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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
New York School Teachers Will
Learn Farming at Chautauqua
Camp School Next Summer

Preparations to train school
teachers for the business of farm
ing are being made by the New
York State Woman's Land Army,
Inc. Chautauqua Institute has of
fered the Land Army tent camp
on the grounds at Chautauoua, N.
Y, occupied last season by the Ma
tional Service School, for use as an
agricultural school. Preparations
for the opening, June Is, are now
under way.
School teachers, graduates of
normal schools and teachers col
leges are being recruited for the
school at the state headquarters of
the Land Army, 303 Fifth Avenue,
and at the new upstate headquar-
tiers, in the state Capitol at Albany.
This is not farmerette unit.
The state Department of Educa-
ton is cooperating with the Land
Army in arranging for the school,,
which will differ from the far
merette training camps, and will
give teachers and students of junior
project work training in agriculu-
ure. An outline of study has been
prepared, which includes vegetable
gardening, rural economics and
home management, nature study,
animal husbandry, poultry hus-
bandry, soils and crops, farm
practice, farm labor problems, farm
mechanics and fruit growing. Stu
dents may elect a maximum of
twenty-five hours of study a week.
A trained agriculturist from
Cornell University will direct the
camp and, at the end of the course,
certificates will be issued by the
state Department of Agriculture. A
fee of $11 weekly will be charged
by the Land Army, to cover the
cost of training, maintenance, laun-
dry and a gate ticket of admit
lance to all the Chautauqua lectures
and concerts.
The Chautauqua camp, which will
reach older women, is part of the
great back to the land movement
which the Land Army has launched
In this state, seeking to turn the
activities of city folk countryward.
Twice as many farmerettes are
needed in the state this year as last
year, when 1900 went out to cult
vate the land S. S. Board, chief
examiner of District 2, United States
Free Employment Service, who is in
charge Of the employment service
for Long Island, emphasizes the
farm labor shortage which women
are counted on to fill this summer.
GAS you know, the shortage of
labor for agricultural work." Mr..
Board wrote to Mrs. Otto R.
Eichel, Federal director of the New
York State Woman's Land Army.
"has not been relieved since the war.
1t has been gradually increasing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
The
Roosevelt
Medallion

kinds Of audiences, men and
women" interpolated one of
the association members. "Next
Tuesday one Of us will speak,
by special invitation, at
luncheon Of newspaper adver-
Using directors. She will be
the only woman there"
"Miss Pamela Cunningham
would have been Mortified at
the bare idea of such thing"
said Mrs. Furness. "She or
gained her Mount Vernon AS
ISOLATION through letters writ
ten to women all over the
country. This began in 1853,
and at that time, except in
New York, Massachusetts and
possibly one or two more
states, there were no laws Civ
ing married women separate
property rights. Miss Cunning
ham was appealing to a penni-
less class for sum of money
that in those days represented
a large fortune"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

tie; second vice-president, Mrs. Paul
Ehrhart; third vice president, Mrs.
Robert Eadie; recording secretary,
Mrs. G. W. Demarest; correspond
ing secretary, Miss M. Sheitlein;
treasurer, Mrs. M Tenney; auditor,
Mrs. L. S. Marx; historian, Mrs. E.
A. futile.
At the final luncheon for the
season of Minerva, at the Waldorf,
Mrs. Simon Baruch and Mrs. John
Yawger alternated in presiding,
owing to the illness of Mary Stokes
MacNutt, president. Mrs. Robert F.
Cartwright, chairman of the day,
presented the programme after the
luncheon. Mrs. James Griffith was
the soloist and sang two groups of
songs. The speakers were Lieuten-
ant c. H. Blanchard, General Asga-
petian and Mrs. De Riviera. Miss
Mabel Harrison Duncan read
paper, illustrated with stereopticon
pictures, From Athens to Jerusa
lem" Guests of honor were Mrs.
c. D. Wood, Mrs. A. N. Palmer,
Lady Asgapetian, Mrs. William R.
Chapman, Mrs Laura D. Bur
roughs and Mrs. Robins Leu.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

