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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-06-21
Press Gallery Guardians.

A brief current Washington news
item reads like this:
The Washington correspondents
Yesterday elected this standing com
mittee: Gus J. Karger. Cincinnati
Times-Star, chairman: Harry c. Ste
vens. Minneapolis Journal: Charles :.
Albert. New York World: Ben F.
Allen. Cleveland Plain Dealer. and Ar
thur :. Henning. Chicago Tribune"
On the face of things il might ap-
pear that this election. is of no partic-
ular moment 10 the readers of the
newspapers of the United States. hut
nevertheless il means much 10 them.
for il is through the standing commit
tee that the Washington correspond
entS safeguard the interests If them
selves and of the reading public OF
the United States.
There are "A great many Washing
ION correspondents who are not allow
eel to enter the press galleries, for
the privileges of entering thereto are
confined 10 correspondents who send
telegraphic news dispatches and who
can subscribe Ia the rules and regula-
tons governing admission.
There are MANY writer's here who
confine their fields of usefulness 70
magazines. or To other publications.
which require no telegranhic service
The men who are connected with
newspapers ar with press associations
who do use the wire are 81 numerous
that the press galleries are well filled.
When it is said that the standing
committee of correspondents safe
guards the newspaper men and the
reading public. exactly what Is writ
ten is meant. There are men and
women who come 70 Washington To
write stuff which is intended 10 help
private or corporation interests. Their
effort is TO put in the most plausible
way before such readers as they can
command the supposed beauties VI
this legislation or that Legislation IN
tended 10 benefit some great business
concern or some individual scheme Of
EXPLOITATION. ON the face Of things.
therefore. these correspondents cannot
he admitted to the press gallery. for
they are not the purveyorS If legiti-
maze news.
II is the duty Of the standing com
mittee. acting in connection with the
committee an rules Of the senate and
with the speaker Of the house Of rep
rpSentativeS. To see 70 ii thar the press
galleries Il congress are used for legiti-
matp purposes and for nothing else.
There have been times when the
Strndng COMMITTEE" has taken issue
with the speaker 0f the house and
with the senate committee oE rules
concerning the RIGHT of certain men
tn enter the galleries as correspond
entS. II has stood for the purity Of
the galleries and almost invariably II
has done its work well.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-06-21

Once in IA while we find a man 81
lucky that he is able to ride his hobby
20 success.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-06-21
The Usual Endin1

How did the argument end?
AS usual. Each of the parricipants
ran out Of names to call the other"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-06-21
Time.

Time must be- ged like any 9th
er property: /; must he anticipated; il
must be taken by the forelOck.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-06-21

Senator Albert Baird Cummins OF
Iowa. who was made president pro
TEN of the senate by the unanimous
vote Of the Republican senator's. He
has been in the senate IL years and
is ranking member Of the committee
on Interstate commerce. which will
have charge of railroad legislation.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-06-21
important to Mothers

A selected sacritlce Is not.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Worlds W. e.. Z. Il. TO Meet
IN Westminster Abbey

speak in st. Paul's Cathedral at the
end of the convention week. Tenn
perance sermons Will be preached
throughout the British Isles on that
day, according to a statement ISSUED
last week by DR.. Ella A. Boole, of
Brooklyn, president Of the New York
State Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union and . member of the
national board in this country.
Dr. Boole, who will be one of the
leaders in the international conven-
ton, has been active in prohibition
work in New York for many years.
She worked for state prohibition as
we'll as for the Federal amendment.
After the United States entered the
war she offered her whole organlza-
ton, including more than $4,000
members, for war work DR.. Boolc
is well known as speaker and cam
paigned in all the Liberty Loan
drives.
On April p; % and 23 the con
vertion viii meet IN the Central
Hall, Westminster Abbey, and the
British hostesscs have equipped 4
large tearoom in the building where
l 900 persons can be served
A widely representative worlds
convention committee mas been ap-
pointed, including representative,
from several of the national associa-
tons The hospitality committee
headed by Miss Foster Newton.
Politics viii have a part in The
gathering, for irasmuch as the won
en- assembled win represent every
country in the world there is Il.
doubt that the league of nations vii
be one of the chief topics. Ms
Anna A. Gordon, National W. c. +
|. president, will head the group
American delegates at this histor,,
meeting,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Care Of Babies
Taught in English

