housekeepers everywhere who
xek to lower food prices are urged
/" write to Miss Lillian A. Morse,
1ecutlve secretary Of the Women's
aatlonal Economic Committee, with
maces at % East Seventeenth
street, New York. Affiliation with
ae committee entails no expense,
MsFeiy the pledge to unite with the
,sner homemakers of the country
= obtaining food at right prices.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

where school children are con-
cerned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Labor the Most
Interesting Question

But my chief interest lies in the
labor question, and let me say that
the strikes are not specifically more
serious in England than they are
anywhere else at present. No Bit
terness is felt toward the aristoc-
racy or even toward the employer,
but, rather, to the nouveau richie
and the profiteer. 1t is war to the
teeth against those two classes.
Labor is agitating for two things
over there: ID A share in con-
troll; (2) a fairer share in indus
trial profits.
Undoubtedly they will get both
through the operations of the Whit
ly committees, now being estab-
lished in every industrial centre,
and consisting Of representatives.
of the employers, of the foremen
and Of the actual workers. These
committees are much like medieval
guilds, but are quite the most mod
ern and radical thing in labor. The
war has certainly taught labor its
power. 1t has given an ocular
demonstration of the fact that with
out proper organization society
cannot exist for twenty four hours.
In Britain the Labor party is the
best antidote there is to Bolshe-
vism'
There is at present a slump in
effort, q relaxed feeling among the
women. They have worried and
worked 50 long, says Mrs. Hale
thai they are now suffering from
reaction and are going in for goi-,
tennis and other outdoor sports
more enthusiastically than ever.
Also, England has returned to it's
beloved little iced cakes with IFS
afternoon tea-a sure sign that il
is emerging cheerfully from its
darkest period.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
By ISHBEL ROSS

NJ D "s":s '% ss:: s.s '. :"'s TO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Changes Necessary
In Home Life

Immediately after landing Mrs.
Hale went straight through to Bos-
ton, where her children are-those
babies who, away back in August,
1915, shocked the New Englanders
by running around in their birthday
suits. Their mother, we'll known
both as an actress, lecturer and au-
thoress, believes in extreme sim
plicity in dress, especially where
nineteen-mo old infants are con-
cerned-and that was about how
ancient the babies were when they
first got into print as sensation
mongers.
Mrs. Hale feels rather triumphant
that suffrage in England has net il
Jerfered with home life, for away
back in 1914 she expressed her
self thus on the same subject:
"Feminism, if it is live thing, can
not mean the elimination of children
from women's lives; one can afford
to trust not only life but women for
that. The time has already come
when women are achieving success
in their work and III The upbring 2
Of their children as well. But com
plete freedom, boti. to work and t.
bear children, involves almost IN
imaginable changes il social condi-
tons, III housing, nursing. educa-
ton, cooking, cleaning and in indus
try and the professions. 1t is the
biggest job of the feminist move
ment, and on its success or failure
the whole thing hangs"
She points out that those "un-
imaginable changes" forecast are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Beatrice FOrbes-RObertsOn Hale
Comes From England With
Cheerful Views on Out
look for Feminism

already coming about in England as
a result of the war, and that home
life, community life, education and
Industry are being put on a new
basis.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
arm Life VS.. Prison
Tried i'm Two States
For Delinquents
Exhibit at Columbia Shows
Value of Classification
and Outdoor Instead of
Indoor Domestic Work

