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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-09
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

Tax books for the collection of
city taxes will be opened September
1, 1919, and remain open until Nov
ember / - 1919, at which time execu-
lions will be issued against all de-
faulters. This August 26. 1919:
r. r. JONES, Clerk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-09
SURGEONS GRATED BABY'S
FOOT TO FATHERS BODY
Was the Only Resort to Save the
Injured Member of Little Fellow
| Who Was Run Down bv Engine

Injured Member of Little Fellow
Who Was Run Down by Engine.
HAMMOND, Ind.-Little Mike
Rushka, aged years, lies in hos
pital here with his little foot grated
to his father.
He wandered from his home on the
B. & o. tracks and while playing
there he was run down by an engine
and all the skin crushed off one foot.
Surgeons decided they might save
his life by skin grating, so an incis-
ion was made in the fathers body
and the child's foot sewed therein.
The operation promises to be sue
cess.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-09
MOTHERS!

kained spectacles you
j not be any better oft,
Build not fit yourself.
Ihave any eye troubles
be glasses you are wear
/ not giving satisfaction,
] the time to see about it
! home town. Mr.. Pat
Bmes we'll recommended,
bis work is prescription
and glasses are ground
Factory for each individ-
Be.
De at the Weaver Drug
any
/. 18th and 10th
forget the time and the
H. PATRICK
sgiStered OptOmetriSt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Women Voters
Should Oppose Legislation

Miss Potter believes that women
have great responsibility as voters,
a responsibility that women of all
the states will soon actively share.
"Women voters should work against
radical changes such as this" she
declared.
"This will be an opportunity for
women to educate themselves in pub
lie affairs and really help in a ma
tion-wide fight to cut the cost of
food. The one thing every house
wife in this country has learned in
the last few months is that some one
is prohteering. 1t will not take the
women long to find out a few
facts for themselves once they get
started"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

es for the world congress came from
the British trade unionists and was
Endorsed by the National Women's
Trade Union League at it's biennial
session in Philadelphia in June of
this year. Prior to that, however,
the idea of holding the congress had
originated with Mary Anderson and
Rose Schneidermann, who went to
Paris as representatives of the
league before the peace conference.
After consultation with the trade
unionists of Great Britain and
France, it was deemed advisable to
assemble the worlds working women
in a meeting coincidental to the In
ternational Labor Conference.
Headquarters of the leagues COM
mittee on arrangements is at 1923
New York Avenue, N. w., Wash
ington. 1t is here that the answers
to the call sent to the women of
thirty-four countries will be sent,
and the details for the gatherings
managed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Volunteer War Workers
ReaPpea1' ut Food Sales

is womens business and the one
thing in which they are all in
terested."
One of Miss Cauble's Recommended
lions to buyers is that working girls
club together and by dried fruit
and such rations in large boxes. She
sees a chance for cooperative buying
on crates Of canned goods and boxes
of apricots and prunes.
CAN Of the food we shall sell is
sensible food-part of the army's
balanced diet for its men. Bacon,
dry cured, is weighed out and sold
at about one-half the market price.
Raisins are 8 cents pound
and practically everything is cut to
nearly one-half the market price.
Soups, however, show no reduction
over the retail prices"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Social Morality Committee of
Y. w. C.. A. Has Arranged
Tentative Programme

inc B. Davis was placed at the head
Of the section on women's work with
the social hygiene division of the
Committee on Training Camp Ac-
Invites Of the War Department Gre
ated by the government to present
this programme.
A staff Of las women physicians
was called together, and in eleven
and half months 6,185 lectures had
been delivered as a government pro-
gramme. 1t was estimated that $685.
DAB women and girls were reached.
These lectures dealt primarily with
the government regulations for the
prevention and cure of venereal dis
ease. When the United States public
health service took over the venereal
disease problem the lecture bureau
of the social morality committee re-
sumed it's original work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
One Child in Eight
Goes to kindergarten
Commissioner Claxton Urges
This Training in Ameri-
canizatiOn Work

