New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
w WOrnen's Clubs
Not LosingGrip,
SAYS Miss Hay
Movement just Coming Into
lis Own, Speaker Tells
State Convention Dele
gates al the Commodore
ReportsC WideRange
Mrs. Lnella n. North, Cam
didaie for .Judgeship,
Talks on Juvenile Crime

The wofnan's club movement is Just
coming into its own. siiss Mary Gar
rett Hay told the delegates to the con.
vention of the New York State Fedora.
sion oF Nomen's Clubs meeting yester.
day as the Hotel Commodore. As one
of the former presidents of the organ
ization. Miss Hay warned the women
that they must not permit those ig-
norant of club work to say that the
clubs were dying out with the advent
of women into political life.
Il was told just short time ago,
she said, "that the clubs had outlived
their usefulness and would soon be ea.
tinct This is not true. We are not
losing our grip, but are doing bette,
work than ever before. The clubs
taught women tolerance of one another
and through them women of different
beliefs and OF a different outlook on
life learned to study both sides of o
question and to work together in spite
OF their differences.
This mutual toleranos and this
ability for cooperation arr yaluabls
foundation on which the clubs of to-
day should build tor better public
service The clubs of tomorrow will
be capable Of even greater things"
Specimens of Club Work
Specimens of the work of the clubs
of to day were revealed in the reports
OF the nine district chairmen. Every.
thing from adopting French orphans
and se,i! poppies for the wounded
soldiers to influencing the course of
legislation at Albany was recorded to
the club women's credit. The fedora
tien tales no partisan stand on po-
litieal matters, bat both Republican
and Democratic clubs are included in
its membership.
The delegate most in the public eye
this fall is Mrs. Luelia r. North, who is
the Republican candidate for the newly
created position of judge of the
Juvenile Court in Clinton County Mrs.
North talked yesterday Of her theories
of juvenile crime and the necessity of
work among minors in order to coun-
teract criminal tendencies which de-
velop in later life.
Il was connect with prison work
throughout the course of the Thaw
case" she said. land l came to realize
then that ali that sorrow and ell that
public money might have been saved
had Thaw had the treatment of an ex-
pert In his youth. A child who dis
plays abnormal tendencies need not be
arrested, according to the new law
but he can be brought to the attention
of the Juvenile Court authorities, who
will study his ease and suggest rene
dies to his parents
1tese was stir last evening when
rLmor sped through the corridor that
there was 'ia.ooed lady" among the
delegates. She proved to be Mrs
Robert Mac1n;yrs, president of the
Woman's Club o. Peekskill, who dis
played on he. righ' arm large tatooed
Masonic emblem.
"My husband did IL" she said. "'He
is the handsomest dentist on the east
bank OF he Hudson"
One woman, seeing the black cres-
cent, rushed up to Mrs. MacIntyre and
asked her if she were Turkish propa.
gandist. The Peekskill dentists wife
explained that the emblem was scimi-
tar with lions c.aws and star below
and that it was Masonic and not
Turkish
81 have worn it for twenty years
she said, sand never think of it except
when some one questions me about it.
Edwin w. Fiske, Mayor of Mount
Vernon, in welcoming the delegates
declared that the old-fashioned woman
no longer existed and that he was glae
this was so. Modern conditions re
CURED that woman be fitted to cope
with conditions outside the home, ant
the women were SO successful in this
he added, that in Mount Vernon tn,
clubwomen were smarter than the men
Royal S. Copeland, Health Commits
sioner, represented Mayor Hylan il