Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-08
Club News
ny FLORENCE BosARD LAWRENCE

ny FLORENCE BOSARD I>AWRENCE
Mrs. o. p. Clark. president of the
Friday Morning club, treated one OIL
the tender subjects of the club win
great discretion yesterday morning in
her annual address delivered before
the first assemblage of the members.
No other club in the city has held
quite so high a position with regard
to civic affairs as this one, ana tHlS
attitude has met with general appro-
baton by the members. There are
some of the women who feel, however,
that so much interest in laws ana
ordinances and the enforcement of
them Is but the prelude to woman sur
frage, and these have endeaVored 10
divert the interest of the CLUB pach
toward those more recognized nelds
for Woman's endeaVor, the study ol
plays, literature and music.
Mrs. Clark is not oblivious to the
feeling of this branch of the meIhDer
ship, and has determined to plan Tue
club along such broad lines that no
particular faction shall feel its inter
ests neglected. The keynote to TINS
attitude was struck in her address
when she said, There are some ques-
tons we dare not ignore"
She assured the members, however
that all that was best along those
other lines, the most talked OF new
plays, the besti available music, ana
lectures on purely intellectual SUD-
jects, should be an important feature
of the programs this year.
Mrs. Johanna Won wagner, lnspec-
tor for the city housing commission
spoke to the members of the clup
SjIle
told of the courts, especially where
the foreigners live, and of the dlIn-
culties each nationality makes Tor
those who would assure health to the
city and freedom from crime and wee
She spoke of the Chinese and thelr
opium smoking proclivities.
The Japanese in Los Angeles make
less trouble for the authorities, pe-
cause they generally marry and there
are many established families OF them
here.
The Russians, who are here in great
numbers, are deeply religious, but ex-
tremely ignorant. They come from
the Caucasian mountains and follow
the ancient Hebraic law, and also the
laws of Christ. They eat no pork, are
clean, take their baths and keep the
commandments strictly. They believe
in early marriages, and their boys
and girls are taken to church JUST d9
soon as they display any inclination 10
run about in the evenings.
Mrs. Won Wagner told of 12-year-
old child being stolen from her bed
on the night of August 16 and the
officers having made no progress TO-
ward finding her This also brought
cut comment upon the elasticity of our
city laws, for there is little doubt that
had such thing happened in west
Adams street or Chester place the
town would have been alarmed ana
stirred to wild excitement.
Mrs. Won Wagner urged the estao-
lishment of some central bureau
where the various charity and civic
societies could be reached with eXpe-
dition and authority. In the present
ARRANGEMENT any emergency which
demands immediate consideration is
frequently met with distressing post
ponements because of the inability or
the prosecutors to reach those author
tiles qualified to act upon the COM
plant.
Mrs. Packard. formerly president or
the Oak Park Woman's club in Chi
cago, spoke of various methods en-
ployed by the clubs of that city to-
ward alienation of crime, and said:
women of Los Angeles should
make it so hot for the district at
torney that it should not be possible