What to do for these women be-
came one of the big problems which
had to be solved Immediately by the
State Department of Americaniza-
ton. W. c. Smith, supervisor of
the division, appointed women or
ganizers to go forward with the
work. Miss Clara 3. Springsteed,
of Albany, assistant supervisor of
the department, has found that the
factory class and the "home and
neighborhood class plans have
worked like charm.
According to the AmericaniZation
department there are four classes of
people to whom the home and neigh
borhood class appeals especially
women who cannot leave their
homes because Of small children and
household duties, girls who work IN
stores and factories, whose parents
Will not permit them to go out to
night school alone (this applies to
all Italian girls and many other ma
tlonalitles), and men who work all
night, or who work too late to reach
night school in time.
A class organized within their own
environment acconpllshes more than
the ordinary night school class
among the foreigners, the American
ization workers have discovered.
The natural shyness, timidlty and
fear Of the foreign born for things
American are more rapidly over
come. Direct avenues Of approach
are opened to better hygienic and
sanitary conditions, cleaner and bet
ter prepared food, a more balanced
diet, greater attention to proper
care of babies and children, and
other strictly home affairs.
Through the home class the
teacher may become the connecting
link between the foreign man or
woman and the proper outside
agencies which they need to help
them,' says Miss Springsteed. AT
home the teacher has an opportunity
to find out moro easily than she
could in the classroom about the
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Programme of League
For Woman's Service
wv IHILE many other organ
wv izations are vacationing and

w THlLE many other organ
wv izations are vacationing and
summering, the National
League for Woman's Service in New
York starts a new enterprise in
town. Recently the Summer Club
reading and writing room was
opened at the national headquarters,
257 Madison Avenue, by the league.
Out-of-town members passing
through New York or in the city
for a short time on business have
the privileges of the clubrooms.
Canteen service in the basement
provides lunch and tea.
Other branches which the league
is keeping up are the work with
its ambulances, cooperation with
the international Music Festival
Chorus and other lines in which it
is helping and fitting in with or
ganizations in various fields.
A history of the league is to be
published soon. The reports of local
chairmen have been worked into
the history and war activities are
described from canteen and am
bulance work to bandage making.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Education Of IIliterate Women
Voters Through Neighborhood
Glasses i'm H0memaking
q

previous life in the old country.
This knowledge is essential to the
satisfactory progress of the class.
Perhaps the most important feat
ure, however, of the home class is
the strengthening of the tie be-
tween the foreign mother and her
children. They are educated in the
American schools. With her new
knowledge of English the mother in
sures New York State of future
citizens who will be sturdy, loyal
Americans.
The work has born fruit. In
Ballston Spa, small manufacturing
city just south Of Saratoga Springs,
where thousands of foreigners are
employed, it has been the beginning
of a remarkable community centre
house, planned and run by the for
eign women themselves. The house
was given through some ph'lan.
thropic agency, but the rest of the
work has been done, practically all
of it, by the women, 1t was opened
May 30, with library: dance hall,
reading rooms and recreation rooms
just for the foreign-born population
of the city. Here all the classes IN
English and civics, and the other
branches of study which the more
advanced students like, are taught
1t IS the social, recreational and edu-
Gatlonal centre of whole COM
lnunlty And it is succeeding in
making English the language and
American the customs of hundreds
of foreign men and women.
Factory classes have had more
publicity. They have become one of
the most popular phases Of the
Americanization work in the large
cities. New York City has more
than forty classes now in session in
the industrial centres of it's business.
Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Water
town and Albany all have a number
of classes in progress. There will
he more, for last years Legislature
also passed a law making necessary
continuation schools in factories
where i}1itpratec Or DercOos hetuyeer
fourteen and eighteen are employed.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
State Suffragists and
Ants Work Together

