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Show PROMINENT figures in tlie meeting of the Utah Federation of Women's clubs. Top, left to right: Mrs. E. O. ; Leatlierwood, president of state federation; Mrs. Thomas Cr. Winter, of Minneapolis, Minn., second vice prosi- j dent of the general federation; Mrs. E. E. Corfman, general federation secretary for Utah. Below, left to right: j Mrs. E. E. Kelson of Garfield, state federation auditor; Mrs. R. B. Porter of Ogden, general federation director for Utah; Mrs. E. G. Peterson of Logan, first vice president of the state federation. j pV.j :'-::V-i 'd H i i f s u I ; J H K ill w fl if i u i 1 1 4 tA p i f i S-S I i -1 president or tlic t"tnh fctleration. whs . tonslmislross. Mrs. Winter gave :i oriel toasl lo ".Mi.l lle Ait." anil commenrica tho art of growing old pim-efully. Mrs. ! Moore gavo a short talk on her early olulj i exporieneeH. A delightful feature of entertainment In connection with tho convention was the : presentation of two one-act plays by inomhers of the Drama club of Ogden, tin- dor ihe direction of Mrs. Alberta Mc- Cannc Clark and D. E. Sullivan, last night at the Ladies' J.iterarv club house. The first of the plays was a clever little lit-tle farce, written bv Mrs. W. It. Thurston Thur-ston of this citv, a pupil or Professor B. Roland Lewis of the University of I. tali, called "The Exchange." The Idea brought out was the eagerness of humanity to change Its condition. Several discontented discontent-ed ones are given the privilege, of exchanging ex-changing miseries, onlv to find that tncy were worse off than they had been before. The play was well given by tho following follow-ing cast: The Judge (tho exchanger of miseries!, D. E. Sullivan: The Imp (office (of-fice bov to tho Judge). Mrs. Clyde Green-well: Green-well: the Poor Man. Raymond Kyan; the Rich Man, Hal Fan-; the Vain Woman, Mrs. Roland Ballanlyne. . The second play. "L-oneeome-Hke," by Harold Brlghouse, featured Mrs. 1,11a Ec-cles Ec-cles Brimhall in the leading role. Her acting was excellent in the role of Sarah Ormerod. a paralytic old woman, who finds that churches do not always practice prac-tice tho charity they preach. She is fl- i nally rescued from going lo tho workhouse work-house by an awkward young fellow who has lost his mother and begs Mrs. Ormerod Orme-rod to take her place. Tho other parts were well carried as follows: Emma Brlerly. Miss Minnie Moore Brown; Sam Horricks, Mr. Anderson; An-derson; tlie curate. Raymond Ryan. The program for today will bo as follows: fol-lows: 10 a. m. Community singing. Reports of special committees: Finance, Mrs. John Culley: endowment fund, Mrs. R. B. 'orter; college loan fund. Mrs. Clessen S. Kinney; badge and pin committee, Mrs. Ij. 1.0. Hubbard; speakers' bureau, Mrs. William Stewart. Report, federation districts. dis-tricts. Report of State N'urses' association. associa-tion. Miss Karlson. Child welfare, Mrs. Archie Bowman. Musical selection. Memorials, Me-morials, Mrs. Louise Mendenhall. Discussion, Discus-sion, Miss Myra Sawyer, Miss Mary Teas-dale. Teas-dale. A presentation to the state federation federa-tion by Mrs. Florence K. Woodruff. Response, Re-sponse, Mrs. Thomas Foutz. 2 p. m. Noon luncheon at Ladies' Literary Lit-erary club. Community singing. General federation report, Mrs. R. B. Porter. Report Re-port of national council meeting. Mrs. E. O. Leatlierwood. Reports of federation overseas girls, Miss Gladys Rich, Miss Eva Beohlol, Musical selection. "How the Federation Girls Were Received." Marrow Hardy. Report. Red Cross nurse. 11 p. m. The Salt Lake City federation will give a reception In honor of the distinguished guests and officers of the federation at the Hotel Utah. At 7 p. m. a banquet will be served, followed by an address by Mrs. T. G. Winter, Minneapolis, Minn. i mm ms i SFSMIET Americanization Is Theme at Annual Convention of Federation. Mrs. Thomas G. Winter ofl Minneapolis Urges Aid for Foreigner. i AMI-JRLiJAXIZATJOX is (lie keynote L'f the program being presented at the twenty-sixth annual convention conven-tion of the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs, which opened a thiVe days' session yesterday morning at the Ladies' Literary club house. Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, of Minneapolis, second vice president of the General Federation Fed-eration and dHii of Americanization, arrived ar-rived at noon yesterday and addressed the fderati.-ni meeting yotrterday afternoon on the thoif now holding the attention of women's duns alNover the United States. Mrs. W inter s:id that foreigners in rominff to this country brought a hatred of government, because they were flee-in? flee-in? from unfair conditions in their own countries. Their ideas of liberty were distorted dis-torted and they expected impossible tilings of America. Then, too, thev found nothing typically American. but were forced into unfavorable industrial conditions condi-tions hy the necessity of earning their living in factories. They were isolated socially by being unable to speak the language of their adopted land and bv ( a certain snobbery on the part of the American people. f"Onc of tlie greatest sources of evil," M rs. Winter said, "according to my belief, be-lief, is social isolation. It was not in-landed in-landed that one person or class should be separated from another, but that all should be as one family. The secret, I think, of being a good citizen is to have friends and a good time. Have we. as Americans, clone our duty to the foreigners foreign-ers who come to our country? We make them do our dirty work, but do we share our pleasures with them? "In many cases their ideals will be found to be high. Take the poetry and romanticism of the Italian, tlie fine humor of the Irish, the mysticism of the Slav, and they may certainly be turned into the making of good Americans. "Civilization is like a game of Jack Straws. One part cannot be moved without disturbing others, and so the Americanization problem touches ali other branches of social reform. The schools can do much for future generations in training children to be better citizens; but we are not living in a future generation genera-tion we are living in this generation and some agency must be brought to bea r to improve present conditions. "Women are especially adapted to t he work among foreigners, because of their personal quality. It takes individual, rather than institutional, means to gain their confidence and obtain the best results re-sults in getting from the foreigners what they can give us and what we can give them. "The immigrant woman who comes here with a Miawl over her head is the most pathetic figure of all. Her only, means of coming in touch with the new world in which she lives is through her children, and what they bring her has the pert quality that is too much in evidence evi-dence in the young American. It does not appeal to the mother and so she draws away and keeps her shawl over I - ' - 1 1 ' 1 I I . : 1 I' 'I i' si 1 Ju li J-l " - ts " A x , v ' 7 ' :u u - . - ,iil(f.( g- to saw- I 1 ' li i ' , .11 I I ' v. 1 ( ! ( ', ' x :t ) ; j her head. 'The family jfc jnust bo the unit of reform, and to bring- about improved conditions con-ditions the mother mu-t he touched in an indi vidua! way. Ry got tii g h'lid of the leader in a foreign community, an introduction can he obtained and the wo n if n of i he co ni in unity rea 'bed. "There can be rn work more wnrth while than the discovery of thr- splendid blood of other nationalities and blrndinir it into a true American." Mrs. Chss"i S. Kinnoy of Salt L,akc pave a n-nort of the work accomplished through t h efforts of the Anu-ricaniza-tion depiutmnt of the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs. .Mrs. Kinney said that through the co-oiM-raiioii of tin- principal of one of the public schools in a unction of the city largely inha'niied by foreign poii;l;ition. moiliHi-s' clnt-s liad been organized rniti had seemed lo result in much pond. The foreign homs. Mrs. Kinney ;.;iid. had been approached in a spirit of friendship and pood fellowship and Die foreign women wom-en liHd been nuide to feel that they could Ave, as well as receive, much that was worth while. Kndeavor had been mndp to teach iheiu by example American wa3 of livinp. Mrs. i:. n. T,eat)ierwond of Salt Lake, president of the shitn lcfi.--rnli.Ht ihmiIo a troniz annual ;tr s at iho upnint; of ! t!'0 i ft el-noon srsion of ihv nm wnt ion. Mrs. I ,e;t Uitjrw o ivao an api't-'til for itnprovfMiH'Ut.s tilon- fflucitioinil lines and hotter sn avvn for t-;u-in rs. An effort h;tfl hern inado )y tli. f-dof;i i iun. Mrs. .OH t iiorwool s;i ifi, to brins girls of foreign for-eign par-UltUf,'.