Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-15
Des Moines Enthuses Over
Biennial Meet of
Federation

Omaha women have been asking
what was accomplished at the gen.
eral federation board meeting held
in Omaha last week. The answer is
that plans were made for the Gold
en- Prairie" biennial to be held in
Des Moines next June, and progress
gained toward some reorganization
of machinery in the federation. A
more complete answer is found in
an article printed several days ago
in the Des MONIES Register, which
says in part:
Des Moines, the chosen biennial
city of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, is the rendezvous
this weekend of club women of
state and national prominence, the
incentive being the visit of Mrs.
Littleberry ]. Haley of Birmingham,
director from Alabama and chair
man of the Golden Prairie biennial
program committee.
The coming of Mrs. Haley to Des
Moines following the midwinter
conference of the national fedora
ton officers, directors and depart
ment chairmen in Omaha, divulged
to the club women some of the def
mite facts concerning the program
in which thousands of club women,
who will come to Des Moines next
June, will be vitality interested.
"Americanism will be the key
note Of the convention" said Mrs.
Haley, who has devoted two years
in the preparation of the program
for next June. Its purpose will be
to promulgate and inculcate those
principles of Americanism which
won for America world leadership,
to instill that part America shall
take in the reconstruction plans
which the war has made necessary
to be done all over the world"
That means physical, political
and spiritual reconstruction"
stated Mrs. Haley. These three
special activities will be worked
out unitedly through all the II de-
partments of the federation which
will concentrate on thrift, which is
an individual matter; on community
service, which is group matter, and
Americanization, which is national
in scope"
The greatest mass meeting of the
convention, said Mrs. Haley, will be
held on Sunday afternoon, June 20,
and will be the largest of the SEES
sion, since men and women alike
attend this meeting. This will be
devotional in character and also in
spirationa1, which is the keynote of
the evening sessions.
DR.. Lynn Harold Hough: presi-
dent of the Northwestern university,
will be the speaker on this occasion,
his topic being "The Spirit of Amer
ica," continued Mrs. Haley. "It is
an interesting fact to note in con-
nection with the speaker that he
was sent by the United States gov
,ernment to England during the war
period to interpret to England the
war spirit Of America. In this ca
pacity he so pleased the English that
he was called to occupy the City
Temple in London, the largest
church in the world, during the en-
tire month of August.
Another speaker of national i'm
portance before the convention"
said Mrs. Haley, twill be DR.. Marian
Burton, at present president of the
University of Minnesota, but who
will soon 90 to the University of
Nc +o kn .%c had
Another great feature Of the con-
vention will be the presence of the
general federation overseas unit,
that unit financed by the organiza-
ton and which TO the boys over
there meant America. The girls,
together with their great leader,
Mrs. Blade, national Y. w. c. A.
worker, will be present to bring in
spiration also to the convention.
"This Des Moines biennial means
more to me than any other bien-
NAL" Mrs. Haley continued. ITO
day for the first time | have felt
really happy about it, before it has
been a solemn affair because of the
responsibility, but as I look into
your faces ] want more than ever
to work with you and for you.
From now on, you will not have a
single free moment in preparing
for the biennial which a prominent
government official has said, Such
convention will be OF incalculable
benefit to the government and the
result will be so far reaching that
it will make of the Des Moines bien-
NAL a read letter year in the history
of the general federation"