Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-07
MRS. NELOEN IN
INEVITABLE LIGHT
paner from Mrs Coulter on VeXed
Question Now Agitating Local
WOmen's Clubs.
FATAL COLLISION ON 0. S. |.
Engineer John c. Van Why Killed
Divorce and Other Court Cases -
School Board Meeting.


The recent airing, IN the columns OF
,bo press, of an individual" interjan-
rle is deplorable only to the extent
that IL menaces the larger good women
may hone TO accomplish through organ
lzaton and the reputation they covet
for tact, the propries, good Will
eraciousness and poise.
IN fact women collectively via or
sanitation cannot hope to inject any
rarceptible measure Of goodness into
,ho urgid stream of life unless they
freely surrender all personal bias and
pettlness to the paramount purpose OF
heir organizations, To be widely help-
nl. organizations, and individuals as
well, must have an abiding, he9Neh-
horn faith I'm humanity, rauonG toll
erance Of human fallibility, and char
iy which shines out like the sun, gid
ing even the meanest objects,
Whenever we indulge In hateful ten
denotes we are grayitating, by so much,
toward a downward and groVeling
course. IL Is from an alliance of the
worthieth qualities in womanhood, from
merger OF the highest capabilities or
good women everywhere, that the DOM
mating womens associations, world
national and state may expect widely
benehcent results.
The individual must be dense indeed
who does not recognize that there Is no
snot In this wide world where n really
benefcent work can be carried on IL
poitical and religious differences are
kept constantly flying in the air. HUI
man nature Is so constituted that both
subjects In agitation are capable Of
bringing out as many bristling points
as the porcupine. and of inhicting as
many stlngs on the handling.
The affairs OF the human race re-
corded in history show the seasons OF
serious political and religious disturb
auccs TO have been so many periods OF
cessation in the Advancement of the
Ane arts invention, education, and the
practise and extension of the common
Industries upon which the fundamental
well being Of society rests. The ma
tonal and healthy growth of communl-
ty life is necessarily impeded whore
differences IN religion and politics are
always uppermost. II I'VE would bus
accord that sincerity to others which,
we claim for ourselves, we would be
slower in magnifying and emphasizing
the points upon which we cannot agree,
10 the exclusion Of the possible unanini-
ty in that public enterpris- which
makes for human well being ana com,
munty progress.
Paradoxlcal as II may sound, club
women the world over are agreed to
be united IN their differences, that
Is. the diversities Of nationali-
ties. creeds. social conditions, etc,
are to yield to higher common
purpose OF combined strength for the
good of mankind" Accordingly the pr
ganzation applying for membership In
the General Federation of Womens
clubs must show that no sectarlan or
political tv-t Is required for member
ship in its body" This provision of the
constitution of the General Federation
Of Womens' clubs was incorporated In
10 the constitution of the Utah state
Federation, and 1t has been the SUI
preme effort of the many good women
Of Utah to adhere clearly and clearly
TO this broader policy. The requests
from large political clubs Of women
for admission TO tina Utah state FEEDER
alton have been promptly refused, al
though the strength Of such reinforce
ment In a state where women have the
fun suffrage becomes at once apparent
In view OF the facts Immediately pre-
cediug the thoughtlessness Of the IN
diyidual who gealousy drags items Of
Political record into the National club
committees and thence back again into
the state becomes likewise apparent,
In the articles recently published Mrs,
Ncdon throws a very unenviahle light
upon herself, womens' clubs, and wo-
mankind I'm general She reveals with
Il 30 herself a gross misconcepton or ana
total disregard for, the lofty aim of
The club movement callous indiffer-
cnce for the opinions and feelings OF
II It's sincere and noble women, coupled
Fl with the basest ingratltude toward the
n state organization which has made her
Il present national position possible,
II To the end that the women OF Utah
81 may not visit undue censure unon Mrs.
n West and Mrs. Neville, Mrs. Neden il
"a asked to publish her letters to these
"a ladies', together with her verbal state
ments 10 Mrs. West. That Mrs Neville
III Was not a class-mate Of the under
M signed, nor n student Mt any Of the
81 colleges which she has attended. Is but
III another confirmation Of the series of
~ i1sstatements, In the attack which
# nave already been replied to bv the
"A ltcordlng secretary Of our State FEEDER
elton
il somewhere develops in the brief
NJ the plaintiff that two letters Of re-
Vuest were sent 10 the program COM
mite Of the General Federation Of Wo-
monF clubs, In Mrs Coulters behalf
Since this has been made to constitute
NJ une count IN the complaint, II will b.
.t answered. Club women will recall that
N. Two Years ago az the sixth biennial
ia NiI' Nolden was accorded a secondary
mace on the national program, and al
II ,o atier a Drotracted and most unset
- sn EFFORT, on the part " Utah women
M we oHce OF director In tho national
|N ,r9y 10 secure these honors for Mrs
|~ NeIlfn fully 100 letters went out
ron Utah during the year preceding
l'uers of COMMUNICATION. Informal ton
,nd solicitation; some 20 OF these hav
direct,
p. Unfortunately for the harmony OF Tn,
'n delegation, the preferable place
WI the program AZ that time was no.
.y,orded 10 Mrs. Nelden. who speedil,
unl ready reason for Waiting heI
ram uuon the recipient ~ the greatei
uor snurnin" an amlcabe adjust
n tgnI ana parading her injured feelngl
're the members OF The Utah dele
,aunn al Los Angeles IN nerslstart re-
rlaH To counsel nr Eft with that bod
uus were the rala days Of the aixtl
,sgmal convention clouded for Utah
Nv 7galn tho Incubus threa tens us n
Hre about 10 get out for the brllilan
'tut or the seventh biennial Sine,