The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-02-18

shade trees. and to this end have sent
our blotters, IN series of half O dozen,
ON which are pictures showing how to
set out, care for and transplant trees,
aud much forestry information.
The paving of streets, the setting out
of shade trees, street cleaning and the
( study Of dust in relation to disease are
few of the things the women are look
ing after in some parts of the country,
and it is largely through their efforts
that certain days are set aside in many
places, both spring and fall, for the
general cleaning up of cities or towns.
In towns where factories are located,
there is plenty of need of the investiga-
tions by clubs, to look after the smoke
nuisance, to see that the streams are
not polluted, and investigate the hours,
wages, physical and moral conditions,
safety devices and see that fans and
exhausts are properly located to remove
the dust and other menaces to the health
of the employees.
In some sections, welfare secretaries
are employed as go-betweens between
the employer and employe. Women are
especially interested in the child labor
laws and helped greatly in the passage
of the law in Vermont. as the nvesti-
gators OF conditions here were hired by
the womeH's clubs In most cities the
problem Of providing for working women
without homes is one which calls for con-
siderable thought In Madison Wis,
alone, where some thought no such prob.
lem existed, 1000 women were found
under those circumstances In Chicago,
the Eleanor clubs for women have been
started which are really hotels for the
use of women thus employed. The inn
migration problem is one in which every
business town or city must be interested
for the foreign population of our country
is rapidly increasing. In Massachusetts,
over three fourths Of the population is
of foreign birth just now the employ
ers liability law is of especial interest
and If behooyes all to look into the
need of the case
Parks and special recreation spots, in
many places come under the direct SUI
pervision of the women, and the opening
up OF Fairgrounds is one great good re-
sulting from activities along this line.
A playground unsuperyised, however, is
worse than none at all and plague spot
in every instance. II Vermont was made
by nature to be the rich mans pleasure
ground, as a paper recently stated the
historic spots should be fttingly marked
and such sites reclaimed
In travelling through this country and
abroad, one can but notice the difference
in the public buildings In America,
and especially in the West, the town
hall is apt TO be of the box.car type.
while abroad it is the most beautiful
building in the town, its walls adorned
with the best pictures art affords and
with mural decorations of great interest
in most places the railway station is
a good place to begin social betterment
and landscape gardening is coming to
be more and more not only a branch
for the women's clubs to become inter.
ested in, but to actually do themselves.
In America alone 100000 women are
federated while in the world are 1000 900
Joined together for this great work of
social betterment No wonder great
work is being accomplished, when each
effort is backed by 100000 women.
In the western part of this country
Vermont is thought to be slow, but the
laws passed by the last legis-
lature along social lines tend to show
that the state is going forward. In
many instances the passage of these
laws has been due to the influence OF
the various clubs, for an organized body
can get itself before the public as an
unorganized body cannot
Miss White closed her address with
the reading of Wendell Phillips Stat
ford's poem. Vermont" written for and
read at the Tooth anniversary of the
founding of Middlebury college Anoth-
er piano duet was rendered by Mrs. Mel
son Ballard and Miss Phelps. after
which Miss White read "The Etiuuette
of Hetta," from Myra Kelley's Little
Aliens She was a very interesting
speaker with pleasing personality, and
her address was much enjoyed.