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New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
S'Ladies' Aid" Methods
Have No Place In Politics

should labor together in the assem-.
bly, districts, should together evolve
plans, platforms and politics; should
In short, be political partners.
'Together both sexes can do bet.
ter work than either acting alone
Men have had the experience. the
long, practical training in political
procedure. They have the business
alertness, keenness, accuracy and
understanding of the interrelation
of things. Association with them
will be beneficial to women. On
the other hand, women have the
strong humanitarian Instincts. a
love for clean moral standards and
passion for improving and re-
forming. Women can check mems
predatory business tendencies; men
can check women's visionary
schemes. If the two sexes cooper
ate in q cordial, earnest fashion.
we may expect splendid results.
Arguments have been advanced
against the political partnership Of
men and women," Miss Hay con-
tinued. at has been said that
women are too new in politics to
put over their ideas, and that the
men manipulate things to suit them
selves.
'This may be true in some few
instances, where the women serv-
lng on committees have had no
training in club life, where they
are placed in positions because they
are the relatives of men with inhu-
ence, rather than for the reason
that they are fitted for the role they
are to play. But it is hard to I'M
aglne for moment that any one
of the thousands of women who
have been trained in club life or
brought up in suffrage circles, who
ere accustomed to discipline, to
lealing with people, to thinking
out arguments to their logical con-
clusion, to fighting for ideals, will
DC hoodwinked by anybody.
Because l so thoroughly believe
in the cooperation OF the sexes in
politics | am continually urging
women to enroll in the parties and
tc work for them. Let women en-
ter the parties and work from with
in to reform them if they think
there is need of reform. Women,
like men, who do not stand aside
and idly criticise, but who roll up
their sleeves and work, are to-day
the most useful citizens and the
best patriots"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Recent Happenings in the World of Women
Tips to WOm en-
Voters
T a recent meeting of the

A 7 a recent meeting of the
~ leading Republican women Of
the State of Illinois in the
Hotel La Sale, Chicago, Mrs. Mcdill
Mccormick gave the following sug-
gestions to foster alliance with the
men of the party:
"Be letter perfect in political
technicalities and details.
"Study the methods of men in
your community and ally your forces
as closely as possible with theirs.
"Never lose your temper.
"Never let the men hold meet
ing without woman representa-
tive present. This is working
agreement between the men and
women in the national committee.
"Above all, remember that the
committee, working as a body, is at
all times the vehicle for the Repub-
]lcan nominee chosen at the pri-
maries, regardless Of personal
choice"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

& W O14NN pIODlcNlS, Whlcn haVt
7 been particularly acute amen,
negroes with the migration
from the South to the North, are on,
OF the causes of the race riots il
Chicago, according to members o.
the National League on Urban Con
dltlons Among Negroes, with head
quarters in this city.
"The Chicago colored woman, il,
her desire to obtain a decent place
to live, has doubtless contributed 4
lnnocently enough to the much ad-
vertised Chicago race riots of the
last few weeks" said Mrs. Lillian
II. Turner last week. Mrs. Turner
is a colored woman, a graduate of
the University of Minnesota and
assistant to the executive secre-
tary of the Urban League.
ut is the colored woman, the
homemaker, who has sought bet
ter neighborhoods in which to live.
and who, obtaining these, has been
lnnocently and indirectly one of the
causes of the bomb throwing law
lessness which IN many eases pre-
ceded the riots. 1t is my under
standing that these residents were
not part of the mob. Still, it is
true that the treatment and lack
of protection given them inflamed
those among them who felt the mob
spirit.
Housing conditions have been
particularly acute among negroes
because of their migration from
the South to the North and their
change from a domestic to an in
dustrial life.
"Particular efforts have been
made to meet the needs of the
colored woman worker, so new to
industry, for to her the change has
been most radical. The National
Urban League has devoted itself to
this problem, which it has met to a
degree through its various branches.
To protect themselves against the
results of overcrowding, the Urban
League volunteers in Chicago and
other cities, composed of groups OF
women, form block organizations,
with home visitors, who give aid
through talks on health, sanitation.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Bits Of Ne 1Us

