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WOMEN REET PLAN FOR THER OWN UNION AT TUMULTUOUS SESSION wal Was for an Auton. | the @reat work for upiitt and which Catholie women omous Body Within Feder- wehout Ube na jt . otinued “It we are OTEST WAS STIRRING. |" h aplendid work, one thing Is hecommary--we must unite . 7 This browsht @ great round of # irwoman Lost Control of |piaume trom some of the women Jin the hall, And then Miss Maney Meeting and Called Man to Her Aid, | fired her most telling #hot NO FOOLIGH BTRIVING FOR | SOCIAL POSITION It ten ary that we the we ment ™ the foe tion, or p Krandizement ninate k ‘The proposal to estabiteh a national e f our al p r an Let us remember that ination of Catholle women, an striving after we * omous body with'n the Amert Federation of Cath emolument tettes: ten to-day at a etormy meet. | (ie more we ald and honor our neigh- ney : | bor the more we ourselves are aided Of the woman's section of the! and honored, We should not regard tion, held in Cathedral College hb other with distrust, but try to |, Madison Avenue and Fifty-firet | see the situation from our neighbor's The resolution embodying the | viewpoint. It is necessary that we t Was read by Miss Helen Tianey | have @ broad sympathy for one an Randolph, Mass, whe presided. | other; no one is too important or too ies Haney had previously spoken | insignificant for the other Tt ta by ongly in favor of the plan your effort and my effort and your ton was proposed by Dr. | neighbor's effort, and my neighbor's Ph M. Corrigan, of Philadelphia, | effort that we will build up such solid, united structure of Catholt “I move that the sense of this hody| Womanhood as will be a source of that for the better discussion and| strength and inspiration for future generations.” Another great round of applause greeted this and Miss Haney had to pause for several minutes before p ceeding. motion of questions of Interest to | en, a department of the Federa Whore control shan be fixed in central body, to be approved by executive board, shall be estad- | ser had no more effect than if sho had whispered. Mra. Anna C. Nolan of Pennsylvania “tried her best to be heard, but she fwas declared to be out of order. m not out of order and I intend ever the sacrifice, if Catholic woman- hood is ever to interpret itself to the American mind and make manifest its claims to superiority. Let us open out clubhouses and our league houses to our young girls.” BISHOP URGES WOMEN TO to have my say," she replied. “I REATER IVITY. ieee so protest! Pee ee ape mln Pp TeAulaseH Peseta was going to say was lost in the 111, urged the assembled women not din of voices and the banging of the PChairman's gavel Rev. Vincent de Paul McGean, fire chaplain in this city, came in just then and took the floor. He satd: “You women should not be meeting wn here. You ought to be upstairs with the men of the Federa- tion. This meeting should never have been held, This Federation must act asaunit. The men and women must act together. You women had a hard time getting into the Federation—| now that you're in, stick! You should ever have had this meeting!" to keep out of movements on the score of feeling themselves “not want- ed," and besought them to take part in all movements for the public weal. “You women,” he said, "should ni only take interest in such things as members of Catholic societies, but should go into every State, county and city movement in your’ sections for the public good, regardless of the religion of those engaged in the work Don't say ‘we Catholic women not war 1 in this or that, and they will not be fair to us.! My own ex- perience is that persons of other re- ligious beliefs engaged in civic work not onl want the help of Catholic women, but are most anxious to ob- tain it and will go far to prove they uproar of applause greeted will be fair, If you don’t join in @r McGean and Mra, Nolan got| thelr movements don't complain about how things come out. the foor again just for a moment. | She was again told she was out of order. "I don't care. I'm going to speak whether Iam or not. In my country, | “In the terrible § birth-control, for instance, think of the corrective influence of Catholic thought in forming community opin- fons on such problems as this, “There is much truth in the charge nger theory of ta Pennsylvania, our men folk are aginst us that we have not Joined San bel 4 i argely in civic enterprises. As Dr mainty miners and they need us. Tf Ryan suid last night, only two Cath you separate the two organizations olics were on the Child Labor m our work can't be a success!" ttee, although many were urged to istiah of *Guisatic ‘i + tha] co-operate, Cries of “Queation, questi the) “"sJoin the civic movement and ex- banging of Miss Haney's gavel and a] press the soul in you. Show others hubbub of voices filled the hall, In the midst of it Father Peter Dietz of Milwaukee, who was sitting on the Platform, arose, “The suggestion that an attempt is being