Postage for correspondence and for mailing "Questions" and "Booklet".. 2.85 $17.85 $22.00 FRANCES D. KEEFE, CHAIRMAN, NEBRASKA. September 10, 1908, received from chairman 59 pins @ $0.60. March, 1909, received from C. G. Braxman, 237 pins @ $0.55. 10 Maiden Lane, N. Y., 100 pins @ $0.45.... November 10, 1909, 300 pins @ $0.40. March 22, 1910, 200 pins @ $0.45.. $45.00 120.00 90.00 $255.00 $147.05 Total number of pins, 996. Total cost of pins purchased.. Received from former chairman.. September 10, 1908, received from sale of pins May 10, 1910, pins on hand, 200 at $0.60, value $120.00 Chairman reports that she has received an order from Illinois, which, for the fifth time, places Illinois at the head of the list in the number of pins purchased. The Canal Zone sent in the largest single order accompanied by the money. REPORT OF BADGE COMMITTEE ON BADGES AND BANNERS FOR TENTH BIENNIAL. FRANCES D. KEEFE, CHAIRMAN, NEBRASKA. On February 15th, your Committee sent general specifications for approximately 2,100 badges and four banners to six firms of national reputation. March 10th, sent minute specifications. No reply was received by March 25th, so your Committee called on a local firm and placed the order for badges, a complete list of which will be filed for reference of future Committees. March 25th, purchased from Hammond Bros., Fremont, Neb.: 1,200 delegate badges, 700 alternate badges, 126 special badges, 2,026 By order of Biennial Committee these were sent to Mrs. D. L. Murray, Chairman of Credential Committee. May 11th, purchased from Pettibone Bros., Cincinnati: Total expended for badges.. $208.50 $2.00 $210.50 2.53 $213.03 Three new banners have been ordered, two to designate new seating allowances, one for affiliated organizations, and one for the Canal Zone. It may interest you to know that the color chosen by these members of the new Federation is the green of the palms which surround them in their tropic home. REPORT OF PRESS COMMITTEE. MRS. SARAH A. EVANS, CHAIRMAN, OREGON. MADAM PRESIDENT AND DELEGATES: Early in the present administration the Press Committee decided upon two lines of work, viz. to pursue the policy of the past two years in trying to impress upon the clubs the importance of the press in its relation to our club work, when it was properly reported, and the necessity for so reporting it. Our second endeavor was to try to gather statistics regarding the amount of space devoted weekly to club matter. To this end, we formulated a letter, covering these two points, and dividing the states geographically between the three members of our committee. We wrote to each State President in our district. The replies to these letters were most encouraging and interesting. In Massachusetts, a practical club woman collects and sends out club news to thirty leading papers. New York has a Press Committee of fifty working newspaper women whose chairman collects and sends out club news, thoroughly covering the State; Florida exploits her club work through twenty-seven papers; the St. Louis papers last year gave 2,772 inches to club work; California reports thirtyfour papers maintaining club departments. The Chicago Woman's Club issues its own paper to its 1,000 members. Within the past year, California and Illinois have established their own official organs. The Federation Quarterly and The Illinois Bulletin-these periodicals, with Club Notes, The Courant, The Keystone, and our official organ, The Federation Bulletin, have extended the courtesy of their publishers' list to the Chairman of this Committee, for which we express our thanks and appreciation. The states we have made special mention of, do not monopolize our publicity work by any means. Every state that replied to our letter-and there were few who did not-reported unusual activity along this line. In summing up the returns from these letters-and basing our conclusions upon the report at the Boston convention-we estimate that more than double the newspaper space is given to club matter than was done two years ago; besides the vast and increasing number of magazines that make club news a feature; that our press work is becoming better systematized, and that more professional writers are taking it up as a profitable and legitimate line of journalism. While little headway has been made in gathering actual and definite statistics regarding the amount of space devoted to club matter throughout the country, and while it seems an almost hopeless and impossible undertaking, it can be done, and we would urge State Presidents and Press Committees to exertion in this direction, for even an approximate estimate would be an astonishing and flattering asset for the Federation. Where it has been possible, your Committee has thrown its influence against the publicity of crime and sensational matter in our daily papers, as was condemned, by resolution, at the Boston convention; but it is our opinion that this reform lies wholly with the public to bring about. The newspapers only meet the public demand. Our club is an object lesson of this. When the public laughed at the Woman's Club, the newspapers supplied their humorous columns at our expense; when the public recognized the Woman's Club as an earnest, vital force, the newspapers gave us dignified exploitation. We have received our chastisement from the press, but having made good, we may well count it our strongest ally. HEALTH DEPARTMENT, CIVIC COMMITTEE. MRS. RUFUS P. WILLIAMS, CHAIRMAN, MASSACHUSETTS. MADAM PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION: Before giving you an outline of the splendid work done by the women of this Federation in the conservation of health, I will present the conclusions of this Committee, arrived at after considering the replies to questions asked by the Health Department. First and foremost we are deeply impressed with the fact that less than half of the clubs sent in any report-even that of inactivity. Thus it is borne in upon us that we must greatly increase our effort to impress upon the individual club that it is an important factor in the work of the General Federation, and our power can never reach its greatest development until every club and each woman in the club shall have taken a place and shall be ready to fill it. The questions were intended to concentrate the mind upon a few points and to bring to this Committee a knowledge of local needs. This result has been accomplished, and I am sure that all who give the appended table a little study will read many things of interest. We feel that definite assistance can be rendered clubs, singly and collectively, and the future will bear such fruit from this effort as will be worth all of the time it has taken for it. Fifty clubs have reported the need of outdoor schools. Thirty-seven clubs have reported the need of camps, sanatoria or hospitals. Thirty-seven clubs have reported the need of sanitary buildings and streets. Ninety-two clubs have reported the need of visiting Nursing Associations. |