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New-York tribune., 1919-10-01
Peacock Pairs VI ith Heron

S. Davidson Ilerrol. rational ams-
teur golf CHAMPION, and Grant Peacock,
of the Princeton University G. &. viii
play an eNltbitlon II hole mn;ch
against Jack Dowiipg aud Tom Ne
Namara. at the S.afsoalc Coz and
Country Club, SUNDAY fternoon.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-01
Bucknam to Head Colby

WATERVILLE, Me-, Sept. 3d.
Everett W. Bucknam, of Harrington.
senior, was elected captain of the
Colby College football team to-day
Last year he was captain of the Naval
Reserves team at Higham, Mass He
also has been elected captain of the
baseball nine, Of which he is a pitcher.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-01
Miss RosenthaI Defeated
On Home Green at Shu1unee
Former Western Champion Loses Close Tussle to
Mrs. Stetson; Miss Stirling, Ttle.Holder, and
Mrs. Gavin, Closest Rival, Come Through Safely
BY Fred Hawthorne

SHAWNEE THEDE Penn, Sept 30-Two or three
the match
to-day the links
including Miss Stirling present title
HOLDER William England
came
New-York tribune., 1919-10-01

Ae Il hA1 .ho ploat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
w omen Democrats 'Swings Around the Circle"

itor. Here is what one Of the papers
said: "While her masculine con-
ferrees struggled with collar buttons
and other details Of their morning
preparations aboard the train, Mrs.
Bass stepped off the train promptly
at 1920 o'clock, as fresh as the sun
shine she stepped into. She was
faultlessly attired in a, suit of dark
tricotinc and patent leather pumps,
that are doubtless smaller than any
distinguished Democratic shoes that
ever before alighted in Seattle"
Tacoma, Wash, also gave lunch
con, but Butte, Mont, went one bet
ter and had three governors to meet
the lady and the party. Yellowstone
Democrats looked with wonder on
the new woman leader, publicly stat
ing that she occupied post (which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

layas threatens to become an es-
tablished outdoor sport.
Unable to resist the temptation to
horn In" approached to help with
the tinkering. Mevrouw smiled fra
ternally, made a gesture OF disgust,
as comprehensive the world over to
motorists as the high sign" is to
the Mason, and broke into a torrent
OF Dutch. 1t might just as we'll have
been Greek, and when I told her so
she provided the second surprise Of
the afternoon by replying:
Il spik some leetle Anglischw
She did-very we'll, indecd-and
some leetle French and German. too.
as | learned when, Lizzie's engine
cool and IN working order again.
she invited me to drive with her
down to Scheveningen and have a
cup Of coffee at her home.
Ten minutes through leafv
wood and We were at the seaside
resort, which has acquired many of
the aspects of Brighton or Atlantic
Clty-large hotels, cafes, cosmopoli-
tan crowds-and has kept, at the
same time, rather miraculously.
much Of the picturesqueness of the
little fishing village that it started
out in life as.
Far up the beach she stopped
Lizzie at a tiny, pink-roofed cottage.
as spectacularly clean as is every
thing in Holland. l waited on the
miniature porch, contemplating the
North Sea, while my hostess went
inside and busted herself with the
concrete expressions of hospitality
She returned anon, carrying two
small 'ndiY dual trays of beaten sill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

then the Queen signs. She 3 BACK
ward, our poor Queen, bat she signs
just the same. She canhft heip nef-
self. 1t comes that way with queens
now, IS 1t not so2'
agreed to the complete impofe''''
or modern queens, and later vefl-
ned Mevrouw S assertion aren't '''e
immlnence Of woman's enfranchiSe-
ment IN Holland at the slAi@Hs
headquarters IN The Hague, "Ae.s
l was told that victory IS Only :
matter OF q few months more "ol"'
What a picturesque occasion the
first voting day in the lard of diSe'
and windmills should be A | -ei'
my charming hostess it occurred .
me that the real progress Oh
woman's advancement is not - b9
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

