BLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL MISCELLANY PRINTED MATTER[*Tribune*] 'My Name is Captain Kidd' A MONEY-CHEST, FULL OF OLD COIN, FOUND ON THE JESEY COAST. From Cold Spring, Cape May county, there comes a story of the discovery of a chest containing $30,000, on the Dick Thompson farm, near Fishing creek. Two men, one of whom bears the name of Garreston, were digging ditches on the farm, which is now owned by Garreston, when they hauled up the money chest. The coin, they say, is so old that it is scarcely possible for them to tell the exact value of the pieces, but the larger part is gold, the coins being about the size of twenty-dollar gold pieces. It is said, furthermore, that Capt. Kidd's name was found imprinted on the chest. There has been a periodical excitement in the place for the last forty years, and this report has caused a sensation that has affected the country for miles around. An oysterman, Jeremiah Van Belt, also claims to have found traces of Capt. Kidd or somebody else near Elizabethport. While dredging for oysters off the shore on Saturday he raked up three silver pieces, the inscriptions upon which are scarcely legible. Money has been found at the same spot before, and about forty years ago hundreds of treasure-seekers dug up the land before the sea had encroached upon it. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell offers the following lectures: OLD TIMES AND NEW (the early experiences of Lucy Stone, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and other pioneers). THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT. THE NATIONAL CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT. THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE HINDOO SAINT AND NATIONALIST LEADER HEROINES OF THE EARLY ENGLISH NOVELS. THE SPANISH-AMERICAN POETS (with readings from her translations of the most famous). Address Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock St., Boston 25, Mass. Telephone: Columbia 0767. [*1920*]MASS MEETING For Miners Relief Friday, April 6th, 1928 at 8 P. M. Lorimer Hall, Tremont Temple BOSTON, MASS. ROGER BALDWIN Director American Civil Liberties Union Just returned from Europe will speak on "The War on the Workers at Home and Abroad" ALICE STONE BLACKWELL will preside Other Speakers Admission 25 Cents Auspices PENNSYLVANIA-OHIO-COLORADO MINERS RELIEFHelen Keller BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE She dwells in darkness, flashing forth the light Of her indomitable soul. Immured within the dull, drab Halls of Silence, She chants us forth a song. She journeys through a sunless, soundless waste And where her feet imprint the arid soil, A living trail runs green. Yet not by some bewildering miracle Comes this impossibility, For human love-light (patient as the stars Which watch the ages through) Found the one crevice in the thrice-sealed cell And beaming on the seed-sense warm within, Behold! a white rose rooted in the rock. Yes, like a tendril from some sturdy tree, It found the unmortared rift, And by that law by which the tenderest sprout Splits the huge Earth itself, This filament of human service rent the tomb And lo! a resurrected soul. Thus hath the unbelievable become belief and yet, And yet we still are half incredulous. We, with our five blunt senses dully used, See here some super-sense almost divine. We peer into the shuddering void through which this soul hath come And we, we who were born to babble, stand before her -- dumb.The Son of the East By PAUL RICHARD "The Light shineth in the Darkness," and the darkness of the West apprehendeth it not... That is why the Saviours take birth in the East. Christians worship one Son of Asia... at a great cost to the others. Europe finds it natural to take one man of Asia as Master, and all his brothers as slaves. Christians think that since one Asiatic alone is the Son of God, the rest can fairly be treated as sons of the Devil. The Christianity of Christ died when Asia ceased to teach it. Several Christs have their disciples to-day -- the British Christ, the Latin Christ, the Byzantine Christ; but where are the disciples of the Christ of Bethlehem? Asia gave us the Christ once... Will she give him to us again?[*Dreams...the only things ever realized - The past...the only thing that's ??*] Paul Richard © The New Orient MONSIEUR PAUL RICHARD In the costume in which he traveled in the Near East. The headgear is that of the ancient Magi and was copied from an old stone inscription at Persepolis.