TN ITS national campaign for
more kindergartens the Ma
tional Kindergarten Association,
s West Fortieth Street, has issued
the following plea for justice:
"Perhaps your child will have an
opportunity to go to college, and
then again he may be obliged to go
to work at an early age.
"Whatever may befall your own
boy, the fact is that the great ma
jority of children never go even to
high school. The inadequate educa-
ton which most children receive
would be materially amplifed and
enriched by the mental, moral and
manual training which a good kim
dergarten provides. Only one child
in eight is enjoying these educa-
tional advantages.
"a kindergarten ought to be
opened in every one of the elemen-
tary schools to provide equal oppor-
tunities for all the nations chill
dren."
P. P. Claxton, Commissioner of
Education of the Federal Depart
ment Of the Interior, issued the fol-
lowing arguments for kindergartens
for all children:
Are we not overlooking the
easiest, surest and most natural
means for laying the foundation
of characterization when we neg
lect to provide a sufficient number
of kindergartens for all the chill
dren of the aliens in our midst?
Can any one enter the home of
the alien more easily than the
Kindergarten, who, with the
mother, has a common interest in
the little child?
Can you imagine a better class
in Americanization than the
mothers meetings, where shy for
eign women Of different nationali-
ties meet with the kindergarten
and take their first lessons in
American customs, manners and
ideals2
Did you ever think how incon-
sistent it is to have compulsory
education laws for certain school
years and neglect to provide
classes for two whole years which
are as valuable educatlonally as
any years in the child's life?
Do you realize that nearly A.
100000 Of our children are losing
two years Of schooling by not be-
! ing in the kindergarten?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

N7OMEN from all parts Of New
w York City have come forward
in a body to offer their services in
the city's sale of army food, accord
ing to Miss Laura A. Cauble, Deputy
Commissioner of Public Markets.
Miss Cauble has had charge of the
volunteer corps and its organization
end is enthusiastic over the response
she has received to her request for
help.
women Of every color, creed and
political conviction have called me
or written to me-" said Miss Cauble
last week, Republicans, Socialists
and Democrats have been ready to
help just as they were in the war.
"The sale shows that women have
learned how to use their civic and
political powers. This food business
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
international Conference
Of Women Physicians to
Meet Here in September
Republican Women
Running for Office
In Ne,p York State

Designating petitions for NOM
nations in the primaries have
been filed in the Secretary of
States office in Albany, and re-
turns show that at least three
women In this state are seeking
Republican nominations for the
Assembly.
Mrs. Ida samnis, of Suffolk
county, is out for re-election and
Miss Margaret Smith, Of New
York, is the candidate fer the
Nineteenth Assembly district,
and will be opposed by Martin
j. Hughes, Democrat; and Mrs.
Elizabeth Worth Muller, Of
Monticello, niece of the late
Jacob Worth, at one time
Senator and Republican leader
in Brooklyn, has announced her
candidacy for member of the
Assembly from Sullivan county
on an independent Republican
ticket. Assemblyman w. J..
Brown is the present in
cumbent.
In Brooklyn two Republican
women are candidates for the
Board of Aldermen. They are
Mrs. Eva Miller, of 469 Forty
sixth Street, and Miss Leontine
c. Kline, of 284 Seventeenth
Street, Brooklyn, both members
of the Seventh Assembly dis
trict club. Mrs. Emma L. Hol-
lywood, of Mt. Vernon, is run
ming for city treasurer on the
regular party ticket.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