MFRS. EUGENE J. GRANT, chair
man of music for the New
York State Federation of Women's
Clubs, announces that Mrs. Sherman
Clarke, president Of Rochester City
Federation of Women's Clubs, has
offered prize of $25 for the best
patriotic song written by a feder-
ated clubwoman composer in the
State of New York.
1t should not have more than eight
lines, exclusive of refrain, which
is optional. Composers may choose
their own text.
Compositions must be received on
or before October Is by Mrs. Grant
at 379 Washington Avenue, Brook
lyn. Send name in sealed envelope
with non de plume.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Wosnan's oizsts of
View Valuable

Miss Perkins was appointed to
take the place of Louis Wizard, con-
tirmation of her appointment being
made February 1S. She is one of
three commissioners in charge of the
industrial code, and is supervisor Of
the bureau Of statistics and inior-
nation and of the bureau Of media
tion and arbitration.
eve have found wcmans point
of view invaluable in the Industrial
Commission,' says Commissioner
James NJ. Lynch, Of Syracuse.
From the work which Miss Per-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Land Army
Girls sEIaryest
Peach Crop
An S. O. S. From Or.
chardists in Maryland
Is Answered
TIME Woman's Land Army of
America is at it's busiest an

swering calls for help in get
ting in the peach crop. A unit of
seventy-five Land Army girls was
sent to Maryland last week. The
rush of the peach harvest there is
difficult to meet every year, accord
ing to report. And last year the
shortage of men laborers made it
necessary for the farmers to bail
prisoners out of Jail to get in the
crop. Maryland prisoners are used
to work the roads of the state, and
the same system was applied to
their doing farm work that was
used for their employment on the
roads.
This year, however, with the
shortage of hired men and boys, the
Maryland farmers sent an S. O. S.
call to the Woman's Land Army
headquarters in New York for girls
to save the peach crop.
Another unit of twelve land girls
will be sent to a farm near New
port this week for general farm
and orchard work during the
month of August. Ten others will
leave soon for orchard work in
Englishtown, Penn.
A campaign for girls to help in
the September and October har-
vests is being started by the Land
Army. Corn-cutting time and
pumpkin-picking days are likely to
find the Land Army units dwindled
to only a few members, for most of
the land girls are also office girls
or schoolgirls and school or work
will call them back to town in Sep
tember just when they are needed
most.
Workers in thes Woman's Land
Army have done some of their
most important work in gathering
the fruit crops. That one line and
the way in which they handled it
was enough to convince the skepti-
cal farmer of their worth, accord
ing to headquarters accounts. This
year there have been great demands
for women to do orchard work. The
farmers say that the women work
ers are swifter and handle the fruit
with greater skill and less injury to
the crop than the men did. 1t has
been almost impossible to supply
the number of land girls wanted
for orchard work.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

TIME Ladies' Aid is a fifth
I wheel in the machinery of a
political party, according to
Mary Garrett Hay, who is looked
upon as a leader of Republican
women in the East.
Miss Hay, as treasurer and active
chairman. Of organization of the
Women's Executive Committee of
the National Republican Commit
tee and a member Of the New York
State Republican Committee, has
decided ideas as to the r0les for
which the two sexes should be cast
when the political stage is set for
the Presidential campaign Of 1920.
"Men and women should work to-
gether," Miss Hay said. "There ls
no place for The Ladies' Aid in poll
ties. Men and women should serve
side by side on the committees,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

lie health nurses, of Mrs. Smiths
estimate of the woman's neatness,
personality, resourcefulness, address
and other individual qualities.
Yes, that is entirely new said
Mrs. Smith. Il have power TO carry
out my examinations in whatever
way l wish. A large number of
questions are made out by the chief
examiner and his assistants. am
trying to infuse into a set of printed
examinations something which can
be measured only by a human scale.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Interest Shown Even
In 'Threshing Time

