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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

w nth model constitution and
wv bylaws, the machinery OF
the Federation Of Business
and Professional Women's Clubs was
set in motion at the convention held
in st. Louis July IA to 10.
The federation, fostered under
the committee for the Fedora
ton of Business and Professional
Women's Clubs until it reached a
stage where it could progress alone,
was freed from it's foster mothers
supervision and went out into the
world Of women's organizations IN
der conditions that give great prom
Use for it's future work.
More than 200 delegates, repre-
senting business and professional
women from all parts of the United
States, we're sent to St. Louis. There
were three delegates at large from
every state. The Southern division
VI CIC 4CQc1 dLlOu 1ldQ Iu0 LARGEST
delegation. Officers elected for the
national organization are: Gail
Laughlin, California, president; Eu-
genia Wallace, New York, vice-presi-
dent; Oria Carol, Arkansas, record
ing secretary; Mary Stewart, Wash
ington, D. c., corresponding secre-
tary; Gratia Rice, Connecticut,
treasurer, and Maude Smith, Kansas,
auditor.
Jean Norris, president of the
Women Lawyers Association, was
one Of the three lawyers who acted
as advisers to the committee which
drew up the constitution and bH
laws Of the organization. Mrs.
Norris was one of the delegates at
large from New York
Eugenia Wallace, vice-president
Of the federation, described the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

pointed to look into laws to protect
the interests of women. The civil
service examinations from which
women are barred will be investi-
gated by this committee
The thrift campaign which has
been enlarged from Washington in
the last few weeks will also have
the support Of the federation.
The federation will hold an annual
meeting in July, the place to be de-
termined by the executive board. A
number Of cities have already ex-
tended an invitation for the meet
ing next summer, but the place has
not yet been decided upon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Health Examinations
Free for Women

4 health centre was opened
last week IN East Twenty sec
ond Street under the auspices Of
the National Board N the Young
WomenSs Christian Association.
Thorough physical examination will
Ire given free To any woman apply
ing Authorized women physicians
win make the examinations and
recommend treatment where it is
needed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
H. c. of L. at the
Nation s Capitalize
Be Probed Again
New York Tribune
WASHINGTON Bureau


Washington Bureau
T NDER the provisions of a
Senate resolution passed a
~ few days ago, Washington
housekeepers are to have
the benefit of a Congressional in
vestigation to find the reason
of the "high cost of living"
This resolution empowers a sub
committee of the District of
Columbia Committee to act and
gives it unlimited power to send for
any persons who might, for instance,
tell why shoes sold by the retailers
at the nations capital are high
er than those sold in other cities, or
why the housewife has to pay more
for her market basket, contents here
than do her sisters in other places.
Hearings in this investigation
were opened recently. Senator Ball,
Of Delaware, is chairman of the
committee to conduct the investiga-
ton. Senators Capper, Of Kansas,
Elki9s, of West Virginia, Shepard,
of Texas, and Dial, of South Caro-
lima, are to be his associates for the
inquiry. Senator Sherman, of Hi
nois, is chairman of the District
Committee of which this investi-
eating committee is a part.
The plan is to call in the Bureau
Of Markets experts and other gov
ernmental authorities. A steno-
graphic report of the hearings is to
be made and will probably be pub
lished. This investigation will in
clude rents charged for homes here,
prices of clothing and other ele-
ments in the cost of living, as we'll
as food prices.
Cooperating with this will be the
investigation into the cost of living
in Washington in 1919, to be con-
Quoted by the joint Congressional
commission now engaged in reclass-
flying salaries. This commission is
concerned with the cost of living in
the District because it will be a fac
tor in determining the amount of
compensation to be paid each work
er on the government payroll.
Senator Calder, of New York, re-
ported the resolution to conduct the
Senatorial investigation. The reso-
luton authorized the Senate to pay
for the conduct of such inquiry from
the contingent fund of that body
and also allows for expert service
required to complete the work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Bureau to
Localize Epide1nics

