The sun., 1919-09-16
WOMEN M. DIS MEET
TO RESCUE THE SEX
Their World All Awry, Need
ing Reforms, Say Interna-
tiOnal Conferees.
"MENTALITY BELOW PAR''
Delegates at Y. w. G. A. Will
Urge "MOre Mutual De-
pendence i'm Marriage"

There is Tower OF Babel at the ma
tional headquarters of the Young
women's Christian Association, 500 Lex
ington avenue. Women physicians from
Denmark, England. France, Holland,
Italy, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Swift
zerland, China, South America, Japan,
Serbia and Canada, some of whom don't
speak English, are arriving there to hold
the conference to which the social moral
| ity committee of the War Work Com
mittee of the "Y" invited them. And
the refrain of their conferences is not at
all the. refrain of that song in "Pippa
| Passes"-"AlIs right with the world"
1t was a very definite Idea that much
| is very wrong with the world and par
/ ticularly with the woman part of 1t
that brought these feminine M. DIS here.
Fifteen foreign doctors had landed up
to yesterday afternoon, and score more
! are on the way. Sixty-nine American
women physicians will join them in their
| deliberations. Many of the foreign ones
| did all kinds of wonderful things during
| the war.
| DIR. Anna Montet of Lyons, France
was with DR.. Alexis Carrel; served al
the front after the Chemin des Danes
and other battles; was surgeon at the
Hotel Deu Hospital in Lyons; took care
of many American boys as well as of the
soldiers of her own country.
DIR. Mary Gordon of London was with
| the Third Serbian Army during 1915
and saw lots of fighting. In time Of
pease she is inspector of prisons and re-
formatories for inebriates in England
and Wales, and while war and prohibi'
ton have caused a considerable falling
off in the annual crop of $4,000 womer
prisoners she had to inspect, she feeli
that the world is still sufficiently out o.
Joint to make a conference like the pres
ent one highly desirable.
Japanese Woman Physician.
Little DR.. Tomo Inouye from JapaI
has no war record, but she is inspector
of schools in her native city of Toxic
She says there Is nothing unusual IL
being a woman physician in Japan
there are $50 of them there. A quain
little woman, hardly forty-eight inches
in her flowing native costume. sh
bowed low when Mrs. Robert E. Speer
: president of the national board, pre-
sented her to the conference. Her fore
, head almost touched the ground
DR.. Ada Potter, neurologist, of tn
University of Utrecht, Holland, say
there is no prejudice against womel
doctors in her country and many o
them hold high positions. All the visi
, tors report that there was absolutely n
r difference in the way meE and wome
doctors were regarded in the war, tn
) Governments and the soldiers havin
Z Just as much confidence in the wome
t as in the men.
E Then WHAT'S wrong?" some one aske
mr. T.
Q programme committee. 'If the wome
= physicians get all that credit why d
9 they have to confer? Is the health G
the women of the world below par?"
1 at isn't so much the health as, tn
= mentality of the women that is beloV
par" said DR.. Brown, who is sunny
| large and comfortable of mien. "Wome
) have allowed themselves to become tn
victims of circumstances. OF course
) both men and women are victims c
) circumstances to great extent, bu
) women are at great disadvantage !
the relations of life.
r They have to depend too much o
t sex in marriage-coaxing a husband u
r II they want new hat, instead {
5 Friend Husband realizing that thong
!. he collects the pay envelope the tw
are partners in their financial life. TIL
= conference isn't going to oppose maj
D riage. but It does intend to try to fin
= out why there isn't more mutual indt
8 pendencs n marriage.
THE women physicians did get cor
siderable credit for what they did
the war; but women have to work harde
for what they get in the professions an
} the economic world. An employer seem
10 take II for granted that women areT
worth as much as men. aren't to be do
= pended on as men are. And many wome
do expect concessions because of the
sex. But armies of women don't; the
stand to their guns as well as men d.
i but they seldom have the same trust {
the same pay.
These are some OF the things we al
: going to discuss at the conference. VIII
:. is this thus? Is the education Of wome
L faulty, or what?
: Then take the matter of health. W
are going into that very fully. You hay
3 only to glance at any assemblage
L human beings to see that most of the
:, are In some way or other below 100 pr
IL cent. in health. and even those who loo
: vital and healthy may have somethiI
;. the matter with them. That's wrong.
''Now J." said Dr. Brown. lam usual
i in the pink of condition. and I resel
having anything the matter with m
My eyes have been giving me son
s. trouble, and l resent 1t, They ought
II function perfectly We all ought to
q well-every part functioning perfectly
70 and we oughtn't to take pain and
70 health for granted, as so many of