Tin: OREGON DAILY . JOURNAL, fOllTLAND, - MONDAY EVENING, ' JUNE 22., 1808
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THE CLUBS
Several Thousand Progres
' sire Workers of Federated
Clubs of United States As
; semble at Boston Com
mittees Provide Halls, y
BY FREDERIC JT. HASKEf.
(Copyright 1908 by Frederic J. Haskln.)
Washington, D. C. June 22. To
day there are assembled in Boston
several thousand earnest, 'progres
sive women ready to discuss ways
and means for the advancement of
the nation along helpful lines, and
ready to pledge v the,lr support to
every movement that will . militate
toward that end. These ar0 -the
, delegates . from, the federated clubs
of 46 states and territories, repre-
' sen ting 6,000 clubs with a member
thip of. over 800.000 women. Tor
ttix days ., the , 12 different depart"
ments of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs will hold sessions ' in
Symphony hall, while overflow meet
ings will be accommodated m near
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As a measure of the progressive spirit
of American women, all manner, of con
veniences will hedge this meeting about
with modern aids to comfort A branch
bank, branch telephone, telegraph and
postofftoe and. a .hospital with physici
ans and nurses will .be established at
headquarters. A" historical significance
may be attached to the selection of Bos
ton as a meeting place, for there the
first women's club meetings in this
country, were held. That was in the
days when Anne Hutoblnson called to
gether her townswomen In her home,
where the old Corner Book Store now
stands, and discussed with them , the
sermon of the proceeding Sunday until.
In 16J7, the outraged elders sent her
Into exile for the sin of too freely ex
pressing her feminine mind.
This Is the ninth biennial Of the
organization, and reports In the bands
. of expert heads of bard working de
partments will show' that In the elgh-
, teen years of the Federation's existence,
as well as In the decade back of that,
the women of the nation have not ceased
In a concerted effort to ameliorate un
satisfactory social conditions and to
promote the growth of altruism. One of
the most vital Interests of the women of
the federation Is that of abolishing
child labor In the factories, mines, mills,
workshops and stores. . whether their
Influence was direct or Indirect, the fact
that eighteen states during the past
year have enacted new laws or improved
old ones regarding child labor has been
largely due to the unflagging seal of
fAs women's clubs. Reports will show
that within the past year Florida and
Mississippi have passed child labor laws
for the first time, and Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South
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Carolina and Alabama have amended
those already., on their, statute books,
while Oklahoma promises the best of aU
under, her new constitution.
Children's Bureau.
' A- children's bureau will shortly be
established In Washington, and this Is
the result of the work of the women
who constitute the membership of nine
ty six clubs In and around New York
City. They organised themselves Into a
child labor association that Is national
In its alms and scope. The alarming
fact was known to them that of every
1.000 babies born In the United states,
100 die. and throuch this bureau they
mean to Investigate the causes of mor
tality, illegitimacy, orphanage, depend
ence and child labor anions the children
of the nation. They mean to plan a
campaign against the general ignorance
prevalent among a certain class of
mothers and Dy intelligent jeg-isiauon
and training protect the helpless little
ones. It has been po.nted out with
ironical nlainneaa that the national arov
ernment through Its department of ag
riculture ' spend millions annually In
the protection of Its game, the Improve
ment of Its domestic annlmals and the
fosterlnr of Its animal and Plant in
dustrles, while not a penny Is expended
In the preservation of child life" and in
tne amelioration or us conauions,
Hill Introduced, j
' The health of the nation is being
largely taken over into the hands of Its
women. Through the Influence of the
General Federation' of Women's Clubs a
bill was Introduced Into the last con-
cress nrovldinc for an educational cam
palgn against: tuberculosis, Already
women s dubs have been foremost in
the work of establishing homes and
camps for iuberculosus patients, a cam
paign mat is telling tn its excellent re
sults. This is quits a far cry from the
condition of which an English traveler
wrote in 1830: "What they call 'con
sumption kills the Americans as If they
were perpetually . In tiattle; but they
speak of ft as if It were in no way thefr
concern, rather as If .God sent It for
some reason of his own." The women
of today have no such Ideas on the sub
ject. They rather accept the dictum of
tav iuu pnyoician wuu says uw uio-
ease. not to Divine Providence, but to
dirt and ignorance. The Louisiana State
tieaitn oonrerence recently paio puono
tribute to the work of women in the
sanitary uplifting of the state, v . -
There -are - 20.000.000 Dublio school
children in the United States, and club
women of the country know that when
the fall term opens there will be 5,000,
000 or more children who will not enter
the schools. To the women, has come
the momentous question or finding out
why they will not enter and a cure for
the reason. Of these children 4.000.000
will be at work earning their own living
and that of others, and from them will
come the plea that the schools of the
land are not giving them a training
that will fit them for earning a. living
with their hands, and that they must go
into factories to learn how. Less than
600 cities In the United States have
manual training In their schools, and In
only a small percentage of the schools
of the land is education Of any kind
compulsory. How to place education of
the needed kind in reach of these 6,000,
000 children and make them take ad
vantage of It la one of the biggest prob
lems with which the women of the na
tion are now. wrestling.
