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Show COUNCIL OF WHEI HAS IlluY MEETING General Report Shows Splendid Work Accomplished During Past Year. Tho executive committee of the Utah Staio Council of Women mot Wednesday afternoon In the Templeton block. Mm. F. S. Richards, president, presided, and Mrs. Elizabeth Cohen was secretary. Several Sev-eral ladles present gave short talks of the work of women accomplished during the past year throughout the country. Mrs. Hlchards spoke concerning her recent re-cent trlii to Buffalo as a delegate to the recent convention held In that city by the Society for Charities and Corrections. She was "appointed to represent Utah women bv Coventor Spry. Mrs. Kmina T. Wood, who has been to the convention of Prison Workers, held at the Seattle exposition, as a delegate dele-gate from Kannoii, gave an Interesting account of what, lias been accomplished during late years In prison reform, and outlined her views concerning prevention and reform measure outsldo the prison walls. The general report followed as lo the work accomplished In Utah the past year or more by the active women workers. This Includes the pledge of half a block and the necessary money from various private jiartles for a puhllc play ground in the southern part of the city, the preventing pre-venting by petition of granting a fifty-year fifty-year franchlso to private parties, tho arrangements ar-rangements to establish public free baths at the Warm Springs after the present franchise expires, the new laws passed bv tho last legislature concerning children, chil-dren, the detention home for girls, and concerning divorce, tho late Improvement In the pure food laws, and various other laws for the welfare of the home. A monster potltlon Is being prepared by the women of America to congress to put an equal suffrage amendment to the federal constitution. Ulnh was alloted 13.000 names, but up lo date over 110,000 signatures have been secured. It is thought that the total number will reach .'.o.OOO. The petition goes to Washington the Urst week In December. Reports were snbmltted showing that 75 per cent of the women of Utah vote. This Is A very high average, and In some of the suffrage states the percentage of women voting Is very much lower. In school elections the reports showed that fully Oil per cent of the vote cast was by women. General satisfaction was expressed concerning con-cerning the progress of women In Utah as shown by the data submitted concerning concern-ing the progress of women the world over. In tho United States and especially In Utah. |