[*ASB lectures*] HOW TIMES CHANGE Some curious historical facts were recalled by Miss Alice Stone Blackwell in a recent address before the New England Women's Press Association in Boston, on "The Progress of Women." She paid tribute to the three women who did the most to break down the prejudice against women's speaking in public, and suffered much persecution, Sarah and Angelina Grimké of South Carolina and Abby Kelley Foster of Massachusetts. She knew them all personally. Angelina Grimké was the first woman ever allowed to speak in the Boston State House, in 1838. Miss Blackwell said, "I knew the daughters of the first merchant who employed a saleswoman. The men boycotted his store, and the women remonstrated with him earnestly [a] against placing a young woman in a position of such publicity as behind a counter." Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the [firsy t] first woman to take a [medic] medical degree, in 1849, was almost ostracized. When she died, in [e] her 90th year, there were more than 7000 women physicians and surgeons in the United States. The Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman to be [ordain] ordained as a minister, in 1853, was bitterly denounced by press [and] and pulpit. She had six children, wrote nine books, and lived to be 96. Whe n she died, there were more than 3000 women ministers and preachers in the United States. Lucy Stone was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree, in 1847. It took her nine years to [ear] save the money to carry her to Oberlin, then the only college admitting women. She earned her way in college partly by teaching in the long vacations, and partly by doing housework in the Ladies' Boarding Hall at three cents an hour. Now the women college graduates are as many as the sands of the sea. She was called the morning star of the woman's [rig] rights movement. Beginning in 1847, she went up and down the country for years preaching it. She converted Susan B. Anthony and Julia Ward Howe and Frances E. Willard to woman suffrage. A small, gentle woman, with a remarkably sweet voice, she was denounced and abused, and described as a "she-hyena." But to day women are voting in every State of the Union. Her last words to her daughter were, "Make the world better."LECTURES BY MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL The following lectures are suitable for Women's Clubs, for colleges and literary societies, and for women' organizations in general. For terms, address MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 3 Monadnock Street Boston 25, Mass.LECTURE SUBJECTS OLD TIMES AND NEW. This lecture tells of the early days when a merchant was boycotted for employing a saleswoman, and the Anti-Slavery Society was split in two because a woman was appointed on a committee. Miss Blackwell's mother was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree, and was a pioneer in the movement to widen women's opportunities. One of her aunts was the first woman to take a medical degree; another was the first woman to be ordained as a minister. She gets her information direct. GANDHI, THE HINDOO NATIONALIST LEADER. WHAT WOMEN MIGHT DO WITH THEIR VOTES. HEROINES OF THE EARLY ENGLISH NOVELS. SOME SPANISH-AMERICAN POETS. With readings from her translations of the works of the most famous. ARMENIAN POETIC LITERATURE. Also with readings. MODERN JEWISH POETRY. Also with readings. Miss Blackwell has long been prominent in public movements in New England. She is a graduate of Boston University, one of its Board of Trustees, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, and a former president of the Massachusetts Branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. She is now Honorary President of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters. Miss Blackwell is the author of "Armenian Poems" (now in its third edition), "Songs of Russia," "Songs of Grief and Gladness" (from the Yiddish and Hebrew), and has now in press with Brentano "Some Spanish-American Poets." She is also the author of "The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution" (the life and letters of Catherine Breshkovsky, Little, Brown & Co.), which was at one time one of the six "best sellers."SATURDAY, MAY 3rd, 1:00 P. M. MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, Dorchester. Subject: SOME PIONEER WOMEN -- LUCY STONE AND HER FRIENDS IN THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT. Miss Blackwell is the daughter of Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone. She was graduated from Boston University in 1881 and from 1881 until 1893 assisted her father and mother on The Women's Journal, Boston. After their death she was editor-in-chief until 1917 when The Women's