The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-28

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20 an organization of 81 states and half
a million women. The affection which
the clubwomen have for Mrs. Henrotin
was evidenced on every side. Her BIZ
ennial address was. in part. as follows:
The president. Ellen NJ. Henrotin. of
Chicago, e her annual address, which
was, in part, as follows.
She began her address by ~recapitu-
lating the growth of the general fed
Grafton and what the growth signifies
as translated into action on the various
lines of thought and work now repre-
scented in the organization.
Continuing, she SAID: The first two
years of my presidency most of my
thought and time were devoted to en-
c~ouraging state declarations. New
Hampshire. Rhode Island. New York
and New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Mime
sofa, Ohio. Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky,
Tennessee. Colorado. Missouri, Nebraska
and the District of Columbia organized
state declarations auxiliary to the gen.
eral; and at the biennial of 1896 20 state
declarations were represented. Clubs
Joined the federation fr0m the following
states: Florida, Idaho, Montana. North
Dakota, Oregon and South Dakota.
Two foreign hub also sent reports
one from England and one from Aus
tralia.
During these two years the welfare
of the individual clubs was in nowise
neglected. Programmes of study cover
ing the fields of social science, of edu-
cation, of civics and also literary sub
jects were prepared by the general fed
Grafton and sent to the individual club
Suggestions for club work were also
sent Club extension was actively in
a~ugurated in many of the states. and
town and country clubs We're estab-
lished in some of the rural districts.
The organization of the federation was
also thoroughly perfected.
Sine 1896 the following states have
organized state declarations auxiliary to
the general: Connecticut, Delaware,
Wisconsin, North Dakota. Arkansas.
Georgia, Washington, oklahoma and
Indian territory. Vermont, Alabama.
Texas and Florida have also organized
state declarations, and during the cur
rent yea Vermont and Florida have be-
come auxiliary to the general. Thirty
one state federations are now organized
auxiliary to the general.
Clubs from the following states have
Joined the general federation: Nevada,
Mississippi. North Carolina, Virginia
and Wyoming. A chairman of CORE
spondence has also been appointed in
Santiago, Chill; and a club has Joined
the federation from Salinda, East Afri-
ca: one from Western Australia and
one from South America.
The number of clubs in each state
belonging to the federation is:
Maine, 4; New Hampshire, .: YER
mont, 2; Connecticut, 6; Rhode Island,
3; Wisconsin. 3; Illinois, 65; Minnesota,
ID; North Dakota, 4: Iowa, SO; Ala
bama, 2; Florida, =; Kansas, s; Colo
RADIO, Il, Nebraska, 9: Massachusetts,
81: New York. IS; New Jersey, -; Della
ware. l; Pennsylvania, rs; Maryland, 8;
Louisiana. 3; Ohio. 81; Indiana, 10;
Michigan, 90: Oklahoma and Indian
Territory, 1: Missouri, 16: Arkansas, 6;
Kentucky, IL; Tennessee, 4; Georgia,
4; Mississippi, .; Idaho, 5: Texas, .:
North Carolina, /; South Carolina, !;
Utah, s; New Mexico. 4: Oregon, Z:
Washington, 9; South Dakota, 4; Mon
tana, 6; Nevada, !: California, %; Dis
trict of Columbia, .; Wyoming, 1.
The number of clubs embraced in
each state federation is as follows:
Maine, 96; New Hampshire. 40: Con-
necticut. ~; Rhode Island. Is; Massa-
chusetts, 1913; New Jersey, 70; Della
ware. IL; New York. 1856: Pennsylvania.
n; Ohio, 1870; Vermont. 16: Illinois. 1856:
Michigan, 9s; Wisconsin. Sc; Minnesota,
81; North Dakota, 70: Iowa. ISL: Kan
sas, 1874; Arkansas, IS: Missouri, SO:
Kentucky, 35; Tennessee. &c: Washing
ton, "A; Colorado, 104; District of CO.
ulmbia, 10; Georgia. 81: Florida. IL:
Nebraska, 20; Oklahoma and Indian
lerfltofy, ~; Otah, 20. |
When the state declarations were FIRST
organized 1t was prophesied hat they
would detTact from the membership
of the general federation. but this has
not Deen the case. During the -four
years OF my presidency the member
ship of individual clubs doubled. I
think II is nov safe TO prognosticate
that the large state declarations will not
against the individual member
SnlD of the general fadnratfnn TI- /
having the largest number of
clubs in the general federation are
Colorado, Massachusetts. Ohio. Illinois.
Iowa and New York; and these states
nave also the largest number of clubs
in the state federation. The great in
of membership from 1896 10 1898
came largely from the Southern and
far western states, which have car
RED on an extensive propaganda for
club extension. The next two years
VIII see a wonderful growth of this
through the South and far
West.
The reports presented by the chair
men OF state correspondence and pres
luents or state declarations of the edu-
catlonal work organized by the states
ana CLUBS, the various practical move
inents which are being fostered by this
agency az point to the value of the
and study classes of the fedora
ton. In a word, it is now a great
post graduate university. Not as we'll
as If controlled by a uni
faculty. but perhaps for that
reason better suited to the needs of
the diverse sections and clubs which
lorm the student body. The federation
one great advantage over a uni
Nersity, per set is able to put into ac-
ton the result of study and of investi-
thus co-ordinating knowledge
ana action. The club member re-
celVes her education as an individual of
the club. The club goes to the state.
and there meets a larger life i'm the
state federation as a citizen; while the
state declarations n clubs come to
The general federation as a nation.
"And now a word as TO the new as
poets of our national life. When the
was first declared / fancy that TO
many of us ii came with a certain
shock that made us pause as If we had
a great blow. and stopped 10