Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-07
AS ONE WOMAN SEES 1T
Passion for Starting Things Common
win Past Generation Has Given
Way to Desire to Amalsanate
Things Already Started
BY SARAH ID. LOWRIE

clubs, settlements, specialized hospitals,
charities. societies, guilds, etc: No part,c-
ular attention was paid to the fact that there
were about as many organizations sprlnglng
up as there we're organizers; no one cared
particularly that there was very nttle OF
what we have learned since the war TO caii
liaison between one or another group OF OF
carnations that we're started for more or
less the same purpose, /. e., to interest girls,
to interest boys to educate or entertain OF
employ or physically benefit either one or
the other or both. II was the great periou
for individuals starting organizations whrch
the general public was expected clther u
benefit by or to support.
NOV the generation that is today in It's
~ twcntips has quite n different enthusi.
asm. II docs not long to start th'hgS' IL
wishes TO unite things. You can get any
youngish group ardent over the idca OF co
ordination that sit bored over discussion
Of essential scparntcness OF agehc'es ioi
the benefit Of their fellows. Inc eNecu-
tive and administrative mon ana glrls unuer
thirty show their enthusiasm for UNITY, hrsi
by, organizing national and lntcrhationhl
conferences and second by corrallng all tne
agencies that have general purpose IN con, na
mon and making them discuss their ENDS ana
aims together for the purpose OF central
iZing their programs
It is nothing to these young ana ardent
souls that the Tower of l'abcl taiIeu, ihnl
the Roman empire failed, that Napoleon
nearly got Europe yet failed. that the Ter
man Icbcr Allies failed and that the League
Of Nations up to now has failed, all having
had some great ideal Of unity For II baoei
stood for one temple to many gods, ana II
the Roman empire stood for world dominion
by military law, and the Holy Roman EN-
pirr stood for world dominion by western
civilization. and If Napoleon STOOD 1or
French mastery Of man. and the German
empire stood for German mastery or man
then the League Of Nations was TO De
grand combination Of every other combina
ton from Babel to Der Tag.
| WHAT made Babel impossible and what
| w has probably made the league make
| shift is that though persons who are active
| in bringing about the unity want the same
| thing in all probability-viz.. to build
tower that will defy time and uplitt man
| kind to n higher realization OF his own ana
| his Creators powers--thry cannot under
stand what the Others are saying iheE
| think alike. but they do not express theH
selves alike and SO the workmen take 10
| building n lot Of towers instead OF one the
| Roman empire disintpgratcS into Kingdoms
| that set up separate potentateS; Napoleon
empire is chopped into du"hies ana Nlllam
| of Gcrmauy's into republics.
| Yet in the face of all this warning the
Youthful organizers Of today make for the
| ideal of unity as though it was the one task
they had come into the world to perform
| | for one say to them: "Go TO it. Maybe
| that Is what you are here on tnls parl'cuial
| mill il off for all the hundred and one dis ,
| unitirs that assault our incomes ana ohend
our common sense and duplicate our WORK !,
| IL YOU can unite the organizations OF your
| town that have Il common purpose, VINO
knows? You may be able t" make a League
of Nations where your grandfathers ana
| fathers have made failure.
T DO not know who composed the following
| little mastery outline Of scheme or
20 ordination but | know that it was a
girl or n group of girls in the twcntes. 1t
could not have been Thought out let alone
comnoscd with such direct simplicity by
their Crandmothcrs or BY their mothers. J.
nuota il entire without n single cross OF
n ,'t" or dot of an ''i' by way OF editing
lust as | very enthusiastically indorse the
II is n canablc. courageous. not afraid Of
work group of girls that have put TINS con
ference through for this week and wlsn
we're twenty, too. and at it and in II with
them Their plan IS as follows
.Dr,jE philadcphia Council of Girls or.
ganizations. called for a closer co,
onpratiou between the six national girlS
ORGANIZATIONS in this city, will be realized a.
n result Of the conference OF leaders I" o'
held March II, - and IL at the rhiia0"'
mia Normal SCnoOl' lhlrlt'"'" """ ~" ''''
Garden streets.
.''rhe directors and leaders Of the organ
2otions will meet to draw up program D!
which their groups or girls can WORK |"
rother without friction and without dupIlrA
ton IT effort. ,;s
The conference - one OF In' uioS' s'EnIn
cant steps ever taken III the history of girls
/, clubs. 1t will be conducted Mnder N
. auspices Of the Philadelphia Counrll OF "irIS
\ntional Organizations. which IL perma
,,rrt ho,y recently forced to act as clear
INK house Of girls WORK.
c.Thn organizations which are members T
this council and which will send their leader
.,l,rAn .irl :
i'amn Fire Girls, Girls Friendly Society
iii Reserves. the PENNSYLVANIA League {
GirIs' Clubs. and the White Williams Foun
- datiOn. -
- duulcating each Others efforts. II b"raH
oridont 10 various leaders som" tim" az
i thot some plan Of 90 ordination should |
" fonnd TO make possible closer relationship
Miss Gwen Martin. assistant COMMISSIONS
" ~ the Girl Scouts, and several members
= thc Girl Reserves finally decided to orgnnii
Il q council composed Of representatives OF Il
" six national organizations, to act as high'
K court on questions OF operation
= ."rhc council will control groups number
Il inv n membership Of nearly 20 600 girls. ri
~ lin j. TO make the combined clubs und
Z one council such fore" in the city that th'
+, viii be able to carry great lnliuen"" Sh0u
. thpr stand out for any social or civic reform
9 i,'rhc membership Of the council includ
II Miss f. Gwen Martin, chairman; Miss Eth
N IIoskins. secretary treasurer; ana IN" I"
: loving representatives from III" various o
. "nntlstions: Miss Anna DrnniStun, Cir
ID Er;endiy society; Miss Frances Clark, Gil
/; scouts; Miss Anne Flanders, rcnnsy!ynn
e. League of Girls Clubs; Miss Anna lr9t
~ White Williams Foundation; Miss Edi
ID W"rrall and Miss Mabel Reid. Girl Il
BE- serves; and Mrs \, G. lngrl"der and Nj
- Elizabeth Schucffrr, Camp Fire Girls,
g. T,lIEY will carry II o0t. this group Of gir
win Gwen Martin good -trmpercdly a
tr cnergctically hustling them into line Sol
w nf those same leaders, with another up an
'h Joing girl, young Mrs. Eliason, pat throu
"n one week pcrtormanc" Of very SparkliT
Snappy vaudeville show of ,Why \ott
lime and yet seemingly in n" time, Ir "
~ o'' Sheer feat of go ordination Of good sp'rl
~ rood looks, good fun and good nature,
gh Hsn"k daring. even audacity. YET a st"a
en- nomd :" mobilize all those varied forces
100 parf%rmSrs int" %" and S w5"I '"FH II
IS hnra Tore so spiritcdly for fun, they Y
~. Il" even more spritCdy IN dead "arne