Journal was consolidated with The Woman Voter and The Headquarters News-Letter as The Women Citizen, of which she is contributing editor. Was also editor of The Woman's Column, 1888-1905. She is Honorary President of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters and is an extensive writer on woman suffrage. She was a presidential elector for La-Follette in 1924. Miss Blackwell has taken a deep interest in the Armenians and received the Order of Melusine from Prince Guy de Lusignan. She is also active in the American Friends of Russian Freedom. Author: Armenian Poems, 1896-1916; The Yellow Ribbon Speaker (joint author) 1890; Songs of Russia, 1906; Songs of Grief and Gladness (from the Yiddish) 1908; The Little Grandmother of the Revolution -- Catherine Breshkovsky's Own Story, 1917; a new book, Some Spanish-American Poets, containing Miss Blackwell's translations of 207 poems by 89 poets representing 19 Latin-American countries, has recently been published by D. Appleton & Company. There is an introduction by Dr. Isaac Goldberg. "EARTHQUAKES" is the title of a new talking moving picture recently made by Professor Kirtley F. Mather, President of this Club, and head of the Department of Geology at Harvard. It is the first picture made in this country of the audio edition of the Harvard Science Series. An announcement was made in the Bulletin of April 15th that this picture would be shown at the April 19th luncheon but at the last minute on that day it was found that the transformer which had been sent on from Schenectady especially for this occasion was defective. All arrangements have now been completed and it now seems certain that the picture will be presented on Saturday next. TEA FOR MR. TENG-KWEI. On Friday afternoon, May 2nd, from 3:00 to 5:30, there will be a tea and reception to Mr. Ten-Kwei, the young Chinese artist now doing graduate work at Harvard, whose pictures will be on exhibition at the Club House through May 16th. The hostesses are Mrs. William N. Hartshorn, Mrs. John L. Dearing, Mrs. William Hung and Mrs. T. K. Mei, all of Cambridge. Mr. Teng-Kwei will speak on Chinese art and will explain his own unusual technique. EXHIBITION BY MR. BRODEUR Beginning May 18th and continuing through June 14th there will be on exhibition at the Club House a collection of paintings by Mr. C. A. Brodeur of the Fogg Museum at Harvard. Included will be a number done in Algeria.Rev. Benjamin R. Bulkeley, April 18, 1930. A member since December 12, 1925. Mrs. C. H. (Ida Morton) Philbrook, April 21, 1930. A member since December 12, 1925. PORTRAIT OF DR. DOLE Mrs. Charles F. Dole and her son, Mr. James D. Dole, have presented to The Twentieth Century Club the fine portrait of Dr. Charles F. Dole, by Emil Ahlborn of Boston, which has been hanging in the living-room for the past year. Dr. Dole was President of this Club from 1902-1916 and for an even forty years was minister of The First Congregational Church Unitarian, in Jamaica Plain. In his book, "My Eighty Years," published in 1927, there is an highly interesting chapter on The Twentieth Century Club, which has been called before to the attention of members. There is a copy in the Town Room Library. NEW MEMBERS Mrs. Raymond S. Coon, 29 Prentiss Street, Cambridge Mrs. Albert I. Croll, 324 Beacon Street, Boston Mrs. Charles J. Glidden, Chelmsford Mrs. James E. Spike, 70 Lakeview Avenue, Cambridge Mrs. Fredrick Stetson, 126 Brattle Street, Cambridge Prof. Francis Strickland, 243 Mason Terrace, Cambridge Mr. Butler R. Wilson, 24 School Street, Boston The Women's Membership Quota is now full and the waiting list contains the following names: Mrs. Edward L. Hadley, 45 Garden Street, Cambridge Mrs. C. M. Badgley, Parker House Miss Laura L. Brown, 58 Quint Avenue, Allston Mrs. Lottie Leonard, 1126 Boylston Street Mrs. Maria Schmiel, Hotel Kenmore REINSTATEMENT Mrs. C. D. Kingsley, Babson Institute The Club House is open all summer for the use of members as is also the Town Room Library. The Food Service Department will continue through the second week in June, two weeks longer than usual, as several luncheons, dinners and meetings of groups of the National Convention of Social Workers, June 9-13, will be held here. