Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-11-01

impossible for either an Individual or a
club 10 become broadly ana he!pfullv
educated through a policy Of exclusion
ana isolation. No one could attend the
national convention and feel for a mo-
ment ihat the club is all sufficient, and
mat the sweeping progressive move
ments may be carried on quite as well
by each club holding TO a policy %
isr latlon
Isolation and exclusion are lacking
an every stimulus Of growth, fot growth
~ expansion and one can't expand very
much Without seeing Cond tons as they
are. realizing responsibility FOR them,
and widening accordingly his field NJ
action into realms OF helpfulness Or
gAni2ation for service IL the keynote
underlying all effective work aud club
women though union are literally bey-
ing the scrjptural injunction: Bear We
one anOther's burdens and 80 ftlfl,! the
perfect law Of Christ" Human nature
and society are so constituted tina.
benefits are reactionary, those who
would receive them must also b. ready
u confer them. The woman who de-
sires 10 keep In touch with the larger
things, 10 share In the best which three
hundred thousand Of our or'ghtegt
Amei can women have to Offer. the wo-
man who would do away with looking
nj things from an intensely personal
standpoint, the woman who would be
helpful as well as be helped, can no
longer afford 20 remain without the pale
OF our splendid organizations BY co..
operating with the felera tons of state
and nation, she is welding her lnhu-
ence for the weightier interests of hui
mainly interests which only extended
organization may hope 10 grasp.
What the state federatlons and the
national body may not now accomplish
directly I'm the larger movements OF
philanthropy and reform they may
stu hope to bring about through pub
lic sentiment which is theirs 10 en-
Tighten and incidentally TO mold. Ev-
cry reform may be traced to private
opinion promulgated into public senti-
ment In these days when so very
many good men are entirely absorbed In
private business enterprises 10 the
neglect OF society, public affairs and
II becomes Incumbent up n
women, n our cities are not to be given
over 10 the lawless and the bad, TO
inculcate patriotism, to infuse into our
cities a hcalthful moral atmosphere,
and 10 arouse public sentiment to o
truer citizenship. II our best citizens.
men and women. were as persistent In
working and voting for good govern
ments. as our worst citizens are m
working and voting against Il. we
should more frequently see good men in
office and good government prevail.
The time ls not far off when Il will I've
considered seenly and will become tho
province OF every club and every good
F0man 20 aggressively influence public
sentiment for all that constitutes hui
nan well being. Toward this the clubs
ire cartalnly we'll on their way. In that
hey are now co-ordinatlng with leagues
md societies specially organized to-
and amelorative movements.
rhile they have long been working
part for the lowering Of the lllsteracY
ec0rd. the suppression ~ unfit litcra-
ure the relief Of wage earning women
md children. a more practical training
n the public schools and the reign u
lobler social standards