Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12

~EEMING with interest is this weeks activ.
tiles of the Omaha Womans club. partieu-
larly with regard to Mondays program
During the business hour, Miss Esther
l. Johnson, juvenile court officer, who is
member of the civics committee, will bring
pertinent juvenile court affairs to the attention of
the club women Following this, the open program
hour, which is put forward to 3:lj O'Clock, is in
charge of the education and health committees,
headed by Mrs w. S. Knight and Mrs. K. R. J.
Edholm, respectively.
Miss Mary Gray Pecks talk on Better Motion
Picture Films" is the education committees contri-
button to the meeting. Miss Peck, who formerly
headed the drama section, General Federation of
Women's Clubs, is member of the special
committee of the big womens organization on better
films and has been touring the country in the inter-
ests of better films in all motion picture houses.
Special movies" for children is the most important
work of Miss Pecls colleagues and in this interest,
Miss Peck has addressed mothers clubs, womens
clubs and state teachers associations wherever these
organizations congregate.
The public health department of the general fed
Grafton has added to child hygiene tuberculosis and
social hygiene fourth division called diseases Of
adult life. Under this head comes the study of
cancer. AT the recent convention of the Nebraska
federation the following resolution was passed and
the interest thus started among Nebraska club
women:
Whereas, cancer is now recognized as con-
rollable disease. and that the great mortality from
be materially checked by intelligent observ-
of the laws Of health:
Control of Cancer looks to the woman's clubs to
disseminate information on this subject as an eco
nomic as well humane
Therefore, be it resolved That this federation
be placed on record as endorsing the aims and the
educational work of this society by pledging its
moral support and whatever material help lies in
the power OF this organization TO give,
In direct line with this is DR.. faimer Findeys
talk to the women on the work OF the American
Society for the Control Of Cancer This will be the
health committees contribution to the program:
Saturday is red-letter day for members of the
Society OF Fine Arts. Prof Stockton Arson
brother OF Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife OF the
president will speak before the society "Rudyard
at the Hotel Fontenelle at &3O o'clock instead Of the
regular meeting hour at a. Prof hxson not only
had close personal relations with the president for
thirty-four years. but lie served under him when
Mr. Wilson was president of Princeton university.
He was assistant professor of English at Princeton
from 1890 to 1904 and professor from 1904 to 1913,
when he joined the faculty Of Rice institute, Hous-
ton; Tex, as professor OF English.
Prof Arson has written intimate sketches ON
the life and family circle of the president
That evening at o'clock this years first exhibit
OF the Fine Arts society will open continuing ten
days. Twenty bronzes OF Gutzon and Scion Bor
GUM. World-renoWncd sculptors, who cali Omaha
their home and twenty-five oil paintings by Childe
Hassam, Frederick Frieseke Charles II Davis
Emile CARLSON and Paul Dougherty will be shown
for this, the ninth exhibition Of the society Mrs,
Ward Burgess, chairman Of the exhibition commit
tee has been personally very influential and active
III providing this opportunity for enjoying the five
man exhibit The showing OF bronzes. too, is an m
novaton 10 Mrs. Burgess credit
twenty-five cents is the admission fee to the
exhibit which will be open week days from 10 in
the morning until 10 at night Sundays, when the
until TO- the admission fee will be only 10 cents
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