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB BULLETIN Published every two weeks by the THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB 3 Joy Street, Beacon Hill BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS APRIL 29, 1930 Vol. 1, No. 5 LAST LUNCHEON THIS SPRING Saturday, May 3rd MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL Subject: SOME PIONEER WOMEN Prof. K. F. Mather's Audio Picture, "EARTHQUAKES" Sec. 435 1/2, P. L. & R. U. S. POSTAGE PAID Boston, Mass. Permit No. 906DORCHESTER WOMAN SUFFRAGE RALLY Wednesday, Oct. 27, at eight o'clock Henry L. Pierce School, Washington St., cor. Welles Ave. MRS. FANNIE FERN ANDREWS will preside MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL MR. GEORGE B. GALLUP, President of the Pilgrim Publicity Asso. MRS. FRANK SCANLON MR. KENNETH W. McDONALD and others Will Speak for the Amendment enabling Women to Vote MISS CHADMAN, Reader GOOD MUSIC EVERYBODY WELCOME "MAKE THE WORLD BETTER" - Lucy Stone WILLIAM H. McMASTERS, 84 Harvard Avenue Buck Printing Co. Boston, Mass.Dorchester meetingGARRISON CENTENNIAL To celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of The Liberator by William Lloyd Garrison A NOTABLE MEETING will be held in Park Street Church, Boston Thursday Evening, January 1, 1931 at 8 o'clock SHERWOOD EDDY 20th Century Prophet and Inspiring Orator, will speak on "William Lloyd Garrison and the Garrison Spirit Today." MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL daughter of Lucy Stone, of Abolitionist fame, will speak on Garrison and the Crusade against Slavery. STIRRING NEGRO MUSIC by some of the best Negro Singers BUTLER R. WILSON will preside A Great Inter-racial Meeting in Honor of a Great Apostle of Human Freedom, with a Message for Our Times. Distinguished official guests are expected. All Invited - - Pass the Word Along!HELEN BLACKBURNNOW IN THE PRESS Lucy Stone Pioneer of Woman's Rights by ALICE STONE BLACKWELL A NEW EDITION PRICE $1.50 Order from EDNA LAMPREY STANTIAL 20 SEWALL STREET, MELROSE, MASS.The Philanthropist 5 July, 1900. AN ENGLISH BOOK WITH AMERICAN APPLICATIONS. The April number of The Storm-Bell, our excellent English contemporary, contains a review by Mrs. Josephine Butler of a book recently published, of which Miss Ellice Hopkins is the author. The book is entitled "The Power of Womanhood; or Mothers and Sons." Mrs. Butler calls her review "Imperial Aspects of the Present Crusade on Behalf of an Equal Standard of Morality." While commending the book in unstinted terms, Mrs. Butler thinks that the subject matter of Miss Hopkins' thought is "especially addressed to British women." We are, however, forced to the conclusion that both the topic of the review, and the copious extracts which Mrs. Butler makes from the text of the book are as pertinent and timely for American as British women, and as suggestive for fathers as mothers on both sides of the Atlantic. For instance Miss Hopkins says: "This question of personal purity or its reverse is the determining force for good or evil to the nation as well as to the family." This is supremely true where so-called free institutions prevail, and government is based on popular male-sex sovereignty. Under these conditions national life and the character of government itself will be no better than the moral standard of the governing sex. "Government of the people, by the people and for the people," cannot be perpetuated in its purity, by a double standard of morality which makes the virtue of the governors lower than that of the governed. The following written for the conditions supposed to prevail in imperial England, applies to our own growing imperial domain: "Secondly, it is the men of our empire who are pre-eminently exposed to that dangerously lowering influence, contact with lower races and alien Eastern civilizations. An Englishman in India, if he be not a religious man, is apt to blind himself to wrongs done to womanhood, because those wrongs are only done to a pariah caste who are already set apart for infamy." In what respect are the sixty thousand American soldiers in the Philippines better fortified in their manhood than are the Englishmen in India? The military spirit is educating our people at home and in the islands to undervalue the lives of the little brown men, and that carries with it a disrespect for the rights and virtue of the little brown women of the Philippines. We surely need to arouse the American conscience to a revolt against the wrongs actual and threatened towards a defenseless womanhood, and likely to be tolerated because the victims belong to a supposed inferior race. Had the following been specially written to meet new and growing conditions in this country it could not have been made more pertinent and pointed: "For God's sake, let mothers teach their sons that first rudiment in manly character, that the girls of a conquered race, or of a barbarian tribe inhabiting one of our spheres of influence, from the very fact that they are a conquered race, or, if not