- i Salt I.aUe to l,o orlu-caled. orlu-caled. as a part of ati A mori ca 111 v.n (on plan, but that tlir idra had to If aban-doin-d bc-ause Hkhj was no p!a-c for the A 1 r I s t o live. As a future work for t li 0 federation, slip kiiksI - the building of a Kirls" (lormitorv hi t;io rity, Kdua tion, Mrs. I, oat 1 10 r wood said, must bo many-blUi'd. In tin di'velnprurnt of the ph sical. tlm montKl nd spiritual side must not be noiiiot. (rd. and a w ell-iio oloped bndy should be rounded out bv p well-tiai nod mind and a soul with hlKi identn. Mn. J;. B. Porter of Ocdou m ported for the dppHrtincnt tf thrift of the fd-orRt fd-orRt Ion anil In trod ii ed ("corqp N. t 111 Id. Htnto wuporlntiuidont of publk- instnif-t instnif-t irm. who fpke on "Thrift us a Tart of a n lduc' 1 1 01 in t Sys loin." Mr. t'liild ttd that an oduen tlnn:il phi'i nunsl bp modi tied to miU social needs mid conditions. Ono of the most valuable Uispr.na taught hy t lie war way tlm t of thrl ft. nnd plttrtH were beinjr made to niakt? It a part of The educational system In Vtah. With th IiIkIi cost of livim:. thrift wns not only rnm men. la I tie. but abwolutely nr' esai-. Little ran be dope. In the schools, however, unless the les-sonH les-sonH htc barlted up by training and rue-tle rue-tle in t ho hoin. and it was from t hat point of view that the women's clubs could holp. Mrs. C. 1 f. MeMahon of Salt Lake gave a report of the excellent work aeeom -plihed nt tlie t'fvie Center of Salt Iak along the lines of Americanization. Miss Alice Kevnohls of Proo presented a paper pa-per on "Demoernev and F.ducut Ion." The fl i-m 1 session of t he cop vent Ion opened nt 10 o'cloi k yesterday liHirnlim. with Mrn. Lont her wood presiding. The Invocation wafl inado by Mih. G. V. Martin Mar-tin of Mantl. An aiblresH of welcome was piveu hy Mrs. .Tohn A. A'idt sne, president of tlie Salt Lake t'ily Kedei n t Ion of I'lnbs, and atiotlier b Mrs. (.Men MUlcr. president of tin Ladles' IJterarv club. Kespolise was made by Mrs. W illiam .1. Lowe of P.rlg-hum P.rlg-hum City. Tho IreuHiirer of the federation, Jilrw. O. J. Lnklne of Salt Nike, reported ro-eelptH ro-eelptH for (bo yea r of f T'il'.ti" and h bn 1-nnee 1-nnee of JH.Ti,".. Liberty hondH held by the federation total $sr,0. . The h! to organ! .er. Mrs. W. V K no of BHVpr. report ed that si new clubs had lo en admit ted to the fed era t Ion the last year. Thev are: Collegia t e Alumnae, Ladifft Auxiliary to tho rectors- of I 'ta h. La dies' A uxiMa ry to L nil ed Commercial Com-mercial Travelers. Sa 1 1 I -a ke City Led -erafion. all of Salt Lake, and tho Social 1 lour club of I'rnVo, Mrs Wlnt er. t he- niil-of-lnwn speaker, an I ve 1 In Sa It La ke at noon yesi erda y and wnt met at Ihe train by a committee cm 11 posed of M rs. K i J, f'el eron rd' 1 .0-r.ui. .0-r.ui. Mrs. U, It. 1'orler of ( n- len Mrs. (r.nld M. Llakely nnd Mrs. C. I I. Mc-Mahon Mc-Mahon of Salt Lake. She will hu at the Hole Utah (lurlntr her stav. Mis. Wlnler will wneak this ev-nlug In Die ballroom of Mm Hide I iah. alier tho annual bnti'M'et of the convention. A general Invitation Ih extenderl lo the puh-lle puh-lle to jiear her. The AVelh'slev chih oT Ctali will honor Mrs. Wtnler at a breakfast to be given nt. the UpIvci'nHv Huh at ! o'clock Ihls nmrtdug. In recount Hon of Iho fact I ha t mlie is 11 Wellesley graduate. An off leers' , it inner was given at the Co in mere I a I Hub In si night and a Huh Mis formed tn Include present and pan! offlcra of (lift state fed era t Ion. heads of Hporla! ro n 1 n 1 1 1 ' ees and department chair men, Mrs, C. I . Moore of I Ids Ht v. pa;d pre-lden I of Ihe , i lie cent h 'Cent urv Hub of Vrovo, which was Iho first Huh of li. shile to Join the r.cneral led. rat !on of womeu'H Hula, In IS',i;t, before the I'tah federal Ion w 01 gatdid. was elect oil preqldont. I Tlie illnner (able was arranged In the form of a "C" fnd whs ileeorated with tow mounds of yellow ebrysa nl hem 1 mis. The iruest t'f honor. Mi's, Thomas W. Winter Second Vice presltlent of the lieri-eral lieri-eral Kede ration of W'tnni-n's CiiIn. was 1 prei'.enl''l with a eornago bmnpiH of lo- t v- and dnk loses. .jyj ;. Ii- -J'ijrLman jjf..liUN. 'Uv... ijji. |