The evening world. Newspaper, November 8, 1919, Page 9

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1919 American Working Woman A Good American Patriot, Says Mrs. Raymond Robins iS . AYMOND OBINS Marguerite Mooers Marshall. KS8taff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Nov. §. HAT of the working woman in America? On what plat- form does she stand? How @o the conditions of her labor com- pare with those of women elsewhere? ‘What reforms are most urgently neo- essary? And how does’ she meet our paramount Issue of Americanism, of fillegiance to her union and to her Unios, ber country? These were some of the questions I put to Margaret Dreier Robins, Pres- ‘dent and founder of the National ‘Women's Trade Union League, pre- widing officer at the first Internation- @1 Women's Labor Congress, a daugh- ter of New York City and the wife of Raymond ltobing of Chicago, ace @redited leader of 600,000 organised women workers in this country, For days I had been talking to women fabor delegutes from other lands and noting the tribute of respect and warm friendliness they accorded the brown eyed, clear voiced, vital, mage netic American woman who stee: ‘ut of confusion and into definite ac- Complishment the nolygiot sessions of Pi) i ge eg Women's Labor Congress. Was particulatly glad to meet ire Robins at 11 P, M.—her only free hour in the twenty-four—and hear her discuss briefly the position ef the woman who works in these United States. “Isn't this position,” I asked the Mational leader of trade union wom- and impor- tance just now, owing to the big in- erease in the ranks of working wom- en during the war, the many new qo- oupations they have entered, the rise in the cost of living, the widespread Spirit of industrial ‘unrest, and the change in the political ‘status of women H “Yes, and there is another—perhaps the most important—new factor in the status of the American woman | in industry,” she replied, “That tac- tor is the ability she is showing to stand on her own feet, to take care of herself, to organize and to deal as an efficient group with her own problems. BS that mean," TI asked) quickly, “that we shall have an epidemic of strikes among ‘women workers, added to all our ether labor troubles?” “It does NOT mean Robins replied, almost before my question was finished, “Our organ- ized women aré an exceedingly con- Servative group of workers. What they will do, what the leaders we have and the other leaders we must have will urge them to do, is to agt- tate for reformed conditions a sip at a time and not try to jump over all the intervening steps to the de- @ired end. Violence always may be traced to a sence of Impotence, of eakness, in the individual or group isplaying it, The women workers of America fee! themselves strong. ‘They have passed the stage of seve: teen-year-old cockiness. They a: twenty-one and they have the sense of power that comes with attaining the majority. ‘6 80 often noticed,” she added ‘wisely, ‘that girls and women become irresponsible when they fail to see clearly the next thing to do, the next step to take. This is not true of work- ing girls merely. Rich young women that," Mra. a tremely I in America, before the war, had no vital tasks, no clear line of advance, They became utterly rrasponsiblo— ft least in what they sald. When the war gave to each one of them a duty for the day, another for to-morrow, nother for the day after that, they became useful and valuable youn citizens overnight, in the right direction they will not fun wild. CE TQUT are there not certain tn- dustrial reforms which Amer- joa ought to give its women at the earliest possible moment?” 1 asked Mrs, Robins. “Since talking with these foreign delegates, hearing of the almost universal eight-hour law for women on the Continent, of Italy's maternity and unemployment pen- aions, of the splendid laws regulating the labor of children in Belgium and Czecho-Slovakia, 1 have felt that the United States, vaunted paradise for Women, is tremendously behind Europe in giving a square deal to women who work. In this respect haven't we a great deal to learn from other lands?" “We have indeed,” admitted Mra. Robins, “Just consider that on the statute books of some of our states it Is expressly stipulated women may work eleven and thirteen hours daily, and im Indiana, where there are no laws affecting the labor time of women, our investigators found therm working an eighty-elght hour week. In some states there is good legisla- tion, but—owing partly, of course, to our system of government—it is ex- difficult to obtain Federal legislation even to safeguard labor of obtidren. European coun- tries are away ahead of us as