Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-25
MEXICAN FEMINIST
COUNCIL PROTESTS
! j. S. PHILANTHROPY
Claims Child Conservation
League Has Intervention
as Ultimate Aim.

MEXICO CITY. Tuesday, December
cS.-Resolutions of protest against
projected philanthropic intervention
IN Mexican affairs by the recent
League of the United States were
passed at a meeting of the Mexican
feminist council today.
The league which, it is said. pro
poses, with the financial backing of
= group of the largest and best
known magnates of the United States,
to- spend from 81. 900. 900 to 100000
a1nually on charitable propaganda in
MEXICO" is said to be a far-sighted
scheme to bring about ultimate inter-
vSQtton In Mexican affairs"
Statement From Council.
Signora Elena Torres, general sec
Rotary of the feminist council, today
associated Press:
Mexican women hold Mexico itself
tosoe best able to judge it's own needs
and to ind a way to satisfy them in
1nsant, is entirely unlimited. Those
dasiring to spend money to relieve
cemporary structures in Mexico Incl
d5ne to thetens years revolution may
ma means through Mexican institu-
liens already organized for that pur-
pose. Above all, before seeking ex-
tefnal objects of charity, those benev-
olently inclined United States citizens
dssirous of relieving suffering had
best take care of those 10000 900 to
$4,000 children which the 1919 re-
port of the children's bureau at Wash
ington declares are dying annually in
tip United States from hunger and
InSlnutrition.
holds that aside from the gratuitous
nature of the proposed philanthropic
Intervention there is underlying q
rucre sinister motive than the pro-
jefted foundation of hospitals. church
es asylums and schools in every
Mexican state-as is revealed by the
faft that those persons financially
supporting the movement are the
same individuals who have agitated
mpst insistently for Intervention and
Fhanciers heading the list of patrons
of the so-called childhood conserva-
tion league are these banks, oil bar
ons. philanthropistS and notable men
cieties and associations for the pro-
lection of American rights in Mexico.
Critieises Secretary.
agnes c. Laut, secretary of the
new charitable organization. but bet
ter known as e confidential secretary
tor financial magnates than an organ
izer of benevolent institutions, was
atwork purely in the interests of her
employers while making a recent trip
through Mexico. 1t is frankly stated
TIE leagues objects are the estab-
lislhment within ten or fifteen years of
stfongholds of sympathy for the
UHited States in the minds of the
benef1ciaries of this enterprise. who
w6uld be impregnated with new Gull
ture and new patriotism, which would
train them to acceptance rather than
revolt against possible armed inter-
vention in Mexico.
fExamples of such propaganda In
China and Turkey, which fnanc1ers,
pffilanthropists and missionaries COM
bine to subvert the minds and un-
Outstanding of innocent childre, are
top we'll kown to necessitate proof
Tie effect upon the minds of the
unsuspecting masses of such an an
nual expenditure of money in Mexico
by the United states would forward
tie sinister purposes of the inter-
yentionists. who thus could convince
those people that Mexico was unable
to. solve her own problems and care
for her own citizens without outside
assistance. :.
rThe Mexican Feminist Council
calls upon every Mexican citizen, man
and woman, to resist this overt at
tack upon national self-respect and
dignity and to ind some means them
selves of solving pressing problems
Of national reconstruction"