The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 4, 1921, Page 10

News of Women’s Nonpartisan Clubs Big Bizand the Y. W. C. A. Request for Funds Turned Down Because of Progressive Program HE Young Women’s Christian associa- tion of Pittsburg, Pa., is one of the latest liberal agencies to- feel the dis- approval of big business because it tried to better conditions for the com- mon people. The Pittsburg Y. W. C. A. vecently adopted a progressive platform, stating what it believed should be done along the line of practical reforms for workers, especially working women. Then it started to raise its annual fund of $2Q0,000 from the people of Pittsburg to-carry on work for the coming year. When the solicitation for funds started the fol- lowing letter was sent out by the Employers’ asso- ciation of Pittsburg to all business houses of the city: -~ “In view of the campaign for funds which will be begun today by the Young Women’s Christian as- sociation, it is felt that your attention should be drawn to the fact. that without adequate in- vestigation the above association has adopt- ed an ‘industrial program’ which is quite in line with some of the radical and ill-advised efforts of religious and quasi-religious bodies to ‘regulate industry’; something they attempt to do in about the same man- ner that a bull regulates a china shop. “Some of the things the Y. W. C. A. be= lieves in and indorses are as follows: In- dustrial democracy; collective bargaining; a share in shop control and management by the workers; labor’s desire for an equitable share in the profits and management of in- dustry; protection of workers from enforc- ed unemployment; a minimum wage; gov- ernment labor exchanges (employment of- fices); experiments in co-operative owner- ship, “x % % After the misuse of funds by the recent ill-fated Interchurch World Movement we have felt it to be our duty to advise you of some of the purposes to which your money will be put if you contribute to the Y. W. C. A. if that organization adheres to its present ‘in- dustrial program,” in the formation of which, we venture to assume, no responsible men with knowl- edge of industrial matters were consulted.” As a result of this letter business houses refused to contribute to the Y. W. C. A. and its campaign for $200,000 was a failure. The Y. W. C. A. was “blacklisted” and boycotted just as the employers boast that the Interchurch World Movement was blacklisted and boycotted and killed—and just as the North Dakota industrial program was black- listed and boycotted, but not killed yet. WHAT IS OUR NEXT TASK? The editor of the Woman’s page has written a dozen women, prominent in women’s club work in various states, requesting an answer to this ques- tion: “Now that women have the vote, what is the next thing for them to do?” A group of answers will be printed in the Woman’s page in the next issue of the Leader. The editor would be glad to receive letters from other women on this subject. Letters should be 100 words or less in length. CLOTHING CLASSES IN NORTH DAKOTA Two and three-day clothing schools will be con- ducted throughout North Dakota wherever there is sufficient demand for the courses, the North Dakota Agricultural college extension bureau an- nounces. Applications may be made through the county agent or other county extension agent, and at least eight women must agree to take the entire course. WOMAN POLICE COMMISSIONER Mrs. Kate S. Wilder, commissioner of police at Fargo, N. D, is the first woman to hold such a posi- tion in the United States. NORTH DAKOTA ACTION PRAISED The National League of Women Voters says of recent legislative action in the pioneer Nonpartisan league state: “Women of North Dakota may serve on juries - R e e THE FARM WOMAN’S PAGE after July 1-as a result of the recent state legisla- ture’s action.in eliminating the word ‘male’ from the present statute concerning jurors, This, the only measure which the state League of Women Voters actively supported, passed the legislature by a big majority. A concurrent resolution urging enactment by congress of the Sheppard-Towner bill for the protection of maternity and infancy was also passed by the legislature at the request of the League of Women Voters.” Real Americanization- Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Looking back over the first year of our club’s existence we find much to encourage us. Perhaps if we had accomplished nothing more, the social opportunities that the meetings of the club offered to the lonely and some- times discouraged women on the ranches more than repaid our efforts. & : Much is being talked and written of American- ization these days. The word has never been men- tioned in our club, but in our membership several ] : MONTANA CLUB NO. 