third place with more than 1000
900.
The possibilities Of reaching the
people of the state through county
and travelling library systems Miss
Guerrler shows by the following
statistics:
There We're in California. ac-
cording to the last obtainable statis-
ties, July, 1917, 2,441 county free
library branches, with a total. Of
'ol Tag volumes. Government pam
phiets IN county library collections
ieach readers III mountain passes, in
lonely fishing hamlets and in the
heart of the forests.
with regard to TRAVELLING H.
brarles, the Iowa system, ACCORDING
to the 1913 report, had 1924 vol.
umes. The splendid circulation Of
these books is shown by the circula-
ton figure, S4,l34. Government
pamphlets as part of the TRAVELLING
library system reach the remotest
corners of the state.
"A library Office in the govern
ment would be an economic meas
ure. American libraries could be So
used as to connect our great demo-
cratic government with the hum
blest citizen. Such a connection
would help our people to think be-
tore critlcising, to know instead Of
jumping to conclusion, and to take
that just pride in the greatest gov
ernment in the world which the au-
thentlc story Of it's functions and
acts is sure to produce.
During my service with the food
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

has moro influence than that q,
Senator, or Governor, or Sam,
Gompers, president Of the Amor;..s
Federation Of Labor" A nunhe, =,
women reporters tried to emnh.
size Mrs. BASES domesticity bv nla~
ing up the fact that she kept hopse,
in three cities, but, generally speal.
ing, there was little Of this sort ..
apologize writing. That the mon
now had to put on dress suits for tba
evening affairs ard stop snok;r.
and smile sweetiy at the u,,lcbr;
tude about them made d good stor.
for many a harried political wrtsr
but its Importance was nil. The~o
may be more jaunts for women NJ
litical leaders in TIE Democr.,,.
party, but the Golden West and NJ
Bass will long remember the ono
made in 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
BY ELEANOR X. MCDONNELL

~ HE was pink and fat-and she
~ was Dutch. l could not be
certain whether she wore eight
petticoats or only seveni But she
was of a rotundity that obviously
was sartorial as we'll as corporal.
The inevitable apron and the 'ker-
chief crossed over bosom, Quaker
fashion, that is an indispensable
part of the Holland peasant woman s
full dress attire added to the bulk
of her, and the lace Golf, with the
heavy gilt metal ornaments show
ing through the interatices, empha-
sized her picturesqueness.
| had seen an almost exact replica
Of her around in the Mauritshuis,
which is the picture gallery at The
Hague, where the best works Of the
old Dutch masters are housed, but
l had not expected to see such one
in the flesh and in the year 1919.
In the modern atmosphere of The
Hague, one Of the most up-to-date
capitals Of Europe, her appearance
was homogeneous enough, but what
she was doing in that costume was
even more startling. She was driv-
ing tin Lizzie
1t was an ancient one, ancient
at least as buzz-wagons go, for it
had been born about 1912, and it
limped. AS it came painting down
the lovely broad road that leads
from The Hague, past the Palace of
Peace, to Scheveningen, it hest
tated in front of the bench where I
was sitting, gasped automatically
once or stwice, and then settled
down, apparently exhausted, for
protracted rest.
AS nimbly as though she were
shod in the soft slippers Of the bal
let dancer instead of cumbersome
wooden clogs, the Dutch matron
descended and began the tinkerine
that from the Rockies to the Hima-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Suffrage in Many Skirts

yer, on each Of which was CUP Of
delicious coffee and pastry.
She was fishermaus wife and
had two sons. The tin Lizzie was
the tangible evidence Of war pros
perity. The North Sea had been
mined and Mevrouw' husband and
sons were well paid for their cour.
age in venturing out. Bat | was
more interested in her "Anglisch.o
"The Netherlands" she tod ma
in broken fashion | shall not
attempt to initiate, "is the country
of the stranger, and as few people
learn Dutch we must learn the Ian
guages of our visitors. We start
very young in our schools with Eng
lish, French and German. 50 that as
we grow older it is not so difficult
The linguistic accomplishments Of
the Dutch people whom | had met
at my hotel had impressed me; | had
not expected, however, to find it
among the fishing-foIk. | thought
of my own smattering smatter-
ing that is served up to US in our
American high schools-and held my
peace before this humble housewife.
BY this time Mevrouw Won Til had
produced her knitting needles and
was clicking away earnestly on 6
gray woollen sock.
Next to the American woman
and the English woman" she OBJ
served proudly, the Dutch woman
is the most advanced. Would it sur
prise you, Miss, to hear that l am
a suffragist?'
BY this time it would not have
surprised ME to hear that she was
an aviator, or a deep-sea diver, and
| told her so.
Eyes, the world is moving quickly,
is it not SOP" she continued. Almost
a million members We have in our
suffrage society and already the
Lower House-tAe important House
of our Parliament has SAID yes
to our suffrage bill. Presently We
get it through the Tap House, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
h e,

