Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-26
MEXICAN WOMEN
DECLINE AID Of
U. S. CHARITIES
Protest Against Projected Phil.
anthropic Intervention
Adopted by Femi--
mist Council.

Mexico City, Dec. 24-Resolutions
Of protest against projected philan-
thropic Intervention in Mexican af-
fairs by the recent reformed Child
hood Conservation league OF the
United States" were adopted at
meeting of the Mexican feminiss
council yesterday. The league.
which, it is said, proposes, with the
financial backing Of group of the
largest and best known magnates of
the United States, to spend from
$2,000,000 to $4,000000 annually on
charitable propaganda in Mexico" is
said to be "far sighted scheme to
bring about ultimate intervention in
Mexican affairs"
Sonora Elena Torres, general sec
rotary Of the feminist council, today
gave the following statement to the
Associated Press.
Outside Aid UNLIMITED.
Mexican women hold Mexico it.
self to be best able to judge its own
needs and to find way to satisfy
them in due time. Outside aid, how
ever, we'll meant, is entirely unin-
vited.
Those desiring to spend money
to relieve temporary structures i'll
Mexico incident to the 10-year rev.
olution may find means through
Mexican institutions already organ
lied for that purpose. Above all,
before seeking external objects of
charity. those benevolently inclined
United States citizens des.. Gus of re-
lieving suffering has best take care
of those 100000 to 100000 chill
dren which the 1919 report of the
children's bureau at Washington de-
clares are dying annually in the
United States from hunger and NAL
nutrition.
See Intervention Move.
THE Mexican feminist council
also holds that those persons hnan-
clally supporting the movement are
the same individuals who have agi-
tated most mistakenly for interview
ton and curtailment of Mexican lib
critics. Finaneiers heading the list
of patrons of the so-called childhood
conservation league are those bank
ers, oil barons, philanthropists and
notable men who figure most promi-
nently in societies and associations
for the protection of American
rights in Mexico.
agnes c. Laut, secretary Of the
new charitable organization, but
better known as confidential sec
rotary to financial magnates than an
organizer of benevolent institutions,
was at work purely in the interests
of her employers while making a re-
cent trip through Mexico. 1t is
frankly stated the leagues objects
are the establishment within. 10 or
rs years of strongholds of sympathy
for the United States in the minds
Of the benehciaries of this enterprise
who would be impregnated with new
culture and new patriotism which
would train them to acceptance
rather than revolt against possible
armed intervention in Mexico.
Move Would Help Plan.
"The effect upon the minds of
the unsuspecting masses of such an
annual expenditure of money in
Mexico by the United States would
forward the sinister purposes of the
interventionists, who thus could
convince those people that Mexico
was unable to solve it's own prob
LENS and care for its own citizens
without outside assistance.
THE Mexican feminist council
calls upon every Mexican citizen,
man and woman, to resist this overt
attack upon national self-respect and
dignity and to find some means
themselves Of solving pressing prob
lens of national reconstruct;on