v ? ' Have STot Bees Idle.
'The federation and Its clubs have not
been idle in doing the work that lies
nearest, In educational lines. The fed
eration Itself maintains a scholarship
for American girls at an English uni
versity. The Michigan state federation
has a $5,000 fund for the use of worthy
iris. Texas has twenty scnoiarsnlpa.
tan two, uoioraao nineteen, and Kan
sas eighteen, while during the oast year
the New Hampshire Estate federation
educated four girls and thai of Missies-
i sent eignt to scnooivw .
Che old theory that women need have
no training for home life has been swept
to the wall bv the club women of today,
la Illinois, where there was established
at the state university In 1870 the first
domestic science school In the world, the
club women have been 'active In such
education. The School of Domestic
Arts and Sciences in Chicago had last
year an . attendance of 1.100 students
and, added kindergarten work and the
care of children to its curriculum. The
Women's Educational and Industrial
union of Boston has for three ; years
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conducted classes for saleswomen with
remarkable success. The state federa
tion of Vermont clubs conducted last
year a successful . arts and crafts ex
hibit, : and through ' the work of V club
women of Massachusetts ". and - three
North Carolina towns have revived old
hand industries and have, materially
prospered. , -; - .y:
Municipal Souse Cleaning.
Loving house cleaning because they
are Intensely domestic, tne club women
of today through the civics commission
of the general federation, have asked
for a bla- municipal houee cleaning day
that shall become national, and bave
already inaugurated It in many cities
and ' towns. Through this department
or civics tney ask ror an intelligent ana
economical dlanoaltlon of s-arbace and
refuse that Would supply each town with
us electrical power ana inciaenuiuj
brine in revenue Instead of becoming a
dead expense. . They have offered en
dorsement and cooperation- to the De
partment of Agriculture In the pure
food movement and when 800,000 women
back up a governmental proposition like,
this It means something. . . .
Believing thoroughly in the need Of
open air for children, club women have
urged cities to build parks and play
grounds and in - many instances have
done It at their own expense. In Toledo,
Ohio, one of the club women may be
found every day in the school gardens,
taking turns with her coworkers. The
women's club of Columbus, Ohio, keeps
eight i playgrounds, and in Dubuque,
Iowa, they have purchased a bluff for a
park, Keenly Interested in the weak
and oppressed they have gone after, re
form in almshouse nursing, the state
federation of Michigan and the Asso
ciation of Nurses in that state leading
with twenty three states following
cioseiy on urelr heels. .
Study Immigration.
The immigrant has come in for a good
ly snare or attention among xne women s
clubs. The Woman's Municipal League
and Welfare committee of the National
Civic federation had two laws enacted
in New 'York last September protecting
immigrant girls from unscrupulous
ticket sellers. The Educational ana in
dustrial union of Boston, the Researah
and Protective association of Philadel
phia, the -Women's Trade Union league
in cnicago, ana tne council or jewisn
Women are offering advice and protec
tion and helD to the newcomers who re
ceive no government aid after leaving
cms jsiana. iuaucation in gooa ciusen
shlD Is offered to thousands of newly
arrived foreigners through various pat
riotic ana civic ciuds composed oi
women.:- ;- -.;--:!-'
In the conservation of the nation's
natural resources the women's clubs are
lending a helplnsr hand. -They had their
reDresentatlvea at the meeting of the
governors, they have their department
or forestry, ana in some states nave es
tablished regular classes in forestry.
