The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-14

from this great world struggle shall
evolve a new American nation.
Mrs. William d. Steele of Sedalia
Mo-, chairman of the music department
of the General Federated Women.
Clubs, and Mrs. Albert j. Ochsner, Chi
cago, president National Federation o
Music Clubs, write joint statement
1--WE heartily indorse federal train
ing. Give music place, with its har
monizing and Strengthening powers
The great training centers will afrort
wonderful opportunity to make
broader, more sympathetic and spirit
ual citizenship"
An Inspired Plan.
BY MRS. WILLIAM PEDRlck JR
OF BALTIMORE.
Chairman of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs.
"UniversaI ana obligatory fedora
training of young men and women II
an inspired plan for national func
tioning of the ideals for which ths
United States should stand. There
could be no more admirable methot
for distilling the essence Of democ
racy and for achieving physical ant
moral regeneration"
BY MRS. JAMES LEES LAIDLAH
ITO inform our electorate and on
prospective electorate; to give then
the tools of citizenship; to equip then
to use these tools to the full efficienc.
of citizenship is Herculean task, Blu
| a completely possible one.
aln, 30 rDI1 1881 Un
ing once be made operative and be
lieve great army of citizen workerx
| men and women, will rise to cooper
ate"
Doctors Urge Idea.
! Women leaders of the medical pre-
| fession are aggressive in expresstn;
their conviction that a system OF fec
eral training is essential to regenerat
our American stock and teach the law
| of hygiene and sanitation at the ag
when they will be most appreciated.
DIR. Bertha Van Hoosen, former ne
tional president Medical Woman
Club, of Chicago; DR.. Clara Seippel o
the medical section, Council Of Naior
al Defense, and DIR. Violet Paine
Brown, head of the Illinois federation
department Of public health, ar
among the founders of the movement
Mrs. Elmer Blair, chairman publ
health department General Federatiol
of Women's Clubs, wires her heart
approval.
Authors Enthusiastic.
No group of leaders of thought seem
| to have responded more patrioticall
or wildly than the few authors VIII
were invited to express opinion. The,
deserve a page. The names incIud
Mrs. Edwin Markham, Agnes Repplie1
Mary Roberts Rinehart and others.
BY AGNES REPPLIER.
II am glad to indorse the resolu
| ton on federal training. When s.
many malign influences are at work
we should teach all young Americans
the duty they owe to their countr.
and arouse in them disciplined demo
cratic patriotism that will save then
from the supreme selfishness of tn
pacifist and the demagogue."
| BY HELEN A. CLARKE.
among great historical movement
| there is not one of more immediate AM
far-reaching Importance than that liz
| augurated by the committee on fedora
training.
"The great good to human societ,
resulting from the war is that the idea
of democracy has been acclaimed b,
the most progressive nations of TIN
world as the inevitable ideal of an en-
lightened civilization. But an idea
may be accepted with enthusiasm annie
exciting scenes and yet remain vague
Iy defined in the minds Of the ma
jority Of the people"