Show ANSWER i OF MRS SHE FEW REMARKS concerning MRS ATTITUDE the child culture club also passes resolution in support of mrs coulter the club women of ogden do not seem to care about allowing the published articles in salt lake city by mrss neldon to remain unanswered mrs coulter lias replied herself in the following the recent airing in the columns of the press of an individual inter danglo Is only to the extent that it menaces the larger good women may hope to accomplish through organization and tho reputation they covet for tact the proprieties goodwill good will and poise in fact women collectively via organization cannot hope to inject any perceptible measure of goodness into the turbid stream of life unless ahey freely surrender all personal bias and pettiness to the paramount purpose of their organizations to be widely helpful organizations aej individuals as well must have an abiding heaven bom faith in humanity a rational fallibility and a charity which shines out like the sun gliding even the meanest objects whenever we indulge in hateful tendencies we are gravitating by BO much toward a downward and groveling course it Is from an alliance 0 the worthiest qualities 1 n woman hood from a merger of the highest capabilities of goob women everywhere that the dominating i alons world national and state may expect widely beneficent result the individual must be dense indeed who does not recognize that there Is no spot in this wide boru where a really beneficent work can be carried on it political and religious differences are kept constantly flying in the air human nature Is so constituted that both subjects in agitation are capable of bringing out as many bristling points as the porcupine and of inflicting as many stings in the handling the affairs af pf the human race as recorded in history show the seasons f serious political and religious disturbances tur bances to have been so many periods of cessation in the advancement of the fine arts invention education and the practice and extension of the common industries upon which the aunda mental well being of society rests tho natural and healthy growth of c im munley life is necessarily impeded where in religion and poll bitica are always uppermost if we t but accord that sincerity to others which we claim for ourselves we would be slower in magnifying and emphasizing the points upon which we cannot agree to ane exclusion of tho possible unanimity jn that public cn which makes tor human and community progress paradoxical as it may bound club women the world over are agreed to be united in thear differences that IB tho of nationalities creeds social conditions etc are to yield to a higher common purpose of combined strength tor the good of mankind accordingly the organization applying for membership in the general federation of clubs must show that no sectarian or political test Is required for membership in its body this provision of the constitution of the general federation of women s clubs has been in corporate into the constitution of the utah state federation and it has been the supreme effort of the many good women of utah to adhere cleanly and clearly to ii broader policy the requests from large political clubs of women for admission to the utah state federation have been promptly refused although the strength of euca reinforcement in a state where women i have the full suffrage at ance apparent s E in view of the facca preceding the thoughtlessness odthe individual who drags of political record into the national chuo committees ana indence back again into the state becomes apparent in the articles recently published airs nelden throws a very unenviable light upon herself clubs and womankind in general she reveals within herself a gross mis conception concept lon of aej a total disregard tor the lofty aim of tho club movement a callous for the opinions and feelings of its sincere and noble women coupled with the basest ingratitude toward the state organization which has made her present national position possible to the end that the women of utah may not visit undue censure upon mrs west and mrs neville mrs nelden is asked to publish her letters to these ladles together with her verbal statements to sirs west that mrs neville was not a classmate class mate of the undersigner undersigned under signed nor a student at any of the colleges which ehe has attended Is but another confirmation of the series of in the attack which have already been replied to by the recording secretary of ouy alato federation it somewhere develops in the brief of the plaintiff that two letters of request were sent to the program committee of tbt general federation of clubs in mrs coulters behalf since this has been made to constitute one count in the complaint it will bo answered club women will recall that two years ago at the sixth biennial sirs nelden was accorded a secondary place of tho national program and also after a protracted and most unselfish effort on the part of utah women the office of director in the national body to secure these honors for lira nelden fully one hundred letters went out from utah for mrs nelden during the year preceding letters of commendation information and solicitation some twenty of these having been sent to the program committee direct unfortunately for the harmony of the utah delegation the preferable place on the program at that time was not accorded to mrs nelden who speedily found ready reason for visiting her wrath upon the recipient of tho greater honor spurning all amicable adjustment aej parading her injured feelings before the members of tho utah delegation at los angeles in persistent refusals to counsel or elt with that body thus were the gala days of the sixth biennial convention clouded for utah and again the incubus threatens us as we are about to set out for the brilliant event of the seventh biennial since the fourth biennial at denver mrs nelden has strewn the same sort of wreckage all along the route thorns bitterness and ill repute where roses kindly feelings and high regard should have bloomed the fullest now cheke statements aro not the things 1 I was told 1 I told have heard rumored have said somebody said they are matters of record in club annala even of the latest records read before the executive board of the utah state federation that all club women greatly deprecate indulgence in the personalities which mrs nelden has so urgently solicited li goes without saying the discernment cern ment of mrs nelden docs not evidently reach out to the broad result and the full harvest of her zeal but la entirely satisfied in courting methods of the direct present notoriety in the entire nelden transaction there la no race of a conception of the possible courtesy due the women of and a fellow club woman to be the recipient of the highest courtesy one must at least deal with others accord ing to courteous business methods this involves first of all the recognition of the fact that there are and secondly it involves a code of business ethics the knowledge of which no thoughtful reader would impute to the parties accessory in the Nelden the individual whose individual aties individualize into one woman up and many women down Is destined to large disappointment in the progress of the movements which declare for humanity and for all women up MARY GEIGUS COULTER CHILD CULTURE CLUB TOO the child culture club at a recent meeting passed the following resolution r ogden utah may af 1904 to the members of the G F W C we the members of the child culture club which is the largest club of ogden do hereby condemn ame attitude taken i by mrs W A nelden of salt balfe city in regard to the ap mary G coulter on the program of the national glennial Dlen nial at st louis may y we know that mrs coulter Is eminently fitted to take her part on the program as a representative of abo federated cluba of utah and feel that tee chose wisely in selecting her sara whalan president E nelson vice president W iiames secretary G abbt secy mary idellar cor secy mattle B vogel treasurer |