The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-15

| tipii iIom INC naval prison Ill Boston,
asking that tho charity Of the South !
be directed that way, for the prisoners
wero In sore need of books and some |
thing TO amuse them. The Same error |
recently arose in relation TO the child |
labor question, many well-meaning clubs |
of the North and East laboring to elm
mate child-labor In Southern factories,
! while Southern women were equally |
Jealous IN the effort to help tho Con-
/ sumers' league stamp out the sweat
| shop evil in New York and Eastern ci-
| ties. The General Federation of clubs |
has brought these earnest workers all |
| together. through It's committees it has |
investigated the needs of all sections,
and 1T is now prepared to offer unpre-
Judlced help in a systematic fashion. |
1T has been the women Is part since
the beginning to put into the world
beauty, regeneration, and uplifting
said the president of the General Fed
Grafton of Women IS clubs not long ago.
while the men have been quarreling
over the money question and the tariff,
the women have been safe guarding hui
manity, said a New England man,
This is true Of the General Federation.
1t has come through a process of. evo-
luton, but the work it does is good and
far-roaching and lasting The force of
its membership of s0O,0O0 souls is felt
|
committees, each composed of women
who know what they are about, and
who are capable of achieving the things
they attempt,
The committee on art, for example,
| has established travelling picture IL
braries, has planned loan exhibits, has
encouraged the decoration and beauti
Tying of schoolrooms. and has waged
successful war against the poster and
advertisement evil. Ono club in tho
West has spent $4,000 on the decora~
tion Of schoolrooms alone. The com
mittee on civics has practical results to
show in the shape OF the rescued Palis-
AIDES on the Hudson, the protection of
the famous Cliff Dwellings in the Mesa
Verde National park, and in creating
greater interest in hygiene through
out the country
The committee on household economies
form has been instrumental in having
laws enacted that provide for better
care of the dependent, the delinquent
and the detective wards of the various
commonwealth. 1t has also underta-
ken two-years' campaign to secure
State laws that shall place all officials
and employees of the charitable and
reform institutions of the United States
under the merit system of appointment.
The educational committee is having
women placed on schoolboards and is
bringing the mother and teacher IN
closer relation through the education
of the child.
The committe on household economies
is home-making IN its highest and best
sense. The pure food committee
proved its potency in the passing of the
recent pure food law. The committee
on forestry has correspondent in each
State, and will use every effort 10 en-
list the interest of the people in the
preservation of the forests throughout
the country. The committee on idus-
try and child labor is investigating the
industrial status Of women and chill
dren in the country, and devising means
OF improving it. Twenty-Five States
are fighting for juvenile court laws,
and the committee on legislation is still
working for statutes that will protect
women and children. Through the Ii
brary extension committee 100000 GOOD
books have been sent out to the poorly
books have been sent out to the poorly
educated Of the country. Carnegie IL
orarles haye grown from several small
beginnings in this way.
The influence on home life that has
been felt through the state federatious
and the General Federation is notable,
. arts first of ALL they have established
kindergartens, industrial and manual
training schools. also truant schools for
: the unruly, and vacation schools and
, night schools for workers. Instances of
, specific. work of local, state or general
, federations may be reeouuted in vol
umes. IN California the women have
preserved historic Telegraph Hill; have
secured million names to petition
for tho preservation of the Calaveras
Big Tree Grove; have secured $4,000 to
park and plant trees around old Dolores
Mission; have contributed to the fund
for housing students at the University
of California: have planned road to
connect the old missions of Father
Junipero, and at Vallejo the women of
club owned the only fire engine until
the town got ashamed and established a
fire department.
Illinois clubs had the first juvenile
court laws enacted in that state, had
women probation officers installed; and
are attempting a solution of the child
labor question by giving scholarships
to children whose mothers are widows
and dependent upon their earnings. In
Chicago the vacation schools. establish
cd through the efforts Of the women,
represent in their attendance twenty.
eight nationnlities, and turn away each
season $4,000 whom they cannot accom-
modate. The School OF Domestic Arts
and Science in Chicago established and
managed by club women had last year
LOO pupils. The Klio club there serves
meals to 1000 working women at cost
A New Orleans club helped greatly
in the fight against yellow fever by
having lecturers sent among the schools
of the poor, explaining the necessary
precautions against disease. In Massa
chusctts the club women are trying tC
overcome the national spendthrift habit
by openings savings banks for schoo
children, and the little people of the
state have saved not less than $4,000
a year in this way, Pennsylvania club!
have devoted much time to very sue
cessful school gardens, New Hampshirt
is protecting forests. while New Yorl
is trying to save Niagara and thu
III forests of the CatskIlls and AdlrOn