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Show Womans Party Condemns Trial of Virginia Patricide COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 1 The National Womans party criticised today the trial of Edith Maxwell, young Virginia woman convicted of killing her father with a high heeled shoe, on the ground women were excluded from the jury. The party, in national conference, adopted a resolution declaring the National Womans party is greatly aroused because Edith Maxwell was not tried by a jury of her peers, since women are denied the right to sit on juries in Virginia. The resolution declared adult women should not be compelled to submit to chastisement of parents, whether drunk or sober, and demanded passage of the proposed equal rights amendment to the federal constitution as a means of placing women on all juries. Urge Law Change The party adopted another resolution requesting President Roosevelt and congress to approve the amendment and to repeal the clause in the national economy act preventing married women from holding federal jobs when their husbands are similarly employed. Honoring Susan B. Anthony, famous suffrage leader, with issuance of a postage stamp February 15, her birthday, was asked in a resolution to be presented to Postmaster General James A. Farley. Other resolutions expressed gratitude to Governor Harry W. Nice of Maryland for appointing 80 women to state positions, to Representative Stephen M. Young of Ohio for introducing a federal women jurors bill in congress and to Representative Louis Ludlow of Indiana for championing womens rights. The party condemned all interstate labor compacts having distinctions based on sex, and urged congress to refuse to sanction any such agreements. Woman Miner The two day conference of the Womans party closed with a luncheon meeting at which Mrs. Ida Mae Stull, Cadiz, Ohio, coal miner, detailed her experiences in fighting a state law prohibiting women from working in mines. Mrs. Stull outlined a long court battle whereby she won the right to work in her own mine, as she had done for years, and displayed work gnarled hands as she told the feminists how she now was digging coal every day, side by side with her men employes. Choice of a site for the national convention next year was left to the partys national council, which indicated it intended to choose a far western city some time within the next three months. Herodotus is said to have differentiated measles Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland In 1745, Bartholomew Mosse, a licentiate of the College of Physiology, practising midwifery in Dublin, opened a large house for poor lying in women. In fifteen months it had become one of the recognized charities of the city. From this beginning grew a great gynecological and maternity hospital. Andrew Carnegie, benefactor AT THE time of his death, in 1919, Andrew Carnegie was famous only as a multimillionaire; today he is esteemed as one of the worlds greatest philanthropists. His phenomenal rise from poverty in Scotland to the position of industrial power and great wealth in America is an epic which inspires American and Scotch boys alike in the retelling. His remarkable money making propensities were matched only by his uncanny money spending capacity. A list of his benefactions which up to 1920 totaled 350,000,000 reveals an unusual sense of social responsibility. In noting the centenary of his birth it is worth while to consider Carnegies gospel of wealth, a philosophy which is explicitly embodied in his life and benefactions. He held that it is the duty of the man of wealth to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants to those dependent upon him, and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to provide the most beneficial results for the community the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren. The range of his philanthropies reads like a directory of social work. It includes medical research, adult education, peace propaganda, work for the blind, pension systems, recreation and the arts. His most unique gifts, however, include the Carnegie institutes of Pittsburgh and Washington, the hero fund, the foundation for the advancement of teaching, the endowment for international peace, the organ fund and the library gifts. Through his sponsorship of the public library movement Mr. Carnegie became, without question, the greatest single force in our time for adult education. In different parts of the world he has furnished 2811 free public library buildings. His method was to build and equip a library on condition that the local authorities would provide the site and the maintenance The people of Utah participated liberally in these gifts. Of the 44 municipal free libraries in Utah, 22 are Carnegie buildings American Fork, Beaver, Brigham City, Cedar City Ephraim, Eureka, Garland, Lehi, Manti, Mount Pleasant Murray, Ogden, Parowan, Price, Provo, Richfield, Richmond Salt Lake City, Smithfield. St. George, Springville and Tooele. His social outlook was profoundly influenced by the political unrest of the 40s m Scotland. He despised aristocratic government and privilege in all its forms. Even before he emigrated to America with his father, at 13 years of age, he had idealized his adopted country as a land peopled by our own race, a home for free men in which every citizens privilege was every mans right. These, he says in his autobiography, were the exciting themes upon which I was nurtured. |