A brisk fight is b. waged by
the anti-suffragists ,cw Jersey.
A referendum on the measure is the
object of those opposed to suffrage.
IN Texas an organiza ton of men is
working for a referendum that shall
be retroactive and neutralize what
the Legislature has done In Ala
bama the Naturalization League
mas been formed to fight the Federal
amendment, though some of its
members are for suffrage by states
action Anti-suffragists and state
suffragists are working side by side
under the slogan "Alabama for Ala
bamians,' against the Feredal
amendment.
Miss Francis Benson, executive
secretary of the Association Opposed
TO Woman Suffrage, said that there
was little encouragement in the
hearts of the women voters working
against the amendment, because they
believe that the political significance
which certain leaders have attrib-
u'ea to woman suffrage has been
overestimated.
There is no reason for men who
want to run for office to be afraid of
.ne women's vote simply on the suf-
rage ISSUE said Miss Benson.
Look at the New York election two
years ago. The suffragists over
prayed their power and fell down on
delivering the vote. The tickets that
were split on Whitman showed how
netie d mans record on suffrage
meant to the average woman voter.
Another striking example of
'h's fetish of the Importance of the
woman vote is the reelection of the
representatives to Congress from
New York after they had voted
against the Federal amendment.
cur of New York's representa-
yves voted against the Federal
amendment in 1918. They said,
'ro their friends said, that it
'"eant their political deaths. In
splte OF TIL 'owever, they ran last
'an and we're reelected, women
voting for them"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Factory Girls Attend
Lunch Hour Glasses

Girls who are busy IN factories
never hesitate to join the class in
English which is being formed for
part of their lunch hour. Most Of
the factory owners are willing to de-
vote some few minutes Of the day to
the English teacher, but the girls
themselves are more than eager to
learn. Women fifty years old were
among the eager students of the
tirsl factory class in the state at Al
bany last summer They spent days
learning to write, after their
teacher, "cat," "hat," coat" and
other simple words which were taken
from their surroundings and could
be rapidly applied by them.
The Americanization division of
the education depa rtment intends to
devise other means to reach the non
Engllsh-speaking woman. The mil
itary census of 1917, which is being
filed and made ready for use by the
department, will, after September |,
be able to furnish teachers and or
CARNATIONS throughout the state
with statistics, brought up to date,
of every county and locality within
the state. Organizers and expert
workers are being sent into the rura'
districts, where much pioneering
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
English Labor Leader SAYS
cooperative Guilds Will
Lower Food Prices
Trade UniOnist to
Head Women in
Industry Service

Mary Anderson has been
named by the Secretary of Labor
in Washington as head of the
Women in Industry Service to
succeed Mary Van Kleeck, whose
resignation was handed in re-
Gently to take effect September |.
Miss Anderson has been Miss
Van Kleeck' 5 assistant since the
service was started more than
year ago.
Mary Anderson is a labor union
woman. For years she has been a
member of the Boot and Shoe
Workers. Union. She is of Swed-
lsh birth, coming to this country
when she was very young. Last
spring she was sent to Paris as
one of the two American women
representatives to the labor con-
ference
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Tragedies in
Tea and Jam

We'll. there were those blessed
men, working away all By them.
selves trying to stock stores to suit
US, telling Us we must buy there
and never consulting Us at al about
what we would like to Rave in them.
Now you have to work for a thing
a while and get to love it IN order
to want to fight for IT, SO when tho
cooperative stores came on hard
times, when the big business inter-
SIS were trying to uncerseli them,
or when our men hadn't pa, in the
brand of tea CT Jam or pickles that
we liked best, We women Didn't feel
'foreordained from the foundations
of the world to trade N the CO.
operatives, that is. some Of us
didn't, and our men were hurt and
angry and rcproached Us wi.h stu
pidity and lack of loyalty, not see
ing that 1t was their own blindness
that was AZ foult. never giving US
9 chance 10 develop our loyalty.
FINALLY, some Of the women who
really saw things in a big way
realized that the wives would have
to be organized TO stand behind the
cooperative stores if they were to
be a great success. We established
the Women's Cooperative Guild,
with branch for every store. We
are consulted about the brands Of
goods We want; We inspect the
stores to see just how sanitary and
neat and attractive they can be
made. We canvass our neighbor-
hoods for new subscribers to the
cooperative. If there is a family
whose patronage is falling off We
look them up and find out WY.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Women Back the
Mems Guilds

