Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-01-26


I, and worthy preparation these could b
paid for or written for prizes, The
growing number of our student nurses
doctors dentist and teachers furnish
field from which much could be called
for use and free distribution among
the clubs who have not the talent fol
this work, and are in towns remote
from libraries. Many cannot attend
lectures or read essays, but would en-
10y listining TO or reading short at
ltractive simply worded ssticle on any
topic. These topic might be taken
from outlines sent out by other com
mittces,
| Every year there should be placed In
Reciprocity Bureau by the educational
committee ct least . dozen papers, the
Ireciprocity committee is an important
committee.
BY this committee anything of real
vslue or merit which the club work OF
lone club brings forth is passed on to
other clubs that they may get the
value of it as we'll The duty Of the
committee is to supply newly formed
clubs and others with programs, con-
stitutions, outlines Of study. list OF
pretty club names. club notices, gear
books and exchange club papers, it is
q bureau Of general helpfulness. The
chairman of this committee can do
nothing, in fact has nothing to do un-
less the clubs do their duty. If your
club has good helpful paper and does
not send it in you are selfish and not
filed with the true club spirit
A copy of all papers. year books,
constitutions etc should be sent to the
Reciprocity Bureau, Papers sent to
the Bureau may be secured for two
weeks for the small sum of five cents.
The philantropio and Club Extension
Committee do what might be termed
federation work, the former classify
ing and tabulating the philanthropic
work done by the clubs aggregate re-
suits of which forms of . report to be
submitted to the Federation, the lat
ter is busily engaged in extending the
work Of the Federation.
No club is expected to be interested
along all of these Lines of federation
work but in those points where you are
interested, work with the federation
as much ~ you can.
And In outlining the committees
must remember, we are not women OF
leisure, cannot give all our time to
study and no club meeting holds over
two hours, then make your outlines
simple and to the point. The admohi.
ton comes to us.
.'Cut NOT too wide swath, lest under
strain,
Thy sickle miss some goodly heads of
grain"
II we are to accomplish that which is
concrete or practical, we must not
scatter our eff ,rts or allow ourselves to
become general utility clubs.
INCREASE YOUR MEMBERSHIP.
It is recognized fact, that strength
lies in numbers as we'll as integrity of
purpose one so would urge each club
TO endeavor to increase your member.
ship. Before we can act to advantage,
we must be strong, We must have a
large army of interested workers. We
have twenty clubs enrolled upon our
tablet. we should have At least six hun
dred members. To be of value ia your
community you need the cooperation
Of every woman.
Let every member in the Federation,
make this your immediate work get as
many Of your friends in your club as
possible, they needto feel the benef
| cent influence of club life and we need
their help, their cooperation will give
us stronger foo,hoid in the onward
| march of civilization.
| The Dunbar Progressive club of Mar
shaltown is one of the new clubs to be
| admitted this year.
The following are the officers; Presi
dent, Mrs Isle Brown; Recording Sec
retary, Miss Jessie Walker; Cores
ponding Secretary, Mrs. W. b. Flip
pins.