THE most improved treatment of
women delinquents is still in
the experimental stage, according to
Julia Jaffray, secretary of the Ma
tlonal Committee on Prisons and
Prison Reform. The committee held
an exhibit at Columbia University
last week under the auspices of the
Y. M. c. A. for the summer school.
1.-TWO notable pieces of work are
being done along the line of reform
in prison life of delinquent women,'
said Miss Jaffray. "Both are in the
experimental stage.
"The New Jersey State Home for
Girls, at Trenton, is being converted
into a clearing house for all de-
linquent women in the state There
they are examined and classified.
The feebleminded are separated from
the others. Outdoor life and
wholesome occupation are part of
the treatment of all. DR.. Mary
Harris is the superintendent.
1.-The second experiment is being
made in Connecticut A farm has
been established where one thou
sand adult delinquents can event.
TALLY be taken care of. There are
only forty women there now. The
work of the institution will be based
on classification of the women"
In discussing the work taught
women in the reformatories and
other penal institutions Miss Jaffray
said that she believed one of the
mistakes of the past had been that
too many of them were trained for
domestic service.
"The loneliness and isolation of
the domestic servants, except in rare
cases, where they are part of
large household, are what the de-
llnquent woman cannot stand. Many
cases that have come to our atten-
ton of women recommitted to in
stitutions have been those of women
who went into domestic service when
their terms were up. 1t is likely
that the old customs of teaching
women in institutions to cook and
sew will be discontinued IN time"
Industrial work is recommended
by Miss Jaffray. 1t is her theory
that the supplies for all state in
stitutions, such as stockings, under
wear and the like, ought tc be made
by the women in penal institutions.
The trade unions are cooperating
with the Committee on Prisons and
Prison Reform in putting released
prisoners to work who have learned
trade during their term in the
penal institutions. Mrs. Sarah Con-
boy, international secretary treasur-
er of the Textile Workers Union,
will 20 to Trenton this week with
Miss Jaffray to work on plans for
finding employment for girls out of
the reformatories who have learned
the work of the textile trade.
The exhibit at Columbia includes a
large collection of data on women
and girl delinquents. Classification
of the offenders divides them into six
classes-the mentally defective, de-
| generates, young offenders, diseased
persons, inebriates and drug users.
Statistics show that the farm life
has improved many of the delin-
quent women. The kind of farm
work reported to be done best checks
up with the reports on work of the
perfectly normal women of the Land
Army. Truck gardening, light work,
orchard work, the handling Of fruit
and vegetables, are the farm work
for which women are preferred.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
,emocrats Claim That
Vomen's Interests We're
Sacrificed Last Winter at
Albany by G. o. P.
Var Nurse Against Sweet
Republicans Say That Bills
/. Did Not Represent Work
ing Women's Wishes
Albany, n. Y,
Special CORRESPONDENCE

Special Correspondence
INVITATIONS have already made
themselves felt in the upstate
centres that one of the chief weap-
ous of a Democratic candidate will
be the so-called detection of the
| Republicans in connection with the
yomens ''welfare' measures in
he last Assembly. Miss Marion
Dckerman, who will oppose Speaker
Thaddeus c. Sweet in Oswego
County for the Assembly designa-
ton, expects the support of the
women of her county on the grounds
that Speaker Sweet locked the min
mum wage, eight-hour day and
health insurance bills in the Rules
Committee. Her supporters say
that little legislation of value to
women was put through last year
because of the opposition of the
Assembly Rules Committee.
Republican women are preparing
their own counter to these charges.
They point to tifty-six bills passed
in 1919, at least fifty of which are
actually womens bills, while the
others affect women so closely that
they may be classed with them.
At the recent Syracuse Repub-
lican conference Assemblyman
George Fearon, of Syracuse, one of
the well known members of the
lower House, explained the burial
of the "welfare' measures.
1T was not a partisan act said
Mr.. Fearon. Both Republicans
and Democrats would be glad to
see womens protective measures
receive the attention of the legis-
lature.
But until women come to the
legislature united, until they know
What they want, nc reasonable body
Of lawmakers can act. Last year it
was the reformers who made de-
nands, not the large body of work
ng women. When the workers
NOW what they want they will
peak for themselves
The Republican organizations of
women which have been completed
throughout the state are expected to
become d certain outlet for de-
nands of women. The party con-
ferences have been attended by the
county chairmen, state committee
uen, congressman, Senators, AS
Nmblymen and party leaders gen
orally, both men and women. No
reference has been made to the
candidacy of any Republican for
national or state honor, although
organization of men and women for
the 1920 Presidential election has
been discussed. At the Saratoga
conference. which took in the coun-
ties of Washington, Warren, Mont
gOmery, Saratoga and Rensselaer,,
Mr.. Glynn made this characterize
uon of women in politics:
THE political ability, information
and energy of the women has
amazed oldtime leaders ands con-
yerted many of them to the COM
plete recognition of women in party
affairs"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

collecting data for lecture tour in
the United States Her season be-
gins in October, and she will speak
ON Reconstruction in England and
America" "The English Labor
Party" Drama Since the War" and
"The Women of the Future" Next
spring she may lecture in England
on conditions in America.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-07-17
MILLIONS
Suffer from
Acid Stomach