to the Protedtion Of Women and children | workers. “The fitet thing we have to do, think, and I am convinced the im- | will come out of this Labor gress Of ours, is to keep separate Bon labor legislation for women and chil- | dren. Too often they are linked to- ther in indutrial rulings, to the etriment of the interests of both. “The minimum age at which any American child should be permitted Revealed 0 KO to work is sixteen. It is not th ts’ Ch t ti iretmnintte ati dmgu'cs| Your Sweethearts’ Characteristics, w'rhi chronologically, but a child should | 9 Plas Pektianles 0. (Yha ‘Med Terk Orbea arene) landwritin have attained a normal sixteen-year- Copyrisht,: 1600 be the FURS PeMnaiyes ere Me tay 9 old development, physically and edu-| M. M. D. D,, Ft. Lee.—Good charac- , > cattonally, before being permitted to|ter, Tender, loving, true, well bal- This iy a sample of the rac ao of E, X.'s sweetheart. The pt . ” el a ue ‘a er follows; a eee ecie wa the. elehtshour | an6e4 ent living without wealth. | Character Analysis Hditor’s answer day for women workers and the forty- | JEANETTE.—Insufficient ‘specitien Go Z2 . four-hour week with Saturday after-|indicates kindliness, but reserve, al- | widened + noon a half hollday. Special legisla-| most cold. Methodical, Cleanliness : tion should exclude women from dan-| Not temperamental. peetie gerous trades and unhealthy trade Piwditanks, forestul, Processes, because tt has been prov 1| aettrmmined, wale veliaal. linpatient 0 that the children of a woman work’ 1 restraint. Simple tastes. Logical. | in such occupations are more likely to! Greanizor, Head governs, but jolly. | baaatll suffer than the children of men so en-| strony chart Thdiewtions are Fee tneattin ome ne ane Ore | financial mice Capuhie, but dows Hot take fe wertously. Is lively, and en- “put this last prohibition will take | H: P- Yonkers-—Indieations are un; tert Fravk ngture | very affectionate, many friends, Spends Jobs away from women" 1 protested (reflective mind, due to yet unformed | }iavisily in one way and getrenehes in others. A bit notional and fond “Not many well-paid jobs," she |Character. Certain kinginess,, bi todd people and things, Sometimes pessimistic, Inclined at times to argued. “The who 46 love auch |*Wayed by moods. Mot, te be lazy, though when heaworks ho works bard, Back of his whims, ex jobs ought not to be considered, to the, “TEILA s 3 Paehicneseciel eviiont ‘material v jo oth spec! ‘ eee Later gp night works for example, we |mnens “higivst_ typeof ian and are not trying to favor women at the | womanho nd, Should make an ideal! honest, sincere, Bvenly bainnced, but; setentions, Lacks force. You are a expense of men. But we have found | marriage. heeds a little more Initiative little uncertain in your mind. Sym the easiest, most constitutional way| A, B.—You have fo J.C. Hy New Hyde Park—Affec-| Pathetic, Fair amount of force, but of standardizing the conditions of an|with kindness and reason, e, sineere, modest, kindly, Some- | reason and impulse are both swaying industry is to use women as shock |times you are easily discouraged exeravagant, trite depressed, | Ou And you are slightly depressed troops, When we have put them Extravagant in some ways and|some tenacity, but requires more in-| 48 a friend you are dependabie, ward, iff the name of racial welfare, |pconomical in others, Good mind. itiative, You yourself are easily dis-| T. B. L. Paterson—Insufficient and obtained detent hours and condi-|though not especially quick and uraged, Careful with money, some- | #pecimen indicates restiessness, opt! tions and the elimination of night | adaptable. Executive position in| what stubborn, great sense of beauty |mism, passion and subterfuge, work for them, employers frequently | some woman's ficld of work, Favor-|and refin honest, affectionate. A. L. &., Saugerties—Narrow views. find the labor of their men 1s so de- | ap! marriage. You do not give] Little progr ing. Very proud. | Petty, unreliable, You require som: pendent on that of the women that |hut sufficient affection in order to] R, B. L., Paterson—iood character | one with more force. everybody jp the industry shares in | make friends. jin the making, but still unsettled, In- MIRIAM F,—Insufficient specimen the changed standards, WANDA, G. W.—Good man, trust- aie ations fare sincerity, kindness. Love | indicates truth and kindness. “cc must deal with the prob-| worthy, honest. ‘Some tenacity, bur|of ghildcen dnd animale Cheerful, IM-| gM, L i—indications are finan- lem of the mother in in- slightly procrastinating. Very kind |4 " Maia 1 cial success. Honorable, opt.umistic. dustry, and do it in such a | 28d affectionate ban Me (L: or @.)