The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-22
 FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS Session Lasting Three
 Days Opens in Manchester President Sykes of WOman's College Talks on Solidarity
 and Education


 Manchester, Conn, May 22.-Prob- lems of the home and of women's
 participation in public affairs and questions of civics are among the sub jects which will engage the attention of the delegates to the spring meeting of the Connecticut Federation of Wo- mems Clubs which will be in session here Tor three days beginning, today. To furnish relaxation from the serious | discussions, musical entertainment and other. forms of social diversion have been provided.
 | The federation comes to Manchester as the guest of the Cosmopolitan and l Educational Clubs and the delegates were extended the hospitality of the Center Congregational church. where 1 the meetings are being held, by Rev. pr. George w. Reynolds, after Mrs, F. A. Farrar, president of the Cos mopolitan Club had formally vel coned the visitors. Mrs: James R. l Bolton, of New. Haven, president of l the federation, responded for that or ganization.
 1 The principal address of the first l Fred erick H. Sykes, of the Connecticut 1 College For Women, his subject being 1 Solidarity and Education." Other speakers were Miss .Marjory Cheney and Mrs. A. l.. Kenyon. of this town. pr. Sykes made a plea for solidarity T among WO1n0us women nave III LnO l past lacked solidarity. he said, not the feeling for. it but the opportunity and 1 expr ression of it.
 1 Under earlier conditions, said the | speaker, the care of children and the industrial activities of the isolated
 home absorbed their time and devo- l ton. The church offered the only means for women to work in social
 fco-operation. Except for church i work, woman was the unorganized 1 sex Azsn,t especially men of the cities, whose activities function outside the home, deuelopeds social oTgaHfzat5ons- corresponding to every type zof activ- 1 ity they had in cornnnon-trade un- 1 ions, political parties, scientific socie- i ties, clubs. Men became the organized
 sex and their solidarity in public af- fairs was the basis of their power. 1 The present time is marked by an 1 fn1nn ense development of Women's ac- tivittes outside the home, he said.
 Modern life makes the participation possible and necessary, the industrial zfng of household supply and work, group living in apartment houses, la bor saving devices have; made the work of the house less, opening up l occupations to women in commerce, 1 industry and the professions has giv- en women better relations to each other, precisely like men's relations to | each other. Women's clubs, societies | LTdQ6 UnlOnS, pO1lC1Cal leagues, express i the new social situation and their pub l lie influence has vastly increased by means of their organization. The | dominant direction of women's organA 1 tzations toward social bettern ent, the Rpeaker held, is a sign of a, most healthful development of society. What women need is more organiza- ton, for power comes from organiza- tion, so that in all things that con cern living conditions, children, moth erhood, education, theylInay work to- gether powerfully to conserve and i'm ! crease what is best in life.
 In establishing this solidarity among women, leaders are necessary, he said, trained women, accomplished fin the Sciences and arts that have 1 most intimate relation to. life. The function of the woman's col1eg ge to produce this type, pr. Sykes discussed in many ways, emphasizing his re- | marks with many examples from so- cial work today and closed with a vivid picture of the new Connecticut college that is to be built at New Lon don and the possibilities it would offer both as a. college and as a technical
 college. to produce the type of train 1 ed women needed in the new social conditions in which we live Before adjournment was taken 1t was announced that the state fedora tion would complete the work of es- tablishmeut in Connecticut college Of the Mary Abbott scholarship of $5,OOO in commeTn oration of "of1e of the most | devoted women among the advocates of the higher education of women in l Connecticut