administration, where 7 was IN
charge Of a library information ser-
vice and of general exhibits. | trav-
eiied thousands Of miles, visiting H.
brarles in large Eastern cities. in tho
Middle West and up and down tbo
racine Coast. | found librarians
everywhere eager to get the govern
ment material and eager to use it.
out necessarily more or less depend
ent on our office for an understand
lhg' not only of their needs, but
OF their possibilities. I had come
TO Washington, like thousands of
my fellows, ignorant that my gov
eminent was meant for my use, be-
cause no one had ever brought to
my attention the wonderful oppor-
tumtles free for the taking. I could
not go nome without trying to es-
tabllsh for all librarians service
that would give each librarian an
opportunity to interpret the govern
meht to his patrons (more than So
100000 people, at a conservative as-
innate, please remember) as it had
been interpreted to me.
The Secretary of the Interior
generously allowed me for s;x
months to demonstrate the possjbili-
ties and the results of such a so,
wee, and central office has now
been in operation since January
1919. The result has been
a connection between the govern
ment and the libraries never before
established, because never before
attempted. The Federal DEPART
ments have welcomed this, as letters
from the Secretaries of State.
Treasury, War, Navy, Interior. Az
riculture, Commerce and Labor tes-
tify. The librarians most earnestly
desire this service, in witness where
OF l offer seventeen typewriter
pages of excerpts selected from let
tiers written by members of the pro-
fession in every section of the
ohleed States L. l.. X.
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8 S e1liin6

4 FAVORABLE action on the bill
4 introduced to establish d.
vision of library service in
the Bureau of Education of the De
partment of the Interior by the sub.
committee of the Senate Committee
on Education and Labor presages q
final successful passag pc for the bill,
IL Will mean a service from Wash
mgton for the libraries Of the co,,n-
try that will be an enlarged effort
OF that made during the recent war
TO keep the libraries informed of
everything the government was saw
ing and doing to defend the country
In 1918 the Government Prin+;nu
Office issued more than 100000 pub
locations at cost exceeding $1,000
900. Those who are fosterinp the
division declare that, in spite Of the
wealth of information contained in
sucfl publications, the majority of the
people of the country remain in TO-
norance of the functions of the gov
eminent. The value of the material
has been proved There is, however
large percentage Of waste now
IN the indiscriminate handling Of the
government bulletins because too
much effort is spent on the produc-
ton and none on selling the prod
uct.' The proposed division of the
Bureau Of Education would nut
across the data which the govern
ment has assembled to the library
users of the nation.
About four hundred depository
Libraries which have been DESIGNATED
by Congressman receive once q
month all matter issued by the gov
eminent, excepting confidential mat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

happened while Mrs. Bass was in
town. The women Of the state had
never participated in the party meet
ings before. A Des Moines, Iowa,
newspaper reported the "old politi-
cal talkfests are with US again, but
they have new note. This is
struck by the advent Of the woman
voter, and when they sat In the
meeting to-day many white glove
was split with the applause that
greeted the men who addressed
them as Fellow citizens.' But when
another Of the masculine speakers
said 'We welcome this new citizenry
with open arms the new citizenry
laughed loudly and roundly."
BY this time Mrs. Bass must have
gone on her milk diet. It had to be
done in self-defence. Luncheons at
noon and banquets in the evening
have been known to break down
many cast-iron digestion. So Mrs.
Bass found that to keep her we'll
known vigor and good health she
must devote her 'mealtime to con-
versation Of POLITICAL nature and
refresh herself with milk. In these
days Of high cost of living it must
have been sad to miss the menus.
They were usually handsomely en-
graved. more of the engraving going
to set forth the courses than to de-
scribe the guests of honor, although
the lettering used on the banquet
cards was as large for the woman
leader as for Chairman Cummings
Of the National Democratic Commit
tee himself
Judging by the clippings, one
couldn't tell just what part of the
Pacific Coast is most addicted to
feasting. Los Angeles did entertain
Mrs. Bass with a closeup view Of
the film players at Universal City
and declared that she had "proved
to be woman's woman. ALTHOUGH
'cn-lsled' in sea of titles to Offices
that denote nationwide power, she
'oks neither like suffragist nor a
neral" Los Angeles also said that
Ter visit had marked the most sue
eessful Democratic caucus the CITY
had ever known.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Uncle SAM Through the
Public Libraries