civilized community and should be
placed under the control of a more
civilized part of the country.
81 do not consider that man
who takes part in lynching
is fit for self-government; nor
should he be permitted a voice in
public affairs, for no man who VIC
lates one law by taking it upon him
self unlawfully to punish another is
fit to participate in the making of
laws governing Others"
Mrs. Palmer was the introducer,
at the meeting of the Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, of the
following resolution:
among the many questions
which the war has revealed as chal-
longing democracy, none has ap-
pealed more imperatively than the
race problem as it exists in the
presence Of ten to twelve millions
VI HcSIoeS III ouI iHiuot. LIE opleu-
did response which this people have
made to the call of patriotism, in
spite Of continual ostracism and
political and educational discrimina-
ton, is doubtless one of the most
remarkable facts of the war They
have never failed the flag. Will the
flag now fail them? In the light Of
these facts, we most heartily rec
ommend that each woman's club of
our federation include this topic in
the course Of their study during the
year: The negro as challenge to
American democracy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Many Women
Are in Factories

Standards for women in industry
will probably be one Of the next well
fare moves in the islands. Thou
sands Of women are employed to
make the sheer Philippine en-
broidery, and their wages are not
high. Most Of the Philippine en-
brodery sold in this country comes
from these factories. Although it
is hand work, the difference between
it and the original Philippine en-
broidery done by Philippine women
who had been taught by the sisters
is the same difference that there is
between real Irish lace and the
crocheted lace called Irish"
Mrs. De Veyra is small and of ex-
ceedingly pleasing personality. She
does not enjoy wearing American
clothes, she says, and from the be-
comingness of her Philippine CO.'S
tune it is easy to see why. She has
four children, two boys and
two girls. The youngest, although
dressed in American rompers, looks
for all the world like doll of the
Orient. All the children speak Eng
Iish.
Since coming to Washington Mrs.
De Veyra has been actively affiliated
with the National American Wom-
an Suffrage Association. She is in
tcrested in it's programme, always
with a view az to what she can
learn that will be Of value TO her
own people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
VIII Plan Reconstruction

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The
programme for a series of confer
ences on reconstruction problems
mentioned in the platform of the
new League of Women Voters is
announced by the Washington head
quarters Of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association.
THE fact that men predominant
in the list of speakers and Shat rec
ognlzed political partisans alternate
as leaders of the conference is in
line with the declaration of Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president of
the national association, that the
league desires to work with and not
against men and that the members
Of the league are to affiliate with
the political parties of their choice
and not form new woman's party"
says the associations announce
ment.
Beginning tomorrow the con-
ferences are to be held on success
sive Monday evenings at the Wash
ington headquarters of the associa-
ton. The speakers for each con-
ference will represent divergent
viewpoints and their talks will be
followed by general discussion.
Land" is the topic for May 5,
and the speakers will be Franklin
K. Lane, Secretary Of the Interior;
Frank W. Mondell, Republican floor
leader in the House; Elwood Mead,
professor at Berkeley College and
former government expert in land
reclamation in Australia and New
Zealand, and Edward Prentiss Co.'S
tigan, member of the Tariff Com-
mission.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
National Conference
On Lynching

Women throughout the country
are being urged to participate in
the first national conference on
lynching, which opens with a mass
meeting in Carnegie Hall tomorrow
night. Leaders among suffragists
and in women's clubs have issued
appeals to them to take a deter
mined part in stamping out the
lynching evil.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary
president of the American Woman
Suffrage Association, has issued an
appeal that lynching be abolished
in the interest of civilization. The
New York City Federation of
Women's Clubs is being urged by
Mrs. A. M. Palmer, president of the
Rainy Day Club Of America, and
by Nine. Marie Cross Neuhaus,
chairman of the Woman's Civic
Committee of Justice and president
of the Societe des Beaux Arts, to
deal with the problem of the negro
as challenge to American democ-
racy.
"Whenever / hear the claim
made that we are unfit for self
government in this country" said
DR.. Shaw, II feel that it is some
what justified by our supine atti-
tudc toward lyrching. a commu-
nifty controlled by a mob is not q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
News of the Week Among Women
Women Buy Roosevelt Birthplace