—Trifle Jealous. No! A bit restless and fond ‘of lite, but ey ge Bey 2 C. A. L. (or) 8. 8. L—Some 004 | Hrrexpan fee maructer unformed and! favorable for matrimony drnmente should combine to ave|With lack of candor, and a certain| ous. Indications are faithful husband oO, Rive | Tehinems, Also a tendency to fads, | Je Menge t specimen Indi-! king but somewhat cold nature. No ia be) exp Ome OAS 8 ROeF. wiper and slight procrastination. Believe | cates sustePlibility, also jealousy, great wealth. she joyed or not, a flat sum f “i olle.| & W.—Not the type that love oT jactive imagination Induces him to li DNA W.—Not the type that loves!” ge_ MA F,—dndications are cha malhtain herself and the | Sti) Gumicient good material to give| deeply or easily, Pleasant friend, but ar coe panloh, Meetings Ate charm: onl id in he home together, The well- to-do méther, who does not need this monty, ean feturh it to society in many ways. “There 1s nothing to fear," she an- swered to my Inst question, “from the organized women workers of nite program of industrial progress ig what the leaders of industrial ‘women must keep before them, for 0 bong as they Les they are America. They are intensely patri- Otioy intensely American, and their unions are doing splendid work in Americupimaiion all We une’ the | RaeweR BARON STYLE FoR WALL STREET witty The OTe SUPPLANT THE. UKELELE ? Men With Gay Hat Plumes, Pink Breeches and: Hose Depicts New Dress alle King Alfonso of Spain Starts Something When He Disports Kingly Headpiece With Violet Colored ‘Ribbons—British Stylist Says Men Take Pride in a Trim Waist and a Well Turned Calf—Women No Longer Should Corner the Pretty Clothes Market. ; By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co (Tho New York Evening World.) rt en are coming at last—fashions that ARIS fashions for MEN! A little King is leading them—King Alfonso of Spain, who ts the talk of the London dinner parties with his new mauve evening clothes, Alfonso was always a debonair creature, and now he is evidently seeking surcease from the sorrow of syndicalist uprisings at home by branching out sar- torlally. Every woman who knows that a new and be coming hat can cure most of life's tragedies s will under. stand and sym- mem pathize with him,| Stockings to match above deightly Alfonso is set. | Duckled shoes that ia one of the new ting a style or has a neat suit for two in hats, also,| event nw ar of a de ‘ ae gray, have violet-colored ribbons, “color and line,” From a possible But that isn't all. Despatohes from! Recusation of offeminac is onde London also tell us that a new era of| Walter Hatcigh and the ather filane “romantic dress" is near. ‘The “hidden | e? Yet they hand in men's fash * One Henry | Wore silk and velvet, ruffles and lace, Parken of the British metropolis de- | 42d, a!! the brightest colors. | jt wae |clares that men want to cast off their] 1 r Beau Brummell! Soon we; dark, unsymmetrical garments of expect to wea tho staidest of may Wall gloom ahd wear clothes of bright hue) ht Ehe Mn, Gout and brilliant cut expressive of a new! with scarle me a favorite age of heroism and romance, color schem| duya of romance: tack frock cos . f.|'To be symbolically correct, tt should A black frock coat with snowy ruf- |i iined with flecce--he acquires 60 fles at throat and wrist, a pair of! much of that article. |pink silk breee and pink silk} Instead nats, why shoult attired in doubt eal ROMANTIC ATTIRE FoR LANDLORDS AND OTHER PROFITEERS wt MODERN CLOTHES AND MANNERS CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE WITH Tre New STWoes not men appear in the jaunty capes of other days, worn over one shoul- der and the color of roses or of th sky? Instead of the derby, the ugll- est “lid” that ever was set upon mor- tal poll, doubtiess men will revive the picturesque Romeo cap of velvet, wit! a curled plume streaming over ono shoulder, There ts only one obstgcl:| in the way of resurrectjng the ruff and falling lace cuffs of the spaciou days of great Elizabeth—that js if the laundries strike. how I hate to put on my trou- is the wail of the man who has |worn khaki knee-breeches for a yen! or so, He never before realized how ugly, uncomfortable and hard to keep [“smart" trou’ are, Indeed, every man whose wardrobe until recently has consisted of uniforms Is ripe for reformed dress. In the service hir personal vanity received plenty o wholesome food, He took distinc satisfaction in a trim waist, a well- | turned ealf, and he didn't mind a bit the rolling barrage of admiring smiler «lances on the street and tn the hotel corridors, Men found out how well they look {n uniforme and they're going to keep on looking bette: Woman no longer will be allowed to corner the pretty clothes market, to be the sartorial butterfly while man remains the drab-colored grub. Mony ‘persons do not realize the fact, but {in decking herself with gay colore land fabrica she is stealing a natural nale prerogative, All through Na+ ‘ture, except in the human species, It is the male who ia allowed to sport the giddy decorations and the female who Is the obscure, auletty hued little body. The beautiful glittering tall helongs to the male peacock, the iridescent ruff to the male part ridge, the splendidly branching antlers to the male deer; even in the him another chance, | head controls. F. B. C—Your perfectly correct! |. 