The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13
ECHOES OF WOMAN'S CLUBS
Oficial Organ of State Fedora ton of Idaho.
Trego, of BlackfoOt.
Charmen of Committees invited freely
We wish frequent reports every club
"Eendracht maakt macht."
A united pull gives power
Civil Service Reform Study.
BY Mrs. Standrod.


terest to the clubs of our state for
long time but during the past year /
has become one of vital interest be
cause it has been discussed with /.
view to presenting a bill at the mex
session of the legislature for consid
Grafton as law in our state. W.
must 60 about this intelligently If we
hope for success. Study is the only
way to become conversant with the
pros and cons and the opinion Of
those who are best fitted to give us
intelligent opinions as to the merits
of civil service laws for our state.
The chairman of the civil service
reform committee for the State Fed
Grafton of Woman's Clubs has pre-
pared list of questions for study
by the clubs that they may more sys-
tematically discuss the subject. 1t is
hoped that before the end of the club
year in June that each club will have
given at least a part of one day to
the subject and report through The
Blackfoot Republican the general
opinions as regards the feasibility Of
a bill for the next session of the leg
islature. The following are the
questions:
1. What are the principles upon
which the spoils system are based;
the merit system?
2. When and how did the spoils
system originate?
8. When was the first step taken
toward reform?
4. Give the history of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform League.
5. What Offices should come un-
der civil service reform in our state?
6. What would be the most eff
cient means of bringing about civil
service reform in our state?
7. How can woman's clubs help
bring about organized efforts for re-
form civil service?
There are two leaflets that would
be helpful in this study published by
the Civil Reform Bureau of Penn:
No 1.-THE Advance of the Com
petitive System; No 1S-The Sc
lection of Public Officials. primer
of civil service and the merit system,
published by Rhode & Hoskin Co, 1 6
Oortlandt St, New York city
i. 4. i.
AS ito disposition Of the liquor
question, there seems to be a differ
ence of opinion We receive personal
letters that favor local option,
straight prohibition, and no action
by the clubs, Please note we say mo
action by the clubs" The reasons
for the last is not because of indiffer-
once, but an opinion that the men are
too deeply interested to permit this
wave to pass over Idaho without TAX
ing effective action, and there are
other things for club women to do.
Echoes is yours for use. When a pub |
LEGATION is made or understood to be
the official organ, it is not the legiti- |
mate business of the editor to take |
Or advocate a one-sided view. Neither |
is 1t to be felt that our state presi- /
dent should take unto herself the /
matter Of expression when she knows /
not what her constituents want. This |
also applies to our district officers,
who should express their individual
opinions in their local club where it
goes only as the decision of one wo-
man, she is at liberty to use her in
fuenae here or in EChoes as an in
dividual, but she cannot speak for
her district on any matter until she
shall first determine the opinion of
the district We suggest that our
district presidents secure the express
sion Of her own field and then SHOW
her coloys' valiently in Echoes, and
to this end will not each local club
president get the vote of her club and
write to us. A few of the first dis
riot have already done so but we
,annot just now recall them, how