ter, Congressional bills and hear
ings. Each department maintains
special lists of persons to whom it
sends it's publications on special
subjects. Each department makes
its own library list, as we'll as lists
Tor individuals, and there is no
standardized library list anywhere
IN the government machinery with
the exception of the depository H.
braries mentioned previously.
Miss Edith Guerrier, of the Bos-
ton Public Library, who has given
most of tho testimony in behalf of
the bill, had the following to say at
the House Committee hearing ON
the bill:
Because &C the widespread dis.
trlbutlon of library organizations
one to every 5000 inhabitants, one
to every 200 square miles-5O.OOO.-
600 people can easily be reache d
with authentic information given
out by the government ITSELF"
The distribution possibilities of
libraries are strikingly brought out
by the circulation figures of eight
Libraries in different parts of the
United States. These show New
York leading with 9,627,5O5 vol
umes distributed in 1918; Chicago
next, 5,6o2,So6 Q91O; Cleveland
(1916), 3,244,90S, with Los An
geles and Boston practically tied for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Selecting Frocks to
The League of Nations

The states Of Oregon and Wash
lngton outrivalled each other with
luncheons and speeches. The eighty
year-old daughter of the first terri
Forlal Governor of Oregon paid her
respects. Oregon's only woman leg.
islator presided at a luncheon. A
Portland reporter it was who visited
Mrs. Bass when she was preparing
tor one OF these gala luncheons and
found her laying out her frocks. get
ting ready for the mail, discussing
the league of nations and telling
about the advent of women in poll
tics. Portland also saw Mrs. Bass
with the swing and dash of girl
OF twenty step off the train as fresh
as the day she started five weeks
ago"
Seattle liked the new kind Of Wis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

propitiate and ensnare the coveted
woman vote?"
"Was she selected because Of in
huential male relatives?"
The answer to each question was
negative. especially since it was
learned that masculine members of
tho Bass family we're recorded as
being Republicans.
A cartoonist was inspired to draw
two separate pictures Of men and
women alignments in the grand old
game of party politics. One sketch
showed the women gathered together
on one side of the path Of govern
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

ter. What IS the first thought that
comes when any one seessa scout, be
1t boy or girl? Usually it is some
thing like this:
"Ihere is Il reliable person who
can be depended upon for this, or
who can help me with that" Yet
most scouts are merely children. But
these children become scouts onlv
because they wish to and. having
adopted the code voluntarily. thew
strive to live up to the scout laws
and promises. The tradition Of de-
pendablllty, this "noblesse o6Iice" Of
scouting, appeals to the innate chiy-
airy Of every child's heart, and this
tradition is being aided daily bv
what scouts in ali countries have
done in the great war. The scout
slogan, DO good turn daily"
grows from the little act of helpful
ness into the habit Of constant%er-
vice, and the scout motto, BE pre-
pared" trains the habit of thought
hat makes the individual useful in
and able to grasp op
portunity when it comes.
Through the handicraft of scouting
the passing from one grade to an
other and the winning of badges in
subjects interest her--the
scouts intelligence is tremendously
She learns the funda-
"eh'ais Of child care, home nursing. |
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
American Girls
Changed Name

