The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-11
LAUNCHED.
ON FACTORY.MADE
WOMEN OF TODAY
Pittsburgh PubIlcist DepIores
Trend of Action in Mod
ern Society.

A veritable feast OF good things
featured the meeting of the Bust
ness and Professional women's
Club last evening at the Billingsley
Memorial Methodist Episcopal
Church South. An eloquent and in.
spring address by Dean Thrysa
Amos of the University Of Pitts.
burgh. a splendid musical program,
in which Mrs. Charles Walter Wad.
dell and Miss Hazel Book we're the
artists, and an excellent menu pre-
pared and served by the women Of
the church were among the feat.
ures of the program.
Two hundred women, members
Of the club. and their friends.
were seated about the tables which
were attractively arranged In the
social rooms OF the church., and the
gathering was representative one
OF the business. social and home
lie ot the community.
Using the subject, Mind Your
P's and Q's,". as her theme, Dean
Amos delivered Que OF the best ad.
dresses ever heard IN this city.
Chasing the times as an age OF
law aud order, an age oil pronibi.
tons aud indulgences, Dean Amos
described her audience as fam.
lily of physicians; each one daily
and hourly prescribing to a world
which was rapidly approaching SO.
cial revolution. Are we US physt.
clans prescribing III an intelligent,
unpreJudlced and conscientious
way to the needs OF the worid!"
she said, "How are we prescribing
to the child labor conditions" Are
We lettering these? What about
religion? Are We unfolding theo.
logy instead OF Christ to those TO
whom we are prescribing? What
ABOUT industry? Are we presGrib-
ing men or lnUney-are we sacri-
ficIng men 10 money?-What about
politics-are we prescribing party
instead OF truth and principle!
Shame on the American people
who uphold party as opposed. to
truth and principle! Are we indil-
terent to politics and other issues
affecting the world today? The
world suffers more from the iAdtl-
.rerent women perhaps than any
one other cause.'
III we are physicians" she said
I'VE must first be good diagnOsti.
clans and II We do not properly dla-
gnose case we do an Injustice
10 mankind. Prescribe philanthrop.
by, but IN its larger sense, coupled
with love Tor men, elevate those
with whom we come In contact, and
above all believe in one another,
"As women become economically
independent" she said, They
must believe In women, IN women,
but not as opposed to men,"
Dean Amos believes there will be
no social salvation within the sex
until there is mutual regard, for
women OF all kinds without regard
to sex or creed.
"The salvation Of the world can.
not be brought about" she said,
without including all the people in
the world. AS a panacea to an open
mind. Dean Amos suggested that
women do away with silly quest.
ioning, with clubbing and with be,
ing cutters and learn to say yes"
OF mo" rs the 0ccasionj may de.
mand and stand by the decision,
1.-THE dge," she said, demands
courage and lots OF It."
She roundly scored women who
are SO welded to conventions that
they follow fashion set down by
manufacturers, going from one ex'
IRENE to another as the lnanufact.
urer SO decides. 1.-THE factories =
she said, ''have brought knee
length skirts down to trail the
ground and gather dirt and disease,
have said that women must go
back into corsets. Flappers have
succeeded tlappers." ~
Dean Amos believes the flapper
and the Hopper have had one good
etfect-that IL, to make the con.
sentative woman more conserva.
tive in her dress. Women are In.
flicted with factory.lnade minds as
we'll as factory-made clothing"
she said, God didn't put minds ia.
10 rs. He endowed us with nervous
systems, keen 10 reaction, which
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