Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-08
WOMEN'S WORK
IS REVIEWED IN
MANY REPORTS
Tendency of State Federation
Is Toward Time and La
Dor Saving.
ART, EDUCATION, MUSIC,
ALL GIVEN CONSIDERATION
President Makes Plea for More
Business-Like Methods
by Women.
IFrom a star Correspondents


ASBURY PARK, May S.-Reports
from the various departments of the
New Jersey State Federation of
Women's Clubs were read day at
! the second session of the twentieth
annual convention being held here.
The reports were an indication of the
many fields of activities covered 10y
the Federation through it's different
branches. To-day's session was well
attended, there being many visitors
in addition to the delegates from the
various women's clubs represented.
The work done by the Federation
committees covered the fields % ant,
education, women, music, conserva-
| tion, industries and child labor, So
GEOLOGY, civics, home econmics and
subject of legislation in its connec-
tion with the work of the Fedora
ton. A reception and musical for
the delegates will be given in the
First Methodist Church here this
evening.
The convention passed q resolution
this morning Incorporating the fed
GRAFTON. to protect it in perpetuity to
safeguard the directors and to legal
ize it SO it can collect and keep funds.
These delegates were elected to the
home education congress in Philadel-
phia, from September II to %: Mrs.
John V. Cowling, Mrs. William T.
Ropes, Mrs. Henry II. Dawson, Mrs.
I1. T. Gill and Mrs. William d. Weikel.
Mrs. William S. Disbrow was nomi-
mated but withdrew.
To-day's session was opened with
a conference ON ciyics, led by 1frs
Charles Brock. This was followed
by the report of the nominating conf
mittee, made by Mrs. II. E. Deats.
In beginning her address, Mrs.
William T. Ropes, president of the
State Federation. said:
To-day we stand, as it were, at
the top of the hill of this administra-
tion. 1t has taken year to creep up
to this first annual meeting, to pick
up the threads and begin to weave
our fabric and now we start down to
round out and complete. If possible,
what has been, undertaken. so as to
pass on to our Successors the best we
!! have TO give. As is only human, we
stand at the top Of our hill and glance
both backward and forward. The re-
port has given you the facts that lie
behind and now as we look forward
may we make some practical appli-
cations of what we have learned by
experiment. We club women need
primarily to learn TO conserve our
time and strength by doing things in
a more businesslike way. Several
new things are introduced at this con-
vention, small in themselves, but we
trust time and labor savers"
Plea for Incorporation.
Mrs. Ropes made a plea for the in
corporation of the federation. She
declared:
"The ultimate good of our whole
federation is always in the mind of
your officers. Not for today only
must we build. but for the future,
therefore, we feel that the most i'm
portant subject for consideration by
this body is that of the incorporation
of the federation for three primary
reasons, namely, the protection of our
name to us in perpetuity, protection
to the members of the board of direc-
tors against personal liability for
debts of federation, the, right to ac-
qliire and hold property. By incor-
porating under the act respecting as
sociations not for pecuniary profit
such protection and rights will be as
sured. 1t is earnestly hoped that as
this matter was placed before the con-
yention in Nutley last fall and in each
district during the winter, you have
informed yourselves upon the subject
and come prepared to vote intelli-
gently.
New jerseys apportionment of the
general federation endowment fund
which has been such an appalling
burden on the minds of those who
carry the responsibility, has been re-
duced from $4,000 to $1,000, in response
to a request made by your president
While this relieves some of the strain,
we now feel 1t incumbent upon New
Jersey to raise the balance, approXi-
mately s1,400, in as short a time as
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