Arizona republican., 1908-01-31
MRS. C0MLES' VISIT
 AND ENTERTAINMENT I
The Notable Club Woman Gave Very Earnest and Impressive Address to a
 Large Audience of Phoenix Women.

The address oc Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles Of Los Angeles. treasurer of the general federation of women's clubs, al the Presbyterian church. was listened to by large gathering of the women of Phoenix yesterday after noon. After the address. which occu- pied a little over a half hour, there was reception and tea during which Mrs. Cowles personally met most of those present both the members of the club and others.
 In the evening there was an informal reception at the Hotel Adams arrang- ed Quiekl- and announced only at the afternoon meeting. IL was attended by quite number of the members of the club. Yesterday morning Mrs. Dwight B. Heard took Mrs. Cowles and Mrs. E. A. Fowler for an automobile ride to a number of the principal points of in terest in thls part of the valley. Mrs. Cowles left for Prescott on the Dia- mond JO this morning and this after noon will address the women of that city, continuing her journey home to- morrow.
 Her remarks yesterday afternoon were intensely interesting and the tenor oe them was to give an idea of the great and growing influence of the general federation. She told of its achievements, of it's present work and something of it's possibilities in still wider fields. stating a great many in- teresting things in illustration of this great influence. The fact alone that the federation has S00.600 members is sufficient 10 convince the reader that II is an organization of considerable strength.
 Last fall the government requested the federation to send a representative to the Canal Zone to organize the w1- men resident there, mostly Americans. There was the Y. NJ. C. A. which fur nished a social home for the men. but the women in the'zone were but little acquainted with each other and had no work, in which there was common in terest. A representative was sent, seven clubs were organized and these were organized in a Canal Zone feder- ation, on the same footing as a state federation auxiliary to thegeneral fed eration
 The speaker referred at considera- ble length to the work of the federal tloH III the departments OI clFlCS anu forestry. and irrigation. She stated that the government employs one man, Enos Mills, to devote his energies en- tirely to encouraging the women's clubs in their study of forestry and he goes from place to place under the di- rection of the general federation. lec- turing to women's clubs on that sub ject. He is a scientific man and a for estry expert, having for a long time been connected with Estes Park Col OradO in an official way, in the promo tion of forestry interests. The gov ernment believes that the influence of the federation in developing the for estry sentiment is well worth this ex- pense to the nation.
 Another instance quoted was that 0f the American women in London, who have organized a society auxiliary 10 the federation and have founded and are maintaining a scholarship in the University of London, for the ben eft of American girls.
 The meeting Mrs. Cowles recently attended in Chicago was to arrange preliminaries for the biennial meeting of the federation which will be held in Boston and of which more will be heard later