Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-28
Plans of General Federation of
Women's Clubs For Session
at st. Louis
BIENNIAL MEETING IN MAY
Regular Opening Session to Be Held
Thursday, May 17-Detailed Program
For the 18th, the "Day of ceIebra
ton or Louisiana Purchase Day,
to Be Announced Later.

| LeRoy Moss, chairman OF the locai pi-
ennial board of the General Federation
| of Wofnens Clubs has issued the fol-
lowing in regard to the program Tor
the biennial meeting here in May.
Mrs Anna d. West, chairman of the
program committee, General Fedora
ton of Womens Clubs. submits the
| following program for the seventh BIZ
ennial:
| The regular opening session will be
held on Tuesday afternoon, May II. at
| 9 o'clock, in the Odeon, St. Louis, Mrs.
D. II. S. Denison presiding. Addresses
of welcome will be made by the Hon.
koiia Wells, mayor for the city OF 81.
Louis, by Mrs. Philip N. Moore. presi-
dent of the Missouri State Federation
for the clubs of the state. and by Mrs.
Washington E. Fischel president of the
| Wednesday Club for the local clubs.
Mrs Denison will respond. On Tuesday
| evening a literature session will be held.
Mrs. r. j. Buroette presiding. Profess
sor Edward Howard Griggs. of New
Jersey, will lecture on THE Expression
| and Interpretation of Human Life in
| Literature"
| Wednesday mornings session will be
devoted to reports and business, Miss
| Margaret Evans, chairman. AT the ed
ucational session in the afternoon Mrs.
| Frank L. Wean, of Illinois, will speak
| en- Compulsory Education Laws and
| Their Enforcement" Character Build
| ing in Public Education" will be dis
cussed by two speakers under the fol-
| lowing topics: Indirectly, by Means
OF Literature and History" Miss Daisy
Spickard, Nebraska; and Directly, by
| Required Instruction as in France,
Mrs. Jonathan F. s. Mitchell, Wash
| ington. "A National Aspect of Public
| Education will be the subject of Miss
| Celeste e. Bush, Connecticut. and Miss
Mary Applewhite Bacon. of Georgia
| Wednesday evening there will be a
child labor session with Miss Jane
Adams, presiding. Following the re-
ports an address will be delivered by
| Edgar Gardner Murphy. Alabama, OF
Child Labor in America"
Thursday, May 10th. Is the DAY Of
celebration, also Louisiana Purchase
Day" of which Mrs. Philip N. Moore
is chairman. and the detailed program
will appear in a later bulletin.
on Friday morning there will be an
Industrial session in the Odeon with
Mrs. Frederick Nathan in the chair.
Addresses will be made as follows:
Organization Among Working Won
en-" Miss Mary Mcdowell, of the Uni
versity OF Chicago settlement: rs the
Ballot OF Real Value to Working
Women" Mrs. Sarah Platte Decker, Of
the state board of charities and correc-
ton, Colorado; Value to Working
Women of cooperation of Clubs With
Municipal Officers" DR.. Ernst J. Lee
derle, commissioner of department.
of health, New York City.
Friday afternoon will be devoted 20
reports of state presidents. For the
evening. Miss Evans, chairman of the
following program: Miss Elizabeth
Harrison, of Illinois. will speak on
Recent Progress in Education" Miss
Jane Adams, Illinois, Education AMI
Democracy" President NJ Carey
Thomas, of Bryn Mawr, Pa, will also
deliver an address.
"A uOuSeItolu cCOuUIHlCS SESSION., MIS-.
F. II. Neville, chairman. will be held
on Saturday morning. The following
subjects will be discussed. The
School as the Ally of the Home" Mrs
Nellie Kedzie Jones, Michigan
Ethics and the Home" Mrs. Adelaide
Hoodless. Hamilton. Ontario; Our
Relation to the Household Trades as
carried on Outside the Home" Miss
Mary H. Abel, Maryland.
A press session will be held in the
afternoon for which n program compli-
mentary TO the profession will be pre-
scented. The industrial session of the
evening will be addressed by Mrs.
Anna Garland Spencer of New York
City. on Home Destroying Indus
tries" DR.. John Graham Brooks; New
Avenues OF Industrial Education for
Women" Mrs. Frederick Nathan
The Consumer as Final Arbiter."
Monday, the morning and evening
session viii be devoted to civil service
reform and library extension, respec-
lively. Miss Georgia A. Bacon will be
chairman of the first and Mrs Charles
A. Perkins of the latter. The afternoon
will be given over to receptions The
morning speakers will be Mrs, Imogen
b. Oakley, of Philadelphia, Pa, on the
Merit System of Municipalities; Dr.
Emil G. Hirsch, of Chicago, on Civil
Service Reforms in Public Institu-
tions;" j.. NJ Crunden librarian of the
st. Louis public library will speak at
the evening session on "The Inspira-
ton of Libraries" Mrs Rosa Cawood,
Tennessee, on the "Story of a Travelling
Library" Prof. Charles Zeublin, Uni
versity Of Chicago, on art as an Edu-
Gator"
Mrs. Ralph Trautmann as chairman
will have charge Tuesday morning
with a session in civics. DIR. Darlington
commissioner of public health New
York City, will deliver an address on
.sHow Can the Individual Became a
Factor in Civios and Sanitation" For
estry work Will be considered on Tues
day afternoon. with Mrs. Mary p Mum
ford as chairman. Mrs. Lydia Philips
Williams, Minnesota, will take for her
topic the question, Can Women Thru
Organization Influence Legislation In
Favor of Forestry?" Ten Years of
Forestry In Pennsylvania" will be
treated by Miss Mira Dock of Pennsyl-
vania. On Tuesday evening there will
be the art session the program of
which will be submitted later
On Wednesday morning the election
of officers and other business will con-
sumo the attention of the convention.
Wednesday will be presidents even
ing