New-York tribune., 1919-10-05
BY HANNAH MITCHELL


emancipation. Just as political
freedom was brought about for
some by their own efforts, fol-
others against their wills, so there
will be leaders in the move fol
freedom as physical beings, and it is
safe to say that there will be some
who prefer to keep their ills and all
ments lest in losing them they lose
their right to "cling" to the oak.
Some women are born emanci-
pated, some achieve emancipation,
and others have emancipation thrust
upon them. So it was with political
suffrage, so it will be with the new
physical emancipation.
By physical emancipation is
meant not license, but the disabus-
ing Of women's and girls minds of
the innate virtue of ignorance, doing
away with the blunders that are in
evitably result of ignorance.
Women physicians attending the
international conference being held
here at the Y. w. c. A. headquar-
ters will be the leaders in the new
emancipation if the meetings are as
fruitful as it is expected they will
be.
If there is anything of health in
terest to men, women or children
which is not included on the pro-
gramme of the women doctors it is
safe to say they will find it out and
interpolate it before the confer
ence comes to an end the last of
October. Mind and matter are the
vital points of interest to these
women, and many of them be-
lieve that upon the health Of these
two depends the condition of the
spirit. A review of the programme
of the conference reveals that no
factor Of life has been overlooked.
The frankness with which the physi-
clans are facing complex social prob
lens is characteristic of the eager
ness with which women specialists
usually attack practical needs.
The overseas physicians come from
Denmark, England, France, Hol-
land, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Swe-
den, Switzerland, China, South
America, Japan and Serbia. The
United States and Canada have
large delegations and South Amer
lea has two representatives.
Resolutions to
Crystalline Ideas
Among the speakers at the con-
ference will be large number of
men physicians representing spe-
cialists in psychology, psychiatry
education, child welfare, child hy-
giene, and neurology. AS the speech
Of each specialist, man or woman,
comes up in the conference it is
translated by the interpreter, Count
ess Maria Loschi, of Rome. With
in two days cobies in English and
in French are distributed among the
delegates. Then, giving these a
chance to be digested, resolutions
regarding the matter under consid-
Grafton in each speech are introduced
and voted upon by the women ply
sicians.
1t is hoped that through these
votes the will of the conference will
be moulded into something tangible
upon which laywomen can build
civic reform and health measures
Medical terms will be taken out OF
the discussion for the last week OF
the conference, when the national
organizations Of women of this coun.
try will come to the meetings.
Delegates from the following
organizations have been appointed
Association of Collegiate Alumn@
Council of Jewish Women, Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs
Medical Women's National Associa
ton, Mothers and Parent Teachers
Association, National American
Women's Suffrage Association
Women's Department Of the Ma
tional Civic Federation, National
Council Of Women, National League
of Women Workers, Women's Ma
tional Trade Union League, Won.
ans Christian Temperance Union
National Board of the Y. w. C. A.
and the National Conference of
Deans Of Women.
The conference, which is the frs
Of it's kind, can only hope for the
application of it's findings by thei,
becoming the property of all women
Through the national organization.