Evening star., 1925-05-06
Equal Pay for Teachers.

At executive meetings yesterday the
international committees on education,
trades and professions and public
health redrafted the resolutions which
will be presented on the floor of the
council.
The education committee, OF which
Prof. Marian u. Whitney of Vassar
College Is convener, adopted for con-
sideratfon a comprehensive program
touching upon co-education, continu-
alton schools for children from IA to
l8 years old, self government in
schools. esthetic and moral training OF
children. kindness to animals, higher
education for girls, adult education
outside universities, teaching of sex
hygiene, training of girls in citizen
ship, teaching of international ideals,
community use of school buildings
and university courses dealing with
responsibilities of women.
The council already is on record for
equal pay for equal work in the teach
ing profession, the teaching in ele-
mentary schools of simple biological
facts regarding sex and morality and
instruction regarding the League of
Nations. The last resolution, how
ever, does not apply to the American,
German or Mexican councils, whose
| league.
A proposal to urge on the council
| the use of some international language
| was tabled as being too difficult to put
| in operation.
Ride i'm BLACK Maria"
| The trades and professions commit
| tee decided to present to the council
resolutions calling for equal pay for
/ equal work, with occupation rather
| than sex the basis of remuneration,
and demanding equal rights and op-
pOrtunitieS for women within the vari-
! Gus employments. Members of this
/ committee were invited by Mrs. Nina
| Van Winkle of the Metropolitan Po-
| lice Department to inspect the House
Of Detention and the Woman's Blu
reau offices. Patrol wagons were fur
nished to take them to and fro, and
/ this led to a report at one time that
| some of the delegates had been ar
| rested.
The committee on public health re.
| ported a gratifying decrease in the
/ tuberculosis death rate throughout the
| world, but that no perceptible prog
ress had been made in reducing the
maternity death rate since the last
| convention.
/ The first open meeting of the coun.
| ell will be called to order in the audi
torium at > pm. today. The procedure
! of the quinquennial to date has re
suited in considerable confusion due 10
! the fact that, while the council actual
! ly convened at the welcome meeting
Monday night, all meetings before this
| afternoon have been merely prelimi.
! naries, such as usually are held be-
! fore a convention gathers. This pro-
cedure is due to the wide distribution
of the delegates, making it impossible
! for them to reach any conclusion be-
fore coming to Washington.
Banner Presentation.
At the first session today Fru
! Anna Backer of Norway, interna-
tional secretary. will present to the
council a silk banner. The silk used
I in it's manufacture was the gift of
the affiliated councils and of former
Premier Herriot of France when he
was mayor of the great silk produc-
| ing City of Lyon. The embroidery
was done in Norway. On the ban
ner are embroidered the Eastern and
Western Hemispheres, with a bright
sun shedding its beams over the
world Below these figures the golden
rule is embroidered in Latin.
The international council has been
without a banner since 1914, when