Woman's City Club Bulletin, Vol. 10

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Excerpt from Woman's City Club Bulletin, Vol. 10: May, 1921While the members of the Club may justly feel much satisfaction in looking back over our past history, this is not a 'club to measure itself by what is past. Two questions confront us: Is the Club discharging adequately the responsibility it has undertaken to become the channel through which the women of Chicago and Cook County may aggressively work for good local government? And the other question is, What are the tasks of tomorrow?In answer to the first question, my contact with the members and directors of the Club has made me feel that the Club as a whole realizes that its own members and the women of this community have not yet taken a sufficiently vital hold on the governments that belong to us. We realize that, important as is the ballot as an instrument of political expression, that even more important is the education of the electorate on the questions that come before it and on the administration that succeeds election day. Thousands of women in Chicago today are not registered and voting, and thousands more are depending -for their education as citizens on the casual information which comes to them without effort of their own. This constitutes a challenge to the Woman's City Club and all other organizations concerned with our civic life. An informed and aroused electorate is the foundation stone of successful democracy. We have a membership of nearly and we reach several hundreds or even thousands more, but there are probably women eligible to vote in Chicago. Our task is just~ begun.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.