made to separate the two or- ganizations is entirely erroneou he ald. “Those who come in at the eleventh hour and make such a state- ment are making a false statement and owe us an apology.” Once again came the cries of “Question” and a dozen women arosa and sought to be heard. CHAIRWOMAN CALLS MAN TO HER AID. not of our faith that Catholic thought is the only complete balance-thou-ht, which never goes to extremes, Unicss Catholic women join in civic movi ments, within the next twenty years we shall find ourselves Ilving under conditions socialistic or atheistic, or a least with only a humanitarian side.” Mrs. Martha Moore Avery of Bos- ton, once an ardent Socialist, and now as ardently opposed to its doc- trines, and above all, an anti-suf- fragist, also spoke on the union of Catholic womanhood, saying in part: “By our inherent right and bounden duty we should lead the women of our country in forming a public opin- fon that shall inevitably crystallize into the laws and the culture of our ‘ nation, A united Catholic woman- “Keep still, keep still,” cried Miss| hood is necessary for our owa de- Haney. “Don't you want to vote on| fense against the enemy, against the this resolution?" varlous cults that are propagating doctrines and setting up base prac- tices all in the name of reform, of freedom for wome: “It is only at our own peril that Catholic women come upder the in- fluence and command of the radical women who lead in the alleged r forms of the day Mrs. Avery, who is a forceful speaker with a most elastic voeabu- Father McGean asked that it be read again, but Miss Haney was for having the vote taken at once. “You've heard the question’— she exclaimed, and the rest of the sen- tence fluttered off in the confusion. It was quite evident that Miss Haney had lost all control of the meeting, Wo | And Un ed from the members accredited to] “Are we Catholic women going to @ Federation.” | wit quietly by and allow the Young Instantly there were a dozen women | Women's Christian Association to fon their feet in protest. Mis# Haney | forever usurp the Christian name in bad all sho could do to control the| association welfare? We must do Body. Banging on the desk before| work of even higher character, what- | | +} Court is a tull, erect woman in middle TER BVENING WORLD, TUBSDAY, AUGUS SIN STEIN Cannot Be Done terical Women, but by! Sympathizing, Level-| | Héaded Women of High| | Standing—Exploited| | Girls, Who Distrust All’ | Men, Would Trust — Own Sex. By Nixola Gr | Impellcd by confessions recently G “) Miss Poe MITEL eeley-Smith, made to the District Attorney's office by traffickers in women who admitted persistent, organized effort to be: tray schoolgirls, the women of New York City have formed a Committee of Twelve to devise this evil. The co effective reform. stein, Mrs. Willi Guernsey, Mrs. Di Mrs. Walston Hill Mary Masters Nee Levy and the Rev. See nas etry GIT their power to aid the committee's we means for meeting and overcoming mmittee includes ten women widely known for social work and two men equally notable for The women are Mrs. William Ein- jam rant Brown, Miss Florence aniel F, Murphy, Mrs. Julian Heath, Brown, Mrs. Mortimer Menken, Mrs. dham, Mrs. Charles Austin Bates and Miss Alice C, Smith. The men are Judge Aaron J. Dr. Charles A. Eaton. ! Both the District Attorney and the Police Commis- sioner of New York have promised to do everything in ork. Mr. Swann will confer with the members in a few days and give them the benefit of his knowledge and opinions on the exploitation of girls. A VETERAN IN THE SERVICE OF SAVING GIRLS. | Of the women members of the com- mittee, Miss Alice C. Smith posesses most practical knowledge of white slave conditions in New York, For she has been probation officer of the Night Court for Women ever since the institution of that tribunal in 1910 and has been engaged in the work of reclaiming girls for seventeen years. very Magistrate who has ever | presided in that courtroom will tell you that Alice Smith can do more | with a wayward girl in five minutes than any Judge can accomplish by the most searching and rigid investi gation, ‘The probation officer of the Night Ufe, with a soft voice, silvery hair and large eyes, that manage somehow to| | be shrewd and sympathetic @t the | same time. “@ sive sympathy that only women can give. fYou know I never talk to the girls about the enormity of their sin I never mention sin, I simply tell them how they are injuring them- selves; what certain damage they are doing r health, and since prac- tleally y girl is commercialized by some man, I ask her what she per- sonally gets out of it “Well, what does she get out of it?” T inquired, A few years ago about a yzen of these girls came to see me to me to write something about their alleged exploitation by the police, and Lasked them that question, ‘They an swered that they got better clothes 1 better 1 than if they were working for $5 or $6 a week.” SOME WOMEN, “It 1s not so easy to combat that