8. Brooklyn friend is the cold-blooded type, who| men indicates has his own interests at heart first,;acy In an agree Jast and all tho time. Clever, calcu lating, ambitious, You will have to| study hard to keep We) Not the type that would let ‘religion |” interfere with his plans, a. A. M—Clean out, clean-minded, erous, 4 Insufficient speei- Insufficient al mind specl- Saving, ‘AMY V, E—Man of refined tastes, gentle, alfec roclionale tntelligentiy en —— and obstin-| varnyard it is the rooster who has the} jggest and most brilliant comb,’ the est tnil-feathers, Until a comparatively recent eta the clothes of men vied with ttte.pea- and the bravest soldiers, men of unimanly dressq) Aine pe atid 18. dom pen to the charge % were the giddi nm walk around With @ sword at ir hips ‘and mutter, at suitable als, ounds!" and “Odd's blood When men went to work they put on working clother= ed, unimaginative. Also (y years of so, tt has wanted to for the Inst fi cort more than most me spend to keep one member of the fam« ily supplied with silks and velveta, It doosn't cost any lors to-day. But evidently man, like Cousin Exbert of Red Gap memory, “can be pushed just so far.” Presumably the creas ture has sald to himscif, “It's my turn. Me for the silks and satin and all the colors of the dye industry. It takes a Jot less cloth than it used to, anyway, to make the women's clothes, since now they have no backs, no ves and hardly any #kirt, There's sure to be enough left for me, Ho just wateh ma leave mel lashed to the post!” And the waiting lite of young mén | Beau Broum4 in front of the little mirrors in the subway will be longer than ever, But more power ta them! . Women. have known for a long time that mens clothes Were yadly lacking in’ éofor, crace, variety And==Joyfu) thought —if the new’ “ipetitora.for sartorial honors get ' gorgeous, toa wildy extravagant thelr fane Ww Jean lecture them abut rotoerning | thetr dreas, tnatend of hsaring, for the ten-hundred millionth time, how shocking they think ours 's! hardly a deep thinker, Excellépt qualities, but not | as determined a# he ought to be, Un- til he develops more initiat.ve best working for some one else. Absolutely | honorable, HELEN W. G- nt bh but irresponsible Could mak than a fair Wing ioe gre MOF feriows and really worked, Type that changna taadlly.’ Good heated, Destroyer Re HIS picture at the right is of the United States Destroyer Reid, which was built in the world record time of forty-five and one-half working days at the Fore River plant of the Bethleh ullding Cor- ‘them an actuaDy being thé thing they lane personal items abdul this {ny “Wh SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1919 Types of Married F olk We All Know NO. 9—THE POSERS The Posers Are Constantly “Posing” to Be thing Instead of “Being” That Somet They Are Never the Workers of the They Are Absolutely Harmiess. By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1919, by The Prete Pubtinrne Co (fee New Tore Meus Wonny =~ OST all of us have met the posers—the couple who spend a great of their time in posing to be something they never could be million years. Moré than once we have wondered, “What's matter with the posers? Do they think they can around and make other people believe they are thing that right on the face of it is not sof De think they can constantly fool all of the peoplé all the time?” Whether the pos- ors fool other peo pile oF not is a quem tion, but certainty they fool them- Chien selves. A great many couples who love to powe believe they aro just what they pose to b Posing becomes as natural an art to ay M haps even the hired butler could forwiven if Mrs. Power dié not a French friend attend every tion -and then take 4 Chair centre of the room and chat for at least thirty minutes at of her voice. One can never What little trieke the posers sort to, fs j Bite a represent, For instande, we have the couple who pose as art ofities, muéie critic and belong to literary clubs. Probably