WASHINGTON Bureau
IMMEDIATELY after President
Wilson announced that the In
ternational Labor Conference
authorized by the signatory nations
Of the league of nations would as
semble in Washington October %,
the organized trade union women
Of America set about making plans
for the holding of the first world
congress of working women here
one week prior to the meeting of the
governmental body. The National
Women's Trade Union League is to
be the official hostess for the repre-
sentatives chosen by the working
women of thirty-four countries, who
will assemble to voice their opinions
on matters affecting labor.
This women's congress, which will
not be large in point of numbers,
is to be the gateway through which
women's interests may reach the
International Labor Conference. 1t
is to be a clearing house of inter
national thought on such questions
as children's night employment, the
application of the principle of the
eight-hour day, maternity benefits
and unemployment allowances.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

ually becomes a car through this
bill.
Gust how this will cut the cost of
food women in America are at loss
to understand. The vesting of such
powers in one man is un-American
and is not in harmony with Ameri-
can principles of liberty, which af-
ford an equal opportunity for all"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Suffrage in South
Pushed by Men and
Women in Alabama
Local Democratic Men Send
S 0 S to Mrs. Bass
As Woman Leader on
National Committee
Ne,D York Tribune
Washington Bureau.

NeW York Tribune
Washington Bureau.
MRS. GEORGE BASS, chairman
of the Women's Bureau of the
Democratic National Committee,
left last week for Alabama to help
the central committee there in its
attempt to put over ratification of
the woman suffrage amendment.
The Alabama Legislature, which is
still in session, has tabled the suf-
frage amendment. Until recently it
was considered that Alabama was as
good as lost to the ratification. Now
the men of the Central Democratic
Committee in Alabama hope to be
able to put over a favorable vote
within the next fortnight.
To this end Mrs. Bass will remain
in Montgomery, Ala, until the final
vote is taken on ratification of suf
frage. This is the first trip she has
made specifically in the interest of
the 10th Amendment and is in line
with the policy announced from
headquarters here shortly after
Congress agreed to submit the
amendment to the state, that the
Democratic National Committee
women were to do everything in
their power to get the amendment
passed.
Credit for the calling of the state
central committee in ALABAMA to
take up the matter of the amend
ment ratification is being given at
Washington to w. D. Nesbitt, of
Birmingham. He is chairman of the
state central committee. He has
been an active suffragist for many
years.
The conference Of the state CEN
trail committee and Mrs. Bass was
held at Montgomery. 1t is not
thought that Mrs. Bass will be able
to visit all of the states needing her
advice in the guiding of the ratif-
cation campaign to success.
This move on the part of the men
of the Democratic committee in
Alabama to aid the suffrage fight is
interesting in view of what Georgia
did short time ago to the amend
ment ratification in it's Legislature.
The amendment may yet be ratified
by the state which Graded the Con-
federacy nearly half century ago.
Montgomery was the seat of gov
eminent for the Jefferson Davis re-
gime in the Southern States, and
the deliberations between the state
central committee and Mrs. Bass
about the suffrage amendment were
held among scenes associated with
that period Of American history.
If Alabama is won to the ranks
Of the ratification states it will be
strong victory for the votes for
women movement. Many Of its
most powerful editors, politicians
and business men have opposed the
measure FOR years. The state has
only recently passed compulsory
education law. Child labor legisla
ton has been bone of contention
before the Legislature for many
sessions, but some advancement
along that line has been made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

