Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-15
STATE FEDERATION
WOMEN S CLUBS
BEST EVER HELD
MRS. E. .W.LTTLE TELLS OF MEET
ING RECENTLY HELD. SHE AT
TENDED AS DELEGATE

The twenty-second annual conven-
ton of the Michigan State Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs met at Jack
SON for a four-day session, beginning
Monday morning, October %, and
closing Thursday evening, October
26. 1t is said to have been the most
largely attended and the most pro-
fitable meeting the federation has
ever held.
The session were held in the Ma
sonic Temple, where every convent
ence for delegates had been provided
rest and tea rooms, branch postof-
fee, telephone booth, information
booth in fact everything for the
comfort and convenience of visiting
club women.
In the seventeen years since jack
son last entertained the state fedora
tion the body has grown from col
lection of fifty-five women, who
through united effort, have become
power for uplift throughout the
state. There were in attendance
three hundred delegates and about
one hundred and fifty club women.
Many and varied were the lines Of
work carried on by the federation,
through its different departments,
each having an efficient chairman.
There are departments of literature,
art, civics, legislature, conservation,
corrections and charities, education,
economies, music, library extension,
industrial and social conditions, and
public health, each with it's sub-divi-
sions, touching upon every phase and
condition of life.
Among the many interesting ad-
dresses of the week were: "The Home
in Politics." by Mrs. Albion Fellows
Bacon; "The Mother of the Future"
by Mrs. Kate Upson Clark; GA New
Phase of Life" by the well-known
temperance lecturer, Sam Small; /;
"The Art of Discrimination in Litera-
ture," by John Cowper Powys, of
Cambridge University, and Towards
Democracy" by Frances Nelson, M.
p, London, England. (Extracts from
these lectures will be given in the
Banner next week as prepared by
Mrs. Litle). There were also help
full and instructive talks on "Home
Economics" by Miss Georgia White,
M. A. c.; "Public Recreation" by Ira
ID. JAYNE. Superintendent of Recrea-
ton, Detroit, and characterization"
by Asst. Superintendent of Detroit
Schools. Excellent music, both vocal
and instrumental, was inte1tipersed
with the speaking. Vocal solos were
given by Mrs. Lena Leonard Fuller
and Miss Irene Traub, former resi-
dents of this city.
Very pleasant social events of the
week were the informal reception and
banquet Monday evening, with more
than five hundred in attendance. The
suffrage dinner Wednesday evening,
and the closing reception Thursday
evening, with both the retiring and
the newly elected officers in line, to
extend a cordial handclasp, to the
visiting club women.
Although the state federation en-
dorsed equal suffrage many years
ago, this is the first year it has actu-
ally engaged in the work. Mrs. o.
III. Clark, president of the Michigan
suffrage association, urged the club
members to bear every effort this
coming year for the passing of a
federal amendment franchising wom-
en-. She said, "We believe that by
getting the ballot we shall be able
to do those things we stand for, more
speedily, that we may stand togeth-
er, men and women, on all the splen-
did issues of the day."
Mrs. Ashbaugh, retiring president
of the federation said, "The sign post
of the Michigan State Federation OF
Women's Clubs points in one direc.
tion-"Onward"- the hand dir.
Getting, is ever turned to the road
leading out and beyond, the words tc
which the hand serves as guide, are
these, TO Our Ideals The desire tC
set the human race out upon its way
has been the underlying cause of al
the great activities of women. A:
we study the forward movements OF
the past, we see how extensive par
in all of them women have taken
nay, more they have not only taker
part in them, but have frequently
been the advance agent, the courier:
making preparation and arrangement
This is the age of women, even as tht
last period of approximately 2,oo'
wears was the age of man."