they never had an art [ésson in their lives, hardly know one musical in- strument from another, to say nothing of the thema or motif, and have never read five books in thelr lives, And yet Mr. and Mrs, Poser wifl attend numroie art exhibits, Concerts and literary clubs, freely giving their opinions and posing a#- gtéat con- noiseours and Judges of the best books of the season, ‘The posers take great pleasure m Déforiging to art and Wterary clubs and going in musical dete, And yer if you should ask what these eld members have ever painted, what they have ever written and had pat- lished or what instrument they, play, 1 wonder what the answer would be? ‘Then there is another type of posers, the couple who pretend to know all the celebrities, They yiertain you for hours by omer seem to get #6 little out of the things im fife, Their world ts am artificial, man-made world @ matter-of-fact, natural, real ‘They are constangly “posing” to” something instead of sovtally ing” that something. The posers never the workers of the world. are never the people who “pat through.” They are quite content “pose’ an knowing and doing the things of the world, The real eos of the p time to pose, They are busy loading their own lives. : artist and that great musieian, wil) describe them to ev even telling you the eolor celebrity's hair, and they bi of prefixing many of thelr sentences wo entertained Helen, the Robert celebrated prima donna, or noted writer.” TANGLED HOME, =) RS. HASKER—How is yale | friend, ‘47, Wallman? ‘ draws those sweet fluffy batred girls ig a regular ‘old frump’ herself, and when later if by chance you are fortunate enough to meet the artist you receive & shock to find she te almost as sweet as her modela, Like- wise you experience the same shock when you meet the author of a well known book and find that be te stilt in the early forties when you recall that Mf. or said ho Was an old man of nearly seventy. Hut most despicable of all the posers are tho couple who pose beyond their neans, I have in mind # couple who give a reception every year to their friends. None of thelr friends are in the “butler class,” go that the fact they hire a butler to attend the door is not case ' “keeping up” but|you explain im the frst rather ono of ‘owing off,” Per- is Globe Democrat. r a id Built in World Record Time Vessel of 1,200 Tons, 30,000 Horse-Power, Built in Forty-Five and a Half Days Mrs. Hasker—You didn't was homesick, but said he was Hasker (impatiently)—I said was home and sick at home. Mrs, Hasker—Gracious! Why | poration, Quincy, Mans, The destroy jer is the last word in inter-allied | knowledge of this type of naval craft She is of 1,200 tons ahd develops 20,000 horsepower She is 815 feet long. She | | has sufficient power, aecording to the | calculations of naval constructers, to | drive a battleship. Th 4 will apeod through the water at 85 knots Formal presentation was made to the | flavy Thursday at Boston The Reld carries a crew of 110, in- | jeluding off Great credit: ha been given the workmen at the} | aun yard for t peed feat in nstructing the f K |laid Sept. 9% « Oct, 15, All of the d 4, OF ocean police ude for the Govern ment by the Bethlehem Shipiafilathy Corporation, have been 1 1 after haval officers who in some way have distinguished themselves in aetive service In the Am un Navy, The id iy named umuel Chester Reid, naval who went to gea Jat the ase of eleven. He commanded the antine Gen, Armstrong, which engaged in many fights with British craft in 1811, In September ff that year, after running the blockade of t 4s in New York Harbor, he fled with the craft the island of Fayal, Azores, The n, Armstrong fou of several ks, then Capt. Reld was forced to stop fighting on the approach of 6 British fleet, He and his men fed THE U.S. DESTROYER *REID* | States ships and the ligh Sandy Hook, In 1826 he invei hew wre. of land tel means of which mesages co from Washington to New Ke Banta sv Here's toy a od the American we ease tt and the official pl the stars and it, by him, was Monroe tn 1818. reap, Reid tired from act vice in bed 3 1861, Wren eyes of the British because Ca} Reid had set a fuse to its magazine. The battle was the last naval en- fagement of the War of 181) On his way to New York, Capt, Reid was halled as a naval hero wherever he stoped, Declining promotion if the navy, he accepted the position of Har- bor Master of New York, He invented and ‘erected the first marine telegraph between the high- land of Navesink, N, J., and Battery, to the island im smali*boats the Gan. Acmatrong blowing up belore the New Yorke City, and also eatablished a pational aode ef signals tor United Capital at ee + ee ee ee ——