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MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB 
Mrs. J. Harry Poo_k oF BRocKTON 
SPOKE ON CURRENT EVENTS. 
Mrs. J. Harry Poole of Brockton 
entertained the members of the Man- 
chester Woman’s club on Tuesday 
afternoon in the Chapel with an in- 
teresting discussion of current events. 
Mrs. Poole, who spoke to the club a 
year ago on “Work and Play ot Club 
Life,’ was enjoyed equally as much 
on this occasion. 
The meeting, which was attended 
by a large proportion of the club, 
opened with the reading of the report 
of Miss Martha Knight, who was the 
delegate to the recent mid-winter con- 
ference of the Massachusetts Federa- 
tion of Woman’s clubs at Melrose. 
Miss Knight said that the meeting 
strengthened her in her anti-suffrage 
principles. One of the difficulties, 
she said, that was experienced was 
the amount of legislative matter 
which was discussed in a space of two 
hours. It was impossible to gain a 
clear idea of any of the measures in 
so short a time. Nearly 1200 were 
present at the conference. The fea- 
ture of the meeting being the address 
of Dr. Edward A. Steiner on the 
“Tnternational Mind and the Inter- 
national Heart.” Miss Knight’s re- 
port was accepted with thanks. 
The “baby-week” committee re- 
port was omitted. Announcement 
of the “Children’s Day” meeting on 
Saturday afternoon, March 25, was 
made by the president, Mrs. Edward 
S. Knight. Any child bearing a card 
with its name on one side and its 
mother’s name on the reverse side 
will be admitted, free. Other chil- 
dren between the ages of 5 and 16 
will be admitted for 25 cents. “Har- 
row,” the magician, will entertain the 
children. 
In opening her talk Mrs. Poole said 
that so much was being said about 
the war that she would avoid it as 
much as possible as it was a “pessi- 
mistic’ subject. She discussed the 
conflict between the President and 
Congress on the Gore and McLemore 
resolutions of warning to Americans 
to keep off armed merchantmen. She 
told the causes which led up to the 
introduction of the measures and of 
their defeat. She showed a thorough 
understanding of the underlying dif- 
ferences of opinion on the submarine 
situation and said that now Germany 
would understand that we are all 
with the President. 
She spoke of the child labor bill 
before Congress and said that it 
would affect conditions in the North 
as well as in the South. She said 
we are too apt to think of child labor 
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as an evil of the South. Mill condi- 
tions in the South, she said, were 
more sanitary than in the North and 
hours for study were provided for 
the children at work. Tenement child 
labor of the northern cities would be 
attacked, she said, if the bill became 
a law. She said that often measures 
affecting our economic welfare are 
pushed aside in the consideration of 
political measures. 
Discussing the Philippines problem 
she said that there are three views 
held regarding the island possessions. 
One was that we made a bad bargain 
in acquiring them and should get rid 
of them at our earliest convenience. 
A second view is that we should help 
them get established as we did Cuba 
and then free them. The third view 
is that we should always hold a re- 
straining hand upon them. A bill 
before Congress embodies the second 
view. She said that it was a differ- 
ence of opinion on handling of the 
Philippines that led to the withdraw- 
al of Secretary of War Garrison 
from President Wilson’s cabinet. 
She discussed the two army bills 
now before Congress and explained 
the principal points about each. The 
two new treaties with Nicaragua re- 
cently signed were next discussed. 
One gives the United States the ex- 
clusive rights for a_ trans-isthmian 
canal through Nicaragua. 
The treaty with Haiti and the pro- 
posed Colombian treaty were also dis- 
cussed. The so-called conservation 
bill in Congress,and the Osborne-Sing 
Sing controversy were discussed. 
The appointment of Ambassador 
Fletcher to Mexico was praised as 
being non-partisan. The appointment 
of Louis D. Brandeis to the United 
States Supreme Court bench was dis- 
cussed pro and con. She said that if 
the appointment was confirmed there 
would be a Roman Catholic; a Jew, 
Mr. Brandeis, and seven Protestant 
justices representing the three lead- 
ing religious elements in the country. 
In concluding Mrs. Poole said that 
she must touch upon the war briefly 
and she spoke of the German drive 
on Verdun which is attracting the at- 
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terition of the world. She thought it — 
was due to the Crown Prince’s fail- 
ure to take Verdun in the orignial 
drive in 1914 that was responsible 
for the present attempt, which was 
necessary to restore him to favor in 
Germany. ‘The Russian successes in 
Asia Minor might result in a union 
with the British forces attacking the 
Dardanelles, she said. She said that 
the attitude of Roumania would be 
determined by what Roumania could 
get out of the war. That spirit of 
individual gain was the dominant fac- 
tor of the attitude of each nation at 
war, she said. ‘Whatever we may 
think of Germany’s military system 
we must admit that she has been suc- 
cessful in maintaining the ‘iron ring’ 
of protection about her own terri- 
tory.” . 
Concluding she said, “My attitude 
toward the war is that some good will 
come of it. History is the story of — 
the world woven by the Creator. 
There are dark threads needed as well © 
as light threads. The early history 
of the world was woven with dark 
threads, then lately there have been 
lighter ones. Now the Creator needs 
more dark threads to make the tapes- 
try even. If you and I are permitted 
to see the end of the fabric, the fin- 
ished tapestry, at the end of the great — 
war of 1914 to—who knows when—_ 
we shall see that it was necessary to 
the development of the world.” 
Before and after Mrs. Poole’s talk 
the high school girls’ glee club rend- 
ered pleasing selections. Tea was 
served at the end, Mrs. Nellie Rogers 
being the hostess, 
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