Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-04-07
Ariz. State Federation WOmen's Clubs Began
 3 Day Session Yesterday
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tion of delegates. Following the council meeting, the general meeting was called to order by the president Mrs. E. J. Flanigan after which the audience arose and sang America" followed by the Invocation.
 In behalf of Kingman Mir. w. L. Linville addressed those assembled He said:
 "Ladies of the Arizona State Fed eration of Women's Clubs, Represen- tatives of the various organizations of this community and this County, and more particularly of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, in whose edi- flee this convention is being held, the various County organizations of in- ,dustries, schools and the homes, l wei come you. It is with pleasure and honor that We see you here this morn ing, and I note with appreciation the balanced program that you have pre- pared; balanced between the more serious and the more light, but with all, no less important subjects of en- tertainment. To more serious objects for your reflection, want to point out five plaques that I consider to be afflicting humanity, and without due consideration of which I believe no convention of this kind is properly functioning. They are, (1st), an un- precedented challenge to authority. (2) An abnormal aversio nto work. (3) An equally unprecedented failure to recognize the personal responsibili- ties. (4) A seeming unquenchable thirst for the pleasures of life as the great aim of life. (5) A gross ma terialism which denies the reality of the Spiritual in human life. 1 think this gloomy picture, because l think we should face the facts as they are. To the more hopeful this gloom is the blackness that comes before the dawn. To the less hopeful it is the twilight that goes before still blacker night. And may I point out to you also for your deliberation three possible reme- dies for these afflictions: O, lndi- vidual responsibility. (2) Individual morality and (3), return to that old fashioned idea of the home as the sal vation of our people. You ladies are pioneers in club work; may you also be pioneers in thought. We know IL is easy when in solitude to be of your own opinion,-it is easy when in the world to be of the worlds opinion, but great is the woman who can, in the midst of the multitude, preserve with perfect sweetness the independence ot solitude. Where only the master praises and only the master blames, where no one works for money ana no one works for fame, but each TOT the ioy of working, and each in ms separate star, draws the thing as ne sees it, for the God of things as they are.' To the lighter numbers or en- .tertainment on your program ! com mend your thorough consideration, TOT it is bv laughter and happiness that the soul has its growth, and after all, banpiness is the true end of life, ana now. Mrs. Flanigan, President or the Arizona State Federation ot women Clubs. I am pleased indeed to present to vou this floral key to our clty' May it be to you and to your people here assembled, symbol of the love, banpiness and friendships that VIII endure through the years and when vonr soiourn with us shall have end cd. may you bear with you as a souvenir of this visit the memory ol tha friendships and of the hippinesSs gained, of the good service rendereo' and of the work achieved"
 Mrs. c. A. Warren of Peoria re- snonded to the addresses Of welcome with the following:
 "Tbe words chosen to welcome us into this Delegation certainly ring with hospitality. Before coming III here I think we felt this welcome as we came into your beautitul httie station down here, and we heard the first welcome when we were met III the dark last night by one ot tht ladies who so cordially took us ane mi us in comfortable quarters 10, the rest of the evening and l thinf the sound of the gavel from the hanos of the President has sounded mos welcome. It is indeed a pleasure te us to meet the women of Kingmar in this convention, for you have maat it possible for many of us, by you' convention here, to visit your pros nervous little town, and to take hom' with us the memories that will ad' much happiness to our lives. l brint regrets from a score or more of tn' women who for various reasons wer, kept away today but would so mucl like to be with us, and realize the' are missing a great treat, both soc iallv and educationally. Personally I feel like the little boy who had JUS been informed by his mother that thei annual Christmas visit to their grand mother had been called off ana saiu oh, mother, just think of all the goo
 things to eat and we won't get any an illustration, I think, of one ot thes