I'VE fight for maternity benefits.
accident and old age pensions, and
50 strong Is our national organlzs-
tion that Parliamentary committees
and ask for our recommendation
for they have found from experl
encc that the data we collec1 from
.elenborhood investigations are re
liable and that our demands are
Aascd on an actual knowledge Of
conditions n Workingmcn' homes.
II was surprised when came ia
ihis country to find that YOUR 5000
cr more cooperative organizations
have not been reinforced in this
fashion. Canada has done So and
hunk IT would be wonderful thing
+ YOU women in the United States
would do the same. II is one of the
practical ways of helping to keep
oNn the unnecessary expense Of
food and one of the practical ways
-oF getting Il leverage at Washing
ton"
Whatever Margaret Bondfeld
as IS based on experience, for she
IS today one Of the most experi-
ced Of Englishwomen in public
.ifairs. She Will probably run for
'arllament at the next election and
the English labor world it is SAID
5at, with the advent of labor
majority in Parliament. she may
| mold position in the Cabinet.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
M ORE history is to be made in
Westminster Abbey.

VI Westminster Abbey.
During the week of April
IS, 1920, the doors of that sacred
edifice will be opened for the first
time to a convention of women, the
Worlds Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union.
"The mothers Of the world are
represented in the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union and those
affiliated with the organization are
to be the guests of the National
British w. c. 7. U. from April 18 to
23," says an announcement from the
local publicity office Of the w. C. T.
U. LADY Carlyle will greet the
delegates and thousands of them are
expected"
April 18 will be called the Worlds
Convention Sunday Prayers will
be scheduled throughout the world
by the W. c. T. e. and the meeting
in Westminster Abbey will be held,
with the Bishop of Croydon as chief
oficiary.
The Bishop of Willistcn and the
Bishop Of Woolwich WI! preach and
several others Of the noted British
clergy will have part in the ser
vice. The Bishop of London will
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

a y
the Legislature of New
York State for Americanization
work is being used to educate litter
ate women? A big department, Gre
ated, in part, by that act, is busy
every day preparing to make all of
New York State read and write Eng
lish. A bill proposing a new voting
regulation was passed last year tax
ing from illiterates the right of suf-
frage. The measure is to be up for
referendum at next election. Ac-
cording to the Federal census Of
1910, there are 21S,913 females of
the state over ten years of age un-
able to read or write English.
Women, the homemakers, can't
get to night school, That is one of
the first propositions which workers
in Americanizing the foreign-born
illiterates discovered early. They
either work in factories, where their
days work uses all their vitality, or
they are mothers of big families,
weighed down with the cares of the
house. In either case school, unless
it is made the easiest thing in the
world, is practically impossible.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

must still be dore to increase the
interest and enlist the sympathies
of the Americans there in spreading
their nationality. In these two first
steps, however, according to the be-
lief of the department heads and in
the judgment of the education de-
rartment, Americans End FOREIGNERS
sre being successfully merged
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
American Women
Married to Aliens
Lose Property
Special Legislation Neces.
sary to Restore Such
E S a e Under w a y
MEXICAN women who mar

