ried on by departments and divisions corresponding to those of the General Federation.

The earnest purpose of a large majority of clubs, especially in the smaller places, seems to be to develop to the highest degree literary appreciation and intellectual culture.

Although Ohio is one of eight states having a state censorship law, our club women realize there is much to be done in creating a taste for better pictures and in securing them. Our state chairman of this committee is a member of the state Advisory Board and we find better results can be obtained by co-operation than by antagonism.

The greatest emphasis, however, will be placed on the Citizenship Training Committee, many clubs planning an elaborate celebration of Citizenship Day on July 4th, attending naturalization examinations, decorating court rooms and presenting each successful candidate with a flag; many conducting classes for instructing the foreigner in citizenship as well as teaching Americans greater respect and reverance for their flag.

Great interest is given to Public Health and Child Welfare, as the care of children appeals strongly to the maternal in all women. Clubs are maintaining rooms and beds in many hospitals, paying for supplies and 80 per cent of the clubs have assisted in providing milk for undernourished children in the schools, thousands of gallons being so provided. In the mining districts of Ohio, during the strike, club women made soup in church kitchens, and through the courtesy of the railroads, shipped it boiling hot, in milk cans, to the schools along the road, the slogan being, "Not a bowl full, but a boy full of hot soup." Nine hundred gallons of soup, 150 gallons of milk, 1,500 pounds of crackers and 10,000 sandwiches were so distributed by the club women.

With our Loan Scholarship Fund we are educating girls in colleges, hospitals and conservatories, to be teachers, nurses, musicians, and one who is blind is studying to teach her equally unfortunate sisters. With only two exceptions, one being in Europe and the other an invalid, every past president of the Federation will be actively engaged in its work during the next two years, and with such love and loyalty there is in the lexicon of the Ohio Federation no such word as Fail.

OKLAHOMA.

MRS. J. R. FRAZIER, President.

The Oklahoma Federation of Women's Clubs is a well organized working force banded together for the solving of social, educational, and industrial problems of our new state.

After putting into effect the reorganization of the state federation by conforming it to the General Federation plan, we bent every energy to make that plan effectual for social and civic improvements. Two-thirds of the club women in Oklahoma are now making a study of some form of citizenship and we are striving that each woman of Oklahoma may become an intelligent voter by 1922. Our Women's Club secretary of the Oklahoma University Extension Department assists in the preparation of club programs and she has been especially interested in promoting this study of American citizenship. Club women adopting this course may, upon its completion, receive university credit.

Better schools are being secured through intensive cooperation with the educational system of the state. A trophy cup is being offered to the winning girls debating team from the six State Teacher Colleges.

Plans are being completed for a closer relationship between club and school by making each club woman responsible for seeing that one girl who completes the eighth grade has an opportunity to enter and complete a high school course.

Our State Educational Loan Fund has enabled more than one hundred girls to complete their college courses. Twentyfive splendid public libraries of the state stand as monuments to the efforts of local Women's Clubs. Twenty-five other club libraries are striving for the same goal. Four of these already own their lots and small buildings and all are serving their communities without charge.

The value of music is to be presented to all Oklahoma teachers now attending our state summer schools through a course of lectures on Americanization through music. Musicians of the state are being given special preference in all concerts and recital programs of the federated clubs. Our Legislative Council, com

posed of representatives from the six women's organizations of the state, is resourceful and influential and has already made plans for the coming legislative session.

On Easter Sunday a chapel costing $2,200 was dedicated and presented to the girls of our State Industrial Home. Tennis court and playgrounds are now being equipped. Boys of the State Training School enjoyed a Christmas tree made possible through the gift of 175 individual boxes prepared by club

women.

Libraries are being presented to our state institutions in turn. Girls' Industrial Home has been given a well selected library of about 2,000 volumes. The Boys' Industrial Home has received about 1,000 volumes, the State Reformatory, an equal number and the nucleus of a library has been established in the orphanages and other homes for dependents.

