Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-26

San Francisco and Chicago again, have
been the convention cities in the or
| der named The forthcoming conven-
ton, the thirteenth, will have Sorosis
again as its hostess, in conjunction
with the New York state and city fed
erations, which are working their
| hardest to make the gathering nota
, BILE one in every direction.
The main drill hall of the Armory
of the Seventh regiment of the New
| York national guard, which will ac-
commodate upwards of 5000 women,
will be the principal meeting place.
| The colonelS room and other officers
quarters will be turned over to the
women for headquarters. The Armory
! is located at Sixty-sixth street, occu-
| ton and Park avenue.
! The chief executive is Mrs Percy V.
| Pennybacker, the president of the fed
GRAFTON, whose home is in Austin.
| Texas, but who for the past two years
! has been travelling throughout the
country keeping in personal contact
with the activities Of wOmen'S clubs.
| She will not be candidate for reelec-
ton this year however, and the ques-
! ton of her successor will be one of the
most important items of business dur
! ing the convention. The two Candi-
dates for the offices are Mrs. Samuel
! B. Sheath of Tiffin, Ohio, and Mrs.
Josiah Evans Cowles of Los Angeles.
! The Ohio candidate is at present first
! vice president of the federation. and is
a club woman of wide experience Mrs.
| Cowles, whose name has been put for
ward by the California women, has
also been prominently identified with
the federation several years as direc-
| tor, treasurer, and chairman OF yari-
, Gus committees.
| In the words of Miss Lutte E.
StearnS, one of the directors of the
| federation, 1.-The business of being a
| club woman is a big business and is
getting to be bigger business every
! day This is apparent from the elab-
crate program that has been arranged
for the convention. The topics indi-
cate an increasingly wide range of af-
| fairs in which the club women are TAX
ing not only an interest but an active
part. There was a time, for instance,
when the New York City Federation
| of Women's clubs could report on all
of its activities at each convention, but
now, says Mrs. Eugene J. Grant, the
president of the city federation, it
takes the six conventions of an admin
istration to get through the reports of
the SO committees which have de-
veloped.
The general federation has as its
broad object the furtherance of every
movement in the interest of women,
children and mankind in general, and
the program calls for reports and dis
cussions by committees on art, child
welfare, civics. civil service reforms,
home economics, conservation, indus
trial and social questions, legislation,
education, literature, music. public
health.-and under these headings
come subjects ranging all the way
! from moving pictures to international
relationships. One important an
Inouncement that will be made at the
convention is the fact that the feder-
alton has raised an endowment OF
/ 500, 600 The plan to raise such a
sum was voted at the Cincinnati con-
vention in 1910, and now that the
sum has been realized it will be in
vested by trustees, the interest being
used to help carry on the work OF the
general federation.
Many women prominent in New
York club life will take their turns as
hostesses to various sections OF the
great gathering Mrs. Thomas a. Edi-
'snn. for instance. will be one of the