Arizona republican., 1915-10-03
Tn Regard to Election of Directors

m he9ard 10 Election of Directors It is probable that a majority of the Board Of Directors to be elected at the New York Biennial will be new, and it is therefore important that club women in all parts of the country should be thinking of the most available material for the vacancies that are to occur It has often been said that this state or that state or this section or that ought to have a director and it is certainly proper and desirable that all parts of
 the country should be represented. But
 it is even more important that the wo-
 men proposed should have qualifica-
 tons that fit them pre- eminently for
 the places for which they are nominat-
 ed and elected. The General Fedora
 tiOn of WOman's Clubs is a great busi-
 ness enterprise in one sense. Therefore
 the Board should be composed for the
 most part of women possessing special
 business abilities, women who have
 held positions of trust and responsibil-
 lty, and who have shown judgment in
 the management of affairs. They need
 not all have financial acumen. but
 some of them should have From among
 the Board of Directors a Finance Com
 mIttee must be chosen, whose duties
 shall consist largely in keeping a sharp eve on the money side of federation matters and on whose judgment the other members can rely. From the members of the board must be formed committee advisory to the Genera
 tederatlon Magazine. and women with special qualifications are needed here No committee is more important per haps than the Membership Committee. tor very nice questions arise often in connection with applications for mem DerShip, calling for wisdom, sympathy and tact. The chairman of the Press Committee ought to be selected with great care and if any state has a Wo- man whom it considers especially fitt- ed for this post, let that state seek to nominate her for a directorship Let no state send it's president blindIy into | the meeting of the nominating con- mlttee for the purpose of securing a | nomination for the state because some 1 ol the women there feel that it is high tune they had a Director; that would l he unworthy of the club movement and ! or the Federation. But let it be borne | III mind that only fifteen women can be l chosen fer the officers and directors, from the entire United States. If a l state has woman who has demon ] Strated unusual ability in some line of 1 Federation activity, provided she be an | aIl-round woman, capable of taking a | large view of measures and persons, 1 who is also agreeable to work with. then it is right that that state should l bring forward a candidate It should 1 he known that she is not afraid of | hard work, for the position of Director is not sinecure. She should be a wo- man whose personality is such that W hereVer she goes she will represent the General Federation creditablv and win friends for the club movement This is not put last because it is the least important It is of very great moment that every officer and director )f the General Federation should be he best type of the American Club Woman.
 Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse of | New York, noted suffragist. has sug- gested novel manner of showing the lnti -suffragists that women are as i'm 1ortant in other fields of labor as in 1 he home
 Mrs. Whitehouse is planning a Wo- nen's One-Day Strike all over the country, to take place this month. On hat day, the business men will be 'hoWn just how dependent they are on he women in the business world.
 It is estimated that in New York llone FS6,193 women are engaged in
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