Williams news., 1914-02-19
AN INTERESTING PAPER.
A Paper on Civic Work Read at a Meeting of The Woman's Club, at the School House, Feb. 9th, 1914.
Continued from last week.

'O hdNC tileu lo CONoI tIc SJouuu generally by the following suggest ions: l. Secure good school buildings, ample play grounds and city parks.
 Not only must the building be at tractive and sanitary, with all its Appointments elegant, but 1t must
 be useful useful not only for the child but for the comm unity as we'll There Is no limit to the valuable social work. that must be done from the school house. It must be open at all times to all people. Being their own property it is theirs to use-not made to rust out but to
 wear out. Debating clubs, Wom-
 ans clubs, lectures, entertainments,
 circulating libraries, etc. should be housed there. With such an ed- ucational fund the children and
 adults of Arizona should not be
 seeking rest and recreation in sal
 oons, skating rinks and dance halls
 or wandering on the streets house.
 less or homeless.
 Furthermore see. that a Junior
 Civic League is formed in every
 school with the teachers as leaders Where better can be taught the les
 sons of citizenship and of patriot. ism?
 ?. Sanitary prisons and consider
 ation for the inmates. It requires
 little or no imagination to fancy the
 dirt and filth, the sin and shame, when we turn our minds and hearts
 upon that neglected domain of levery city the prison and the pris- toner In this a new value Is
 placed upon human being and
 new demands are made upon socie- Ity. The object of confinement is
 not SC much to punish as to reform and save. Unless we are sure that his opportunities have been such as lwould fit him for life, that the com
 munity has provided such training l. for him, society and not the indi- h lvidual is the criminal.
 's| 8. Humane treatment of dumb y bea ts. e| Where there is not humane so- e ciety it becomes the duty of the Civ ,f ic League to discourage the abuse y of dumb beasts and to see that they
 are properly housed, fed and cared
 for.
 4. Clean streets, alleys and vac
 ant lots and good drainage. n 5 Pure water, pure milk supply It and clean markets.
 n 6. Arbor day and Town Cleaning 1t Day.
 le 7. Place buildings on an estab-
 lished line.
 r. s. Relegate saloons and other ob l. jectional places to a designated dis h trict.
 To this list we beg leave to add
 another important suggestion.
 Where women and children are
 concerned, strive to place at least ,e one woman on every board. Why at should not a woman understand ci best her own and hrr children's ts needs and be most interested in the Is laws by which they are protected "a Should she, net also seek to become al we'll informed, intelligent citizen i- thus leading her children also into ;i- a perfect knowledge of the require h ments of citizenship? The heritage lg of every woman is a personal in IS debtedness to the race she perpetu ,y ates- a sort of race responsibility le to see that the next generation i' nt set a step forward and not backward IT, These truths, when fully absorbed in by our people, will solve the prob rs lem of what the future towns O Ve Arizona shall be. As promoters { n- long these linS our club wom en are 1t making themselves the real builder s. of the state. While some. like Mo
 ses, may only be permitted to view