There is no Carnegie among the women,
but the traveling libraries, a score of
good books in their small boxes, have
penetrated mountain fastnesses. . and
gone to remote prairie towns that never
would otherwise know of bookland. Col
orado alone has S.000 volumes always on
the road and this is not much of an over
estimate for each of the other forty
five state federations. .
Missions Preserved.
Through the work of club women Cali
fornia's missions will be preserved, the
Indian mounds of Wisconsin are beinc
protected, the cliff dwellings of Colorado
and Arizona have been placed under
national protection, the destruction of
the Palisades of the Hudson 'and the
threatened destruction of Niagara Falls
have been brought before the public, the
homes. of Washington and Andrew jack
son have been Dreserved and the Alamo
purchased as a perpetual monument to
Texan valor. Through the Oregon wo
men a statue has been erected to Sao
ajawea, the Indian maid of Lewis and
Clark's expedition, the women of Colo
rado have keot Judge Llndsey in office
for the good of the delinquent children
of the state, and the South Carolina
federation is trying to secure a state
Industrial school for boys. They are
working along many lines, some for
suffrage, some for revision of state laws
on various subjects, but all with the
same end -to better the nation. They
seem to have taken Amiel's advice: "To
be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look
for the budding flower and the opening
neart; to nope at ways.
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Notes From the
Labor World
The annua convention of the Trades
and Labor congress of Canada .will hp
held at Halifax la September,
Employes in the postal service of
ureat Britain are getting an ait sreuuu
increase or, wages, amounting to ,
000.000 a rear.
. : At Cedajr Ranlda. Towa. the contract
I obtained on the new government bulld
Mn provides foe-union labor In the con
struction or- tne buuaing.
' The largest of the international
unions, wita tne exception ot tne um
ted Mine workers. -la the United Broth-
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners, which
will hold Its' annual convention in Salt
Lake City in September. . , ; ,
The International Brotherhood of
Teamsters will have Its annual conven
tion in Detroit in Aua-ust. when It Is
expected an agreement will be reached
for a settlement of the differences be
tween tnat organization ana tne unuea
Teamsters of America.
The Montana State Federation of La
bor Is initiating a petition for submis
sion at tne next general election tor
the employers' liability act and an act
exempting labor unions from Injunc
tions. v " '
The Bakers' anion of San Francisco
has appointed a committee to prepare
a recommendation to the International
convention that is to meet in October
to erect a home for aged and disabled
members of the organisation.
In Austria, when an unemployed
wage-earner cannot obtain work be reg
isters at a a-overnmsnt labor bureau
and he Is supplied with food for him
self and family by the government un
til employment Is found for him.
The national joint arbitration board of
tne uranite cutters' Employers' asso
ciation and the Granite Cutters' union
has adjusted all the points in dispute
at Qulncy, Mass., and there can be no
strikes nor lockouts for the next three
years.
Under authority of the American Fed
eration of Labor, and within the Juris
diction of the International Alliance of
Theatrical stage Employes, enrollment
has begun In a local to be known as the
Picture Machine Operators of Greater
New York.
Recent advices from Christian la are
tftt the effeet that strikes, lockouts and
taoor contucts are numerous in Nor
way at the present time. The lumber,
building-, woolen and leather Industries
are particularly affected.
The Diamond Workers' union, of Ant
werp, by a vote of 6,001 to 880, decided
on complete cessation of work. The de
cision affected 10,000 men in the pol
lening; una suiea traaes. vvnen work
Is resumed the union Intends tn sale
higher wages for its members.
The first notice of labor unions was
when Plutarch wrote of vicious craft
guilds as havina- existed In the Rome
and Greek dominions. From Rome the
Idea was passed on to the young na
tions that follewed. and In the middle
ages the guilds were to be found ev
erywhere. More than 500 managers of Chicago's
places of amusement. Including thea
tres, concert halls, nickel shows and
publio amusement parks, recently re
ceived circular letters of warning' from
State Factory Inspector Kdgar T. Da
vies as his first, steo In a crusade
against the employment of children in
these places. Parents are - also to be
held to account by the chief inspector
when It Is found thtiy permit the chil
dren to work In these places when they
are under 16 years of age.
