Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-29

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Indlca tons ere that at the next biennial
of tho General Federation OF women's
/Chn,s tbcr, win be fewer speakers and
mo- conferences This says Mrs. Frederick
II. Cole. president OF the Nebraska Fed
Grafton and leader OF the Nebraska delcga.
aiou who has Just returned from Gin
clnnatl, was the consensus OF opinion at
the conference held by the officers OF the
general federation, the state presidents and
&itato federation secretaries after the con-
Ncntlon.
lit was felt" said Mrs Cole, that It
would be an advantage to focus upon
p-Ver subjects. that Is give less TIME to
the listening of addresses and more TO the
discussion OF those questions OF direct in
1urest to club women.
Also al this conference It was felt that
the clubs arc inclined to take up too much
legislative action and so a resolution was
passed stating that all recommendations
and requests. Tor legislative action must
DO approved by the chairman Of the Gen
D eral Federation Legislative committee or
the president OF the General Federation.
This also is indicative Of the tendency
TO concentrate and focus the club attention
and action"
Mrs. Cole feels that the public has been
mislead in regard to the reelection OF
Mrs Philip N. Moore as president She
says that her reelection was not, as stated,
due 10 sympathy for her accident, but that
there was no movement or opposition to
her election and certainly the Nebraska
delegation did not at any time express
any feeling other than one favorlng her
selection.
Mrs. Decker" said Mrs. Cole de
Jared that the whole meeting to her
.nowed a great development along spiritual
ines This growth was evidenced in no
small degree In the sessions of the nomnat-
ing committee where certainly the ruins
spirit was Of courtesy and fairness
In regard to the General Federatlon's
attitude toward the question Of woman
suffrage, Mrs. Cole said that the women
interested in suffrage felt that the club
woman's interest would come through her
interest In the children and women who
work; that the club women Interested In
improving the condition of the child and
woman laborer would feel eventually their
i need Of the vote"
The Nebraska delegation was one Of the
largest there, and also, their leader as
serts, 'one Of the most dlgnified and in
tenigent." They have not all returned,
however, as yet to Nebraska. Mrs. NJ. H.
Corbett is visiting In Pennsylvania, Mrs.
C. NJ schindell went to Washington, d. c.,
TO attend the graduation exercises of
Chevy Chase; Mrs. L. l. Cowan is in
Chicago Mrs. l.. G.. Simon, in Canton, o.;
Mrs. NJ. D. Cameron, in South Bend, Ind ;
Mrs. Edgar Allen. in Cincinnati; Mrs. w.
T. Hartford. In Pennsylvania; Mrs II. c,
l>eefe, Nehraska's member OF the General
Federation board, also attended the Ma
tional Conference Of Charities and Cor
rect.ons at st. Louis.
At the recent Conference OF Charities and
Corrections held In st. Louis no small In
terest conferred in the conferences OF the
individual organizations. One OF these
which Mrs. Harriet Heller of the Deten-
tion school found of particular interest and
one which should appeal to every member
of the public, was the board of censorship
OF moving picture film manufacture. This
board co-operates with the reputable manu-
facturers of moving picture films. Their
purpose is, as the name implies to control
the pictures which may be shown TO the
youth OF the country. Anyone who visits
moving picture establishment, sees a
picture of which he doesn't approve, should
get the name OF the manufacturer and re-
port the facts to the board, They then In
vestigate and II their Judgment agrees that
the picture should be Withdrawn, 1t is with
drawn and destroyed.
The keynote OF the conference is given
said Mrs, Heller, by the president, Miss
Jane Adams, in her opening address or
Charity and Social Justice" Pity for the
poor and hatred OF injustice, she said, had
A long divided the people OF progress In theiI
O ideals and efforts. But at last they are
uniting under a common consciousness Of
these causes of misery to demand more just
social conditions. The charitable have beer
led 10 see the Industrial sources of poverty
and crime, and others have come to share
their compassion toward humanity
Charity" has been obliged TO recognize
It's movements as part Of the general socia
tendency and as dependent upon economics
sanitation and legislation.
While from our good old words, relief
and charity" the oid-tlme fire Is dying
out, new warmth and the glow of new hop,
are klndling in such terms of our Owl
times as prevention" "amelloration" anC
Ssorial justice"
! DIR. Thomas Coe Little Of Creighton uni
verslty tuJK part in the discussion on ''rh'
Care . .ae Insane" and made mos
favola-... impression by his talk. Miss Ida
v Jontz Miss Clara Schaeffer, Or. A w
4 Clark and jeff w. Bedford were othe
Z Omaha people who attended the conference
The high price of garden stuff is com
plicating matters for the board OF directors
Of tho Old Peoples Home and they hav,
decided TO ask the public to help then
supply their people with these summer nee
essities. Until this year the two lots ada
cent TO the home have been used by tn,
institution foI a garden plot but sine,
these have been sold this source of suppl!
has been lost The board finds it impos
sble, therefore, to give to the inmates al
the fresh green stuff which they SHOULD
have and so has instituted a special veg
etable donation day, the last Tuesday IL
each month. On this day the board o
managers will be at the nome to receive
visitors and also to welcome contribution
Of foodstuff.
The Story Tellers league will hold tn
last meeting before the summer vacation
Thursday afternoon. The program is 9Th
Story Of patrick Henry" Mrs. O. d. Rice