Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
CLUBWOMEsN MEET IN FALL
CONVENTION AT NUTLEY
ccontinued from First Psge3

Hoard, of Brooklyn. chairman OF
drama study in Gibbs, on THE Drama
League;" Mrs. j. O. Burt. of Bridge
ton, on the Junior Civics League
and Mrs Lemuel Skidmore, of sum
NIT, who discussed the accomplish
ments and aims of the Housewives
League, declaring that the main fac
tor was to arouse the average woman
to the Importance of her personal in
terest in the campaign for better
foods. fairer prices and sanitary con-
ditions in all stores where foodstuffs
were sold.
Mrs. Charles w. Stockton presented
the report of the program committee.
Prior to the luncheon hour there
was a series of little informal chats
on the "Woman's Exchange, Civic
Doings," the Cooperative store and
similar topics. Mrs. A. b. Proab
chairman of the entertaining clubs,
extended the luncheon invitation,
(which was followed by an invitation
to drive. from Mrs. Guy Edwords,
president of the Nutley Improvement
Society. The driving expedition was
arranged by the Nutley Board OF
Trade.
Mrs. Thomas B. Stillman, vice-presi-
dent-at-large, went into the question
of an endowment fund collection at
the opening of the afternoon session.
She said in part:
Sarah Platt Decker accused herseif
of being the most extravagant presl-
dent the general federation ever had.
but the money she spent was returned
a hundred fold in widespread Dement'S.
Three of her most important works
were the national pure food law, play
grounds, the child labor bureau she
made a most urgent plea for the en-
dowment fund of the general fedora
ton at the biennial at San Francisco.
More Funds Needed.
Our state federation presidents are
also called upon to do far-reaching
work. quite beyond the financial re-
sources of the federation, and | could
show you many instances of their gem
erosity outside of the heavy travelling
expenses, very small portion OF
which is paid. But 1 am not here TO
sing the praises of our ex-presidents'
but only in passing to show what calls
there are on officers besides giving so
much personal service.
1.-THE various departments receive
only a pittance. Why, the legislative
department alone ought to have one
hundred dollars, and the others not
much less to do effective work. The
federation has been growing by leaps
and bounds and the financial founda-
ton is found inadequate; to
strengthen this an endowment fund
was planned, hoping thus to secure
an adequate income; at present the
members of the board meet most of
the expenses themselves. but the fed
Grafton stands for democracy and does
not want able women kept off the
board for financial reasons
las all the clubs need nearly all OF
their income for local work. it is at
times difficult to make members that
do not attend the federation meet
ings realize the importance of the
larger work. and see the necessity of
helping the endowment fund. One
dollar from every federation club
member would place the State fedora
ton on a solid financial basis.
AT the Atlantic City meeting Mrs.
Warren suggested we start a foun-
ders' list in the State federation.
This is being done in the general fed
Grafton.
1T is proposed that any club or
group of clubs seeking to honor one
of it's members or any other woman,
or as a memorial to one who has
passed to the great beyond, do SO; by
the gift of $50 to the endowment fund
the name would be enrolled on the
founders list.
Two new clubs Joined the fedora
ton, the Beethoven Music Club, of
East Orange, and the History Club,
of Sewaren."
College for Women Urged.
The matter of establishing a State
for women at Rutgers was
in, ~ o. nv Mrg
w. S. Douglass, of Jersey City, chair
man of the subcommittee on State
college and chairman of literature
and the library department.
THE first undertaking which our
president desires us to concentrate
upon is the raising of sufficient funds
to make possible the erection of a
building at our State college
in New Brunswick" said Mrs. Doug
lass. This seems to be the quickest
and surest way of obtaining educa-
tional advantages for the women of
our State equal to those long offered
to the women of nearly every other
State of the Union.
I'VE want to give to New Jersey
girls the opportunity to teach in the
high schools of their own State; we
want them to have a chance of COM
peting at least with the girls of other
States for the splendid positions that
are now open as never before in
almost every profession and trade
and in the scientific bureaus of the
nation to the women who are well
trained and efficient. We want our
future home-makers and mothers to
receive the benefit so many of the
of our country are now get
ting from that splendid new science,
home economics. If our State col
ege is to be a true State college it
should be the browning glory of the
great free public school system of
our State, maintained by the people