point of view, not nearly so simple as inexperienced persons would like to believe,” Miss Smith admitted. “it Ll asked her yesterday if after sev- j enteen years among girl offenders she has any hope that the Committee of | will be time enough to go to work when I'm old and no good," some of | them say. “But the most forceful argument ts, Twoive will accomplish much In New| 1 nave found, the practical, certalnty "T Know that it will,” Miss Smith Of disease if they do se thelr assured me, smilingly, "I believe | WAY of living. | ther is mis- that if the White slave problem is| ‘tke to think that these girls like the that it tke aolved. it will be by the | life they live. ‘They hate it. ‘They cyfterted action of good women—not | hate men. They love children and hysterical women, not sensational | lowers and they are pathetivully fadd but ast lodders, Ww won't try. to get white. sla | question from a pedestal, but will g if their pedestal and Ko to work ne people believe that all we have to do to solve it 1s to go to the Night | Court or anywhero else that wayward girls may be found and say, ‘Here's a job for you. yw reform,’ * es," 1 said, “and a girl who, for years, has been accustomed to lux good food and clothes and idleness does not jump at $26 month and general housework, Th think she is @ monster of iniquity ant that it is auite moral to abandon her urious hours, lary and) mark: rmestness, thon | (Mat lt ls aie! ang into the breneh leaped Francia took MP arms against the sufransts. WHERE THE WAYWARD GIRL H, Blattery of Boston, who had been! agership of non-Catholic women | REPOSES CONFIDENCE. asked to restore some sort of order.| whose haste principles are, in fact,| Miss Smith smiled. “The Kind of He banged the gavel and after a]athelstic and materialistic. In proof) woman who mi accomplish results ere was sufficient quiet to|of this I submit the statement of the must realize fully the weaknesses 0! while there was su 8 Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, She| human nature," she sald, “and she make himself heard. says that half the families she knows “I'm in charge of this meeting] should be divorced! now!" he cried. Prolonged hand-clapping greeted ‘All over the hatl came the answer,| this utterance and Mrs. Avery left the platform, “No, no, no, you're not!" But she was back on the floor with- “Oh, yes. I've asked him to pre-| ina very few minutes, demanding: hide," Miss Haney called out, and for] | “It has come to my. ears that my a Reda ay| Statement about Dr. Shaw has been the first time the disorder was|fieitment about Dr. Bhaw hae been quelled, Shaw has made such # remark a half At the suggestion of Father Me-| dozen times in as many places, Fur Gean the resolution was read again ‘hermare he Feciaed to Taiyo couple 6 ‘The | becuse the bride wanted the word and then the voto was taken, The | how Dut into the ritual resolution was lost by a vote of 58 to| “If we should ever be so unfortu- nate as to have universal suffrage in Massachusetts, I shall do all I can, ind I pledge myself to tt now, to com- pat the granting of easy divoree and 16, and the tumultuous meeting at once adjourned. In her address at the opening Miss Haney emphasized the point that| compulsory education In the public | schools!" ft was not intended in the ‘ | Here was another great outburst &hew movement to separate in Any | oF applause ® r way the societies of the men and] While the women were having their women in their joint affiliation with| stormy meeting downstairs the men ederat! or that any of the| delegates were in business session in Bea. wederstion, nor the sien thelr | (he. main hall on the floor above, hut women's societies should lose thelr) Koning closely in touch with every- individuality. She directed attention| thing that went on below. must say to herself, as John Bunyan said of the wretch going to the Kal- lows, ‘But for the Krace of God there go I’" (Vague doubts as to whether it really was John Bunyan who made that historic remark cYossed my mind us Miss Smith quoted it, but I decide that she must know her Bunyar “The wayward girl has more in women than men, onc is convinced that @ woman 's her * Miss Smith continued. “It is for } to distrust men, and will pay much more attention to ‘@ woman tells her, once that m has Kained her vonfidence he woman who undertakes to deal white slavery and who makes than 1.) contidence she friend natur she with herself the friend of a girl must not be discouraged by one failure or two. She must not she does not keep straight at the firsc or even the second chance. | “What a woman can do is to work with the Night Court, the District At torney’s office and the homes to which girls are committed, to induce then to take jobs that are found for them and to lead moral lives. ‘They must talk with them not in any holier-than- \ thou spirit, but with the warm, impul- give @ girl up because | ul for the help and sympathy ¢ one they know to be a good y ‘Big Sister’ movement is a