The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-10
Women will Vote
at Iowa Capital
Club Women from All Over the
Union Gather at Des Moines
on June Is.

Iowa women are making plans for a
great meeting of federated club women
from all over the United States at Des
Moines, June Is to %. At this time the
fifteenth biennial convention of the
General Federation of Woman's clubs
IS to hold its assembly there. Fully
five thousand delegates and visitors are
expected at the sessions and every
arrangement is made for their COM
fort and convenience. Convention hall,
which has housed a score Of national
conventions the past year, will be the
meeting place, while Library hall and
other large civic buildings will be
used for conferences and exhibits.
A great ''pull-together" spirit has
permeated Iowa and it is the expressed
determination to make this conventions
a record breaker in point of comfort
and hospitality as we'll as epochal in
its programs and business sessions.
Leaders Of thought in every activity
touching women's interest will gather
there with ideas and plans for great
national progress. Americanism will
be the keynote of the convention and
one Of the great programs of the ses-
sion will be that Of Americanization.
Allen T. Burns will be the speaker on
the subject "Coercive and Cooperative
Americanization."
Will Show Movies
Moving picture films will be pre-
sented by the society of visual educa-
A &c
subject will be DR.. Hedger, of Chicago,
who will address the convention at a
luncheon given on June %. Art, as it
is being developed by the art depart
ments of the General Federation of
Women's clubs in every state in the
Union, will be brought in special
programs and will be in charge of
Mrs. Cyrus E. Perkins, Of Grand
Rapids, Mich, who will open the ses-
sion with review and prophecy Of
the future of art as expressed in the
life, of club women in their homes
and in their communities.
The Labor Question.
The minimum wage conditions, which
takes in shorter working days, aboli-
ton Of night work and one days rest
in seven, will be another important
question given some attention.
Conservation of national forests,
birds and waterways will also be
among the topics as we'll as community
service, with an effort of making
neighbors out of strangers, stressing
the making of neighborhoods, the
best Of their kind, seeing to it that
all the groups in the community have
a full opportunity for richer recrea-
tional life.
The power Of good literature and
the need of library extension will
stand out at one of the great sessions.
Great Interest Shown.
With legislative councils being form
ed in every state to look after legis-
lation in regard to the welfare of the
home, women and children, great in
terest will center in the program of
the legislative department. Among the
vital subjects to be discussed will be
the juvenile courts, the woman judge,
domestic relations courts, women on
juries, housing conditions, uniform
marriage laws, justice to the illegiti-
mate child, industrial standards for
women, health insurance and many
other subjects important in home and
community welfare.
National aid for education, through
| Legislation, will be still another sub
ject to receive attention. The speak
err on this topic will be- Congressman
Horace 7. Towner, one Of the authors
of the Smith Towner educational bill.
Mrs. o. Shepard Barnum, chairman
Of the department, Jane Adams, DR..
Hedger, Philand P. Claxton, United
States commissioner Of education, and
G. P. Cary, state superintendent of
public education in Wisconsin, will
speak at the main conferences.
Besides these attractions, there will
b e social affairs, such as receptions,
dinners auto rides, etc.