The State Endowment Fund is growing, interest from this fund is now being used for the publication of the "Oklahoma Club Women," the official organ of the federation.

Oklahoma women are accomplishing much. "The lure of the West is in our blood, the glories of plains, mountains and wood; Oklahoma days, Oklahoma ways, it's there we're understood. There, skies are bluest, there, hearts are truest, there, health and wealth complete the spot in the West we love the best where the sky and the prairie meet."

OREGON.

MRS. IDA B. CALLAHAN, President.

Oregon has 10,000 federated women working with great power, which may be estimated by what has been accomplished. In legislative work they have done splendidly. One measure which stands to their credit is the Crippled Children's Law. Through this law, the children whose parents are unable to give them assistance may receive the medical help needed. In the operation of this law during the past year, forty children have been treated. These may now become independent citizens.

In the matter of supporting libraries, we have done good work. Nearly every town and village has a library started and

supported by the women's clubs. One woman's club bought an eight-room house with two lots, at a price of $6,000. When it is paid for they will present it to the county for a library. The debt, which is now $2,400, will be paid probably within a year.

The Scholarship Loan Fund has been of great service. With our $10,000 during the existence of the state organization for 22 years, we have enabled 300 young women to complete their education and become of service to the state. In one county of our state the use of Oregon products was stimulated by a contest in which prizes were offered for the greatest collection of Oregon labels. Our work is largely cooperative, well organized, and certainly will in the future show a greater working power than in the past.

PENNSYLVANIA.

MISS FLORENCE M. DIBERT, President.

Woman is not only a working power, but a thinking power. She is breaking away from established custom and prejudice and going forth armed with facts and the ballot to prove that she is a thinking entity. Love is the dynamic force that leads one to give her best energy to work, and as the ruling power of woman is love, this incentive drives woman to think and to work for the preservation of the race-her children. The love of the individual and the race has been the potent force of civilization. Woman through the ages has carried the woes of the world on her heart, has thought for mankind, sensed his dangers and fought for his spiritual development. Action is the expression of thought.

Woman has fought for principle, self-expression, achievement of man, for ideals. Through the long years of struggle for political freedom, woman has worked her way to economic freedom and now seeks physical freedom. The salvation of the race demands voluntary motherhood. The standard of the race is only as high as the standard woman puts upon herself, which is purity of thought and life. In 1848 a small group of women drew up a declaration of rights, which seemed extremely revolu

tionary at that time. In 1922 larger groups are declaring their rights.

A storm of protest ran riot when a coterie of men were attempting to make null and void the direct primaries by nominating the candidates for office. Our women demonstrated their thought, work and citizenship this spring by saving the direct primary. The outstanding progressive work of the women of Pennsylvania has been their appreciation of citizenship, their acceptance of the privilege and responsibility of the ballot.

Woman has proved her ability to think to a conclusion, to watch the issue at hand, proving that high principle, high aim, past achievement and clean living bring justice and cooperation to the government. She took up her share of the world's work with no debts to pay, no fear of loss in business, no self-seeking; with a clean slate and a keen sense of right, she seeks justice for all.

The theme and service of the women of Pennsylvania has been the education of the masses. The art of learning is to clearly see the things about you and use them to the best advantage, to adjust oneself to environment, to bring growth out of dormant things. This has been accomplished by the establishment of libraries, hospitals, health clinics, recreation centers, endowment funds, scholarships, club houses, kindergartens, the support of the public school system, and the exercise of the right of citizenship. We have not only been preparing the children for the world, but preparing the world for the children. The whole solution is the Community Reconstruction-the old adage-"set your own house in order."

To create a safe environment for the youth of the state is the issue at hand. Since 85 per cent of man's knowledge is gained through the eye, therefore the beautiful as well as the useful must be round about us. Leisure hours must be developed along lines of constructive growth, not destructive. The public school system is the force that brings the masses to see the common good-the give and take method.

The true history of the State Federation of Pennsylvania women, with its membership of 432 clubs, with approximately 60,000 club women, is the splendid development of the individual club woman, brought about through the study of the