conquered, hopelessly and piteously in our power, are ipso facto a most sacred trust to us, a trust which it is both unmanly and bestial to violate." We are trying to conquer the Filipinos, and however we succeed in the undertaking, we have already in theory assumed the responsibility for their civilization and development. How important it is, therefore, that we shall practice standards of social virtue which instead of outraging their own primitive instincts shall elevate and enlarge them. In referring to the citations from Miss Hopkins' book giving the moral causes for the downfall of nations, Mrs. Butler says: "The authoress then glances over the causes of a similar kind which led to the political decay of Rome, which, 'honeycombed as it was by moral corruption,' could not stand before the inroads of our barbaric Teuton ancestors, who, according to Tacitus, had a singularly pure family life." It is important for our civilization, in some respects too materialistic in its tendencies, to know that there are things more vital to the perpetuation of our national life and character than acquisition of territory, growth in wealth and expansion of commerce. A people that cultivates purity of life, will secure the added material blessings, and will see that such material comforts do not turn to curses in the getting and using. ANNOYING THE INNOCENT. Cases have occurred recently in New York City in which innocent women have been subjected to indignity and arrested, by detectives supposed to be employed by the authorities to help maintain order on the streets. The plan employed in a case in which the innocent victim is known to the writer as a person of excellent character, has prevailed in other arrests of the same kind. A young woman walked from her home a short distance to take a car, when she was accosted by a man. Another man immediately appeared, asked if she was annoyed, and offered to take her part. An accomplice at once came in sight, and placed her under arrest and the charge of soliciting was preferred against her at the police station. It is said that the police very cautiously advised her to pay her fine and say nothing. The magistrate, however, discharged the accused without any examination. The men who caused the woman's arrest claimed to be detectives. With the great city's abundant wide-open crime, to attempt to make criminal business by the arrest of innocent parties on mere unwarranted suspicion is itself criminal. That in fact is an opinion warranted by a recent decision by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, in the case of Suead vs. Bonnell. (49 Appellate Division Reports, 330.) In this decision the court said: "Police officers cannot be too firmly told there is no such lawful thing as an arrest without an apparent or disclosed cause, to be justified thereafter by whatever may turn up." That would seem to remove the last vestige of warrant for such an outrage as the arrest of innocent women, who have not even given the show of suspicion. It is to be hoped that the decision of the court will put a stop to the attempt to manufacture criminal business by the connivance of sleuth hounds to empound the innocent. There is quite enough real crime in the city to keep the police and the detectives busy -- let them attend to that. Of late the police have developed an unusual interest in the arrest of female criminals, real and imaginary. Pool rooms,6 The Philanthropist. July, 1900. conducted and patronized by women have been raided, and proprietors and patrons arrested, while similar establishments, the resorts of men were unmolested. This extraordinary disposition to discriminate against women offenders may proceed from a tender solicitude for the morals of the gentler sex, but it smacks strongly of official cowardice. Women have no voice in the government, and therefore cannot strike back at the ballot box when they are tormented; it is therefore safe to make them the marks of offensive official surveilance. These several acts of injustice as they happen can scarcely fail to hasten the day of an absolutely acknowledged equality of the sexes, not only as regards moral standards, but in the provisions and recognitions of the civil statues. GOOD WORDS FOR "THE PHILANTHROPIST." Mrs. Dora L. Webb, of Ohio, writing to renew her subscription says: "I am delighted that THE PHILANTHROPIST is to be continued. I have missed it so much. God bless The National Purity Alliance. I wish might have each state organized auxilary to the National, paying dues to the National and pushing the work more vigorously. Then we could have annual conventions and extend the