Word has come back to Washing
ton already from the initial run
that the rural mothers are eager to
gain such help. Woodson, in Nor
gan County, Illinois, was the first
community to welcome the car. The
reception given it there was enthu-
siastic. In spite of the fact that
the threshing season was at it's
height, the government doctor and
nurse were almost overwhelmed
by the crowd of mothers, fathers
and babies coming to the "specials"
hospitable doorstep.
every mother" wrote the bu-
reau nurse, "was more impressed
with the opportunity Of learning
what, if anything, was wrong with
her child than with the novelty of
the motorized clinic. One mother
who, through an error, lost her turn
on the first day, and waited in vain
all during the afternoon to have
her children examined, returned on
the following evening from her
home several miles out in the coun-
try, so that she might not miss the
opportunity
Before the appearance Of the
motorized clinic in any community
an intensive publicity campaign,
with posters and data from the
Children's Bureau at Washington,
is conducted.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Some Of the "PIurns''
Available in the Future

Expiring terms, either in 1919
or 1920, which may be considered
legitimate ground for women as
pirants are among these: Seventh
District member of the Department
of Farms and Markets, now held
by William E. Dana, whose term
expires April 1, 1920, travelling and
other expenses; George 3. Burd,
Buffalo, Commission for Blind,
travelling and other expenses;
Bronx Parkway Commission, Will
lam White Niles, term expires in
1920, $4,000 salary.
Under the State Board of Chari-
ties, the following institution posi-
tions will be open in 1919 and 1920:
One member board of managers,
Rome State Custodial Asylum; one
MEMBER Craig Colony board Of man.
ayers; one member Letchworth N!l-
lage board of managers; three m M
bers West Taverstraw State los
pital for Crippled Children; one
member board Of trustees, Raybrook
Hospital for tuberculosis; one menu
Der Bath Soldiers and Sailors Home
Board; one member Wiman's Relief
Corps Home, Oxford; one member
Elmira Reformatory o--e member
Bedford Reformatory; one member
Albion Reformatory, and one men-
Der Hudson Reformatory
None Of these appointments has IN
actual salary attached, but all a.e
responsible positions, held, to a la.'ge
extent, by men, and with possi6iIi-
ties for more women members.
Four vacancies on the board If
trustees Of Syracuse University viii
exist IN 1920, and no woman is now
a member OF the board
James Byrne, OF New York city,
viii complete his term of Office on
the Boar dof Regents of New York
State in 1920, and here is one of
the most important posts which are
being advocated for women The
appointment must come through
election on joint ballot Of the two
houses of the Legislature No SAL
ary is connected with the position.
The entire personnel Of the Pub
lie Health Council IN connection with
the State Department of Health
must be reappointed in 1920 by the
Governor, at q salary Of 900 and
expenses. One vacancy on the board
of examiners of feeble minded, GRIM
inals and other detectives must be
filled by a general practitioner of
medicine of ten years experience.
Six members of the board of medi-
cal examiners will go out of Office
IN either this year or next, to be ap-
pointed by the Board Of Regents.
Six members of the Board of Phar-
macy Will be appointed also during
this year and next by the Regents.
Three members of the State Commits
sion OF Prisons may be appointed
by the Governor in 1920, with SAL
aries Of $40 day and expenses for
each day of actual service.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

" WllO we're placeu III Dig
jobs by the Governor have
been making good at rate to in
sure appointments to other women
aspirants.
The announcement of the Gov
ernor's appointments last spring
carried the names Of two women.
These women were to hold respon-
sible high salaried positions on inn
portant state commissions
In practically all state commits
sions terms expire after a given
number of service years. A Cover
nor always has within his power the
filing of a certain number Of
expired offices. Prior TO 1919 no
woman ever held the Office of paid
commissioner in New York State.
When the first nomination, that
Of Miss Frances Perkins to the In
dustrial Commission, was handed
down from the Senate desk, state
Senators were quick to say that
their debate on the appointment was
not because the Governors ap-
pointee was a woman. Rather they
dragged in arguments to the effect
that Miss Perkins, by not taking
her husbands name, had shown her
self radical, hence ought not
to have the Office. 1t was a blow to
many a politician, and in various
centres where patronage is looked
for, when tho $4,000 job went to a
woman.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

scores of mothers with their babies
throughout the day, Uncle Sam
first baby clinic on wheels is nov
making its maiden trip through
Illinois. 1t is a big gray automobile
truck-weight, 5000 pounds-with
an especially constructed body. It
was recently purchased by the
Children's Bureau of the United
States Department of Labor to
demonstrate to the country that in
matters of child care the rural
mother can be effectively reached
by the automobile bearing scientific
equipment for examining children,
q specialist in children's diseases
going along, too. 1t is the govern
ment's version of that we'll known
,roverb about Mahomet going to the
mountain if the mountain could not
come to Mahomet.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
One Woman In
Every Department