Eagles at Zanesville.
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Zanesville." Ohio. June 22. Zanesville
Is decorated from end to end in honor of
the Fraternal Order of Eagles, which
opened Its annual state convention here
today. Delegates are on hand from
every nook and corfier of Ohio, many of
them accompanied by .their wives and
ramuies. ins dusuicss or the conven
tion will beeln tomorrow moraine and
continue over Wednesday and Thursday.
A publla reception, parade and banquet
are teatures or tne program. B. w.
Garnter of Springfield will preside over
tne ousiiysss sessions.
Cabinets and . Mirrors
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Klcaraguan Government Has . AL
: ? leged Swindler Arrested
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New York, June 22. James D. Hal
loa, aow gray-haired, but Mill carrying
the same distinguished air he bore 10
years ago when he admitted that he
stole about 870,000 . from hi clients,
and was sentenced to eight years In
Sing Sing- for forgeryi bobbed up again
today in the criminal courts.
This time he Is accused of swindling
the Nlcaraguan government out of 811,
000. '
i When the Nlcaraguan government
was fighting off a revolution In the
fall of 1908 it needed millions of cart-
''"went to the representative of th;
Nlcaraguan government In this city and
said he could supply 1,100,000 Reming
ton cartridges at a reasonable rate
811,000 and see that they were deliv
ered before the revolution had ensued.
Hallen got the contract with the Nlc
araguan government. He went out and
Rur chased a lot of copper dross, which
i cheap and is good ballast. Then he
rot boxes of the else that cartridges
are packed In. He figured out just
about how many boxes It would take to
bold ;i00,000 cartridges, and found that
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and filled thero, with the dross, the
aross being pacaea witn paper mil
usually put . around cartridges. He
marked . the boxes : 'cartridges" and
shipped them on a ' South American
ateamer. '
Then he got bis bills of ladlnr for
th cartridges and called on Ramon
Echasartta, the New York agent for the
Nlcaraguan government, and presented
hie bills of lading. Echasarrlta handed
over the 811,000. - ' --
One morning Echasarrlta got a blast
from Nicaragua that almost took his
head off. The "cartridges' had arrived
at Greytown. All the generals of -the
Nlcaraguan army were there with their
men anddlrectd the unpacking of the !
boxes. Did they find cartrtdaesT . No. I
only copper dross.
Hallen was arrested today and held
In 88.000 ball. , . , . , . 3 ,
, ; Laval Monument Unveiled,
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Quebec June 12. The gigantic Laval
monument erected at the head of Moun
tain hill was unveiled today with im
pressive ceremonies. Tomorrow the pro
gram will be continued with an enorm
ous St. Jean Baptists procession and
solemn grand mass at the base of the
monument.
The monument Is In memory of
Francis Xavter da Laval-Montmorency,
the first Roman Catholic bishop of
Canada. Laval was born in France in
1623 and died In Quebeo In 1708. ' Dur
Ig his years of residence In Quebec he
built a church and a aemlnary for the
education of priests and did much for
the welfare and betterment of the In
dian population of this section.
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Close Services and Walk Down I 1
. Coolly Notifying 1,800 to
Leave at Once.
Berlin, - June 23. An attempt v i
made today to burn down the old
Paulus Catholic church at Moabtt, whi; .
1,800 persons were assembled to hear
a sermon by Father Bonaventurl.
While the congregation was kueelin ?
In prayer. Father Bona'enturl was tun
that the church was afire.
. Without alarming the eongveRatton
he coolly stepped over to the priest who
was celebrating mass, and requested Mm
to close the serves. Then the nrlot
and his six assistants walked down th
aisles and whispered to the rewholders
that an insignificant blase had broken
out. and that they had better leave.
At this time the entire roof of h
church was a -mass of flames. Tim
hundreds, not realising their peril, made
quick exit in an orderly manner.
- A dozen firebrands, soaked with pe
troleum, were found. .
A Feminine Fracas.
"What's all this turmoil on the cam
pus?" "Just the co-eds having a parasol
rush."