Arizona republican., 1921-01-30
BUSINESS WOMEN
 WILL HOLD STATE MEL TING HERE
State Organization To Be Formed At Meeting Feb ruary 12-All Parts To Be Represented

Designed to bring the various units | of the federation into closer touch with | one another and to give the business women of the state an opportunity to examine the advantages of member . ship, the State Federation of Business ! and Professional Women's clubs will hold an organization meeting in Phoe- nix on February F which will be at tended by business and professional women from every corner of the state.
 In addition to the delegates from the various clubs throughout Arizona, in- vitations are being extended to all pro-
 fessional women, without regard to their membership in the organization, to attend the meeting, which is being planned to continue all day with dinner in the evening. Due to the activities of the week of February S-14, which will be convention week and for which an extensive program has been out lined, those in charge of the meeting | have not been able to announce the place of meeting, but this information
 will be forthcoming within few days.
 Mrs. Alice Monette, president | for Arizona of the National Federation
 of Business and Professional Women's
 clubs, will open the meeting. The
 program is under the direction of a
 committee consisting of Mrs.Johl Den | nett, Jr., Miss Jane Gregg, Miss Louise ! Boehringer and Miss Maybele Craig.
 Among the prominent women who win deliver addresses during tie conven-
 tion will be Mrs. Lena Lake Forrest of II Detroit, president of the National Fed
 eration of Women's clubs. Two of the
 Arizona clubs, those in Phoenix and
 Yuma, are members of the national
 federation.
 In speaking of the National Fedora
 ton of Women's clubs, Mrs. Monette,
 Arizona vlce-president, said yesterday "A group of business and profes-
 sional women, seeing the things that
 needed doing and undoing for them
 selves and other women caught a vision of what might be accomplished through the mobilization of the millions
 of women who daily follow trades and professions in every city and hamlet oi our land They saw standards for themselves lifted, barriers broken down, laws changed, opportunities opened, conditions equalized, through a mass movement of women. True there were the General Federation oi Womens clubsS the Women's Trade Union league, and various other na- tlonal organizations of women, but these were not enough. There was wanting one great organization to serve as a medium through which the uni fled power generated by the millions of business and professional womeT might be directed in the solving o their problems.
 vAnd so, born of this real need, there came plans for a great national, and eventually international organizatrS> of business and professional women which met in convention at St. Loui. last July To that convention cam' M ' representing 45 states. They wer' strong, :perienced women; most O them were highly individualistic; many were real pioneers. They represented . more than 40 vacations; there were lawyers, doctors, teachers, newspape
 and magazine women, women repre- ! senting banking, bonds, insurance, vari ous kinds of salesmanship and man. other interesting lines of work.
 "The impossible happened Ina K great group of highly specialized women rose above their individualisti f tendencies. personal desires, preju
 dices. sectional pride, and were welde into one great unified body. The Ma tional Federation, of Business and Pro \ fessional Women's clubs became an en tity in purpose, power and personality
 The federation is non political, non
 lsectarian, and, of course, self govern
 ing and elf-supporting. It propose to promote the interests of bushes
 and professional women, to encourag
 an interchange of ideas and an in
 crease of fellowship, to gather and dis K tribute information concerning oppoI
 tunities and handicaps affecting then
 and to furnish strong, far-reachin
 channel through which these wome
 may spend their forces toward the aC \ vancement of their cause and that \ other women"