Millions of people suffer year after year
from ailments Affecting practically every
part of the body. never dreaming that their
Ill health can be traced directly to acid
stomach. Hero is the reason: poor digestion
means poor noLrishment of the different
organs and tissues OF the body. The blood is
Observation-Disclosures weak. thin. sluggish.
Ailments OF many kinds spring from such
conditions. Bllousness, rheumatism lum-
bago, sciatica, general weakness, loss Of
power and energy, headache. insomnia,
nervousness. mental depression-even more
serious ailments such catarrh and cancer
of the stomach. intestinal ulcers, cirrhosls
Of the liver. heart trouble-all of these can
often be traced directly to acid stomach.
Keep a sharp lookout for the first symp-
toms of acid Observation-Disclosures. heart.
burn. belching. food repeating, that awful
stomach. EAToNIC. the wonderful modern
bring quick relief from these stomach mis-
cries. Thousands say they never dreamed
that anything could bring such speedy relief
and mako them feel much better in
every way. Try EATONIC and you. too.
will be just as enthusiastic in its praise.
Make your life worth living-no aches or
pains-no blues or melancholy-no more Of
that tired, listless feeling. BE we'll and
strong. Get back your physical and mental
punch; your vim. vigor and vitality. You
will always be weak and ailing as long
you have acid stomach. 30 get rid Of 1t now.
Take EATONIC Tablets-they taste good
you eat them like a bit of candy. Your
druggist has HATOHIC-50 cents for . bis
box Get q box from him today and if you
are not satisfied he will refund your money.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-07-17
II You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best

Have you ever stopped to reason why
It is that 80 many products that are ex-
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and are soon forgotten? The
reason is PLAINTIFF article did not fulfill
the promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to medicine.
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy Ia
recommended by those who have been
benefited, to those who are in need of 1t.
A prominent druggist says "Take for
example DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a
preparation I have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
suits, as many of my customers testify.
No other kidney remedy has so large a
sale"
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
used the preparation, the success of DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root is due to the fact,
80 many people claim, that it ful6lls al
most every wish in overcoming kidney,
liver and bladder ailments; corrects uri.
nary troubles and neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive a sample bottle OF
Swamp. Root by Parcels Post. Address
DR.. Kilmer 4 Co., Binghamton, N. Y,
and enclose ten cents; also mention this
paper. Large and medium size bottles
for sale at all drug stores.-Adv.
What man has done woman thinks
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-07-17

There was man who freed two moths,
And those two moths were mothers,
That year there were a million more,
The next million others.
They had tremendous appetites,
And wrought great devastation,
Until the state with wrath arose,
And fought like Carrie Nation.
A fight was begun which has lasted
for years and today 1t has cost more
than fifteen million dollars in cash for
applying control measures, besides
many times this amount of property
damage.
The chestnut blight Is bark dis
ease which was brought to this coun-
try from the Orient on japanese chest
nut nursery stock. 1t was first found
on western Long Island in 1904. In
ten years 1t spread over half of the
chestnut area Of the United States and
at the present time 1t has practically
exterminated the chestnut trees within
a 100-mile radius of New York and Is
Tupluly accompanying TIC COHipicte
ruin of our. magnificent chestnut for
ests of the South. The loss Is many
million dollars and Its ultimate end
will be the extinction of one of the
most useful and most profitable Amer
lean forest trees, as no remedy has
been found. Only recently it was
found that a similar disease attacking
the poplars had been imported from
the nurseries of France and had spread
over wide area of the United States
Other dangerous pests introduced
from abroad are the Oriental peach
moth, the Japanese beetle, the Euro
pean earwig, the Leopard moth, the
alfalfa weevil, the European eelworm.
The European corn borer is pest
which apparently was brought to the
United States In cargo of hemp un-
loaded at rope factory near Boston.
1t is exceedingly destructive to corn,
feeding by boring in the stalk. In Its
operation 1t works upward, eating out
chamber from the pith. The devel-
oping ears are also sometimes hol-
lowed out AS high as 90 per cent Of