Arizona republican., 1905-11-26

| hear reports and suggestions. The travelling library committee has start ed that good work and should have | our hearty cooperation. The chair man of the General Federation library | committee said in her report at the | last biennial meeting: "The travelling | library, established in the last decade Of the nineteenth oeatury, has come to be recognized as one Of the educa- tors of the twentieth" And again, she wrote, 'The growth of the system | has been marvellous and probably no line of work in the General Federation | has proven more beneficial and far reaching i'm its results than that of the travelling library"
 The history of Arizona has emerged | SO slowly from the dim, romantic past that we have at times forgot | ten she had a history; but to our en- thusiastic chairman of this department the sands of the desert the lonely | canyons, the isolated ruins, the hum | ble hut and the treasured relics yield up their secrets and she will tell us of the lives of pioneers who "spied out the land" and through whose courage and hardships it was handed down to us for peaceful habitation.
 
 scious of the great importance of it's many sided interests, but conditions | seemed not favorable to tangible re- suits. We believe, however, that ac- | tivitieS have been aroused which will | show results later on. Its efforts are directed toward developing love of or der, cleanliness and beauty in public places; more attractive and efficient | municipal housekeeping; better protec- tion of children, especially those who | are delinquent or dependent; closer union of home and school as a great uplifting force for parent teacher and child; the study of civil service re- form that we may intelligently give it our aid; in fact, our civics com mittee has before it a grand ideal and an fmpelling purpose to help develop a truer, purer citizenship.
 | The committee on household econCm- ics is introducing us to new activi- ties in familiar places. At first our members looked askance at this line | of club work, it seemed so like the same old theme of what to eat and | how to keep the home clean and com fortable at a modicum of expense that | they scarcely listened. But two years | have passed since we voted to include this subject in our federation pro- grams and now the chairman of this department will hold our attention with her symposum-and we will hear that while in these two years the gen. eral federation has made wonderful progress. in no one department have its committees shown greater activ- | ity, more vital, well directed energy than in this line; because the women have listened to the voice which has said, that which elevates citizenship must have it's source and abiding place in the home. Theodore Roosevelt, whose finger is on the pulse of the na- tlon, says. "Our civil life in the long run will rise or sink as the average family is a success or failure"
 The chairman of the educational committee will report a large measure of success in our federation manual training effort. The program she p,e- sents will give us a broad outlook upon the field of educational endeavor and should stimulate us to greater zeal in creating public sentiment in favor of better educational conditions. In this connection I quote from a recent address by Rabbi Hirsch of Chicago, in which he said: America has be- come a home for the descendants of all races and creeds, and out of all these apparently discordant elements we must make a new type of manhood and womanhood, containing the best qualities of all and eliminating the worst. It is only in the public schools that this can be done. We need appeals to the heart and con- science in our schools, and a revival of conscience. We need something that cannot be stolen, standard of character and conscience The women can bring it into the schools much better than the men. appeal for women in the schools. Il State and police records could bear witness to the immense good being done in various ways by influential bodies of women. and to the weight they have had i'm the shap- | ing of legislation bearing on the rem edy of crying social evils. As mat ter of fact the modern club woman has | come to stay. and it is more than | likely that, if the ultra-conservative | could succeed in banishing her, the world would very soon miss her and | her work"
 The forestry committee will present | the subject in it's twofold character beauty and utility; two grand incen- | tives to club cooperation in all wise measures for the preservation and 1 proper management of our forests.
 The reciprocity bureau should be not | only the safety deposit vault for our good intentions and records of our | best endeavors, but also the source from which should spring inspiration toward unity of effort. The give and | take principle should keep the bureau active-give of our best, take all we can assimilate.
 We have now named the special | purposes of our federation; we are l proud of each successful issue whether | of small study club, single committee, | or large department club. What we | need is more of the same kind of | work. Each president and delegate | present should carry back to her club | reasons for allegiance to the federation | and knowledge of the lines of work it | is undertaking, whether her club wish es to follow these lines or rot.
 To club extension we should all |