New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

An open platform meeting occurs at
the First Unitarian Church of Brook
lyn. Pierrepont Street and Monroe
Place. Friday, January 10. at 2 p IN.
Mrs. Lucy Lowell, cousin CT the
president OF Harvard University, will
preside. Liberal Religion will be dis
cussed by Mrs. Glogau, OF the Church
Of the Messiah, New York; the Rev.
Maxwell Savage, son Of the late Minot
j. Savage, and others.
This meeting will be oDen to the
public.
The next meeting of the Christmas
Red Bag and Story Telling Club will
be held at the Hotel Astor en- Thurs
DAY afternoon, January 16, when re-
port will be made Of the Christmas dis
tribution to children and their mothers.
At a meeting of the Women Com
mitteemen of the Kings County Re-
publican Committee held recently in
the Brooklyn Y. NJ C. A. a resolution
publican Committee to make Federal
prohibition a party measure and secure
the ratification of the amendment by
all Republican legislatures throughout
the country
Suggestions as TO what measures the
party should adopt to win and hold
the women voters CT the country were
framed and sent TO the Republican
Women's National Executive Commit
tee in Chicago, who will pass them on
to the Republican National Committee
of which Will H. Hays is chairman.
1T is thought that they will be incor-
porated in the platform of the party
for 1920
new prohibition map of the United
States showing The small area of wet
territory was exhibited by Miss Eva
Potter, who explained that fifteen
states had already ratified the amend
ment when the map was printed, and
that since the first Of the year Mich
igan had Joined the list. with other
legislatures ready to follow.
$50 far. said Miss Potter, "the DEM
ocratic party can claim credit for
making the country dry. Most of the
states that have ratified up to the
present time are Democratic. The Re
publicans should join in this progress
sive movement if they want to gain
and hold the women voters"
The regular meeting Of the Wom-
ans Law Club, Inc, was held at the
Hotel McAlpin on Saturday, January
discussion was "Some Proposed Laws
that the Women Should Support;
speaker, Helen Hoy Greeley.
The Portia Club of the City Of New
York, Henry Amerman, president, will
mold regular meeting at the Hotel
Astor January 16, at 1880 p. m. Miss
Isabella NJ Pettus, L. L. NJ, will lect-
ure on Contracts in Real Estate"
The club will give luncheon on Feb
ruary at the Hotel Astor
The last regular meeting of the Cam
bridge Club was held on Monday, Jnnu-
airy 6, at the residence of Mrs ]. G..
Oidaker. Ala Putnam Avenue, Brook
lyn After the regular business the
PRESIDENT Mrs. Crane, passed the meet
ing over to Mrs. T. Starr Corey, chair
map of the programme.
the subject for the afternoon was
At meeting of the Daughters of
Columbia County held in the McAlpin
last Tuesday resolution was passed
to send a protest to Mayor Hylan re-
gardlng the appointment of William
Randolph Hearst on the committee to
welcome the returning troops. Mrs.
James Madison Pass, of the War Camp
Community Service, told of the activi-
ties of Pershing House. Sixteen new
members were elected
Members of the National House
wives League meet on the second and
fourth Tuesdays of every month at
AZ West Fortysecond Street. National
officers of the league are Mrs. Julian
Heath. founder and president; Mrs.
Egbert Van Shaack Chamberlin, first
ce-president; Mrs. Haryot Holt Dew,
second president; Mrs. Sara B.
west, recording secretary; Mrs. George
w. Hutchinson, treasurer.
=. MISS Elisabeth Marbury, president of
the Women's National Committee of