The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-14
CLUB NOTES

At the business meeting of the
Votes for Women club of Grand Forks
held Saturday evening steps were
taken in an endeavor to call a state
convention Of suffrage workers in that
city for the purpose Of ~perfecting a
state organization. A committee with
Mrs. j. M. Gillette as chairman was
named to correspond with all other
suffrage clubs in the state to ascer-
tain their feelings in the matter and
to ask them to send one or more del
egates to a meeting to be held In
Grand Forks some time this month.
the exact date to be fixed just as
soon as possible. The other members
of the committee are Mrs. G. E.. Braw-
ner, DR.. May Sanders, Mrs. Williams
and Miss Tenner and they will hold a
meeting at Mrs. Gillette's home this
evening. The Grand Forks club be-
lsoves that in union there is strength
and that the only way to gain this
necessary strength is to unite the
several local clubs in the state. There
are local organizations at Fargo Dick
inson and several other cities besides
Grand Forks and the state w. G. 7.
u. has a votes for women committee
in their state organization. A state
organization would bring all these
working powers together and in this
manner great progress could be made.
The Valley City Civic Improvement
league has elected as delegates to
the district convention OF the State
Federation of Women's clubs to be
held at Wimbledon next Wednesday
Mrs. L. G.. McMullen, Mrs. Walter
Mcdonald and Mrs. Henry Beal. The
other clubs from Valley City will be
represented as follows: Mrs. A. p.
Peake and Mrs. ]. Z. Featherstone
from the Tuesday club, Miss Fannie
Amidon, Miss Winstead and Miss
Fisher are appointed from the Sorosis
club, Mrs. Sim Mason and Mrs. John
Emerson from the Domestic club, Mrs.
w. A, Gordon, Mrs. James Grady and
Mrs. j. B. Meyer from the Music club.
Mrs. Zimmerman, Mrs. Raub and Mrs.
Morris johnson from the Sheyenne
club.
The Longfellow Neighborhood club
will meet tomorrow afternoon at the
Longfellow school. This will be a
social meeting and it is hoped that a
large number of ladies will be pres
ent.
The Fortnightly club held a regular
meeting yesterday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. A. e. Bestic IN Thir-
teenth street south. Mrs. Ernest
Wright added to the pleasure of the
afternoon with three beautiful vocal
numbers. She was accompanied by
Miss Florence Turner. Her selections
were The Boat Song, The Land of Sky
Blue Waters, and Ny Heart Is Like a
Flower. The feature of the afternoon
was a paper by Dean Bowling on the
Ethics Of Penology. He began by de-
filming just what hts subject means.
He explained that the term has been
very much misunderstood. Early ideas
of a criminal were to get rid of him
by death, and men and women were
killed for almost any cause. Later as
people became a little more civilized,
Punishment was the popular form of
punishment as is illustrated by Eng
lands sending their ~conyicts to Amer
lea. The Quakers originated the idea
OF putting criminals into rooms to be-
come penitent, which later developed
into penitentiaries, At the present
date 1t is the object Of the people to
get into sympathy with the criminals
and give them a new chance. Dean
Bowling quoting a noted detective
said: "Al honest men are potentially
criminals and all criminals are poten-
TALLY honest men. Criminals are re-