The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-13
1r11HAT THE WOMEN
INV OF H WORLD
, ARE DOING > 30

Texas club women are making great
preparations to boost their candidate
for the presidency of the General
Federation of Womcn's clubs. Mrs.
Percy V. Pennypacker and a commits
tee has bee appointed to take the
matter in charge. Mrs. Eli Harzberg.
president of the Texas federation. has
issued a call to state club women and
has appointed Mrs. j. c. Terrell chair.
man of the special committee.
1T is Il serious thing to belong to
a wonan's club nowadays said Mrs.
Kay Todd. who was elected president
of the st. Paul Merriam Park Study
class at the annual meeting of that
organization I'VE take up serious
things in our club and we have still
more serious things thrust upon us.
The me say that when women want
the ballot they will get 1t. 1t remains
for us to show what we do want. IF
We have enough wishbone. maybe we
will not need so much backbone. We
should feel u responsibility as indi-
Nlduals and as an organization"
Miss Gratia Countryrnan. h has
been city librarian in Minneapolis for
the past eight years, probably is the
most representative business woman
in the city. She is a woman of SPLEEN
did executive ability, and under her
direction the library has grown mar
velously. and its growth has no doubt
IN part been due to the fact that Miss
Countryman has placed herself in
close touch with every phase of CITY
life that could possibly have n re-
lation t GA big public library system.
Miss Countryman was assistant Ii
hrarian for many years before she
became librarian. During the period
!nat she has been in charge. the pub
lie library circulation has doubled.
The number of books has increased
tremendously during the same time.
mere We're $4,000 books put in the
past year. making a total of 23O, 900
to date.
The institution v e which she pre-
sides includes besides the central
building, 10 branches and is deposit
stations. Through Miss Countryman's
interest and cooperation. library
branches are becoming features in
parks and school buildings and books
are sent to factories. Miss Country
mar has Eel been alert to grasp at
every opportunity to make the educa-
tional and r%ecreational influence of
the public library felt all over the
city and to bring its advantages to the
attention of those classes which have
not been patrons.
Miss C~ountrymans interest in hui
n in movements in the city
known and she is prominent in every
thing of the kind. She was a mem
Der of the committee which the school
board called into conference when
the idea of using schools for social
center first reached Minneapolis. and
she is at the present time, president
OF the Woman's Welfare league.
An influential society has lust been
formed in Berlin to demand the fran
chise for on a property basis,
according to a recently issued report
on Women and Landed Property, one
sixth of the house property of Berlin
and suburbs is owned by This
estimate does not include houses
which belong to married ONE by
private. but not by a recognized legal
right. nor does it include property
whose owner is officially known az an
heiress.
Including these indirect owners a,
least one-fourth of the landed and
house property of the German capita
is in the hands of women. A repre-.
sentative committee of these women
has now been formed to urge their de.
mands upon the government.
49,
The brightest light that evcr shone
upon h u Of woman suffrage in
western Pennsylvania occurred Feb.
ruary % when the Pittsburgh Sun. al
a leap year courtesy. gave It's entire
plant for n day. into the efficient
hands Of the members of, the Eaua'
Franchise federation. The result wa,
a magnificent thirty-two page edition
containing suffrage news gathered
from every part of the world. Won.
en- occupied every editorial office;
took charge Of affairs in business anG
circulation departments; acted as re.
porters; started and ran the presses
| land sold the naners on the afrooA.