Zone Of the chief aims of my
service on this commission Will be
to abolish the separate lists. Any
examination admitting both men
and women ought to be followed by
the publication of complete list
of successful contestants, with their
ratings governing the order in
which they are placed. At present
two separate lists of men and of
women, are made out
Mrs. Smith goes full length in
her judgment as to the advisability
of women in state commissions.
She says that if Miss Perkins and
she have established anything pre-
Cedent it is that every state depart
ment ought to have at least one
woman member to create a proper
balance in point of view
Carrying out Mrs. Smiths sug-
gestion would be impossible for the
Governor this year, because not
every commission shows expired
terms. That a number of "plums"
are waiting to be picked is mat
ter of record. That women will be
in line for a number of them goes
VIII hol1t eovjDp
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Uncle Sans New Baby Buggy
Takes to the Open Road

tain afternoon they may have their
babies examined and get health
ratings for the children. The moth
ers receive little slips to indicate
their turn at the doctors attention.
The Especial" is 50 contrived that
dressing tents can be let down at
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

The front and rear, thus making the<
whole performance as private for
the mother and little Susie as
though the clinic were held in the
downtown health centre of a large
city. The mothers and children usu-
ally enter at one end and leave at
the other to facilitate the constantly
moving traffic, as it were, within
the car.
The Children's Bureau especially
hopes to demonstrate to the mother
far removed from the doctor and
trained nurse how such a car can
bring essential knowledge. During
the war many communities were left
entirely without such trained medi-
cal assistance, and these same COM
munities are still without profess
sionals. These localities, added to
the isolated sections which never
did have resident physician, make
up large part of the rural popula-
ton in need of advice on child
care. The "child welfare special"
is a government Interpretation of
'baby specials used by several
state organizations during Chill
drens Year in war time to arouse
enthusiasm in the saving of babies
for Uncle Sam. The specials usual
ly went from town to town, not
having the rural mother as the main
objective. In one state the women
obtained a discarded trolley car and
carried the gospel of better babies
wherever the trolley lines went.
Others used the automobile truck,
but this is the first one of it's kind
especially built for the government.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Call Sent Out TO
Countryside

This government Especial" has
its own woman physician and baby
specialist from the Children's Bu-
reau. Dr.. Ruth Mcclure has been
assigned by Miss Julia Lathrop,
chief of the bureau, to take charge
OF the moving clinic. Her assistant,
trained nurse, and the driver of
the car "a man) complete the trav-
elllng staff. DR.. Mcclure and the
nurse use the trains to get from
town to town, and the chauffeur
=: accommodations aboard the
special" The car was sent through
Illinois first because the Public
Health Nursing Association there,
In making a special campaign for
country child care, asked that it go
= several of the rural counties on
v.'oW-up work. Local committees
the former Children's Year or
-lzation are in charge of the ar
~ngements wherever the clinic is to
De stopped. These committees Sc
lect the site for the clinic and send
word through the countryside to all
fathers and mothers that on Ger
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

kins has accomplished 1 am con-
vlnced that more women ought to
be placed in high positions through
out the state departments.
"The Industrial Commission is
one where more than 800 persons
are employed. l believe, with
the fact before US that between
100000 and 100000 women in New
York State actually come under the
labor or the compensation laws, it
is advisable to advocate more women
In the executive positions of the
commission. We now have Mrs.
Marian X. Clark in charge of the
Bureau Of Industry and Immigra
ton, and Miss nellie Swartz chief of
The Bureau Of Women in Industry" 3"
New Methods
O. Efficiency
Commissioner Lynch's attention
was called to the fact that Commits
sioncr Edward p. Lyons term would
expire in 1920.
"Another woman on the commits
sion would be possible, of course.
Undoubtedly such an appointment
would work out as we'll as that Of
Miss Perkins. | neither advocate
nor oppose it just now, however.
The appointment, remember, will be
made by the Governor"
Mrs. Smith, wife of former Rep
resentative Charles B. Smith, Of
Buffalo, took the place of Willard
d. McKinstry on the Civil Service
Commission. This commission, while
it is not so wide in scope as the In
dustria Commission, allows more
original work. Mrs. Smith was ap-
pointed April s, one of three Civil
Service ComMis issioners, at a salary
Of $4,000 and travelling expenses.
Last week Mrs. Smith was in Al
bany, conducting examinations. That
special branch of the work has been
committed to Mrs. Smiths care. No
such division was ever made before.
Fifteen county public health
nurses came in one afternoon to be
examined bV the first woman Civil
Service Commissioner. Each nurse
had a personal interview and a rec
ord was made, in addition to one on
actual training and ability to dis
charge the technical duties of pub
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Ne1c York Tr1onns
Wdshin noton bureau

