Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-07

charter members. The club will hold
a breakfast or frolic the day before
the fall federation meeting.
Chief Justice RusseIps Address.
Chief Justice Russell went deeply
into his subject on the development
of the criminal instinct and how 1t
should be checked.
Modern penology ignores the de-
mands of merely retributive justice
and seeks to accomplish the amend
ment of offenders through the drastic
process of reformatory agencies he
said. 1.-THE juvenile delinquent Is re-
garded not as a criminal, but as one
who needs the care and protection of
the State. The amelioration of social
conditions is sought through educa-
ton and repression rather than by
penal seclusion and punitive disci-
pline.
Medical practitioners led the way
in this reform by emphasizing pro-
phylaxis as against therapy. Disease
is now attacked at the germ stage;
the modern practitioner finds that
drainage and sterilization and vac
cination are more effective in main
tanning public health than is heroic
surgery.
Fire Commissioner Johnson, of our
New York municipal government,
thorugh inspectors in the department
of fire prevention, puts out fires, so
to speak, before they start, and in
this way has reduced the cost of con-
f1agrations fully % per cent.
"In like manner students of social
organisms seek the source and origin
of evils that they may assail them
at their first appearance. This Is pre-
eminently the epoch of the child. The
scientist studies the psychology OF the
child mind before it bends to the
pressure of education. Just as Froe-
bel and Pestalozzi found in these
phenomena the materials of their edu-
cational philosophy, so penologists,
who are up to date, busy themselves
with the manifestations of juvenile
delinquency. Men seldom change their
habits after reaching fifty years of
age; but there Is always hope that q
child may mend his ways. A vast
mass of legislation Is now developing
that seeks to insure the moral safety
as well as the physical well-being OF
the young. This is illustrated in the
statutes regulating compulsory edu-
cation, the employment of the young
in factories, the sale of liquors To
minors, and corrupting the morals ct
child.
Presidents Address.
For the past two years this ad-
ministration in its entirety has beer
working with but one thought in mind
| to make the federation the finest
| biggest element in the woman move
ment of our State-to make of each
woman a finer thinker, better
worker and 1lome-maker, because she
| is a club woman" said Mrs. Ropes.
1.-THE growth of the federation has
| been very gratifying; we now mum
Der nearly 1900 women. To wha'
great interest is this growth due? Is
| 1t just because a group of women are
! going about the State visiting clubs
and coaxing them to become a part!
Is it for selfish motives? Oh, no: we
| firmly believe it is because we are al
working for the common good, tt
make the world better for our beins
| in it. 1t is the value of the 'get-to
gether' spirit, the cooperation sc
necessary il we are to succeed In any
| great undertaking. 1t is the persona
touch which will keep the spirit alive
/ the taking the work of the fedora
ton and its several department inter
ests into the individual clubs, whicl
arouses the enthusiasm, not depend
ing upon the few who come from eacl
club to tho conventions to take bacl
the good news and keep thing
aroused. We have had the pleasur
of visiting clubs which had beel
members and withdrew from lack o
interest; OF visiting the unfederate'
club desirious of knowing of the fed
GRAFTON, it's aims and achievements
the new club Just federated, with al
it's enthusiasm, waiting to do Its par
in the work; and we have visited thu
clubs which are sufficient unto them
| selves, and have been convinced tha
we have the power to win them all, j.
we make good ourselves. Bushes!
principles and more common sens'
applied TO the machinery of fedora
tion, making 1t simple and direct do
ing away with the duplication of eff
fort and overlapping of departments
the concentrating upon some few
things, and by concerted effort push
ing them through to a conclusion, will
/ do much to help. All are interested il
the establishing of the College fo
| Women by women for the honor o.
| our State and the good of our girls
Nearly everyone desires q widel
use of our school plants as community
centres; all realize the need of an en-
| dowment fund 50 that we may pa!
our way, and not ask women to taxi
| office do the work and support he
special department at the same time
and nearly all realize that in order t
accomplish this the dues must be In
creased a trif1e. What woman in thu
| State could or would object to paying
| ten cents per annum toward the fed
GRAFTON work If she was conversan
with it? The opportunities offered by
the federation for joining in larg'
projects will no longer be looked upoI
as begging If we choose wisely ant
perfect our plans before offering then
| to the clubs for support.
Presidents Recommendations.
There are a few things which thi,
administration would recommend, II
its experience, being necessary to thu
further growth and welfare of oul
! federation.
"First-The regrouping and con
densing of some of the departments
| to do away with the overlapping.
"Second-The redistricting, to a Ger.
tain extent, of our State work. AS we
are now working some of the towns II
Congressional district (Which Is
our basis of division) are too widely
separated from the others in the same
| group and under the same district
vice. president, therefore greatly ham.
pering the work. For instance, Ar.
| lington Is in the district with the
Bayonne clubs; Boonton with these OF