circulation of Purity literature, than which there is none better than THE PHILANTHROPIST series." Belle H. Mix, of Iowa, in writing to renew her subscription to THE PHILANTHROPIST, says: "I am glad the paper is to be continued. Interest in this reform is growing, because the evil of impurity is [?] ng and people are forced to recognize the need of redemption from the danger." Another friend writes: "I have been very pleased to receive the April number of THE PHILANTHROPIST. It would have been a very sad loss to have had it permanently discontinued From another subscriber we have the following: "So many demands are made upon by slender purse, and so many causes I have espoused, that I have felt at times that some must be abandoned, but I have never been able to bring myself to turn away from the exponent of our great Purity cause." A friend in England writes: "I have just received THE PHILANTHROPIST and must congratulate the Committee on the continuance of that excellent paper in its new form." Another friend in England says: "It looks like its good old self and I hope it will have a long and useful life." The Woman's Tribune, of Washington, makes the following kind mention of THE PHILANTHROPIST: "At the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Purity Alliance it was decided to resume the publication of THE PHILANTHROPIST, which was suspended on the death of its editor, Aaron M. Powell. This is welcome news to all friends of the social purity work for which THE PHILANTHROPIST stood so ably. Dr. O. Edward Janney, of Baltimore, was elected president of the Alliance to succeed Mr. Powell. The number of THE PHILANTHROPIST recently issued shows that it will continue to hold its high position of usefulness. OBITUARY. Mrs. C. T. Cole, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, a vice-president of he American Purity Alliance, was called to the life beyond in April last. Mrs. Cole was a very earnest speaker in behalf of Temperance and Purity, and her loss is keenly felt in both these movements, as in other efforts for the uplifting of humanity. In later years, being in less vigorous health, she confined her labors more to journalism. And with her husband, the Rev. W. R. Cole, edited The Dial of Progress. The editor of The Free Press, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in an appreciative account of her useful life, says: "It is a personal blessing to try to benefit one's fellows; this blessing is upon her memory." Caroline Ross Graham, of Orange, New Jersey, widow of Andrew J. Graham, the widely-known author of "Standard Phonography," passed on to the higher life May 1. Mrs. Graham was a woman who had the courage of her convictions, and bravely espoused movements for reform when to do so was to meet with prejudiced misrepresentation. She was an efficient helper of the Purity cause from its beginning, and though in later years she was too much of an invalid to give active service, she kept an intelligent interest in its progress and gave her earnest support and encouragement to it to the last. Her loss is keenly felt also in the movement in behalf of Equal Rights for Women, in which she took a deep and active interest. She was a member of the Religious Society of Friends, and exemplified in service the practical character of her faith. Well hath it been said of her: "She always held the highest ideals and enforced them by daily practice." The American Purity Alliance. PRESIDENT: O. EDWARD JANNEY, M. D., Baltimore, Md. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rt. Rev. Wm. McVicka, D D , R I...Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mass. Rev. Wm [?]. Sabine, D D . N. Y ....Rev. S. S. Seward, N. Y. Mrs. Mary A Livermore, Mass. ......Dr. Katherine C Bushnell, Ill. Rev. S. H. Virgin, D. D. , N Y .....Rev Charles Roads, Pa. Rev. Joseph May, Pa .....Rev. Anna Garli[?] Spencer, R I B. O. Flower, Esq Mass.....Rev. A. H. Lewis, D. D , N. J. Joshua L Baily, Pa. ........J. W Walton, Esq . O. Rev. Edward Bryan, Wis. ........Mrs. Katherine M Philips, Pa Mrs. Miriam Howard Ga .......Jonathan W. Plummer, Ill. Alice C. Robinson, Md ......Anna M. Starr, Ind. Prof H. H. Wright, Tenn. .......Hannah J. Bailey, Me. Mrs. C. T. Cole, Ia. .......Francis J. Garrison, Mass. Martha Schofield, S. C. .......Caroline M. Severance, Cal. Josiah W. Leeds, Pa. ........Mrs. S G. Humphreys, Ky. Rev. W. C. Gannett, N Y. ........Mrs. Elizabeth W. Andrew, Ill. J. H. Kellogg, M. D., Mich. .......Mrs. C. C. Hussey, N. J. Mrs. Catherine A. F. Stebbins, Mich. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: O Edward Janney, M. D. .......Samuel C. Blackwell. Rev Antoinet e B. Blackwell.........Naomi Lawton Davis. Elizabeth Gay.......Anna Rice Powell. Emily Blackwell, M. D.........William M. Jackson Anna Lukens, M. D. ......Mrs. Martha Mott Lord. Anna M. Jackson........Mrs. William Emerson, Jr. Harry A. Hawkins.........Henry W. Wilbur. RECORDING SECRETARY. Mrs. NAOMI LAWTON DAVIS...902 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. TREASURER AND CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: ANNA RICE POWELL, 243 East 6th St., Plainfield, N. J. GENERAL COUNCIL: Grace H. Dodge, N. Y. ...........Mrs Elizabeth Justice May, Pa. Hannah A. Plummer, Ill. ........Sarah C. Fox, O Arria S. Huntington. N Y. ........Mrs M. T. Lewis Gannet N. Y. Susan W. Hildreth, N. Y. .........Mrs. Eva W. Collier, Montana. Andrew J. Gavett, N J. .........Thomas W. Woodnutt, Ill. Mrs. Charlotte S. Lewis, Pa. ..........Benjamin F. Nichols, Ind. Eliza M. Mosher, M. D., Mich. .........Emily Howland, N. Y. Anna M. Vaughan, Ind. .........Mrs. M L Bogue, Ct. Allen J. Flitcraft, Ill. ........Cornelia A. Gavett, N. J. Isaac Roberts, Pa. .......Lauretta H. Nichols, Ind. Mary G. Smith, Ill. .......Mrs. A L. Prindle, N. Y. Mrs. Sarah B. Stearns, Cal. ........Mrs Deborah C. Leeds, Pa. Elizabeth Powell Bond, Pa. .......Pauline W. Holme, Md. Elizabeth H. Coale, Ill. ........Marcia C. Powell, N. Y. Ann B. Branson, Va. ..........Sarah T. Miller, Md. Angie S. Hull, Ark. .........E. H. Thompson, Ark. Martha G. Ripley, M. D., Minn. ......Mrs E. G. Underhill, N. Y. Laura H. Satterthwaite, M. D. , N . J. ...Mrs. J. H. Kellogg, Mich.July, 1900. The Philanthropist. 5 AN ENGLISH BOOK WITH AMERICAN APPLICATIONS. The April number of The Storm-Bell, our excellent English contemporary, contains a review by Mrs. Josephine Butler of a book recently published, of which Miss Ellice Hopkins is the author. The book is entitled "The Power of Womanhood; or Mothers and Sons." Mrs. Butler calls her review "Imperial Aspects of the Present Crusade on Behalf of an Equal Standard of Morality." While commending the book in unstinted terms, Mrs. Butler thinks that the subject matter of Miss Hopkins' thought is "especially addressed to British women." We are, however, forced to the conclusion that both the topic of the review, and the copious extracts which Mrs. Butler makes from the text of the book are as pertinent and timely for American as British women, and as suggestive for fathers as mothers on both sides of the Atlantic. For instance Miss Hopkins says: "This question of personal purity or its reverse is the determining force for good or evil to the nation as well as to the family." This is supremely true where so-called free institutions prevail, and government is based on popular male-sex sovereignty. Under these conditions national life and the character of government itself will be no better than the moral standard of the governing sex. "Government of the people, by the people and for the people." cannot be perpetuated in its purity, by a double standard of morality which makes the virtue of the governors lower than that of the governed. The following written for the conditions supposed to prevail in imperial England, applies to our own growing imperial domain: "Secondly, it is the men of our empire who are pre-eminently exposed to that dangerously lowering influence, contact with lower races and alien Eastern civilizations. An Englishman in India, if he be not a religious man, is apt to blind himself to wrongs done to womanhood, because those wrongs are only done to a pariah caste who are already set apart for infamy." In what respect are the sixty thousand American soldiers in the Philippines better fortified in their manhood than are the Englishmen in India? The military spirit is educating our people at home and in the islands to undervalue the lives of the little brown men, and that carries with it a disrespect for the rights and virtue of the little brown women of the Philippines. We surely need to arouse the American conscience to a revolt against the wrongs actual and threatened towards a defenseless womanhood, and likely to be tolerated because the victims belong to a supposed inferior race. Had the following been specially written to meet new and growing conditions in this country it would not have been made more pertinent and pointed: "For God's sake, let mothers teach their sons that first rudiment in manly character, that the girls of a conquered race, or of a barbarian tribe inhabiting one of our spheres of influence, from the very fact that they are a conquered race, or, if not conquered, hopelessly and piteously in our power, are ipso facto a