votes in the decisions of this first
woman's congress.
The purpose of the congress is
stated in the call as follows:
Whereas, The league of nations
calls for an international Labor
Congress to be summoned by the
President of the United States of
America; and,
Whereas, Items on the addenda
intimately concern working women;
and further,
"Since women must now assume
responsibilities in the affairs of the
world, we urgently hope you will be
represented at this congress-"
The call voices the belief that
women must at this time assume
their responsibilities and that fellow
ship and conference together can
alone guarantee mutual faith and
joint action which shall make for
universal industrial JUSTICE"
AS the probable basis of what
may be the women's labor pro-
gramme for the world, this schedule
Of business is of interest. Follow
ing are extracts from it:
Women's Employment
(A)-Employment of women be-
fore and after childbirth.
Present law and practice.
1. (a)-What restrictions are at
present imposed by law or admins
trative order?
(b)-To what kinds of employ
ment do the restrictions apply?
(c)--How is the period of re-
vidual case?
2. What provision, if any, is made
for the care and maintenance of the
mother and child during the period
for which the restrictions. apply?
(B)-Employment during the
night.
Has the Berne convention of 1906
been ratified? If not, is the govern
ment prepared to adhere to it?
(C)-Employment Of women in
unhealthy processes.
Employment of Children
(A)-Minimum age of employ
ment.
/. (a}-~~~What is the limit of age
fixed by law or administrative order
below which employment of young
persons is illegal?
(b)-To what kinds of employ
ment does the limitation apply?
(c)-What exceptions or moditi-
cations, if any, are allowed under
the laws and orders in force?
2. 1t is asked that full particulars
of any proposals for legislation rails
ing the limit of age which have been
introduced by the government in
the Legislature may be furnished,
together with the text of the bill or
bills.
3. (a)--Would the government
be prepared to adopt fourteen
years as the limit for
First-Industrial occupations?
Second-Other occupations?
OFF not, what age is pro-
posed and on what grounds?
Application Of the Principle Of the
Eight-Hour Day or Forty-eight-
Hour Week
(A)-Present law and practice.
(B)-Proposals for legislation
under consideration at the present
time.
Question Of Preventing or Provid-
ing Against Unemployment
(A)-Nature and extent Of the
problem.
l. What is the nature and extent
Of the problem in your country?
2. What organization exists in
your country for the systematic
study Of the question?
tB)-Prevention of unemploy-
ment.
(C) - Compulsory insurance
against unemployment.
(D)-Public organizations.
E)-Voluntary provision against
unemployment.
(F)-Obseryatfons.
Extension and application Of the
international Convention adopted
at Berne in 1906 for the prohibi-
ton Of the use of white phosphorus
in the manufacture of matches.
Request that the American trade
union women b the Official hostess
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Foreign Guests
Have Accepted

Thirty-eight women from foreign
lands have already accepted the in
vitation to the conference. Some of
the countries represented will be
India, South America, Canada,
Switzerland, Norway, Sweden,
France, Italy, England and China.
The attitude Of women Of the
world on social education, health
and sex problems will be ascertained
through the conference. The re-
sponsibilities of women in such mat
tiers in the various countries and
future possibilities N dealing with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
By HANNAH MITCHELL
SIX WEEKS conference o.

a SIX WEEKS conference of
~ women physicians from nine
countries, beginning Septem-
Der Is, will be held in New York
under the auspices Of the Young
Women Christian Association.
Health. the psychological aspect
of the sex question and legislative
measures as they reflect the present
status of sex morality will be the
programme intensiyely studied by
the conference. The final week viii
include more general discussion,
and representative from national
associations Of women have been in
vited to attend.
The social morality committee of
the war work coun>l Of the national
board of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association is arranging the de-
tails. of the meeting. DR.. Augusta
Rucker, of New York; DR.. Edith
Hale Swift, Of Boston; DR.. Eleanor
, Berthe, Miss Winnifred Sherwood
Dr. Kristine Mann, DR.. Josephine
Hemenway Kenyon, DR.. Katharine
B. Davis, DR.. Anne Bingham
DR.. Alberta Guibord, Miss Eliza
Butler, Of New York; Miss Florence
Nye and DR.. Sarah Sweet Windsor
of Boston; Miss Susanna Barns, Of
Virginia; Miss Alice B. Curtis, Of
Colorado; Miss Caroline Colvin, Of
Maine; Miss Esse V. Hathaway, Of
Iowa, and Miss Jane Thomson ane
DR.. Anna L. Brown are the womer
in charge of the programme.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Women's Health In
Modern Conditions

