ee 4 + THE COLLEGE NEWS « WOMEN’S COLLEGES PRESENT AT INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE Protection’ of Working Women and Abolition of Child Labor Planned ——- (Specially contributed by Dr. Susan M. Kingsbury, Professor of Social Economy and Social Research) Five years hence the conference held last week in Washington will be generally rated _ as an epoch-making event. Today it if so recognized by those who have watched for the dawning of social conscience. And to those women who have striven during the past quarter century “for at least decent. working conditions for women in industry, this event must promise-victory. For there assembled more than 350 delegates .repre- _ senting sixty-seyen_national- organizations, from forty-two States, .to consider the eight-hour, day, home work, and minimum wage laws for .women, health standards for and maternity care of working women, and child labor legislation. The resolutions adopted were very gen- eral, setting forth ideals of justice and standards permitting the fulness of life. But much may be expected of: the influence to be-—carriedback to enlarge—legislative protection and enforcement. The deter- mination to secure Child Labor regulation and curtailment was grim. That the Fed- eral amendment, enabling Congress to re- strict and control Child Labor, may be passed by Congress before March and car- ried through enough legislatures this sum- mer to become effective seems probable.. Throughout the conference was one very sad note,—that one of the figures most largely responsible for. the spirit’ which could create this conference should have been suddenly snatched away. Florence Sims, who died last week, had been, for many years at the head of the Industrial Division of the Young Women’s Christian Association. Her vision throughout these years, like that of Mrs. Raymond Robins, has never been dimmed. * She often. felt that the movement was so slow as to be backward—but. she never hesitated, and this Congress bore gestimony to and regis- tered, recognition of her signal devotion and her surpassing wisdom. giving his college course, and to’ prepare himself for progressive. work later ..by thinking and reading about the society he belongs to, and cultivating, above all, an open mind. * % * * * Professor Kingsbury "attended the con- ference as the representative. of her de- partment, Miss Smith, former-dean of the College, attended: for Bryn Mawr College and. Mrs. Chadwick-Collins, head of the Publicity Department, represented the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association. THE LANTERN ; CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 € sieias enn’ acter must be so portrayed that the reader recognizes it as human and: in some way like himself or what he has known, an therefore that character “must run abso- lutely true’ to type. There is no such thing as imagining a character. Well, you say, what is an inexperienced writer to do then? He must write of what he knows, or be ¥ content to remain unconvincing. *So let Miss Gray be off for Ireland and, by dint of patient watching of vindictive women and tormenting boys, absorb those details which alone will color her story with truth and lift it from the ranks of the mediocre.* As for the poetry it can be said that the metre is perfect, the rhyme scheme impec- cable, but. here praise must pause. . The over-weighted atmosphere of college miust have crushed out that. sensitiveness, that fire which no man but a poet has, and with which a man must be a-poet. As metrical products they are all very well and good, but as poems, never. . Concerning the book reviews they main- tain the high standard of such. things in the Lantern. Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg by Edith Walton is exceptionally charming and artistically done. teresting addition to review the periodicals of other colleges.. It might be more than said that the Lantern need in no way “envy the quantigg of material that is ‘really in- teresting” fn any magazine whatever, if it show. a. few more timés the improvement it has shown in, this issue. ‘ 5:: It is an in-. That representatives of the Clothing ' — a a ma a Me ra rs ee Workers of America and the American : : Association -of,. University: Women,..of the Social Workers’ Association and the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, with numerous unions, of the Women’s Bar Association and Daughters of: the American Revolu- tion, of the Catholic Women and the Jew- ish Women, of the National Civic Feder- ation and the Women’s Christian Temper- ance Union, the League of Women Voters, the Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Girl Scouts, the Gils’ Friendly, and the Women’s Colleges—Alumnae Associations and faculties, should ever assemble for this pugpose was startling. But that the whole s&sion should have shown a practically unanimous opinion and program was as- tounding—but very satisfying. 4 -AGN¥ERALAVA—mMakes Blem- ished Skin Perfect! CAVGNERALAVA — Corrects all forms of Skin- Malnutrition! ' Of course there were differences of opin- ~ton-and there“ were clashes. 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