"FW instance, notice Of an out
break Of an epidemic in one spot
would be Immediately received by
the Secretary of Public Health
through official reports Measures
would at once be taken to fight that
epidemic with all the power at the
control Of the government The
work Of the local authorities could
be supplemented and epide1nics To-
alized-7
The bin provides for authorize
ton to spend s15,0o0,ooo for the
work Of the proposed department
during 1920, the states receiving
their aIotments in proportion to
their populations and their own
appropriations The bill also calls
for, for the first time, complete
records Of births, deaths and NOR
bldity among the inha bitants Of the
various states 1t states that every
cooperating state must report its
birth and death statistics to the
Department Of Public Health. A
provision is also carried for the
spending Of 100000 for hos
pitah on the Federalstate aid plan.
Only states that have an equal
amount Of money to spend for pub
tic sanatorIuuls can take advantage
Of the government offer. Another
provision is that in considering the
location of such hospitals first re-
gard shall BE given to those places
needing immediate increased facili-
ties for tuberculosis patients. The
possible availability of hospitals
already constructed for use by the
Department of Public Health is
also fixed in the bill, that duplica-
ton Of buildings may be avoided.
Hearings on the bin have not
been set as yet It was introduced
into the HouBe by Mr.. MacDuffie,
Of Alabama
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Race Question
Involved

In the mean time the race riots in
Washington have a tendency to
strengthen the arguments Of the
anti-suf7rage Southern Senator's
made In the last Congress against
woman suffrage during the So
called reconstruction period. Such
conditions as those in Washington
were prophesied by the Southern
Senators as result Of the negro
soldiers return from the war. The
Senators argued that to increase the
negro vote by adding the votes Of
negro women at this time would be
disastrous to the Southern states
handling Of their race problem.
The National American Woman
Suffrage Association got together
figures last week on the number Of
negro votes In the Southern states
as compared with the white votes.
In only two states Is the negro pop
ulation greater than tho white popu-
lation-South Carolina and Missis-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Cooperation Of State
Health Departments

The France bin includes ururi
nnn for state cooperation with
Unrh Sam N public health matters
g authurizmg the Hty-ffty plan of
FEDERAL aid for thoee states making
appropriations for such work IN
Or this bin every county and pre-
Cnt Of the United States would
hive is health officer BE would
Be e onre the local and Federal
representative and would cooperate
VIII al the private or semi private
organizations doing public health
work.
This biIl, according to Senator
france, is to be supplemented by
nr1 other bills which he VIII in
oudnce shortly One provides for
40 amendment to the csnsus law,
which VII make for continuous
Dcal survey Of the country's popu-
iznun- TIE second rs To be III edu-
esnUnAl bin which provides for a
national system Of free education
from the kindergarten To the uni
verify degree The third is an en-
ployment bureau Dill which has not
Seen outlined by the Senator as yet
Inc public health bin ALSO looks
Dward the establishment Of country
"ids regional hospitals, which viii
oe open TO al on equal terms and
Which shall be adequate in their
equipment 10 insure It's benefits to
'nose needing hospital treatment.
Or'A II the theories behind this
OH ID that If public health IL a gpr-
sfnment function no man should
e deprived Of the mont akIH al
@sstnczr becxume II y iacsk OF
Assus 70 pay for IT," said Senator
france.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

against disease and teaching them
the rules Of health. In the commu-
nifty, the school, the factory and the
shop, women as public health nurses
are constantly fighting disease.
"In Europe the public health
nurse has been at work as a member
of commissions which have been set
to the difficult task of rebuilding
the war-torn sections of the coun-
tries. Health education has been
brought to the attention of the
mothers, the school children and to
the workers largely through the
medium of the American public
health nurse
Under the Bureau Of Nursing
expect to see a great extension Of
public health nursing. Existing
systems Of public health nursing in
various communities would be
linked together and to the Fed
eral department New systems
would be stimulated Inspection of
school children would be coordinated
and increased Public health edu-
cation, which now reaches many
homes, would be enabled to reach
many more homes The cpuutrv's
public health RESOURCES would be
made more and more effective.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Public Health Department
Bill Calls for Woman Official
Getting Close to Cabinet
Circles With a Southern
Senator Assisting
Neto York Tribune
Wdshtn gton Bureau