sengers to the historic spot,
perhaps as a tribute to the
memory of the great Wash
ington, l do not know. At
all events, Mrs. Cunning
ham saw the house, and
a day or two afterward,
writing to her invalid daughter
at home, she mentioned the fact
that the old manor house was
falling to pieces, and expressed
her indignation that the Wash
ington descendants had failed
in their efforts to sell the place
either to the United States or
the State of Virginia.
Almost Immediately Miss
Cunningham conceived the vast
idea of forming a women's
association to buy and restore
Mount Vernon. She began by
writing letters to newspapers
in South Carolina. She signed
them South Carolinian,' or
Anon or something like that,
because a lady could not have
her name printed in a news
paper. OF course, she could
not speak in public"
eve are speaking before all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

times the bill was presented by one
of the most radical men iii the
legislature. Nothing was heard of
it after it was presented. The third
time it was filed and died because
outside rumors of the ignorance of
the women were brought to bear on
it. The last time the measure came
up it would have gone through, Mrs.
De Veyra believes, if the women
had shown more disposition to want
it passed.
MANY of our women still feel
that if they vote they will lose their
charm" says Mrs. De Veyra. Fright
now, if the Philippine women would
show enough interest in getting the
vote, they could have it, | am sure"
After her marriage Mrs. De
Veyra gave up her work at the Nor
NAL School and took up welfare
work in the islands. She was pres
ident of three organizations for saw
ing the lives of babies. Infant NOR
tally in the Philippines is high, and
practically all women interested in
public welfare start it with work to
save the Philippine babies. One of
the organizations for this purpose
is the Drop Of Milk" society, which
made a campaign to get pure milk
and enough milk for the babies and
children of the Philippines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Philippine Islands, of Matriarchal
Tradition, Expected Soon to
Grant Their WomenSuffrage

ident of the American Woman Suf-
frage Association, visited the Phil
ippines in 1912. A dinner was given
for her which Mrs. De Veyra at
tended.
I'VE organized a suffrage associa-
tion," says Mrs. De Veyra, "but we
called it the 'Woman's Club The
club worked for civic improvements
and the general welfare of the peo-
pie, and very little was said outside
it's meetings on the suffrage mat
ter"
Woman suffrage has been brought
before the Philippine legislature
several times. The first and second
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

more and more into public
view. The Women's Mount
Vernon Association began it's
work all over again, with more
freedom of action. They bought
a steamboat to carry visitors
back and forth from Washing
ton. They charged a fee for
viewing the house and grounds.
They set up restaurant in the
neighborhood and made quite
a profit from visitors lunch
cons. All this depended on
volunteer work, mostly by
W a S h n g n and Virginia
women. Finally, at the request
of the council, Miss Cunning
ham moved to Mount Vernon
and for several years acted as
custodian and caretaker."
Glow long did it take to re-
store the house and furni-
ture?" Mrs. Furness was asked.
"Many years." she replied.
"Most of the furniture was
owned by the GUSTS family,
and while many generous gifts
were made the women had to
buy some of the pieces in an
tique shops and at auctions.
They paid enormous prices for
some of these. But as time
rolled on they acquired large
revenue"
There was a certain air of
satisfaction amid the auditors
when one of them remarked:
"The Women's Roosevelt Me-
mortal Association expects to
have the bulk of it's million
dollar endowment fund within
six months and the house built
and restored as soon after that
as architects and builders can
work. The house next door,
which we are also buying, will
be doing it's Americanization
work before the next President
is elected. Thank goodness, in
these days women can write
and speak and do anything
they start out to do"
At this precisely proper mo-
ment an association member,
wearing the Roosevelt button,
designed by Anna V. Hyatt,
entered the room. eve been
at a luncheon of Republican
women's clubs in Brooklyn"
she announced, land I've
brought back bag full of new
memberships. No, didn't have
place on the programme. I
had my button with me, and
all who saw it gave me what
they had in their purses"
" Re p u b lean women's
clubs!" exclaimed Mrs. Fur
ness. 81 wish there was some
way to get that over to Miss
Pamela Cunningham"
RHETA CHILDE DORR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
The Unopened
Pay Envelope

