The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-13

eve Of election induced Mrs. Carpenter
70 take an active attitude favortng
equal suffrage. The election the fol-
strength of their position.
Mrs. ~Pennybacker was elected by a
large majority. Still this was not on
executive ability as chairman of the
endorsement fund committee and had
won the hearts of nan women by her
very gracious manner and by her rare
Excitement was unabated until the
Introduction of the resolution. Mrs.
Moore, the president, ruled 1t out of or
der as all resolutions should come
pose, and defined attitude of the
general federation as stated above. Her
ruling was sustained thus closing, it is
to be hoped, permanently, this effort to
convert the Federation of Women's
clubs from a broad educational body
open to all women, into a faction
pledged to the propaganda Of equal
This result is peculiarly
ing, because Ii in no way reflects the
opinion of the wonnen present on the
indicate the broad. impartial way ia
which women can handle a question,
even though their preferences might
urge them strongly to contrary
trage advocates, as well as those of
differing belief, is due the decision.
The serious illness of Mrs. Sarah
Platt Decker during the closing days
of the meeting lent a shadow OF sorrow
although we could not then believe
that 1t would terminate fatally. She
had been so active and so much her
w genial self during the first days.
She was everywhere and always the
life of the group that surrounded her,
keenly alive to and intelligent on ali
the questions of the day. Quick in rep
artee and apt in Illustrations, she could
always contribute to the thought under
discussion. When the endowment fund
committee made It's report and conduct
ed a symposium in the interests of
their work, 1t was Mrs. Decker, who
with her keen humor and frank state
ment of the situation brought home
the matter to the hearts of the dele
gates and thus started the subscription
to rolling in. AS yet we cannot believe
her gone n never until the memory
of those who knew and loved her has
perished will she really be gone from
Mrs. Philip N. Moore, who at this
meeting closed her second term of Of
fee as president, won for herself new
laurels and universal commentator as
presiding officer and captain of this
great host of over $780, 600 women. AL
ways courteous, gentle but firm, pre-
pared for each question as it arose.
modest and truly feminine, she yet dis
played remarkable powers of mind n
soul. She may fttingly be cited as the
ideal American woman, cultured, re-
fined, intelligent M intellectual, capa-
Bile and, to crown all, womanly.
Throughout the session her personality
dominated in Its own sweet way and
won for her the admiration OF all pres
emit.
This is in no way a report Of the
convention but Just a statement or
some of the writer's most vivid impress
sions. North Dakota was again hon
ored in the reelection of Mrs. Frank
White of Valley City as a director OF
the general federation. She and the re-
naming North Dakota delegates have
tarried to visit many points in the
west. Their reports of the meeting
will be given at the state federation
meeting in Grand Forks in October"