4 MEXICAN women who mar
N ried German and Austrian
subjects, and thus became
enemy aliens will not be able
to recover their. property seized
under the trading with the enemy
act by their husbands becoming
American citizens, in the opinion of
officials of the Alien Property Gus
todian's Office.
Specific legislation by Congress
will be necessary before any of the
property held by the Alien Property
Custodian will be returned to it's
owners, it was said at Mr.. Caravans
office.
'1n fact, the property may never
be returned to the American women
whose marriage to foreign noblemen
made them enemy Aliens" said one
of the alien property officials. "The
peace treaty provides that Congress
has the power to enact legislation
that will authorize the utilization of
enemy property for the payment of
American claims against the Central
governments. If this is done, the
securities formerly owned by Ameri-
can women who married titles will
be used in making reparation for the
losses sustained by Americans in the
war with Germany and Austria"
The Countess Laszlo Szechenvi,
formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, and the
Countess Anton Sigray, who was
Harriet Daily, of Butte, Mont, the
sister-in-law of former Ambassador
Gerard, two of the women affected
by the seizures, are living modestly
in Switzerland, according to report.
Anita Stewart, Of New York,
is the Princess Braganza of Hun
gary, and is now in straitened
circumstances in Switzerland. And
Nora Iselin, of New York, the Coun-
tess Colloredo- Mannsfeld, is now a
citizen of AUSTRIA Hungary, and is
said to have gone into trade.
These and many other American
born heiresses lost their citizenship
when they were married to foreign
husbands. They were classed as
alien enemies as soon as the United
States entered the war
While no legislation governing the
disposal of alien property has yet
been suggested to Congress by Alien
Property Custodian Caravan. it is
likely that upon the ratification of
the peace treaty the State Depart
ment will be asked to furnish Con-
gress with the amount of American
claims against Germany and Aus
tria. With these claims as a basis
it is thought likely that Congress
will pass law giving the Alien
Property Custodian the right to con-
vert the holdings Of aliens into rep
aration funds with. which to meet
these American claims.
Representative La Guardia, of
New York, last Saturday introduced
a resolution in the House providing
for the return of all enemy property
seized by the government. This
measure, it was said recently at Mr..
Caravans Office, had not been sug-
gested by the Alien Property Gus
todian.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Recent Happenings in the World of Women
The Np1U York
Girl Crop Is
T1U0-7hirds Short
Den,aud for Unskilled Work.
ers Far Exceeds Supply, but
Specialized Jobs Go Begging
IOBS for girls and not more
.. than one-third enough girls to

IOBS for girls and not more
Il than one-third enough girls to
fill them! That is the verdict
rendered by several employment
agencies in New York on the situa-
tion as to the employment of women
and girls.
Although many Of the leaders in
the employment service of the
Y. W. G.. A. are out of town, the
service is going right on and five
secretaries are on the job them
selves every day trying to find girls
for jobs
The time is past when it is the
common task of the employment
bureau to find a job for the girl
The process is reversed, and accord
ing to the Y. W. workers most of
their telephone calls are from en-
ployers wanting to- know how soon
they can find stenographers, file
clerks or just plain clerical workers
for them.
The greatest demand is for un-
skilled workers, according to the
Y. W. c. A. This classification in
cludes telephone girls, file clerks
and such jobs. Most of the en-
ployers want girls with a high
school education at least. They
usually pay from $12 to SIS a week
to beginners. Many of them offer
$40 a week, but " Is almost i'm
possible to get girl to consider
such a low wage. Miss Dorothy
Wells is in charge of the desk at
tending to these Jobs.
Stenographers and more stenog-
raphers are demanded by New
York business houses. The Y. w.
employment department simply can
not find enough stenogra piers to
make even a slight impression on
the demand. The salaries paid run
from SIS to S25. Fewer girls have
been registering in this line, and
many of the business schools say
that they simply haven't the pupils
to turn out.
Domestic servants have been sup
planted in the Y. W. scheme of
things by what is called the home
worker. She works for eight hours
at regular domestic work. Her
schedule is laid out under the su-
pervisIon Of Miss Frances White.
Miss Whites demands for workers
are now almost one-half as much
again as the applications she mas
for work. The home workers re-
ceiN from $12 to SIS a week.
Perhaps the only desk in town
where there are more jobs than
girls is that of Mrs. Shepherd Nor
gar in the Y. W. C. A.. which is
being managed at present by Miss
Marjorie Jean Wilson. Miss Will
son is handling special jobs for
which the applicants must be fitted
temperamentally as we'll as by ed
ucation. The notable feature of
these highly specialized positions is
that, although they require much
of the persons applying, they do
not pay so much as some of the
places making fewer requirements