Neb I ork 1r1b1pe
Washington Bureau
TN THE bill now before the Com
nittee on Public Health and
National Quarantine to create a
department of public health a
clsuse provides that a woman shall
be named the third assistant secre-
tary Of public health. If passed,
this bill, introduced by Senator
France, of Maryland, would place a
woman, for the first time in Ameri-
can history, in the official cabinet
circle Of her own right
To qualify for such an Office the
WOMAN must be trained in medicine
or nursing and in public health. She
shall hold her position at the pleasure
Of the President, who would make
the nomination by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate. The
salary for the Office to be fixed by
the law is $4,000 a year.
There is no Office of Assistant
Secretary now held by a woman.
Only recently Westinghouse were
gasping over the story about Secre-
tary Redfield of the Department of
Commerce having a WOMAN for his
private secretary. The bill to make
permanent the Federal Employment
Service WAS regarded as very mod
ern when it decided that the assist
ant to the director general of the
service should be a woman, who
would have charge of wonen's
employment mattrH But this ser
vice bears the relation of q bureau
10 the secretary Of the department,
and the public health bill provides
That the chief Of the bureau of
nursing IN the proposed department
shall be woman Senator France
considers this national recognition
Of the value of the service of women
IN the fight against disease as merely
their just due, n view of the SPLEEN
did record made by OH nurses in
the VIII.
Nursing organizations, including
ths National Organization for Public
Health Nursing, have been insistent
That publir health nursing should re-
GIVE official recognition IN the ma
tuna health legislation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Recent Happenings in the World Of Women
Shopping Cards
CiUe71 to Ouerseus
War Workers
XX IOMEN war workers return

M |OMEN war workers return
" ing from overseas have
had the facilities of the
shopping bureau Of the New York
War Camp Community Service ex-
tended to them recently. The uni
forms Of the Red Cross, the Y. M.
c. A., the Army Nurse Corps and
other overseas services are the only
cards necessary for admission to the
War Camps accommodations
Shopping cards, emitting the re-
turned women war workers to dis
counts on all kinds of civilian cloth
ing, on household furnishings and on
new overseas equipment for any who
are returning overseas, are given
them. Miss Gabrielle Rosiere, head
of the bureau, and her assistants
interview each applicant personally
and direct her to shops that seem
best able to fit her particular needs
and tastes.
More than ITS applicants are
frequently the days record for
Miss Rosiere. The bureau was
started to help officers of the army
and navy. Personal commissions
are often intrusted to Miss Rosiere
if AN officer has limited time in
town and has to sandwich his pur
chasing between military appoint
ments. y
practice has made me a rather
sure 'guesser,'" declared Miss
Rosiere, "as to some of the re-
quests. which are half-whispered
across my desk. When a tall young
lieutenant asked whether he could
send his secretary here for dis
counts smiled to myself. Sure
enough, not many days later he
came back to ask where he could
get discount on diamond rings.
IA chance inquiry on a subway
train from an army reconstruction
aid the other day had happy results.
l found she had just been demobil-
lied, and wanted first of all sum-
merry dresses as an offset to months
of sober uniforms. So I took her
over to my desk and gave her dis
count cards on summer hats and or
CANDY dresses and all the other fem
mime civilian apparel she longed for.
Then I sent her on a round of the
other desks in TIE officers depart
ment, where she secured a comfort
able room at one Of several big
hotels that allow Us special rates,
free theatre ticket to an afternoon
show and arrangements at the con-
valescent desk for a months outing
N delightful private home in the
country where her weary nerves
could relax and grow steady once
more"
A recent statement issued by the
shopping bureau shows a weekly to-
tai of more than six hundred appli~
cants, while the number Of discoun.
cards issued runs over 2,100.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

