The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26
LotUa Federation
of Women s Clubs

and committees was well attended.
and interesting. 1t was the second
meeting of the federation In Fort
| Dodge within a year. The hospitality
shown us last May was not all ex-
pended then, but was still greatly
in evidence Mrs. F. F. Fayille, cor
responding secretary, and Mrs. =. r.
Armstrong, treasurer, were the ON
cial hostesses. The Wahknosa hotel
was even pleasanter than When II
was our headquarters for the con-
yention for the new rooms and the
new ball room where our meetings
were held were very attractive.
All officers and nine Of the eleven
district chairmen were present. Com
mittee chairmen In attendance were
Mrs. c. G. Walner OF Atlantic, civil
service; Mrs. Charles II. McNider,
Mason City, conservation; Mrs. w.
D. Evans. Hampton. politician science;
Miss Myra Call, Cedar Falls, educa-
ton; Mrs. Ebert lockwood, Iowa
City, home economics; Mrs. Homer
A. Miller, Des Moines, equal suffrage;
Mrs. w. H. McHenry. Des Moines,
LEGISLATION; Mrs. A. ]. Barley,
Boone. literature: Miss Robinson
Des Moines, moral defense; Mrs.
Henry Taylor, Bloomfield, good roads,
and Mrs. W. II. Snider, Davenport,
state fair.
Mrs. Watzek, the president. has
record of war work done by clubs.
An incomplete record of the work
for the past months has been made.
but from the present to the close OF
the war, she requests clubs to keep
a full account OF it. One district
chairman suggests this report should
be made in writing at the 1913 fall
district meetings. The president also
urges clubs to maintain their iden-
tity and SO far as possible to keep
up club meetings, and to hold them
selves in position to take up recon
struction work, as clubs, then hap
PLY, distinctive war work is no longer
needed.
The treasurer reports receipts OF
club dues $1,916.95 for this club
year. Thirty-five clubs have dues
still unpaid. The federation has $500
in Liberty bonds.
The corresponding secretary re-
ports CAB clubs in the federation.
There are twenty-five new clubs. one
club withdrawn, three disbanded.
She recommends that all clubs have
election of officers in the spring If
this seems possible. The year book
upon which we all depend for the
names Of the club presidents and
corresponding secretaries is issued
mot later than Augut u.s." clubs hav-
ing fall elections are incorrectly re-
ported in the year book. 1t is sug-
gested that, If necessary, clubs
change their, bylaws in order that
they be correctly reported in the
year book.
The greater part of the delegates
to the general federation convention
reported their expectation of attend
ing the meeting. A full account of
trains will be given in later bulle-
tins, but hotel accommodate ions
should be reserved now. Mrs. John
Avery, Hot Springs, Ark, is the hotel
chairman; those desiring rooms
should write her asking that they be
placed with the Iowa delegation. The
Eastman hotel is Iowa and G. +.
headquarters.
Mrs. Homer Miller, the G. F. direc-
tor from Iowa gave an account OF
the proposed furlough home in France
to be established by the general fed
Grafton for our soldiers. The sum to
be raised Is based on the small ap-
portionment of one dollar per mem
Der. Contributions will be received
by Mrs. Miller, 3415 Grand avenue.
Des Moines, and credit given your
club. IL is desired and hoped that a
good beginning may be made before
the opening of the convention. 1t is
a good work and deserves recognition
notwithstanding the multiplicity Of
objects for our generosity. But is 1T
generosity to take care Of our own?
1t is rather our privilege. and happi-
ness. AS someone quoted from a
speaker who had recently returned
from the battle front: after the
war. it will be our pride to say how
little rather than how much money
we have left" This is a war to
death for more than the soldiers.
And here is an opportunity in a
little different direction. The Ameri-
can Library association is asked to
make another collection Of books for
soldiers. Miss Brainard at the Y. NJ.
&c. A. headquarters in Paris, says:
'"The men in the trenches are asking
| for books, books, books; four letters
! in succession arrived from one camp
I begging for them; they ask for
Tennyson's Poems, a work on ele-
mentary law, one on electrical engi-
neering, dictionaries. ALIASES, books
! on travel, histories of France. Greek
testaments, Kipling. Service and
Wells. Even Oppenheim and Joseph
Lincoln have not lived in vain
March 10 is the date set for the col
( lection to begin. Your own library
will receive them. IL you have no
library accessible, send them to Miss
Julia Robinson, state library, Des