Show FOR PRETTIER CITY Club Women Take Up Subject Bill BillBoards I Boards Later So many phases of civic improvement were discussed and so many plans in introduced introduced introduced for the growth of a greater Salt Lake at yesterdays meeting of the Salt Lake Womans club that the mat matter matter matter ter of billboards was not taken up at atall atall atall all The subject will be discussed at a subsequent meeting however and it is asserted that the women of this club with the M lI M iI A for the of this disfigurement of the city The afternoons consisted of the subject of a greater city pre presented presented presented by a number of speakers Mrs M MAllen Allen T Sanford opening with a brier brief talk on the needs In a higher sense of ofa ofa ofa a great city She maintained that the cultivation of higher ideas and the up building of public sentiment were of as great importance as the fostering of the th business interests of a city Mrs Sanford was followed by bv Rev Frank Fay Eddy who spoke of the pos possibilities possibilities of growth possessed by Salt SaIt Lake as a center of the mining and ag agricultural agricultural Interests surrounding He ex cx expressed expressed pressed the hope that th t Salt Lake would however not become a manufacturing city because he held that that kind of growth is not to be desired on account of both health and social conditions He pointed out the fact that the th class brought to a city by its being a manufacturing manu mann manufacturing center is a undesirable class Speaking of the higher life Ufe to be desired in the growth of a city Mr Eddy com corn commended commended mended the work of women and said that they must make makO the vigorous fight light for artistic culture He held that the criticisms made by men on clubs Is not well taken but deplored the fact that the club life tends to take women away from church work worl which he held is more important than club work He Ho said however that the making of pub public public lic lie opinion in men and in the growing youth is the work of women and only I through them can the coming comin men of the I nation get tret Ideas of right richt ri ht living and prin principles principles principles of true government What Women Should Do Mrs A B Gatrell followed with a pa paper paper paper per on What Club Women Can Do to toMake toMake toMake Make a Greater Salt Lake The women of ot this city should see to it that their own dooryards and side sidewalks sidewalks walks are clean JJ she declared that their garbage is removed that their lawns and trees are cared for and In a city whose beauty depends so largely on the proper use of its water supply the housewives should be the ones to advocate the es establishment establIshment establishment of water meters In order that this necessity be not wasted on Superintendent D H ChrIstensen spoke of the school work and what the club women may do to help It beginning with witha a resume of the valuable work done by bythe bythe bythe the club women for the schools in the past He showed how Salt Lake has come forward in her school system since 1890 the year of establishment of free schools rising from a low place in lit literacy literacy literacy to rank of the third city in th Union In educational standing Des DesMoines Moines and Spokane alone being ahead of ot her He deplored the deficient salaries paid the teachers and accounted for the enormous expense of the schools by the fact that Salt Lake has twice as many boys and girls in her schools as many of the cities with twice her population Closing Mr ChrIstensen advocated the establishment of certain things for which he thought the club women should work and on which they would be able to do more than the men First The complete enforcement of the school law by upholding the work of the juvenile court Second SecondA A closer union of home and school by the establishment of parents clubs in each Third Better pay for the teachers Fourth The establishment nt of o ra a fund from which old teachers who have given their life service to the community may maybe maybe maybe be paid a pension not as a charity but butas butas butas as their right Fifth The establishing of another High school making the present High school a school of and com corn commercial commercial mercial education and placing the High school proper in the eastern part of the city where It belongs and where with the growing needs it must be Sixth The passing of a law by which a teachers position can be made perma permanent permanent nent ent in place of the present restriction which restrains a board from retaining a teacher more than one year at a time no matter what her efficiency or her service Mrs C S Kinney the president of the State St te federation arose and in a few words pledged the hearty support of the club women for the measures suggested by Mr Christensen Several musical numbers were given during the after afternoon af r noon those taking part being Miss Em EmirY ift irY Larsen Mrs P N Cook and Miss Louise L uise Burns |