In fact, Mrs. Low started the first
two troops in this country as Girl
Guides in 1912, but the American
s'rls, rot possessing the tradition
OF the guide regiments Of India and
deriving their chief interest in scout
ing from their brothers, felt that
SINCE they We're striving to live up
TO the standards of the scouts thew
should have the same name; so they
charged it to Girl Scouts,
and now scouting for girls has
spread around the world-to all
parts Of the British Empire, to most
European countries. and even to
China, Japan and South America.
The great need everywhere is for
leaders women IF vision and initia-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

turned his training over to the boys
CT Great Britain and developed the
Boy Scouts organization. Not long
after thus he found that thousands
ct girls were clamoltng for the
scout training and the same sort Of
fun, and therefore, with the help of
his sister, he started a similar or
gani1ation for girls, which he called
the Girl Guides. He says:
ut Is due TO Mrs. Julette Low, Of
Savannah, that the movement was
successfully started in America"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

open up every pdiH lHd'
leads to training in citizenship; and
one of those paths, that leads
through the most fascinating coun-
try, in the most amusing company
is scouting for girls.
To expand the organization Of the
Girl Scouts in America and enable
it TO further its usefulness and eX-
tend its work for girls between ten
and eighteen years of age a cam
paign for funds will be undertaken
next month. The drive will be for
100000, beginning October 25 and
continuing one week until Novem-
Der /.
The drive will be confined strictly
to Manhattan, not extending to any
of the other four boroughs of the
city. Headquarters for the cam
paign will be at lS9 Lexington Ave
que, the national headquarters of
the Girl Scouts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Playing
The Game

Americans need scouting to teach
them to work together. Scouting
through the simple drilling and
patrol system, through it's inter
patrol, intertroop competitions
teaches girls to work as body. 1t
cries out to them:
"Play the game! According to the
rules. In your place! Play for your
side, not for YOURSELF"
In describing how he came to
start the scout movement Sir Rob
ert Baden Powell writes:
ON the beginning / had used
scouting-that is, woodcraft handi-
ncss, CHEEKY helpfulness-as a
means for training young soldiers
when they first joined the army, to
help them to become handy, capable
mon and able to hold their own with
any one instead of being mere
drilled m chimes"
Soon after the Boer War he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
The Slogans of
"DeEendability"

sAmerica needs Girl Scouts. We
all know that democracy depends
entirely upon the character of its
citizens. Scouting develops charac-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

Editors Note.-Mrs. Anne Hyde
Choote, first vice-president Of the
Girl Scouts an America, IS aoork-
ing on the drive for susta ming
membership which the organiSo-
ton aciN conduct merit month. she
prepared the follo1cing article on
her belief in scouting erclatsiUely
for The Tribune Institute.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

disabuse the minds of the local re-
ception committee that she was an
Auxiliary" 1t might as well be
explained here that in taking this
personally conducted tour through
the scrapbook's pages the Tourist"
notes marked change in tempera-
ture and barometric pressure in the
accounts written west of Chicago.
AS we said, Mrs. Bass usually had
to remove the idea from the minds
of the local politicians and the press
that she came along as an adjunct.
She insisted that the party was well
coming women on an equality with
men, and if clippings be true. GER
tainly she had no cause to complain
as to the way the local supporters
Of the party brought their families
along for the parties and confer
ences. Out in Chicago, where the
tour started after a party meeting
in May, a newspaper said that "she
burst out of the door behind which
a conference was being held and
seated herself in a chair with an
electric air"
According to that same Chicago
paper, one evening Of the National
Committees council was turned over
to her. Many states sent their wom-
en- associate state chairmcn to the
gathering, and it was a fitting send
off for the first invasion Of the West
by the head Of the "Democrattes,"
as another Western paper termed
the fair politicians. Mrs. Bass was
well known civic and political
worker in Chicago before she went
into the Liberty Loan and kindred
war activities. She has been in the
West on public business twice pre-
viously, but never before as the
chairman Of national political
party organization focused on the
purpose of putting it's own candi-
dates in Congress and the White
House.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Forever
Optimistic

Optimism must be a never failing
trait Of the woman political leader.
For example, take the interview
quoted with Mrs. Bass after she had
shaken hands all around with the
potential Democrats of her own sex
who came down to meet the train
at Albuquerque, N. M. She an
nounccd, say the headlines, that she
"expected New Mexico to be among