El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-22
ACATION days in clubdom are
" about over

ACATION days in clubdom are
NJ about over.
With the coming fortnight,
ali the women's organizations in q
Paso and the nation VIII open their
years activities, setting the dynamic
force in full operation
Not that we have rested during the
sumner respite. The tendencies OF
the times do not permit that
The business Of being a club wom-
an means being informed up TO the
minute IN what is new in the social
or common thought Of the day; what
the ideals are which lead or guide
what special activities are advised
what plans. methods or purposes are
in the lead during the current year
Club women are building eternal
principals. in these days Of war, the
hearts Of club women, and mothers
in particular. who desire above any
thing on earth an eternal world peace
and cOnstructiveness in the affairs Of
the world, are being torn by giving
up Americas manhood It is con-
slant repression Of self and the eE-
istence Of a hopeful faith in the com
ing Of happier day and era
Hundreds and hundreds OF relief
workers in FL PasO are forgetting
themselves in SERVICE
Coming nearer home
When a club composed of women
Of varying remperaments and many
personalities and varied individual
likes and disikes, when such a club
can make the stranger feel comfort
able and happy, and can take in the
sensitive little woman cordially ana
lift her in broader living, il has
achieved q most gratifying result
IL has reached its "obJectlvIty, one
might say. No one has ever doubted
the value Of Intellectual and spiritual
Ceuters. Nor must they lose sight OF
the value of the social If the war
has done nothing more. il has made
the whole world feel akin It is the
kindly word, a smile that helps After
all, IL isn't the fellow stranded on
desert isle who is loneliest
II is amazing to observe the friend
illness and hospitality that exists as
the result Of the club federation
chain. The strength Of the chain, by
the way, is measured by its weakest
link
Only by reviewing the hundreds Of
reports that come from every state
in the union. can the bulk of work
that wOmen's clubs are doing be APP
preciared From town and country,
from big clubs and small, there is
record of achievement that shows
certain great erends Of interest;
thousands Of clubs this year are en-
gagged in helping TO found libraries in
small towns in circulating magazines
among isolated communities, in Civ
ing community Christmas trees; in
organizing local and patriotic pag-
eauts; in working for baby week; in
trying for better motion picture pro
auctions on their own towns; in work
for AmericaniZing immigrant women
and In Organizing the younger wOm-
en- and girls for civic club work. So
numerous are the examples Of these
activities that they may be said TO
amount 10 nation wide movements
The Georgia Federation has a loan
fund by which 1t assists girls in get
ting an education It has 50 far
helpded IS girls at an expense Of Slo,-
0G0- Nevada club women are doing
similar work
working for two measures in their
legislature-to raise the age Of con-
sent from H. 10 IS years and 10 en-
able women now eligible to vote for
school communities TO vote on the
ratification Of the constitution
The Whitman Woman's club OF
Massachusetts, maintains an employ
ment bureau for high school pupils
The Twentieth Century club Of
Helena Arkansas, maintains
scholarship in the University Of Ar
kansas
Through Mrs. George Stevens, as
sistante director of the Toledo Art
Museum. The Federated clubs Of Ohio
have arranged for the clubs Of the
state 10 secure q free lecture Illus
trated by films covering important
industries from the bureau Of com
mercial economies
In one small town in Louisiana the
club women are copying and giving
publicity to the tax rolls in an effort
10 secure equitable taxation.