splendid thing," Miss Smitu added Think what it means to som ire ple little girl arraigned in the Nig ‘ rt to feel that the best women in her community are trying to help her. | It would be a great thing if every one of these girly could feel that there is some fine woman to whom she could go, whose helping hand | she could accept, | “One reason (hese girls are all com- | merciulized and that tuey keep on | giving their money suine man | | bec they feel they must hi | friend, sume one to bali them out | when they are arrested, Of course |they are bailed out with thei own money, but they seldom tink about | that; they feel merely they have |some one to turn to in w of trouble “If you can convince a girl that she 1s being exploited for the ben ofa man, and that she will di | best thing for herself by accepting the ald of women, you have won her to the consideration at least k- ng an honest job, Kven if it is an il-paid you can that by educating herself by night school she will 1 ‘ earn more money, 1 find t tical arguments the most eft: Miss Smith added. You see you must convince the girl that it 1s against her interest to lead a dis honest life—and as I told you befo! she gets no Joy out of it.” “Every woman knows that,” T re- plied, “and it has always seomed to | me that the women who drift im | moral lives are not the women of strong emotions because strong emo- tions involve necessarily strong P erences and aversion in the p si weak, Vague creatures, easily influenced fe nod or evil, women who are made or unmade by their aur- roundings “L agree with you about th EXPLOITED GIRLS WILL TRUST the | piled high with ail sorts of explosive * Mies MRS Wm. G. ROWN Ore ay RE RREY~ MUNITION SHIPS MUSTSTAY AWAY, SAYS BATH BEACH Army Board, at Baker’s Call, Will Try to Find New Anchorage Zone. cretary of War Baker to-day ad nd the local Board of Army gineers: take up the problem changing the anchorage area of munition ships around New York Mr. Baker suggested Sept. 5 as the date for the Board to meet and hear what the residents of Bath Beach, who have complained to Congress- man Daniel J. Griffin of Brooklyn, have to say concerning the danger of another explosion like that at Black Tom. Congressman Griff_ln was appeal siv to by the Bath Beach Tax Payers! Association, through William J Mackin, its president. From three to five munition ships anchor within 200 yards of Fort Hamilton every day, Congressman learned, Barges are floated to the sides of the vessels. The work of loading has made the people nervous. Congressman Griffin at firet eaw the Commissioner General of the De- partment of Commerce. The rep! sentative was told that the depart- ment bad no jurisdiction in that caso and that it was a matter for the po- lice, Notwithstanding the face that the Government receives the fees from the anchor of ships, Con- gressman Gritty was told that only the polies had authority to. prohibit the boais from endangering the li he reside apt. Carden, » United States absence of Ca sues permits for anchor in Graves change would be explained that w was fixed there @ population of only The Board of Army prising Col. Harry Taylor, Col.’ Fred- erick Abbott and Lieut. Col, C,H McKinstrie, received a letter from Congressman (iriffin last) Saturday He outiined the danger ta detail and urged that ast ard had fixed the area it had the power to change It to # safer territory ing in charge of (Guard in the 1, Dunwoodle, who is- the ships to cast ond, agreed that ¢ a good thing, He nh the anchorage Kath Beach had a few hundred ‘nginoers, com- re Smith said, I think that the most hopeful aspect of the white slave problem to-day is the serious and kind consideration which good wor n to-day are giving to the gtris Twenty-five years ago women asim: ply did not consider the subject at all. They stayed up on their pedestaly and lid not care whi happiness went on b It ) thought unfit for them to + happened he low the pedest To-day, how when women are more logical, 4e that in thie particular form of should be two or none, the Night Court I h ‘But where are the “Everybody thinks that,” Smith answered, “but ever been found to «st the mo: ave asked myuelf, ent Mt men War on White Slave Evil HEDLEY AND o Reclaim Victims CARMEN TAKE UP IS OFF OUR COAST. LIST OF DEMANDS ‘BLUE’ READY FORIT ° human folly there prisoners at the bar Whenever I have heen In no way has Wa can, however, go after the mon who 7 one | wots of Rear Adqural Helms cate. Py will inmure (he erippling @@ he nding torcee Adovre Kegut ot determine the — — | Agree to Vass on Reinstate- Great Battle Is On in Wh h| ment of Discharged the Object Is to Land a Por. midable Invading Fore wicome PERE I ORCPS DEAD IN BATHROOM. 