THE wife and mother is the
cashier of the family. Men who do
: not turn over all their earnings to
their wives are not considered the
right kind of men. They are looked
Gown upon. When, in a neighbor-
hood, there are two or three men
who refuse to let their wives ham
die the funds of the family we say,
They are Chinese
In spite of the high esteem in
which women are held in the Phil
lpplnes, their right to be educated
was not conceded until the Ameri-
cans went to the islands,. There
were no public schools for girls, and
the few who received any education
got it from the sisters of the Cath
Ole Church. Mrs. De Veyra says
that her father, although he allowed
hls sons the utmost freedom in their
education, permitted her to have
very little, and always carefully
censored the books that. came into
Ter hands.
Before her marriage Mrs. De
Feyra was head of the dormitory of
the Girls Normal School in the
Philippines. She had the personal
care Of girls Of all ages and did
aome teaching in the school.
American improvements have made
great difference in the life of the
Philippines, says Mrs. De Veyra.
She describes the trip from her own
home 10 the Normal School where
fhe taught. 1t took hours and hours.
She rode in a cart drawn by an OK
cyer roads which we're 50 bad that
often the beast and his heavy vehi-
Gle had to be turned off into fields
p avoid deep mud holes and bottom
'esg pits of rnire on the thorough
'arc. Before che left the islands
Mrs. De veyra made the trip in
Ettle more than half an hour on a
st<am train.
When woman suffrage was first
| Snzgested 10 few Philippine worn-
IN by one or two American women
Wey saw little in itg favor. 1t was
distinctly radical, and Mrs. Dc
seyra admits that she herself did
rot believe in IL.
Mxs. Carrie Chapman Gait. pres
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Club Ne1us and Announcements

The Cambridge Club will hold it's
next meeting Monday, May 5, at
2:30 p. M, at the residence of Mrs.
A. M. Howe, hostess, 205 Rugby
Road, Flatbush. Subject, mature
and Modern Poetry" Mrs. F. +.
Purdy, chairman of programme.
Last meeting of the season. DR.. H.
C. Van Buren, Peckham, correspond
ing secretary, 1861 Bergen Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Craig will speak about "Plan for
Solving the Twelfth Avenue Track
Problem; Dock Commissioner
Murray Hubert will tell all about
"New York City's Docks and PIERS"
and Mrs. Charles Austin Bryan will
discuss the "Rights of the New York
Central Versus Riverside"
The musical programme inludes
the names Of Tom A. Greene, for
merly of the Naval Reserve, pianist,
and Mrs. Lane, soprano.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

N UYIN G. the Roosevelt
~ birthplace and endowing
it with a million dollar
sustaining fund is an easy mat
ter compared with the purchase
of Mount Vernon and it's his
toric acres for a paltry
100000.
Women bought and restored
Mount Vernon, and women are
now at work buying and restor-
ing the birthplace of Theodore
Roosevelt; but what a differ
ence in the status of women.
This was brought out in an
interview with Mrs. Charles
Eliot Furness, of St. Paul,
MIMI, vice-regent in her state
of the Women's Mount Vernon
Association. Mrs. Furness was
seen in the headquarters of the
Women's Roosevelt Memorial
Association, / East Fifty-sev-
enth Street. CHANGING around
the room, where half dozen
women were busy at typewrit-
ers, filing papers, dispatching
baskets full of letters and tele-
grams, Mrs. Furness said:
81 wish Miss Pamela Cum
ningham could have lived to see
this"
Miss Pamela Cunningham, it
TRANSFERRED, was the South
Carolina gentlewoman who
started the movement to buy
the home of George Washing
ton, carried on most of the
work for ten years, saw the
purchase completed and the
house we'll on it's way to COM
plete restoration before she
died.
"She was an invalid," con-
tinued Mrs. Furness, "and did
most of her work from her bed.
But that was not so much of
handicap then as it would be
now. In those pre-Civil War
days women, especially South
ern women were practically
clustered, as far as any public
work was concerned. They ap-
peared in society and at
church, but except for strictly
private charity work they had
no interests outside their
homes"
GLOW, then, did Miss Cum
ningham become interested In
Mount Vermont"
Through her mother, who
was travelling from Washing
ton down the Potomac to visit
trends in Virginia. The old
house, very much neglected
and tumbledown, stood on the
hill, and it was the custom for
steamboat men to ring their
bells when passing. Perhaps to
call the attention of the pas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Onebr of in
Hannah Mitchell
who
years
India has had charge of this work the
tabished MRS. Votaw Harding of
More than forty girls bewekn the twenty
girls person.
atty learns all about
the period of probation each girl keeps
Mrs Vtw In this she tells places goes shows
and what she thinks in
her ambion if size has Mrs. Of
charges in good jobs of her haven mass
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Now York City
Mothers Club

