Arizona republican., 1917-10-25

ing cluos, with startling swftness has come the answer. Since last May, our experience as club women has thrown q great light upon the importance oI Women'S clubs and the ideals for which they stand No high ideal oI social service or of true citizenship that may now now, through our ex- perience be translated into fact
 When the men Of Arizona made us citizens, did we think this brought with it no obligation so important as the suffrage? Our countrys entering the war has caused the question Of suffrage to recede into it's proper place among the obligations and duties of citizens. Now we known how small a place it fills. Now We know that, as we are citizens, we must keep abreast, keep step with the men who are helping America keep the pledge to our flag: Liberty and Justice for all" For fifty years one great object of the club movement has been to free woman from the narrow limits of her own hearthstone. To teach woman that mother love should oe broad enough to cover more than her own nestlings. Long have we been told through the poetry of liter 1tur> uf club life, that we must not tnink pf home only as the nest sheltering one family. That we must not think or protecting, cherishing mother-love as brooding over the children of that nest alone. Now that our boys have gone, we give q broader meaning to those words, home and mother Your boys and my boys! Are they not now our boys? Your boy is mine, mine is yours. And when our boys come home they will come home to Amer ica-to AriZona-home to the nest. Is this not wonderful lesson we have learned, Through the sorrow of war. patriotic service, the richest mea ming of home and mother has become a
 part of our life's experience.
 Seeing these wonderful lessons com 1 ing home to the hearts of our club women, it was but natural and fitting that, upon the forming of Arizona s 1 Council of Defense, your president. : should call upon our governor, assure 1 him Of your patriotism and of your l eagerness and willingness to be of l practical service. offering the advan 1 tage of your well organized clubs. In addition to the governors informal acceptance of this offer. he sent a 1 formal letter of appreciation from which we quote: T am taking the l pleasure of handing your name to George H. Smalley, secretary of the Arizona Council of Defense, With the suggestion that he avail himself of
 the valuable services in woman's clut
 work throughout central Arizona and
 so kindly offered yesterday"
 ,, Later. at the request of the presi- 1 dent of the Council of Defense, a list ! of fada tod ol1i he hoi 1 idents was sent to Mir. Smalley.
 Since then generously have you re- sponded to the many calls, coming tC |'conferences in Phoenix, helping the food conservation movement, organ izing Red Cross branches in smal
 towns, showing honor and love to oul
 soldiers in the days of their entrain- ment, buying books and comforts t Tel ger the days before them; buying
 Liberty bonds.
 Busy ranch women with no leisure Istill finding time for Red Cross worl
 land for greater effort in the increas
 ing and the saving of our food sup
 ply. Women of wealth and mucl
 leisure turning gladly from ease ant
 pleasure to knit and sew, to plan ant
 organize welfare work.
 Opportunity for patriotic service i
 knocking at every door-the humbles
 before us, may you continue to hea
 and answer each call Proving agail
 and again our pride in the names "
 bear: Americans, club women, citi
 zens, mothers.