Women should he gYven q posf-
"on OF power and prmysnsncs Ia
sur reconstruction health programme
potn bcca use Of the fact that they
are soon TO be voters and tyacause
'aslr excellent service In the past de~
H'oastzatss what they car IN for
public health. In the average family
+" ~ the mother who is the health
1iicsr, guarding It's members
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
More Special Sessions
This Week

his Week
The Southern states that have had
chance at the amendment so far
are Florida, Georgia, Alabama and
Texas. Florida's Legislature, which
it was hoped would be favorable, ad-
journed in June without acting on
the measure, owing to state con-
stitutional techuicality which re-
quires that an election to the Legis-
lature be held before ratification Of
constitutional amendment is legal.
In Georgia the measure was killed
IN committee. The Senate of the
Alabama Legislature failed to pass
the measure.
Appeals have been made from the
leaders Of the Democratic party to
these Southern legislatures TO pass
the amendment. The Republican
party is scoring very well through
Republican legislatures in getting
the measure passed.
Special sessions will be held in Ne
braska and Arkansas to vote on the
amendment this week. Montana is
also holding an extra session, and is
expected to ratify by the end of this
week or the first of next.
States whose legislatures have
ratified the amendment are Wiscon-
sin, Michigan, Kansas, Ohio, New
York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massa-
chusetts, Texas, Iowa and Missouri.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Federation of Professional
Women Successfully Launched

w nth model constitution and
wv bylaws, the machinery of
tho Loda.a4 49,. af
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Ratification of the Suffrage
Amendment at a Standstill
Reasons Why the South and the North
west Are Tagging Behind the States of
the East and Middle West

sippi. The Suffrage Association
hopes to prove through these figures
that it would be to the advantage of
the Southern states to have the
greatly increased white vote which
they would obtain by granting suf-
frage to women.
white men comprise 66.4 per cent
of the male electorate in eleven
Southern states and negro men COM
prise 1876 per cent, and if women
were admitted to the electorate white
women would comprise 64.6 per cent
and negro women 1874 per cent"
says a statement of the suffrage as
ISOLATION.
"The South is supposed to be very
scary about the negro question, but
we doubt if the scariest Southerner
can be induced to think that white
supremacy can be endangered by
raising the total number of white
voters over negro voters from / 1884,
585, where it is now, to 3,343, 057,
where it would be with Southern
women voting"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
By Hannah Mitchell

" still to all outward appear
ances for the last three
weeks. Since the Missouri Legis-
lature ratified the Federal amend
ment, making it's state the eleventh
to pass the measure, none has been
added to those in favor.
AS the map stands to-day white
indicating the states that have rati-
fed, black that have not), streak
of white extends through the centre
of the country from New York and
Massachusetts, to Texas, including
Ohio, Illinois and Kansas. On the
one side is solid black-the "solid
South and on the other the great
Northwest-as black and solid as
the South.
The South is black, and is likely
to remain black because it is against
woman suffrage. Most Of the men
in the South have opposed suffrage
consistently from the beginning.
The Unsympathetic
Northwest
For a different reason the North
west appears unsympathetic. All
Of the states west of the white rati-
hcation strip have woman suffrage
already. 1t was with them that the
whole movement got it's first practi-
cal try-out. Wyoming was the first
state to grant full suffrage to its
women. 1t was followed by Colo
RADIO, Idaho and Utah. Others fell
into line and handed the vote to
their women citizens, until to-day
New Mexico is the only state west
Of the Mississippi River in which
women will not by their state right
have a voice in the next Presiden-
tial election.
The great Northwest has not had
a great deal of patience with the
slowness Of the Eastern states in
granting women the right to vote.
1t has not always been patient with
the Eastern women who have not
been able to put their case strongly
enough to win their men over to
giving them the vote. They are
blind to the greater difficulties that
the Eastern women had to overcome.
When the Federal woman suffrage
amendment was passed by Congress
few months ago an appeal imme-
diately went out to the governors Of
states not scheduled to meet before
1920 to call extra sessions to secure
ratification before the next Presi
Dental election. Through the Fed
eral amendment many of the thus
far unenfranchised Eastern women
hoped to get in on the coming cleo
ton.
The states Of the Northwest have
shown Indifference as to whether
the Eastern and Southern women
vote in 1920. Their own women
will take their usual part in the
elections, whether the Federal
amendment is ratified or not, and 80.
as one Western woman said, "Why
should we incur the expense Of ex-
ira sessions for something we our
selves do not need?"
Rae O,eey;o~
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-27
SAVE; HAVE A PERSONAL
- SHARE IN THE FUTURE -
BILLIONS FROM THE NlCKELS
Ever Stop to Think Of Vast Sums That
Can Be Saved From Small
Amounts7

