Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-10-13
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ADDRESS.
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allowed at present. But if$the total
Of this is Withdrawn from committees
and placed in the current expense sac-
from our per capital dues following
the increased membership, we should
be able, to take care of current ex-
penses out of the per capital assess
ment.s At present it is hard to do 50
as the Increased cot of printing has
made It difficult for us this year to
make ends meet. Then if the funds
for Departments shall come from the
Endowment Fund income, this can he
definitely apportioned between COM
mittees~ and each will know Just what
It's resources are for the year. Obyi-
ously this cannot be done until there
is an adequate Endowment income, but
1t seems only right at this time that
we specify to just what purposes he
income is to be devoted, whether to
current expenses to extension work,
In a moment or two I will explain fur
ther as to just: what this Extension
Work is to be. &
With all these important questions
before you, need l urge the impera
tive necessity of your attendance upon
our business session tomorrow. We
need your expression on all points. it
is your work and you should decide in
what manner it ds to be carried on.
Even though you elect committee to
consider revision, you should not leave
to them the decision of .debatable
questions. They must be, guided by
your wishes. / The various pending
constitutional amendments cover many
of these points. May ask that every
delegate be present and voting?
Now as to our Extension Work-the
real life work of our maturity as I
see it. What is it to be? In the first
place to carry the club into every
community, however small, and then
having organized it to minister to it's
infancy and youth until it again in Is
maturity may Minister to others. We
! nope to organize all our Departments
to assist in the work of clubs by pre-.
pairing programs with suggested means
for finding material if not with the
provision Of actual material itself. One
program a year should be prepared by
each: Department along some particu-
lar line. These should be filed and
retained for future use so that in
few years we would. have complete
courses prepared by our own workers
!
and needs, and adapted to our condi-
tdons. This would require money
for printing or typewriting. Then the
Departments should also prepare a
| list of speakers who could go into GER
tain localities at nominal cost and give
| talks or lectures along their special
line. This would probably help our
Extension Work as would nothing else.
| Our committee members, our vice
presidents and others particularly in
| terested could each thus do something
| in the territory contiguous to her and
help in the Strengthening not only Of
the work of new and small clubs, but
also in that of the Federation and it's
departments. This will require more
money to launch. To coordinate the
work of all departments so that CON-
plete lecture lists may be available to
clubs, would recommend a new stand
ing committee, the Extension Com
mittee, who shall take the lists fur
nished them by each department chair
man and combine them. To them the
clubs should write when desiring lee
lures and they could tell at once what
speakers would be available to clubs,
considering distances, date, expenses,
etc. pax -. re-. ~ ,.7,-
Thus, we now, fifteen years of age,
have arrived at that period when we
must choose our. future course and be-
! gin to equip ourselves for the work.
We are in the condition of the youth
who must decide upon his career and
order his education in preparation
therefore. Five years from now we
shall be near our majority. May, we
attain that responsibility as BELTS us!
To do this we must seriously prepare
ourselves in two directions. First,
we must arrange and perfect our or
ganization% for effective work. In this
we must not hasten, but take. time to
do it well and thoughtfully. Secondly,
we must provide ourselve~ 18th a
means Of having funds, at o. ~--+posal.
! In other words, :our2sliveliho~t Is. as
Important as the choice of our career.
No man is a success who overlooks
this dual necessity Of life Youth is
the best period for s'money grubbing."s
| Wisdom, reflection and, Judgment for
great deeds come with age. Now then
| is the appointed time, the psychologist
cal moment for the material provision
I for our life Youth works with strength
and courage seeing always ahead the
vision, the beautiful goal to be attain
ed. Youth coupts not the strokes, the
blows, the toll. Such. labor is weari-
some only in old age. We must needs
face this problem now.e1sA ear ago, 1t
seemed best to a special committee,
appointed to canvass this subject, that
we should now set ourselves to the
collection Of a permane nt End wment
Fund; the capital to- be Invested, and
the interest to createEa perpetual fund
/ for our need an annuity in fact
This view was end orsed BY the dele
Igates in attendance. Hard times have
hampered us in the first year of {aou
our attempt, but your president feels
in no wise discouraged. Better bust
mess condi ions will prevail, and the
North Dakota women will then surely
1respon,d to this cal [, VII ich isS their own
call. on, what a comfort it will be to
work in the future when we need not
take time from: Departm entail and Adj
administrative work to5 ontinually Wor-
Iry over the proble lem Of vital expenses!
lit Is superlatiye to say that money
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