n AMBLING along a country
n road, parking for an all
night stay under the trees
because the village garage is too
small, and echoing to the tread of
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
The Only One
Of Its Kind

The Children's Bureau does not
intend to inaugurate a chain of
"child welfare specials on wheels.
but it is making a demonstration of
this one in the hope that state or
CARNATIONS or state child welfare
departments may be convinced of
the feasibility of the plan, learn
the cost of running such clinic
and appreciate the approximate
amount Of rural childhood accessi-
BILE through this means. A "log" of
the expenses, the unusual expert
ences and general happenings to
the special is to be kept, besides
the official records of the babies
weighed and measured This infor-
nation will be available in a few
months for organizations or states
contemplating the purchase of such
a clinic on wheels for their own
use.
Statistics following Investigations
have aready proved that the rural
child in many states is more liable
to early death from disease and
malnutrition than is the city child.
The old idea that just to live in the
country meant good health and a
long life for the babies was COM
pletely reversed by the data. The
reason the city child's chance for
health and life was superior to
that Of his rural cousin was traced
to health education and baby clinics
conducted in the cities and towns
for the benefit of city mothers.
This Especial" is the way now sug-
gested by the Children's Bureau for
bringing the message Of better
babies and general advice to pre-
vent infant mortality to the rural
mother who is shut off from city
sources of information.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
New Y0rk's New Citizen Makes Good
AS an Officeholder and Paves Wav
For Future Appointments

By Geraldine H. Murray
Albany. N. Y
Special Correspondence
wv T OMEN Of New York State
wv who were placed in big
Jobs bY the Governor have
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
( roRDlen1s ils
Housing g Z ACTOR
l1l Race Riots
The Urban League Com
ments on Chicago
Conditions

\ NOUSING problems, which have
\ : been particularly acute among
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

HE Ladies' AID IS NTH should labor together
wheel the machinery OF bly, DISTRICTS should
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-11-14
ST. CHARLES ITEMS

st. Charles, Nov. lave are hav-
ing real winter again and it makes
the most of us feel the need of coal
which seems almost impossible to
get.
Last Thursday death called Alma
G. Hunt,-an old resident of this
place. He had been a great sufferer
for some time. Mr.. Hunt was born
in Utah "a years ago and came to St.
Charles with his parents in 1854. He
never married and lived alone since
! the death of his mother some years
ago. His brothers, B. s. and d. w,
have both passed away within the
past year. His funeral services were
held in the meeting house last Sat-
urday.
Miss Maria Pugmire, who was OPP
Grated on some time ago, has suffi-
GENTLY recovered so that she was able
to leave the hospital. She has gone
to Pocatello to live with her children.
John Mattson is again able to be
around after having been laid up sew
eral weeks with an attack of lum-
bago.
place have gone to Cache valley to
WOTh tn0 QlllOA OAt sugar AdCtOAAOc
Lamont Scofield and Miss Fontel-
la Pope were married in Logan last
week.
Herman Booth was called here on
account of the serious illness OF his
sister, Mrs. E. M. Pugmire, who is
very low and no hope is entertained
for her recovery.
John Mattson has sold one of his
residences to Thos. Michaelson, who
has moved in from his farm.
Our old townsman, Charley Pierce,
is visiting with friends here this
week.
A new son recently registered at
the home of Nephi Bunderson and
daughters at the home of VIM. Hill
and Ray Pugmire.
Henry Monson and Nephi Michael
son are building new bungalows.
George Stock and Nephi William