If every person in the United States
saved nickel In one day ii would
mean that at night the people would
be lust five million dollars richer. And
then suppose the people kept this up
for one month"; II would mean that
at the end of thirty days they would
have saved one hundred and fifty mil
lion dollars.
Why not keep 1t up for the rest OF
1919? What would be the result? One
billion five hundred million dollars.
Sounds like e lot of work for one little
nickel to do, doesn't IT, yet there are
scores of industries in the United
States which are paying big dividends
on the little nIckels gathered day by
day.
This immense sum II Invested in
War Savings Stamps would earn for
the savers approximately sixty-four
million dollars in 1920-the work Of
"old man interest" who never takes
q day off and who is continuously on
the job.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-27
MARSEILLES
MISS THERESA PHtLimoRe.
p.,r..snt,t,vs Branch Office Phliimore Building

held last evening and a large attend
ance was present. The services COM
menced at 7.&b. and those who had
gathered at the church went to the
home of Nh. and Mrs. Ole Johnson.
where a number of others had gath
cred The soldiers present were Ras
Riskedael and Marshall Olson. re-
turned from overseas. and Clyde
Wiley and John LettsOme, who were
invited to attend. The program ren,
Gered during the evening was as fol
lows. Song America by audience;
remarks by the pastor. Rev. Qualem;
singing of several patriotic songs.
solo. Ida Olson; recitation. Orva Mo
rem; vocal solo, Susie Munson; song
Alma Morem; remarks by August
Johnson. Marshall Olson told Of his
experience overseas. and John Lett
some responded with a toast Seyera.
piano selections we're rendered by
Miss Jennie Jacobson. who presided
at the piano during the evening. The
members of the church wish to eX-
end their heartfelt thanks 10 Mr. and
Mrs. Johnson for the opening Of their
home for the occasion.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-27
FEWER HERQEs* hAMEsAKES
One Popular Custom Seems to Have
Virtually Ended With Cleve-
lands Administration.

Americans are abandoning the old
custom of naming their children after
the hero of the hour, according to the
New York Sun. At the time Of the
Civil war and Immediately thereafter
thousands of children were named
Abraham Lincoln,
This custom continued about thirty
years after the war. The last Ameri-
can president to be hOnored in this
way by any large number of persons
was Grover Cleveland. The American
army today is jammed with Grover
Clevelands, as boys born during the
great democratic administration are
just now of the finest fighting age. The
slump began during Mckinley's term
and has continued ever since.
There are comparatively few VIII
liam Mckinleys. and even Theodore
Roosevelt, with all his immense popu-
larity, gained but few namesakes. Pres
ident Taft had only a small number of
babies named after him. In time OF
war, such as has existed for the last
two years, it would be imagined that
the custom would revive, but there has
been only slight increase
out of $1,000 births recorded In
Philadelphia in 1918 there were only y
Woodrow Wilson's and only 7 John
Pershings, according to the records OF
the bureau of vital statistics.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-27
Does Tail Spin

Wen. we started on the tail spll, ]
was just a little faint, bat when |
looked out and first saw the earth on
is side, then above men and in front
of me and then behind me, | sure
got seasick, and the birds could have
had a good time had they been on
the job. You know the tail spin is
that stunt where the plane falls like
a duttering leaf, and a man has sure
got to know how to manipulate his
hands to let her go. | really didn't
care, and | was sure that the lieu
tenant thought nothing more about
it except he might have wondered
how | felt. He found out when he
looked the car over when we landed,
But from that dizzy height he put
another sensation into me when he
dropped to the 3,0G2 foot altitude in
one straight nose dive--that is where
the elevation sensation comes in but
YOU don't have time to think as you
do in an elevator.