Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-06-19
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ENJOY SPLENDID PROGRAM AT
STATE CONVENTION AT
AMES LAST WEEK

the keynote of all the speeches de-
livered at the Biennial of the Fed
Grafton of Womans Clubs which was
held at Ames last week, beginning
on Wednesday and closing Saturday.
The attendance was the largest
ever registered in the state, the en-
rollment showing $50. The ban
quet table which was spread in the
gymnasium Thursday evening serv-
ed more than one thousand delegates,
officers and visiting guests.
The college of agriculture was
headquarters. Business pertaining
to the convention was transacted on
the first floor, while most of the pro-
grams and exhibits were on the sec
ond floor.
Good music rplifted the audience
at every session. Officers, chair
men of standing committees and dis
tsict chairmen gave excellent reports
of work done during the past two
years, and eloquent speakers gave of
( their best morning, noon and night.
Among the best of these addresses
was that of DR.. Theodore G. Soares,
who showed Americas Part in the
Worlds Future" Among other
good things he said "Our interest
and duty calls us to share in the
worlds order" and that "the at
tempt to establish stable peace may
fail if the United States refuses to do
her part
Mrs. Beulah Wright Comstock of
the University of Southern California
made the response at the banquet
Thursday evening to 1.-THE Literature
of the Great War" She dwelt -es-
pecially on the poetry that the war
had given to the people, reading
many short selections, intermingling
humor and pathos most charmingly.
FLANDERS Field" and "The Render
vous With Death" were among her
selections.
Mrs. Pauline Palmer, president of
the Chicago society of artists, was
another of the banquet speakers.
She took as her subject cart for Us
and Our Children"
The newspapers said that a galaxy
of stars featured Fridays program
and everybody agreed with them.
Mrs Thomas G.. Winter, vice-presi-
dent of the General Federation, came
first, talking of a New America, F"
and telling the great audience filling
the large auditorium, that some
thing new had come into the lives
of our young men over there" and
we women must measure up to 1t,
finishing with the thought that
"child welfare is the biggest work in
the world, and that each woman has
an individual responsibility in It,"
Mrs. Eleanor Clarke Shagle OF
the Chicago school of occupation was
next on the program. Her subject
q AAfI A
piled to State Charges" She showed
the need of better teachers in the
grades, teachers especially gifted
with understanding OF the needs OF
the young child. so they may have a
fair start and thus save many from
becoming state charges later in life.
About the most interesting and sur
prising of statistics given were those
proving that tubercular, cardiac and
nervous cases among soldiers far
outnumbered the orthoepedic cases.
Probably the strongest and most
magnetic speaker in the entire pro-
gram was DR.. Caroline Hedger OF
Chicago. plainly dressed profession
al woman with a wonderful personal
ity, who plead the cause of the for
eign born woman among us. de
mocracy must be living, breathing
thing in our daily life" was the
message that made itself felt in the
hearts of her hearers.
A number of smaller conferences
divided up the convention Friday af-
ternoon to hear talks on civil service,
school reconstruction and public
health, but all gathered once more in
the evening at the Methodist church
to listen to an organ recital and So
loist, which was followed by an adj
dress by DR.. Edward A. Ross, of the
University of Wisconsin, who chose
for his topic "This Man Made
World" Among other pertinent
things he said There is sex In mind
but not in intellect"
Many delegates returned to their
homes early Saturday morning, but
enough remained to duly install Mrs
H. W. Spaulding of Grinnell, as the
newly elected president of the state
federation, and decided that Ottum'
wa should be the next place Of meet
ing.
The final address emphasized al
that had gone before and continued
in the same trend of thought and
were given by Judge Wade, who talk
ed "Americanization in Iowa" and
President McConaughly of Knox col
lege who told What the War Has
Taught U.s." SO the biennial clos
ed as.it began with efficiency and de.
mocracy showing up as the big need
of the present time all over the
world.
AS the womans Club held theii
last meeting of the year prior to the
convention, the delegates submit
their report through the press, thu:
making ii possible to reach every
woman.