The Press., 1912-05-22

twelve international questions have
 been settled by arbitration since the Creation of The Hague court: Our
 sreaties are not perfect, but are better
 than ever before, and have been
 thought worthy of emulation by other
 nations, including Germany. We cer-
 tainly do keep the treaties we make, for not fifty out of one thonsand are
 even broken. We are working for a
 union of nations, and since we all de- pend on each other in the world of
 business, we must cooperate. War is Impossible when there is union, and
 in developing the possibilities of na- tional peace we are aiming toward a code of law under which all can come
 Together, a getting down to individual needs. We must minimize our differ Eences and magnify our likenesses and
 remember that we are only one among many. All heroes of war have been
 made so by chance, but if we teach |Our youth to be heroes of peace it will help them to live in a new point of Eyiew, ready to render service in time lof peace. '' In 1910 Edwin Ginn, the publisher of Boston, announced 8 per- petual gift of $50, 900 annually, which
 made possible the World Peace Foun- dation, for which Mrs. Duryea labors,
 and gift of BIO, 900, 900 by Andrew |Carnegie for "Peace Endowment"
 has given great impetus to effort
 for international peace.
 Miss Kate Lee Lewis of New Haven gave two piano selections, Butterflies |-Op. (schumann) and .Brahm' s
 Rhapsody-Op. R 119, No. 4, with il- lustrations.
 Mrs. F. P. Waters of Rocky Hill, who has recently taken up the work of the Industrial committee, reported as facts to rejoice over that we have deficient factory inspection and a Consumers League in the state, and
 D national Children's Bureau at
 Washington; D. O. In, sending out, to sssll1e state clubs questions regarding
 committees for Industrial Condi-
 tions'' and ''Women and Children in
 Industry, she found them not in-
 different or self-centered. Mrs.
 Waters urged the club members to give more time and thought to the follow
 ing subjects: (a) Poverty; (b) Juve-
 nile Courts; Co regulation of street
 trade for children, reading a Hartford
 ordinance on the subject; (d) scholar
 ship fund to keep children in school
 until sixteen; (e) workingmen's wid-
 ows' pensions and (f) social centers.
 A central committee on industrial conditions was suggested that the
 work might be correlated, that indi-
 vidual club effort might not overlap.
 In the absence of Dr. Sophia Pen
 field of Danbury, chairman of the
 Health department, Mrs. w. H. Hoff- man read the following report ::
 Many of our Federated clubs have done no health work during the year,
 as clubs, but have done individual work along health lines, in connection with other organizations, which natl uraIly cannot be reported here as club work. In the Current Events club of Bethel, the Health Topics sent out by the Health Department of the General Federation have been read at club meetings, in order that the mem- bers might be on the lookout, in gen. eral reading, for topics bearing upon this subject for use at the next meet ing. One club meeting during the year is devoted to health topics. The Bridgeport clubs, with the exception of the Mosaic club, which gave a lecture, on Social Hygiene by the health chairman, have expended their health activities in the Visiting Nurse association, which has kept two nurses constantly occupied. This as- sociation has successfully conducted milk station, which furnishes pure milk at nominal price, for babies, whose mothers receive instruction in sanitation and sterilization of milk Such tuberculosis patients as need it's care are sent to the county sanitarium. The Danbury clubs the past winter have combined with all the other or ganizations in the city and raised funds to establish Visiting Nurse as- sociation, which is offered by. mem :, bers of the Federated clubs. It opened it's work April 1st. From the Enfield Woman's club comes an interesting report of their original methods. of their visiting nurse work. Each succeeding year of, it's four years experience with a visiting nurse adds to it's wider appreciation by the general public. Thes Mutual Life Insurance company has extended the visiting nurse system to it's policy holders by. entering into a contract with the committee, which has netted them $64 The business men aided the work by giving most satisfactory entertainment, which added $367 to the fund. 7 A bazaar helped to the of $S4. The Waste paper and magazine collection added $40. A lawn barty netted $45; Red Cross Christmas seals realized $98; $lOI from pledges, and from patients $2I7; total, $l812. Total number of cases treated during the year, 126; number of visits made IS, ,s71, 62 more than last year. From one of our ciupsI comes thought that has been sug~ gested by observation of the working out of some of our city. laws. For. instance, the office of medical in-