COLORED OMEN W-OMEN OF I UTAH HOLD THEIR CONVENTION President Tells of Growth I and Accomplishments of Organization Mrs Gertrude Ge Lancaster president of ot the Federated Colored Women's Clubs of Utah in the course of ot her speech delivered Thursday at the annual annual annual an an- nual assembly of the clubs In Salt Lake Lalee City referred to the growth of the organization and its accomplish accomplish- accomplishments ments In part she said saide We e colored women of Utah and Idaho have have- much of which to fo be proud When we were organized June 12 1917 by Mrs Victoria Clay Haley of ot St St. Louis Louts Mo Io organizer of the National Association of Colored I Women five clubs were enrolled three at Salt Lake and two at Ogden We now have eleven leven clubs and Include Idaho in our federation We have held five fj enthusiastic annual meetings We Ve have been represented in the following great national organizations by the membership of ot our president National Equal Rights league Young Women's omens Christian association Women's Women's Women's Wo Wo- I mens men's Christian Temperance union I National Association for the Advancement Advancement Advancement Advance Advance- ment of ot Colored People National nal Colored Colored Colored Col Col- ored Soldiers Comfort committee State Council of Defense Circle for Negro War Var Relief American Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross National Negro Nero Art association National Association for tor the Enforcement Enforcement Enforcement Enforce Enforce- ment of Peace Pace Colored Women Women's s National National Na Na- NaI I Republican committee I We have ha been invited to attend the second se-cond Pan African congress which will meet in London Brussels and Paris in September CONTRIBUTIONS CONTRIBUTIONS ANNOUNCED Wo Yo have contributed to the following follow follow- ing funds For a monument to the wife of Frederick Douglass who mad marl it possible possible possible pos pos- pos pos- sible for the race to obtain his home Douglass home fund We Ve petitioned congressmen to ob obtain obtain ob- ob tain federal Investigation of or the East St St. Louis riots and and- to support the maternity protection bill Our art work exhibit at the great N N. A. A C C. W V biennial session In Denver Den Den- iver ver 1018 1918 ranked third We contributed seven forty dollars toward the expenses of ot the national president when she sho represented American American Amer Amer- llean ican negro nes women at Norway y last July SPEEDY RESPONSE Our call to the citizens of ot Salt Lake Lako resulted In more than one hundred hun bun hundred dred dollars being raised within six days for tor a reward for the arrest of a white man who criminally assaulted lono one of our women We have extended the hospitality of Utah to the past national president Mrs Mary B n. Talbert and to the present president Miss Hallie I I. I Brown Drown I Now as to our aspirations for the I future We must unite unito still more strongly strong for tor better homes better citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens equal rights for the welfare V of ot ou for a greater appreciation tion of or Negro Ne-gro art music literature history and for Cor Negro womanhood WOMEN'S LOYALTY Women omen to be successful club workers workers work work- ers we must first be loyal to women and their cause then to our race Let us be loyal to the West Ves proud of ot Its advance and proud of ot its future possibilities Let us not forget to lift the fallen ones as we climb humbly giving all Our gifts to the work obtaining ob obtaining obtaining ob- ob I prayer help helu and strength from