The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-28

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business in the
morning was receiving the reports OF
various officers and committees.
SOME REPORTS.
The secretary reported several rou-
tine matters that had occurred DURING
the year and the committee on pur-
pose reported several matters to which
it recommended that the federation
jects were village improvement, edu-
cation and public and travelling libra
ries. This report was discussed al
some length, and it was the sense OF
the federation that, for the present al
least, it should devote particular at
tention to the subject of libraries and
make every effort to establish them
The committee on education reported a
number of resolutions, the first one
being:
Resolved: That the Federation OF
Women's clubs of Utah pledges its
united effort to the support of all that
is good and the eradication of all that
is bad in the public school system of
the state.
Another resolution pledged the mem
bers to visit the schools and endeavor
to secure the election of disinterested
members on boards of education. An
other important recommendation which
the committee presented was one to
the effect that the members of the fed
Grafton use their personal efforts and
the ballot to remove the schools from
political or sectional influences and TO
secure the appointment or election of
intelligent disinterested officers, who
could not be bought by publishing
firms, and also see that women had
representation on school boards. The
committees Communications were
adopted
NO JUBILEE FLOAT.
The subject of having the Utah fed
Grafton represented by a float in the
jubilee parade was next taken up and
I resulted in considerable discussion. a
number of the ladies favored a DroDo-
sition to raise several hundred dollars
for this purpose, but others opposed il
on the grounds that the finances of the
federation were not in a condition TO
/ warrant the expense and also that the
! representatives of many clubs outside
of the city would not be able to attend
I the celebrat ton. A motion to provide
for float was lost.
a letter was read from the secretary
of the Trans Mississippi congress, ad-
/ dressed to Mrs. Jennings, the president,
requesting her to cooperate with other
ladies in arranging for the proper en-
/ tertainment of the ladies who will
! accompany the delegates to the con-
/ sresS here III July next. Mrs. Jen-
ningS announced that steps had been
taken towards holding a meeting of
various club women TO arrange for this
matter. The revision of the constitu-
ton and by laws was resumed and a
number of amendments were offered
and adopted, the most important being
one providing for the appointment of
a nominating committee, consisting of
/ one delegate from each club repre-
sented at the meeting of the fedora
ton. Another amendment which re-
suited in more discussion than any
other subject was one changing the
date of the annual meeting from May
/ to October, but before a vote was taken
/ the federation adjourned for the noon
/ recess.
/ CLUB REPORTS.
4 The first business at the afternoon
session was receiving short reports
/ from a number of clubs including the
/ Inquirers, Reapers. Reviewers, Utah
Women's Press club, Home Culture
club of Ogden, Historical club of Og-
/ den, Women's Athenaeum club of Park
City the Utah S0rosis of Provo, the S.
/ B. l.. club of Provo. the Ladies' Liter
airy club of Salt Lake, the Salt Lake
Womans club and the Coalville club.
INDIVIDUAL AND ASSOCIATED
CHARITIES.
Mrs. Ellen B. Ferguson of the Utah
Woman's Press club, next read a pa
per on Individual and Associated
Charities" She said that the work Of
the associated charities was of d prac-
teal kind, that it was a help and a
social uplifting and prevention of
the causes which produced pauperism.
Material help alone or something which
would aid only the body was not Miiat
suffering hnnna nifV needed b,1f
it was necessary to give a
help towards self help. She said that
a majority CT the recipients of indi-
vidual charity were poorer in soul and
in character than in material matters.
a well thought out system must be
put in force. and certain restrictions
must be placed on the recipient of char
ity for the sake of his advancement
Association work prevented duplication
of charities and stamped out perniciOus
forms Of alms-giving. Modern charity
was of preventive Kind, and il was
not, for this reason. any less from the
heart, but more from the head.
\ PLEA FOR POETRY.
Miss S. NJ. Richie. of the Ladies
Literary club, read a paper entitled.
"A Plea FOR Poetry" She said that
poetry was the language of the heart
and the SOU. and that it was thought
adorned win imagery. 1t did ECJ con-
sisr entirely cl rythm, which was
simply al adornment and embeihsil-
ment. She considered that the fad and
failing of the nineteenth century. PAR
ticular in America, was practica bility,
and that a nation had never come so
near losing the ideals Of it's early life
as was the case here now. She believed
that the poet described the softest and
nobiest sentiments of the soul.
THE NEXT MEETING.
This concluded the literary part of
the afternoons WORK, and the Fedora
ton then resumed the consideration of
the amendments 10 the constitution
and bylaws, the most important mat
ter being the amendment changing the
date of the annual meeting from May
10 October. After some further discus
sion the question was put to a vote,
which resulted in = ayes and IL noes.
Mrs. Jennings, the president. declared
that the amendment was carried by
the constitutional two-thirds majority.
but upon some member questioning her
joraty, she put another question on an
appeal from the decision Of the chair.
which was sustained by vote of q
ayes, with no negative votes. The eff
feet Of the adoption OF this amendment
will be thar the next annual meeting CT
the Federation viii be held in October,
1887, the date and the place to be an
nounced by the beard CT directors.
NEW OFFICERS.
The following were elected to fill the