1 | Above, some of the members of Women’s Nonpar- tisan Club No. 1 of Montana. Below, officers of the club. Left to right, Mrs. Elizabeth Withrow, pres- ident; Mrs. Emma Nevills, .vice president; Mrs. Sara C. Taylor, secretary-treasurer. nationalities are represented and certainly there can be no better way of demonstrating to those of foreign birth our real interest in their welfare and our willingness to teach and study with them the principles of our Constitution to the end that we may all gain a better knowledge of real American- ism. ; MRS. SARA C. TAYLOR. Conrad, Mont. Secretary Montana Club No. 1. SHEPPARD-TOWNER BILL FAILS The Sheppard-Towner bill, to provide better care for mothers at childbirth, failed to get attention at the session of congress just concluded. This bill and many others were not reached by congress, al- though both houses found time to take up out of its regular order a bill to vote $850,000 to the rail- roads. Women’s organizations are starting a new drive to, secure early attention for this bill in the new congress which ¢onvenes this month. PAGE TEN Notes of Women’s Activities Everywhere Propaganda in Schools Children Forced to Study Untrue Attacks on Nonpartisan League DITOR Nonpartisan Leader: . I am sending you a copy of “Current Events” so you may see what is being done in the grade and high schools of our country to mould the young minds. This paper’s contents. are thoroughly " digested once-a week by every child in the school. My suggestion is this—that every League mem- ber make it a point to have literature, especially the Leader, sent to every high school boy and girl of their acquaintance, for we all know that, filled with their own importance (God bless them in their innocence), they will be more apt to. read it if it comes to them than if it is addressed to father. This, it seems to me, will do more to win the great fight than spending valuable time and money on some of these old hard-shell Republicans and Demo- crats, who wouldn’t cast a liberal vote if they knew they were signing their death warrant when they refused-to do so. . L I am with you in the big fight. Being a busy housewife and the mother of four small children I can not get into the front ranks, but I can stay behind the fighting lines and do my bit as the World war taught us to do it. MRS. M. E. BROPHY. Lincoln county, Wash. - The issue of “Current Events” which Mrs. Brophy inclosed, used by the schools of Washington and other states as reliable in- formation, contained an article headed, “Nonpartisans in Dire Straits,” which said: “The Socialist organization in North Dako- ta, kncwn as the Nonpartisan league, seems to be going to pieces. During its brief rule the state treasury has been bankrupted and James A. McCulloch of Fargo sends another clipping from “Current Events” : stating that private banks in North Dakota were closed owing “to the unsound methods of the so-called Nonpartisan league.” ~ Mr. McCulloch says: “The I. V. A. of North Dakota made a terrible howl about the Nonpartisan league trying to use the schools of the state for the spreading of prop- aganda. But, behold, as in the free love case, we find they are the guilty parties.” Mr. McCulloch wrote the editor of “Current Events”: ¢ “It seems to me this is about the limit when a paper of this type, with a wide circulation in our public schools, will stoop to such depths of decep- tion and falsehood and thus try to warp the minds of our children. It has been proven beyond ques- tion that those North Dakota bank failures were brought about by the manipulation of our finance and credit system by the big bankers-of the East, with the help of the vicious initiated banking law passed by the I. V, A.s of this state. Now I hope you will be at least honest enough to retract or correct this piece of deception.” MADAME CURIE COMING HERE Madame Marie Curie, discoverer of radium and one of the foremost scientists of the world, is to visit the United States in May. Upon her arrival here she is to be presented by her friends and ad- mirers with a gram of radium (about one thimble- :lt'ulge ({or which a $100,000 fund is now being coi- ec o 1 DUNN COUNTY GETS THE HONOR In announcing the members of the state executive committee of the Women’s Nonpartisan eclubs of North Dakota recently an error was made in giving the address of Mrs. E. O. Bailey, who lives at Emer- son, Dunn county, N. D., instead of /at Moffitt, as reported. i : A PORK RECIPE BOOK ; Recipes for preserving and cooking pork in a va- riety of ways are contained in a new publication, Farmers’ Bulletin 1186, “Pork on the Farm,” which can be secured upon request to the United: States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. in the last few weeks 32 banks have failed.” -