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Show CLUBWOMEN SCORE 'SOCIETY LEADERS' Mrs. E. E. Corfman, President Presi-dent of Utah Federation, One of Speakers. NEW YORK, May 28. The woman's flub has doomed the "society leader" in this country, according to the Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, rector of the Church of the Ascension, this city, who spoke here today at a vesper service attended by more than 2000 delegates and alternates to the thirteenth biennial convention of the General Gen-eral Federation of Women's Clubs. "In the face of your great organization,',' organiza-tion,',' Dr. Grant said, "I see no place left in American life for the 'society leader,' or Hie woman of only social Influence. In-fluence. Your leadership is of the brain and the heart united for humane and patriotic pa-triotic purposes. "The woman's club is the instrument and symbol of woman's new place. The club is the co-operative school of social service, where all topics that seem to women to pertain to the welfare of the state are taught and discussed. "Jn her new place woman has two things to do. She must face the problems prob-lems of home-cleaning and of house enlargement. en-largement. If I may be allowed to exhort ex-hort the members of the federated clubs, I would certainly 'clean up .America.' ."Preventable disease, war, a high deat h rate all t hese are your enemies. Clean up not only the defective and destructive de-structive human mat, but defective and destructive ideas. "Women are expected to rid the country coun-try of the alcohol habit, to secure a superior su-perior system of education, to rear and help the young, to divest politics of graft and to raise the tone of rural life. Why Is woman expected to do so much? Why don't men da some of the great chores?" "Because." 'said Dr. Grant, answering his own question, "most men are slaves of conservatism, another name of weakness. weak-ness. Youth works for age and must do its bidding, and so the enfeebled perpetuate perpetu-ate its eway." After a caucus of the Illinois delegation delega-tion today, it was announced that the state will not present a candidate for the presidency. The delegates unanimously unani-mously voted to support Mrs. Francis Halley "Everett of Chicago for recording secretary of the federation. The state will vote as a unit, it was reported unofficially, unof-ficially, for Mrs. Josiah Kvans Oowles. California's candidate for the presidency. M i s. F. J. Den ni son. .Mrs. Cnwles's campaign malinger, issued a statement tonight, announcing the opening of a vigorous vig-orous i-ampaign. "California did not want to use political politi-cal methods,' she paid. "It preferred to keep politico out of the federation. Rut If we must fiphi as politicians, then California's Cali-fornia's hat is in the rim;."' T housa ndw of deJega tes a nd v jsi tnrs (Continued on Page Two.) GLIiffl SCORE 'SOCIETY LFADFHS' (Continued from Page One.) crowded Carnegie hall tonight to hear women from twelve enfranchised states tell of the benefits the vote had brought them. Miss Carrie Chapman Catt presided. pre-sided. The speakers were Miss Lucy Ellis, El-lis, renresenting the Arizona Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. E. D. Knight, president of the California federation ; Mrs. W. R. Garretson, piesident of the Colorado federation ; Mrs. John P. Voll-mer, Voll-mer, president of the Idaho federation; Mrs. Frederick A. Dow, representing Illinois; Illi-nois; Mrs. J. M. Miller, president of the Kansas federation; Miss Margaret Lough-rein, Lough-rein, representing Montana; Mrs. C. P. Squires, president of the Nevada federation; federa-tion; Mrs! Charles H. Castner, president of the. Oregon federation: Mrs. E. E. Corf-man, Corf-man, president of the Utah federation ; Mrs. Solon Shedd, president of the Wash-: Wash-: ington federation, and Mrs. R. A. Morton, ; president of the Wyoming federation. |