South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-03-07
STATE WOMEN
AT PROGRESS
CLUB MEETING
Mrs. Beatrice FOrbes-Robert-
son Hale Lectures On
Capital and Labor.

The crucial problem confronting
America today is not the red or
bolsheviki tendency but rather the
struggle between capital and labor"
Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale
asserted IN her lecture on recon-
struction TO AIS women, members
and guests of the Progress club at
their annual state day luncheon ncld
at the oliver hotel Saturday after
noon, and urged them as club wO-
men TO interest themselves in the
study OF industrial problems
Mrs. J.. G. Rumpler. of Indianap-
oils. president of the Indiana Fed
GRAFTON of clubs. Mrs. Samuel Eli
OFT Perkins. trustee OF the feder-
alton and president of the Womans
Department club of Indianapolis
Mrs. John Winu Of Laporte. 18th
district chairman, Mrs Ann FOres-
ter Cooley, former Progress club
president, Mrs. Mummert of Goshen,
eX-state president, and Mrs. Vail Of
Michigan City, vice president of the
18th district. were among the prom
inent state club women present at
the affair which was also attended
by members of federated clubs from
Bremen, Bourbon Michigan City.
LapOrte. Goshen, EIkhart, Misha-
waka, Plymouth, Argos and Ken
dallville.
Hold Reception.
A reception at i o'clock marked
the opening OF the social function
which was followed at 1890 o'clock
by luncheon served i'm the Rotary
and Turkish rooms The invocation
preceding the luncheon was pro-
nounced by Mrs. Mrs. L. :. Davis.
Greetings were brought 10 the local
club women by Mrs. Perkins, Mrs.
VIM and Mrs. Rumpler, the latter
declaring that the women of today
are challenged 10 go forward and
do those things which the women
before them had hoped and prayed
for but lacked opportunity TO ac-
cOmplish
citing health, education and labor
as the three great problems of re-
construction, Mrs. Hale. using Great
Britain as a mirror because of the
intensity of those problems there,
showed what had already been ac-
cOmplshed along those lines and
what could be done with the intel
ligent cooperation of women.
First Requisite.
In dealing with the first problem.
health, Mrs. Hale showed that the
conservation OF life was the first
requisite and told at length OF the
ministry of health in Great Britain
which is all embracing I'm its work,
beginning with the prenatal care OF
women, attention to the health OF
school children, and on up until
finally il aids In the housing prob
lem. she urged club women to see
that maternity hospitals were en-
larged and properly equipped and
that school lunches were furnished
where necessary.
The problem OF the foreign born
Airs. Hale dealt with at length un-
der her discussion of education.
That too much unsolicited attention
is paid 10 the elderly foreigners, is
lieves that the real Amer.canization
work should begin i'm the schools,
Fairgrounds and like places.
She called attention 20 the fact
hat the foreign born have much 20
bring us and suggested these quail
ties as a better avenue of approach
than the teaching of English and
American history 10 grandmothers
and grandfathers. Mrs. Hale also
mentioned the continuation schools
Of Great Britain in which all child
rem between the ages of a and Is
must spend at least S hours of each
week. those hours 20 be given 10y
the employer.
labOrcrS Bored.
The basis OF labor unrest. accord
ing 10 Mrs Hale. is that the labor
ers are bored with their jobs. There
s no longer individual pride I'm the
finished product for each man is
no more than "a cog i'm the machin-
erv She told of the Joint industrial