GOOD IRK ACCOMPLISHED PAST .
' YEAR Bl LOCAL WOMAN'S CLUB
The Daily Times takes great pleas
ure in publishing in full the presi
dent’s report to the members of the
Anchorage Woman’s Club over the
signature of Mrs. F. Mears. This
paper has been asked repeatedly for
this article, and it is only upon so
licitation that we are able to give
*this literary and educational treat to
the public. The report follows:
p In making this report of the ac
tivities of the Anchorage Woman’s
Club during the first year, it seems
hardly necessary for me to rehearse
the program, the detailed account of
which has been given you by the
chairmen of the several departments,
or to recount the business, which
will be given you in the reports of ■
the other officers. Suffice it to say
that to have planned a definite pro
gram in September and to have car
ried it through successfully till
May—eight months—with practical
ly no change, is in itself no mean
achievement for a new club.
Rather let this report concern
itself with an account of the purpose
and organ.zation of the club, its pres
ent status, and recommendations tor
its future development.
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First, the organization and pur
pose:
I believe the Woman’s Club owes
its existence to two things: First,
the urgent need which we all felt
for a public school and the realiza
tion that it was necessary for the
ywnmen coming from all part3 of tne
territory and the states, to organize
be fore any concerted effort could be
made to obtain it. Our excellent ana
energetic school board having failea
tc meet the response it had been led
to expect from those having author
ity over school matters in this terri
tory were almost forced to a stana
st 11 unless local support and actual
financial assistance could be ob
tained. On September 16th the An
chorage Woman's Club was born, a
hasty if not quite regular election
was held, and an educatiosal com
m’ttee appointed, which held a meet
ing on' the epot to offer the support
of the women to the school boara.
A benefit dance was given in cort
junctiin with the board, and I be
'ieve it quite fair to say that most
of the money raised at that event
was through the efforts of club mem
bers. I do not by any means wish
the Woman's Club to claim sole
creuit for the final achievement or
t">e school, for without the Commer
cial Club and other organization*,
in fact without the united effort ot
the community at large, I fear our'
children would have gone not
schooled during the past year. But
I say we owe our existence in a large
measure to the need felt for a school
and to our efforts to secure one. It
was our first work; therefore, I oe
lieve to it belongs our continued loy
alty and support.
Another factor in our organiza
tion was the realization of a great
opportunity. We were to be present
at the birth of a city—a city repre
senting a new ideal and a new idea.
We know it to be the purpose of tne
federal government in the building
of this railroad not only to maKe
possible the greater development or
the mineral resources of this won
derful country, b. t to improve living
conditions, to establish homesteads,
to plant farms, to make homes, ana
happy, useful citizens. What a gi
gantic piece of homemaking ana
housekeeping. Is It not worthy
work for women? Are not women
necessary to such a work? They are
always necessary in building home
life and community life. Here was
a clean slate to draw upon. We felt
our share of the responsibility ot
making the picture fair. We felt the
inspiration so ably voiced by Secre
tary Lane in a late article on "The
Nation’s Pride":
“The American’s place in the
scheme of things is to reveal to the
world what can be done in the de
velopment of a new country, ana
every crop raised, every schoolliouse
built, every rail laid, every nail
driven is evidence that the work he
is sent to do is being done. Instead
of being the petty boasting of a pa
rochial-minded provincial, this spirit
is of the very essence of the highest
reative quality.
"It is not a figure of speech to say
that every American haa it in his
heart that lie is in a small sense a
discoverer; that he is joining in tne
revelation to the world of something
tnat it was not before aware of ana
of which it may some day make use.
Men work for \yhat they think worth
while, and if they find their joy in
proving that land has coal, or will
raise wheat, or that a refractory ore
may be reduced at a profitable cost,
and tell about it proudly, they may
bp serving themselves, but they are
aiso serving the world.
“The clerk in the store or the me
chanic in a mill may not consciously
■ngage in any enterprise whici
makes this appeal, but when he
learns that the government of which
he is a part has w'ithin the ydar
opened a town on the shores of tne
Worth Pacific which now has neariv
3,000 inhabitants, and has driven a
railroad nearly 40 miles inland to
ward the Arctic Circle on its way
to the coal fields of the Matanusaa
and the gold fields of the Tanana,
he has a feeling that he. too, is par
ticipating in the making of this new
world. One might say that this was
nothing more than sentimental pride.
There is a truer and a more dignihen
rcrd for this quality; it is the ex
pression of the American instinct tor
improvement.”
We said “the time has passea
vhen women may think, women are
expected to think,” and in states ana
territories where equal suffrage is
granted that tnought must blossom
into action and we must assume halt
the burden of right conditions ana
other experiences. We must make
this new place a good place to live
in. Women fresh from the “out
side” and seasoned veterans of tne
snows met and mingled, ready to
ltarn from one another how to live
under conditions new to both, a
glance at the year's program wait
show' most of the papers and ad
dresses to have been upon different
phases of Alaskan life, revealing a
true desire to acquaint ourselves
with our surroundings^—thought be
fore action, and information rather
than blind stumbling, being our mo
tive. We declared our purpose in
the formation of four departments.
Art and Literature: The beauti
! fill, inspiring things of life, witn
I which no woman can afford to ais
| pense; the truths of the great mas
i ers w'hich glorify this work-a-dav
1 world of ours and keep us from sor
didness w'ith their glimpse of the di
vine in nature. “\Vrork without art
is brutality.”
Education: Exact information on
ail subjects. How to live. How to
grow. How to learn. Howr to teaca
What should schools be? How
should we help them? What greac
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