TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF PROGRESS
Graham, Louise
Twenty-one Years of Progress Cincinnati Biennial Marks Notable Advancement of Women's Club Movement By LOUISE GRAHAM THE greatest event in women's club circles has been the recent celebration of...
...The present editorial trend as demonstrated at the Tenth Biennial took the form of representatives from some thirty leading newspapers...
...A few years agS, the press grudgingly allowed scanty space for the exploitation of women's clubs...
...One of the liveliest features was the Industrial Department presentation under the direction of Miss Helen Varick Boswell, of New York...
...It was to fittingly observe the majority of New York Sororis in 1899 that an invitation was sent to every known woman's club in the United States to accept the hospitality of this first incorporated woman's club...
...The name was well chosen for this body has become international with a membership of 800,-000 thinking women who uphold the Federation's motto, "Unity in Diversity...
...Paul and Boston, but the Cincinnati Biennial outshines all, not because it is the last but because the old order chang-eth and traditions are being sloughed off...
...Frances L. Bishop, of St...
...The ugly facts were given by Dr...
...What does all this mean—this combined effort to study conservation and civics and food sanitation and art that shall not be artinc and the best way to combat both the black and the white plagues—this voluntary offering-to the Republic...
...Twenty-one Years of Progress Cincinnati Biennial Marks Notable Advancement of Women's Club Movement By LOUISE GRAHAM THE greatest event in women's club circles has been the recent celebration of the twenty-first birthday of the General Federation in Cincinnati...
...Biennials have been held in Chicago, Philadelphia, Louisville, Denver, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, St...
...Louis, St...
...A Round Table Conference on Social Hygiene and the White Slave Traffic was conducted by Mrs...
...The "party" lasted three d-^ys and then the General Federation was born...
...For the first time suffrage was discussed, but in a fair and square manner under the heads of Equal Suffrage by Miss Kate Gordon, of New Orleans, Restricted Suffrage by Rudolph Blankenburg of Philadelphia, and Anti-Suffrage by Miss Alice Hill Chittenden, of Brooklyn...
...then there was that trained magazine writer, Hildegarde Hawthorne, who watched the proceedings professionally...
...But these erstwhile "conservatives" are in-surging boldly, and roundly applauded Mary Rausch of the Agricultural College of Fort Collins, Colorado, when she said that the test of an education is applied knowledge in the scramble for food, clothing and shelter...
...Civil Service Reform had its innings under the skilled leadership of Sarah S. Piatt Decker, of Denver, whose doctrine is that "civil service reform is religion—not politics" and that when voters are willing to admit that one's own political parly is as bad as the other political party then and not until then will there be hope for decent government...
...Caroline Hedger, of Chicago, who scored the parents whose children are permitted to remain in sometimes fatal ignorance of the basic principles of right living...
...Louis, and Dr...
...Perry Starkweather, Assistant Commissioner of Labor in Minnesota, Eva McDonald Valesh and Rheta Childe Dorr...
...Ellen M. Henrotin, of Chicago, who preceded Mrs...
...Raymond Robins as President of the Women's National Trade Union League...
...The auditorium was packed and several hundred women stood to hear a message that a half dozen years ago would have been condemned as too radical for the consideration cf a federation of women's clubs...
...Watchful eyes are scanning the efforts of this enormous body of women...
...She marshalled such speakers as John Mitchell, Mrs...
Vol. 2 • May 1910 • No. 21
