The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-05-31
"A Letter to
Club Women
MRS. T. G.. WINTER, PRES. G. F..
w. C. ANSWERS QUESTION
"WHY FEDERATE."

Our club came into being because
we got something out of group that
no one can get talone-something that
we all -companionship, friend
ship, the wisdom that comes from
many minds, the inspiration that
springs from contact of mind with
mind, the efficiency that results from
combined effort
The Federation is long step for
ward in the same direction, club
stretching out it's hand to sister clubs
with wider companionship, added fri
ends, greater wisdom, nobler inspira-
ton, hundred times multiplied eff
iciency. Nearly $4,000 women in
Minnesota have discovered this and
have linked themselves together to
get and to give and to do. 100000
over the United States have done it
from New York with it's $4,000
members to Alaska with it's 284. In
it are numbered most of the notable
women of the nation You meet and
hear them when you go to the state
meetings or to the General Federation
Council OR Biennial. Are you in it (?
The Federation has the machinery
for doing things. There are eleven
departments of work, namely. Art,
Civil Service, Conservation, Educa-
ton, Home Economics, Industrial and
Social Conditions, Legislation, Litera-
ture and Library Extension, Music,
Public Health. Each is in charge of
an expert who gives her services
freely to all clubs that ask. But just
as, in a human makeup, no faculty or
90 1,,4
entertwined to make a fully rounded
man, so the, Federation recognizes
that it is by harmonious interaction
of all these movements that we get
progress. You may emphasize your
own particular subject, but you realize
constantly how it relates itself to all
the rest. This encourages wide think
ing. It discourages the onesided
Crank" @a@s- So rssss2
The Federation has in it's midst all
types of women. It isn't "class
affair.". Rich and poor, city and coun-
try, educated and unframed, broad
and narrow, conservative and radical
meet and realize that the things that
bind them together are far deeper
than the things that separate them.
''The Sisterhood of Women" and the
Fellowship of ideals" are behind the
Federation. ,g
There are big tasks lying before
that need such wisdom
as we get from combined study, tasks
that need the altruism we get from
together, tasks that need the
energy we get from combination of
effort. We want homes where the
big things are made big and the lit
lie things are made unimportant.
where children can be well-born and
Joyous and grow up to noble citizen
ship, where the family income is made
% Serve the highest family interests,
where there are vigorous American
bodies and minds. We want COM
that are extensions of the
home, where we shall be friends with
Zach other, we people of all races and
reeds, where good schools, high STAN
iards of public health, recreation,
beauty, shall tempt the finest type Of
people to come and live with us and
'ring up their children.
We can not get these things unless
We all work together, We must put
hem into daily intercourse and into
politics. There is no community so
mall that it can not realize these
!mbitions. And when you have got
hem in your town and home you have
elped to make your nation one hun
red per cent American.
The Federation stands and works
or these. It urges you to study and
york. The two should go hand in
and. Nothing is more dangerous
nan ignorance at work"
Do not be isolated Join the other
omen who are in the midst of things.
You will get help You will give
,rength.
Mrs. T. G. Winter,
.-. g Pres. G. +. VIC.