The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1920-09-09
ALGIERS WOMEN
RALLY TO 0. D. A.
100 HEAR MISS JEAN GORDON
As PRINCIPAL SPEAKER

/ part OF the crowd could get into the
nail the rest were much disappointed
that the meeting was not an open air
! affair
More than four hundred got into
the hall TO hear the address of Miss
Jean Gordon who was the principal
! speaker.
Mrs. Lille Yalets as chairladv open
ed the meeting. She was highly
complimented for her ability and the
/ witty maner in which she conduct
ed the affair.
Miss Gordon was presented with
flowers and then began her address
which was delivered in a heart to
/ heart fashion. Miss Gordon said.
This is a campaign of decencv
against vice. said Miss Gordon. .'Du-
ring the war. we talked about making
the world safe for democracy" What
we need to do most now is TO make
New Orleans safe for our bows and
girls and they will take care of de-
mocracy. | am going To let others
speak on other subjects during this
campaign am going to tell you how
women and children are treated in
this city of Ours-and what tell YOU
| tell from my own experience. not
from what someone has told me.
More of That" Record
About four months ago a doctor
wrote To me to see if we couldn';
take d crippled little mute from the
house OF detention to the Milne
school which We have established for
feeble minded girls. The doctor said
that there was no way of caring for
the child and that she would die on
the fare given TO the inmates there
tea and bread, without sugar and mill,
for breakfast and supper and stew
and bread for dinner. day in and
day out all the year round We took
the child, of course. But why should
the women and children unfortunatas
who fall into our jails be half
starved, while our city officials ride
about in Packard cars? Remember
that such things as this are also part
of my record
Il have spent hours in Judge Fo-
garty's court waiting for twelve wit
nesses to prove that young woman's
reputation did not entitled her to the
care of her two children. The case
was continued four times and finally
Captain Seelhorst, who was one of the.
twelve, phoneded that he had slipped
on piece of banana peel and couldn't
get down. | met him on the street
that very day. This young woman
asked my help-otherwise she would
have lost her children. This is also
part of my record
"Forgarty's' Record
Miss Gordon recounted various OF
her experiences in aiding the poor
and unfortunate. She declared that
she could spend the rest of her life
describing the manner in which the
chief of police receives complaints
and said that she had seen old men
and old women to treated in Judge
Forgarty's court that she wondered
how any man with red blood in his
veins could stand by and see it. She
recounted the story of woman whom
she had saved from being railroaded
into an insane asylum.
Such things would not ordinarily
happen to you or me" she said, but
suppose we were strangers, friend
less, as the people were? How about
it then All this is part of my record"
Harold Noise discussed the EVIL
eye and the uneven hand of the sys-
tem"-that lowered and raised assess
ments according to whether the own
or was with or against the ring. He
declared that the recorders courts
we're getting men out of Jail whe!
they should be in JAIL in order to
make friends and supporters for the
system by putting men under obliga-
ions to it. He also spoke of the
conditions of streets and markets and
schools under the Behrman regime.
Welfare Hits Behrman Wall.
ITS the children who count most |
n this campaign" declared Mrs. Will
lam Lamb. We want to better con-
iitions for the welfare. We all |
Know Behrman's record. There has |
never been a piece of welfare work |
for women by women in |
this city that has not sooner or later
,one up against a stone wall.
81 can understand men standing by |
he ring. l can understand why a
woman cannot come out against it
when she is tied to city job; but ]
never will be able to understand how
my woman can take the platform for
3ehrman and what he stands for"
Conditions among working mothers
we're discussed by Mrs. ]. ]. Collins,
Who spoke of the dirty streets, the
weeds and their disadvantages under
which the housewife labors.