The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-30
W0MEN'S CLUBS
BAR RADICALS
Will Not Allow Any More
Addresses By Radicals.
In Their Hall
POLITICS START
SOME BITTERNESS
Republican Women Thought Democrat
ic Members of Cosmopolitan Club
Were Making Club Rooms Democratic
Headquarters-Soci Barred.

dquarters-Socialists Barred.
NEW YORK, April 30.-Women's so
cial organizations are beginning to guard
themselves against radicaism. The Cos
mopolitan club, at Lexington avenue and
Fortieth street, one of the most exclusive
women's clubs in the city, and which
numbers among its members women of
wealth, of fashion and of achievement in
the arts and professions, has taken active
steps to protect itself against Soviet in
fuences.
Representatives of the Socialist, birth
control, and far more extreme move
ments have spoken from its platform
| This fact has startled the conservative
members, who object to the exploitation
OF anything approaching radicalism
through the club. To prevent this in
future II special meeting was called re-
Gently at which it was decided to make
any member through whom the clubs
tassembly hall is obtained for a, meeting
be personally responsible for such meet
ing 1t also was decided to be more
stringent about enforcing existing rules
governing the renting of the hall
Politics is said to have brought the
trouble to a head. There are prominent
Republicans and equally prominent Dem
ocrats belonging to the club. Once this
winter they held meeting together
when Miss Ruutz- Reese, head of Rose
mary Hall, at Greenwich, Conn, pre-
scented a list of Republican speakers and
Mrs. Charles Tiffany provided a trio of
Democratic speakers. The open forum
passed off quietly, but later, when the
Hoover campaign women decided 10 hold
one of the rallies at the club, the OPP
position objected, and it is said that the
president of the board upheld their OBJ
lections. The Hoover meeting was called
off. though the speakers had been asked
Mrs. George Bass, chairman of the
sWomen's bureau of the Democratic ma
tlonal eemmittee, was put up at the
rlub during one of her recent trips here
and the Republicans began to think that
heir home had been turned into Demo
cratic headquarters. Some even went tC
the house committee with protests, it was
| said by one member, and since then it is
understood that politics and politiea
meetings will be kept more in the back
Q ground.
| The birth control luncheon and meeting
4 few weeks ago threw the conservative
Y into Il state of excitement. Margare
, Sanger was there, and a number o
women had been invited to meet her Tn
5 speaker of the occasion was a woman
( physician, who was TO tell about tn
progress of the movement. Just befor
her turn came TO speak telephone cal
begged her to hasten to the bedside of
patient who was even then giving brit
to a child.
The upshot of it all is that the clu
hereafter refuses to take any response
= bility for Il meeting held under its roc
except those of its own organization.
: Political campaign leaders have hear
that the Colony club, New Works mos
= fashionable women's club, maintains
similar attitude, and they are earef,
Il not to put up at the club women frol
out of town who are prominently ident
fed with candidates campaigns.