Show WOMENS FEDERATION I Close of the Most Successful Convention Con-vention Held Here AGAINST A JUBILEE FLOAT REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES AND THE VARIOUS CLUES I Dr Ellen B Ferguson Reads a Paper on Individual and Associated I I Charities Plea For Poetry I Next Annual Meeting Changed I Prom May to October New Officers I cers I HE annual meeting of the Womens t Federation closed z yesterday after < the i noon Nearly 4p whole day was devoted itii de-voted to business r matters though two interesting papers f were read In the afternoon af-ternoon The first l1pjPic ternon business in the morning was receiving the reports of various officers and committees SOME REPORTS The secretary reported several routine rou-tine matters that had occurred during the year and the committee on purpose pur-pose reported several matters to which i recommended that the federation give its attention The principal subjects sub-jects were village improvement education edu-cation and public and traveling libraries libra-ries This report was discussed at some length and It was the sense of the federation that for the present at least it should devote particular attention at-tention to the subject of libraries and make every effort to establish them The committee on education reported a number of resolutions the first one being Resolved That the Federation of Womens clubs of Utah pledges its united effort to the support of all that is good and the eradication of all that is bad In the public school system of the state Another resolution pledged the members mem-bers to visit the schools and endeavor to secure the election of disinterested I members on boards of education Another An-other important recommendation which I the committee presented was one to I the effect that the members of the fed eratiun use their personal efforts and i the ballot to remove the schools from i political or sectional influences and to secure the appointment or election of intelligent disinterested officers who could not be bought by publishing firms and also see that women had representation on school boards The I committees recommendations were adopted I NO JUBILEE FLOAT Tie subject of having the Utah federation fed-eration represented by a float in the j jubilee parade was next taken up and resulted In considerable discussion A number of the ladies favored a propo l l on g m ero I sition to raise several hundred dollars I I for this purpose but others opposed i i on the grounds that the finances of the I federation were not In a condition to warrant the expense and also that the I representatives of many clubs outside of the city would not be able to attend I the celebration A motion to provide for a float was lost I A letter was read from the secretary of the TransMississippi congress addressed I I ad-dressed to Mrs Jennings the president requesting her to cooperate with other I ladies in arranging for the proper entertainment j en-tertainment of the ladies i who will i dl w accompany the delegates to the congress I con-gress here in July next Mrs Jennings Jen-nings announced that steps had been j taken towards holding a meeting of I i various club women to arrange for this j matter The revision of the constitution i constitu-tion and by laws was resumed and a I number of amendments were offered i and adopted the most important being I one providing for the appointment of I a nominating committee consisting of j one delegate from each club re resented I re-sented at the meeting of the federa feera tion Another amendment which resulted re-sulted in more discussion than another II an-other subject was one changing the date of the annual meeting from May to October but before a vote was taken the federation adjourned for the noon recess I CLUB REPORTS The first business at the afternoon session was receiving short reports from a number of clubs including the I Inquirers Reapers Reviewers Utah Womens Press club Home Culture I club of Ogden Historical club of Og den Womens Athenaeum club of Park City the Utah Sorosis of Provo the S B L club of Provo the Ladies Literary Liter-ary club of Salt Lake the Salt Lake Womans club and the Coalville club INDIVIDUAL AND ASSOCIATED I CHARITIES I Mrs Ellen B Ferguson of the Utah Womans Press club next read a paper pa-per on Individual and Associated Charities She said that the work of the associated charities was of a practical prac-tical kind that it was a help and asocial a-social uplifting and a prevention of the causes which produced pauperism Material help alone or something which would aid only the body was not Wuat suffering humanity needed but it was necessary to give a help towards self Help She said that a majority of the recipients of Individual Indi-vidual charily were pcorer in i soul and m cnaracter tnan m material mater A well thought out system must be put in force and certain restrictions I must be placed on the recipient of charity char-ity for he fake of his advancement Association vork prevented duplication I of charities and stamped out pernicious I forms c nlmssivlns Modern chat was of a preventive hind and It was not for this reason any less from the heart but more from the head i A PLEA FOR POETRY Miss S M Ritehie of the Ladies Literary club read a paper entitled A Plea for Poetry She said that poetry was the language of the hean 1 anti the sou and that it was thought adorned with imagery I did net consist con-sist entirely oi rythm which vas simply ai adornment and embellishment embellish-ment She considered that the fad and failing of the nineteenth century particular par-ticular m America was practicability and that a nation had never cone so near losing the ideals of its early life as was the case here now She beieved I that the poet described the softest and I noblest sentiments of the soul I THE EXT MEETING This concluded the literary part of the afternoons worn and the Federa aterons te lion then resumed the consideration of the amendmentS to the constitution and bylaws the most important muster mus-ter being the amendment changing the date of the annual niectlns from May to October After scne further discussion discus-sion the question was put to a vote which resulted in 21 ayes and 11 noes Mrs Jennings the president declared that the amendment was carried by the constitutional twothirds majority but upon some member questioning her ruling that 21 was a twothirds majority ma-jority she put another question on an appeal from the decision of the char which was sustained by a vote of 21 ayes with no negative votes The effect ef-fect of the adoption of this amendment will be that the next annual meeting c the Federation will be held in October 1S97 the date and the place to b announced an-nounced by NEW the board OFFICERS cf directors The following were elected to fill the s I three new offices which have just been created with the term of service continuing con-tinuing for six months Recording secretary sec-retary Mrs Emma J McVIcker of the Clecfan club auditor Mrs King i et hck tFrp I of Utah Sorosis the h s of Provo state organizer Mrs Kinney of the Wom I ans club of Salt Lake I A number of short addresses were made during the closing half hour of 1 the session among the sneakers being Mrs llenrotin of Chicago and Mrs Platt c Denver both of whom snoke i most feelingly c the hearty reception they ha been given here and expressed I ex-pressed their thanks for it They also j urged all the members of the Utah Federation to attend the coming biennial I bien-nial sessldn of the National Federation at Denver Then l the ladies arose and sang America inn most Impressive manner I man-ner after which the Federation adjourned ad-journed until the next meeting in October Oc-tober The ladies dispersed to prepare for the reception at the house of r elder in the nng |