A tentative programme for the
conference has been prepared. 1.-The
Woman Physician and the Health
of Women" will be the general topic
under which such subjects will be
discussed, as "Can Women Be Well
Under Modern Living Conditions?"
physical Examinations as a Means
of Health Education" and Recon
struction Of the Lives of Women in
Relation to Health"
A study of special problems re-
lating to the health of women will
include the arguments for and
against working women as mothers.
Child hygiene and direction of the
development Of the child also have
a place in the programme. "ln-
dustrial health" will bring out
points of interest to the business
woman.
present Social Conditions and
Their Effect on Health and Person
atty" will take up The Marriage
Of Tomorrow, "The Evolution of
Love in Marriage" and Marriage
and Divorce" These discussions
will take place in closed meetings
for physicians only. The part Of
the programme to which non-med-
ical men and women will be invited
will take up health. emotional
health, abnormal conditions and sex
education.
A practical programme for meet
ing the needs of girls in the light
of better understanding of their
emotional life will be presented near
the end Of the conference, and q
cooperative movement among
women's organizations along this
line will wind up the meetings.
Trying Theories
On Themselves
DR.. Anna l.. Brown, chairman Of
the programme committee, made q
statement as to the spirit and pur-
pose Of the conference last week:
when America entered the
war and men and boys were en-
listing in the Mmy and navy the
women of America voluntarily
enlisted themselves for service
that should contribute to the
success Of the aims of the
Allies. One of these aims, frank
ly stated by the government, was
to keep the men fit to fight. To this
end instruction was given in social
hygiene to men in the camps.
The social morality committee
of the War Wort. Council of the
National Board, Young Women's
Christian Association, contributed
to this effort indirectly through its
/ programme Of lectures on social
~ + az ~ NOiIiCii dlIQ 2lIlS.
g As /, proof Of the sincerity Of
their belief in health ideals these
women physicians have volunta-
rily subjected themselves to COM
plete physical examination and
have made an honest attempt to
demonstrate in their own persons
the vitality of their ideas.
1T Is the hope of the pro-
gramme committee that the out
come of the coming conference
may be the formulation Of a plan
which when adapted to the condi-
tions Of the respective countries
represented shall unity the work
of women physicians in this
sphere of service throughout the
world"
The preliminary work for the
conference is going forward in New
York, and women physicians in all
parts OF the country have made 8
splendid response to the work ahead
of them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
DR.. augusta Rucker,
of Ne,c York

Individual problems will be discussed
and constructive programmes out
lined
The social morality committee of
the National Board of the Y. w. C.
A. was created four years ago 1t
was considered necessary because of
the awakening Of interest in the
training Of women and girls on sex
education. The first venture was
small lecture bureau, the members
Of which spoke before normal
schools, universities and colleges
where teachers night be equipped
with the scientific principles of So
cial health and morals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Mary Potter, of New York.
Claims Kenyon Bill Will
Transfer Power From
Packers to Politicians
Place for Women's Votes
Housekeepers Must Train to
Take Leading Parts in
Nationwide Price Fight

DECLARING that some of the ma
- tional legislation aimed at high
food prices leads the way to car
dom in government departments.
Miss Mary Potter, of New York, in
an interview last week, urged women
voters of America to interest them
selves in the whole problem of the
high cost of living-and to find a
practical solution.
Miss Potter, who has been prac-
Using attorney in New York for
twenty years, is one of the founders
Of the Women's City Club of New
York. High prices are one of the
greatest menaces this country faces
at the present time, Miss Potter
said.
Many women vote now-all of US
will vote soon," she said, "and every
one of us can attempt to regulate
this high cost of living problem
through the ballot: AS the first in
telligent step in this direction, l be-
lieve in studying the provisions of
the different bills now before Con-
gress, and then trying to form an
intelligent opinion as to the effect of
legislation on the consumer.
Creating a
Food Car
"Take the Kenyon bill now before
Congress as a type of legislation
which is aimed, supposedly, at low
ering the cost of food. This bill will
probably keep prices as high as they
are now, and may even force them
higher. Every woman, every house
keeper, should study the provisions
Of this bill, as it affects her directly
and the market basket which she
seeks every day to keep we'll filled
for her family
"The bill seeks to put the control
of the distribution of meats into the
hands of political appointees. l be-
lieve that the evils set forth in the
recent Federal Trade Commission's
report cannot be met effectively in
this way. Under this bill power
would merely be transferred from
the hands of the packers to the
Secretary Of Agriculture, who Writ