most sacred trust to us, a trust which it is both unmanly and bestial to violate." We are trying to conquer the Filipinos, and however we succeed in the undertaking, we have already in theory assumed the responsibility for their civilization and development. How important it is, therefore, that we shall practice standards of social virtue which instead of outraging their own primitive instincts shall elevate and enlarge them. In referring to the citations from Miss Hopkins' book giving the moral causes for the downfall of nations, Mrs. Butler says: "The authoress then glances over the causes of a similar kind which led to the political decay of Rome, which, 'honeycombed as it was by moral corruption,' could not stand before the inroads of our barbaric Teuton ancestors, who, according to Tacitus, had a singularly pure family life." It is important for our civilization, in some respects too materialistic in its tendencies, to know that there are things more vital to the perpetuation of our national life and character than acquisition of territory, growth in wealth and expansion of commerce. A people that cultivates purity of life, will secure the added material blessings, and will see that such material comforts do not turn to curses in the getting and using. ANNOYING THE INNOCENT. Cases have occurred recently in New York City in which innocent women have been subjected to indignity and arrested, by detectives supposed to be employed by the authorities to help maintain order on the streets. The plan employed in a case in which the innocent victim is known to the writer as a person of excellent character, has prevailed in other arrests of the same kind. A young woman walked from her home a short distance to take a car, when she was accosted by a man. Another man immediately appeared, asked if she was annoyed, and offered to take her part. An accomplice at once came in sight, and placed her under arrest and the charge of soliciting was preferred against her at the police station. It is said that the police very cautiously advised her to pay her fine and say nothing. The magistrate, however, discharged the accused without any examination. The men who caused the woman's arrest claimed to be detectives. With the great city's abundant wide-open crime, to attempt to make criminal business by the arrest of innocent parties on mere unwarranted suspicion is itself criminal. That in fact is an opinion warranted by a recent division by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, in the case of Snead vs. Bonnell. (49 Appellate Division Reports, 330.) In this decision the court said: "Police officers cannot be too firmly told there is no such lawful thing as an arrest without an apparent or disclosed cause, to be justified thereafter by whatever may turn up." That would seem to remove the last vestige of warrant for such an outrage as the arrest of innocent women, who have not even given the show of suspicion. It is to be hoped that the decision of the court will put a stop to the attempt to manufacture criminal business by the connivance of sleuth hounds to empound the innocent. There is quite enough real crime in the city to keep the police and the detectives busy -- let them attend to that. Of late the police have developed an unusual interest in the arrest of female criminals, real and imaginary. Pool rooms, GANDHI'S FAST Will be commemorated and its probable effects upon the Indian situation discussed at a MEETING AT SIX BYRON ST., BOSTON TUESDAY, MAY 30 - 8 P. M. Chairman, CLARENCE R. SKINNER Dean, Tufts Theological School SPEAKERS: L. O. HARTMAN, Editor, Zion's Herald MRS. ERNEST HOCKING, in India, 1932, as member of Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry AN INDIAN REPRESENTATIVE ALICE STONE BLACKWELL Friend of Indian Freedom RICHARD B. GREGG, Editor, Indian News Bulletin The meeting will be held whether Gandhi survives the fast or not. Under the auspices of the AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR INDIA'S FREEDOM Admission free.ALEXANDER KERENSKY HEAD OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF RUSSIA AFTER THE OVERTHROW OF THE CZAR will speak at SYMPHONY HALL SUNDAY EVENING, APRIL 3rd 1927 8 P. M. Under the auspices of the KERESNKY RECEPTION COMMITTEE Mr. George W. Coleman Mr. John S. Codman Mrs. Arthur R. Rotch Prof. Clarence R. Skinner Prof. David Vaughn Mr. Edmond Noble Mrs. Arthur Shurtleff Rev. Chas. F. Dole Mr. James P. Monroe Miss Alice Stone Blackwell MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL will make address of welcome. Tickets: 75c, $1.10, $1.65 and $2.20 at the box office of Symphony Hall. 80