The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-11
OVER ORGANIZATION
WOMEN RUSH INTO TOO MANY
SOCIETIES
Societies for Everything Under the
Sun Are Being Organized and Then
Women Tire of Them-Good Causes
Killed by Excessive Enthusiasm

The modern world seems to be going
crazy over organization. The craze
began with men of all stations and
grades and spread to women who took
it up fiercely, overdid it, and now are
seeing the dangers of oVer-organiZa-
ton, but the craze has, after all, not
abated very much The other day
some one suggested and actually took
steps to bring together all those who
have had the appendix removed, and
form an association for heaven knows
what end. To form a club Of those
who still have an appendix would sure
ly make a more exclusive association.
And now a weekly paper tells of
Boston woman who is trying to form a
patriotic society of Grandchildren of
the Veterans of the Civil War. Moth
ing more ridiculous could be imagined,
and yet the woman will probably sue
ceed. One would imagine the organl-
ZatiOn would be altogether too large
and unWieldy to manage and would in
point of numbers be almost as tre-
mendOuS as the suggested convention
of the Smith family. Patriotic sOcie-
ties, if not carried too far, certainly
keep alive love for ones country, in
Spire one to study history and promote
interest in an ancestry of which many
Americans have reason to be proud
But it is so difficult for Americans,
especially women, to do anything of
this kind temperately and without
running to absurd extremes. Here we
have j fault of women which, If not
enough to fill a column as l suggested
the other day, at least can be termed
a serious failing. Women are so apt
to overdo whatever they go into, from
the temperance cause about which
into To Tn
societies they form and sometimes so
effectually run in the ground. 1t is
this very fault which gives women
the reputation among men of going OF
half-cocked. They often spoil an ex-
cellent cause by boring people to death
about it and killing it with over en-
thusias1n So much are they given to
this sort of thing that many men are
actually afraid to identify themselves
with schemes in which women are the
prime movers. Going into things with
out sufficient thought is a feminine
failing.
1t is about time we had a mother
in-laws' union, cousins amalgamated
society and an infants protective
league. There would be as much rea-
son for them as for many of the asso-
Citations that spring up from time to
time.
1t is this habit of women OVERRIDING
things that prevents them from ac-
complishing much. They start in with
tremendous courage. but without look
ing at the question from every point of
view and carefully considering each
step of the way, hence they become
tired before any good can be done and
the enthusiasm which burned SO bright
ly in the beginning is soon extinguish-
ed, 1t takes hard work and untiring
energy to put an organization on its
feet and carry out the plans if any
real good is to be accomplished by it,
and many women who rush in bravely
at first, are found wanting when the
time comes for real effort.
Instead of forming more societies it
would be we'll for women to disband
few of them and give more time to
philanthropy and charitable institu
tions which are always in need of ac-
tive and intelligent workers.