4. Ratiard, Director te Destep Hat Company, ies Seddenty, Workers Pirst Jour, er ¢ . Nard, aged seventy four, queen: @ dive + Donlap Hat Company, Ganers! Manager Medley of the WASHINGTON, Aue A nea” @ the bethrosm New York Hatiwaye Company and y c of otrens cn ear lan ar =~ ‘ ythird Breet, committer f the Hireet Carmen's voytng thirty rte laden with © " more thee « her thie aflernoon at Invading « y arrived Mos No. 166 Broad ioe of Atianth mo Oa sng ee . to-day ath deretion of the | O'ctonk t Hing and the greatest troug af ania verse a war game ever undertaken by the nt Adem je hy the ’ . twenty wn mands mad ¥ Nevy Department began 0 untoniaad employers of the surface Within an hour the twelve battle v ea (wo weeks ago. chips of ¢ ue” defending ft the firm & ated in 16 General Organiser Fitagerald, At. Wre speeding to sea behind ee were Mung line of destroyers a torney Pridt@er we » Conway, President, and the Executive Hoard (tent Upon locating and dest of the local branch looked after the the , hes the un Mr Hedley nad Shore the ames Quacken. | Admiral ‘ ands the bush, general w ney for the eom fie @ Afteen battleships: | anes win wwitt oh re, representing the |¥i wan agreed that the first matter — outing | and six other craft to be dis 4 of was the cases of | TePFesenting the feet of transports twenty-eight men who have t and o pe Hear Admiral Helm Glecharged wince the peace agree. |"4* seventeen destroyers and seven ment was signed, the unton lew Habt cruisers ae hin scouting sereen having expressed a willingness sev. |" close to shore are Afteen eral days ago that these partic arines ae a last fine of naval defense. In should be ¢ manner | Inapect ot the lenade the complaints on which these men were discharged were on hand with the recods In each cane | ‘The cases will be taken up one at a time, Next minor matters will be | taken up, the queation of wage ine canes naidered Kear Admiral Koight, President of Navy War A the uperdreadnought 1 pia, wil umpire the game in which seventy seven fahting craft are engaged. Th rewerve battleships forming the "Blue’ feet main line are manned by naval militiamen and civilian volunteers Admiral Mayo has until Sept. 1 to th who company yneyl oy N th rease and shorter hours being left | evade the “Hlue" fe effect a until the other demands have been Rive" feet and. effect aca landing at any point between Cape dere Hatters nd D0 e Questions that cannot be settled ma] enn her iar Ag ne © result of theme joint conferences will tee ee ee ee nea between those points be left to a board of arbitration, the mothod provided for In the agreement aligned by both aides, The fourteen men whose discharge came near precipitating another strike on the surface lines of the city re- turned to work to-day, President Shonts keeping his promise to Mayor Mitchel yosterday that the men would be reinstated at once. eral Organizer Fitzgerald an- nounced that he was taking up the cases of fifty more men discharged by the New York Railways and Third Avenue companies gince the strike was called off and that he hoped to have them all back at, work before many days had passed. In connection with the settlement effected by Mayor Mitchel yesterday afternoon there was @ story going For the purposes of the game th Navy Department was placed on war footing this morning. OMwvers were assigned to each bureau to stand watch night and day. Watch will al be maintained at all Atlantic Const Navy Yards, and at the navy's com- munication stations, In the office of Rear Admiral Denso, Chief of Operations, a great chart of the war game zone wax set up and As reports came from Rear Admirat Helm or from any other source show: ing the position of the ships, naviga- tors laid off the positions, Any information as to the where- abouts of the invading fleet which may come from commercial vessels to any point along the shore will be promptly forwarded to Rear Admiral the rounds, that the proceedings. in | Helm. the Mayor's office, when President) 4 strict cansorshl ie Shonts and Manager Hedley were ship will be exercised over reporta from the defending fleet, however, as Admiral Mayo has been authorized to ask passing sbips for newspapers or any other infurmation they may have a# to the disposition of the defending forces. For that reason it Is proposed not to make public the reports of constructive dis- asters Rear Admiral Helm will send back from time to time, to teat out called for # final conference with the union committee, strengthened the sport current for the past two weeks that the heads of the company were not in harmony as to the manner in which the demands of the union should be treated. It in said that during yesterday's de- liberations Mr. Shonts did all the talk- ing, never once referring to Mr. Hed- ley, who remained glum and silent throughout the meeting. Shonts signed the new agree- Mr. the organisation of the Navy Depart- sment pul nefors him by Mayor Mitch | ment’s various bureaus and at the Navy Yards. Var at sea, having no knowledge of the terms un- til after he left the City Hall Rear Admiral Knight! —- — “Food Is Its Own | suffer from indigestion, when, as a matter and the proper food-stuffs to train on. course of training for the digestion. 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