Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-03-26
Club News

The members of the Friday Morning
! club met at 10 o'clock yesterday morn
| ing at the club house, when John p
! Young of San Francisco gave an adj
dress on Practically and Idealism.'
There was a large audience, as Mr.
Young is known to be an authority or
| social economics.
The lecturer took direct issue with
those writer's who contend that the
| darkness of the Middle Ages was
caused by the Ignorance begotten by
the superstitions of the early Chris
tians. He asserted that the cause OF
the retrogression after the fifth century
of our era was wholly economic, and
that there would have been no relapse
had not the church persistently striven
after communistic and socialistio
ideals. The origins of Christianity were
found in the disconent which had ex-
listed during many centuries in the
ancient world prior to the advent of
Christ. The evidence concerning this
state of mind exists in abundance in
the classic writings of antiquity. The
Spartan experiment, which was con-
tinued during 500 years, with the out
come of an effort to equalize human
conditions by destroying private owner
ship in land and banishing gold from
Lacedaemonia, and it resulted in ar
resting the progress of the fairest part
of Greece. Aristotle's works are filled
with references to efforts to establish
the common table in many lands, and
they show traces of the profound inn
preston made on the ancient mind
by the many attempts to solve the
problem of human wretchedness.
The agitation had called into eX-
istence many sects with socialiStic
ideas, and the most, If not ALL of them
aimed at reforming conditions by the
leveling process of asceticism. The
Christian religion had this aspect. It's
keynote was 1.-THE poor We always have
with ye,'' and the efforts of its found
ers were to bring about the distribu-
ton of the wealth already created,
rather than to add to existing accumu-
lations.
The first Christians were communists,
but when their religion began to as
sumo universal proportions it was con-
verified into a modified socialism, under
the influence of which the institution
of feudalism, with its mutually of OBJ
legation, arose.
I The discussion of the subject at the
close of the lecture was most interest
ing A luncheon followed, when the
tables were decorated in spring flowers.
a
The tenth biennial of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs is to be
held this year at Cincinnati. beginning
May 10 and lasting until the evening
of May 49, An interesting outline of
the program has been received from
Mrs. Philip Carpenter, chairman of
the program committee. The usual
form of sessions will be observed. The
evening meetings will be open to dele
gates and alternates. The morning
sessions will be long, and conference
held during the afternoons,
The biennial will be preceded by a
council, at which all officers. directors,
state and club presidents and General
federation state secretaries will be well
coined, Wednesday morning. May IL.
AT that time this council will consider
some of the measures that may be
brought before the main body during
the sessions, for the purpose of enlight-
ening the delegates upon the matters
which are to come up in the convention.
The evening of May 10, preceding the
council. a concert by the Cincinnati
Symphony orchestra will be given in
Music hall. complimentary to the visit
ing club women. with the Ohio Fedora
ton of Womens Clubs the hostesses.
The following afternoon, May IL, from
3 to o'clock, the Ohio federation will
be Eat home" in the assembly hall Of
the Sinton to extend further well
come.
The biennial will open formally the
evening of May II, Mrs. Lawrence
Maxwell, chairman of the hoard, pre-
siding; with addresses of welcome, and
response from the president, Mrs.
Philip N. Moore.
The work will be taken up in earnest
the morning of May IL. with reports
followed by an afternoon art confer
enoe at the Art academy This first
afternoon will be given up to art and