At the annual election of the
New York City Mothers Club the
following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. T. Bath Glasson;
first vce-president, Mrs. E. A. Tut
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
BY Hannah Mitchell
New York Tribune
Wnsbi;uUtOu RyrroA

New York Tribunc
Washington Bureau
The women of the Philippines will
have suffrage as soon as they really
demonstrate that they want it, is
the belief of Mrs. Jaime C. De
Veyra. wife of Jaime c. De
yevra, one of the delegates to Con-
gress from the Philippines. Mrs. De
Veyra is a Philippine and has been
active in welfare work among her
own people for many years.
"Philippine women have always
been the heads of the families" says
Mrs. De Veyra. Before the Span
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
kniCkerbOCker
Civic League

The regular monthly meeting of
the Knickerbocker Civic League,
Mrs. Mary M. Lilly, president, will
be held at the Hotel Majestic on
Friday evening, May 9. An inter
csting programme has been pre-
pared. City Controller Charles l..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

ish came to the islands we had the
'matriach' as the basis of commu-
nifty life. And the traditions inher-
tied from the times when women
we're absolute heads of the families
still prevail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

In grateful appreciation of the
invaluable services of Mrs. Anne
Tomlinson, in connection with the
hospital unit of the Women's Over
seas Hospitals, at Labouheyre, the
Woman's Apparel Association gave
dinner on April rs at 7 o'clock
at the Pennsylvania Hotel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Professional
WOn7an'S League

At the Professional Woman's
League, as West Sixty-fourth
Street, Mrs. H. w. Richie, presi-
dent, the monthly literary pro-
gramme will be given tomorrow,
Mrs. Owen Kildare chairman.
'Art" was the subject at the
Professional Woman's League last
Monday. Mrs. Arthur Bridge, chair
man. The speakers were DIR. Cum
ming, Mr.. Jerome Meyers, Mr.. Her
bert B. Tschudy, Miss Susan Kicker
Knox and Miss Anna Maxwell
Jones, chairman of art for the
state federation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
SALARY BOOST
FOR TEACHERS
IS APPROVED
Kiwanis Club Goes on Record
For Better Paid In
StructorS

The movement to increase salarief
OF teachers in the public schools of
Pennsylvania was given official and
unanimous approval by the Kiwanis
Club of Harrisburg at their luncheon
in the main diningroom of the Penn
Harris Hotel held at noon to-day. AT
the instance of William G. Alexander,
vice-president, the matter was taken
up and was referred to the civic and
welfare committee. This committee
includes AL: K. Thomas, chairman; T.
II. Hamilton. C. r. Beckley, William
Strouse, Irving b. Robinson and
Frank r. Downey. AS q result, it is
possible that a campaign will be
fnaugurated to secure the wage in
crease for the teachers.
William Strouse. of the New store
or william Strouse, won the attend
ance prize, handsome hat given by
Fred B. Harry, halter and furrier.
I'm going to wear it with the label
outside. so everyone can see it." Mr..
Strouse declared. James A. George.
manager of the Victoriai Theater. gave
as a silent boost copies of the new
song hit, Mickey" T. e. Cleckner.
| of the firm of Fisher & Cleckner, pre-
sented the members with boxes of
| matches.
William II. Boyer. the farmer-
| baritone, Z recently returned from
service in the Army, sang when the
Boys Come Home" and Somewhere a
Voice Is. Calling" He was accom-
panied by j. Stewart Black, Kiwanif
pianist, and organist at the Bethle-
hem Lutheran Church.
A feature of the musical program
was the singing of the newly formed
| Glee Club. which includes number
of prominent Kiwanians, led by Alb.
ner w. Hartman, chorister at the
Messiah Lutheran Church.
Among the guests were Warren r,
jackson, secretary Of the Harrisburg
| Chamber of Commerce, and Elmer II
Ley soloist at the Pine Street Pres
| byterian Church.