The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-26
HOLD MEXICO
 BEST JUDGE OF OWN NEEDS
Feminist Council Protests Alleged Philanthropic
 Project

Mexico City, Dec. 3-ResoIutions Of protest against projected" philan- thropic intervention in Mexican af- fairs by the recent reformed Child hood Conservation League of the United States, were passed at a meet ing of the Mexican Feminist Council today. The league, which, it is said, proposes, with the financial backing of a group of the largest and best known magnates of the United States, to spend from two million to four million dollars annually on charitable propaganda in Mexico,'' is said to be a far sighted scheme to bring about ultimate intervention in Mexican af- fairs"
 signora F1eana Torres, general sec retary of the Feminist Council today gave the following exclusive state ment to The Associated Press:
 Mexican women hold Mexico it. self to be best able to judge its own needs and to find a way to secure them in due time Outside aid, however well meant, is entirely un- invited.
 Those desiring to spend money to | relieve temporary strictures in MeNi- co incident to the ten year revolution. 1 may find means through Mexican in 1 stitutions already organized for that ; purpose. Above all, before seek | ing external objects of charity, those benevolently inclined United States ! citizens desirous of relieving suffer ing, had best take care of those B. i 100000 to 6.O0O,OOO children which the 1919 report of the ChiIdren's $ 1 Bureau at Washington declares are dying annually in the United States i from hunger and maInutrition. The Mexican feminist council also holds that, aside from the gratuitous nature of the proposed philanthropic i intervention. there is underlying a more sinister motive than the pro- i jected foundation of hospitals churches, asyIums and schools in every Mexican state-as is revealed by the fact that those persons finar- i cial1y supporting their movema ant are
 the same individuals who have agi tated most insistently for intcrven- : ton and curtaiIment of Mexican Iib-
 critics. Ftnanciers heading the list
 of patrons of the so-calIed Child
 hood Conservation League are those
 bankers, oil barons, philanthropists
 and notable men who figure most
 prominently in societies and associa-
 tions for the protection of American
 rights in Mexico.
 Agnes c. Laut, secretary of the
 new charitable organization, but bet
 ter known as 8 confidential secretary
 to financial magnates than an organ I izer of benevolent institutions, was at work purely in the interests of her employers while making a recent trip through Mexico.
 It is frankly stated the leagues objects are the establishment within ten or fifteen years of stronghoIds of 1 sympathy for the United States in | the minds of the benefciaries of this i enterprise, who would be impregnat- ed with new culture and new pa triotism which would train them to acceptance rather than revolt against possible armed intervention in Mexi. co. Examples of such propaganda ffnanciers, phiIanthropfsts and rnis- sionaries combine to subvert the minds and understanding of innocent children, are too well known to ne cessitate proof.
 The effect upon the minds Of the | unsuspecting masses of such an an- nuaI expenditure of money in Mexico by the United States would forward 1 the sinister purposes of the inter- ventionists who thus could convince l those people that Mexico was unabIe | to solve her own problems and care i for her own citizens without outside
 assistance.
 1 'The Mexican feminist council l calls upon every Mexican citizen. l man and woman, to resist this covert 1 attack upon national self respect and dignity, and to find some means i themselves of solving pressing prob- lens of national reconstruction.''