Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-13


General Federation Of women's Clubs, has
issued the following communication IN
further explanation Of her December mes
sage:
MY mail has been so full Of questions
/ relating to the message OF the December
Bulletin that l have in many cases only
acknowledged, with the promise TO speak
| more fully upon certain details In this
/ February message:
First-The difference between co-opera-
/ tion and membership
| / will take as an example Of most ef-
! fective cooperation the National Chiia
! especially Interested I'm this subject viii
/ Join the national organization.
! The officers have asked your presiden5
to serve on their executive committee ana
/ to act in an advisory capacity. Ihe Gen
eral Federation voted TO assist IN every
possible way I'm the passage of the bill
/ for the children's bureau, Therefore our
| legislative committee was authorized 70
make this special plea in approaching
Z United States senators and representatives,
we have never been asked, and we
should consider IL inadvisable, 20 join tnls
| national rganlzation as clubs or as sVsIe e
! federRtions, since we have the special ue
I tailed work under our own department. oI
| EouaIlv effective is the corporation with
] the American Civic association. the Ameri-
/ can Medical association. the National Con-
servaton commission, the qnen' - ft1ysrs ISsi,
and Harbors congress- the National Eou-
cational association and many others.
! It seems wise TO speak OF two orgahlZa-
tions that have much confused the minds .is
| Of those who have not UNDERSTOOD pul
who have wished to be loyal TN,
The American Federation OF Arts WIN
Which we WGplo ofseTed nayS pIsns OF work we
believe helpful, sent misleading letter TO
our state federations, Implying the ap
man OF our art department OF the prop
osition that the state federation should
'oI In some cases the dues would be, for
one subject, many times larger than the
entire dues to the General Federation.
The other is the womens rivers and mar
bors congress. auxiliary to the national
organization formed 70 assist in any pos
sible way the great work OF waterways. $.
This was admirable. had they come to the
organization already existing for their
members One large club said their letter
waterways. headed General Federation
of Womens Clubs" and the club thought
it's loyalty demanded a knowledge of name
and intention Thus this one case, like
many others, came to my attention.
Second-Circulars and equipment; The
work Of the General Federation has been
authorized by your votes. At times YOU
have objected to the many circulars OF in
formation and requests coming to you, to
board of directors decided to ask the Off
cial organ. the Federation Bulletin. to print
the circulars from department chairmen,
and thus reach every club in a most direct,
but not mandatory form. Any chairman
of the same department in the club can
find in this organ, If kept on file, all the
.tiASA AAeheibta NN nay bAfN' CA'N VIZ AAAA
1t small amount.
The equipment OF the General Fedora
tion is much hampered by lack of funds
A chairman has small sum for the bi-
ennial period, for stationery and postage
for circulars, etc, 1t is all we can give
She pays her own expenses to council and
General Federation meetings to do oul
work We would be glad to send her tc
the meetings of national organizations
with which she must be affiliated ano
I where she would meet other experts In
that particular field Only in three very
able to do this. The president and officers
J who can take the time do exactly this con-
ference visiting at their own expense.
We would like TO nave travelling ar
galleries and collections of slides TO send
/. where needed; we need lecturers Whef
more effective the work OF clubs and C
do away with the criticism that many
take up lifetime subjects in one season.
The wonder is we have done so much
with such small income-through the loya
devotion of many: Our small per capita taS
, comes from the fact that our membersniI
is by clubs and not individuals, and thu
amount seems large to the club; No won
luton can build beautiful hall and carr!
on great concerted actboni No wonde
Y the Collegiate Alumnae association car
send its fellows abroad for special re
search work! While the great work o
? the General Federation for the conserva
ton Of child life IN work IN play in IN school s
because we will it, and the personal effor
1 stops not for funds.
g There should come to every club in tn
Y United States. through direct and indirec
membership. a circular of questions iron
+ our departments. beg for this one com
T plete set OF questions some answer Ii
. every case
: / am told the General Federation i
= highly organizeduit is not f suIficsntly IS s
q doing. or the work of the federation, al
over the country. If it is power, as W
> are told SO many times by other organiza
tions and by many individuals asking ou
: help, we should be able to state Just wha
we are doing and can do, When a chair
man in a state federation says: I'VE hav
$50 clubs in our state, and 1 have receive
, replies from only nine" you will recogniz
+ that we are not getting proper data
am therefore hopeful that as these ques
. tions come to you (early in February, 70
may see that they are answered for thi
l. one trial attempt. Afterward. II the state
g take up this method as Massachusett
y has most admirably initiated, il will b
e hut one set Of questions for the yea
activity is considered. answer; II all, IN
: back of the slip can be added for answers
i II none, write the name Of the club an
II across the questions, mo activity unde
II these heads" We shall know just what
q club is doing and its change in activit
be answered Immediately TO have return
: in time for the chairman to digest befoI
!, we have a most inspiring program fc
u Cincinnati, and long to speak to you an
y take you by the hand, to talk over III
10 cause we have made them ours and b'
II " EVA PERRY MOORE
- The next meeting Of the literature d,
,e partment OF the Woman's club will be hel
y Wednesday, February 16, at 10 o'clocl
Ia Mrs, NJ. Langfeld leader.
II At this meeting Mrs. LAngteld will gil
!, brief resume Of the work done in II
n class on THE Folklore Of Mediaevalism
z. Miss Grace Miner, president Of the stor
D. Tellers league, win be present and te
OF the work done by that society and al,
= tell a story.
ne The loan collection OF the Chicago Wat
e Color society exhibited by the Omal
te Woman's club at the home OF Mrs. c.
n Montgomery Thursday afternoon, was e,
ne hibited again Saturday afternoon by ii
Dundee club at the home OF Mrs. Jol
Ross. jr, The paper that accompanied Il
exhibit was also read. The Dundee cit
has carried on the study of art this wi
ter I'm addition TO its other work. usll
the slides at the public library
Miss Isabel Lowden will speak at h
afternoon meeting OF the socialL settleme
SUNDAY afternoon on 'The Sacredness