The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-30
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Preparations are being made for
the educational exhibit to be con
Quoted by the high cost of living COM
| mittee of the Fourth district of the
Minnesota federated lubs at the state
fair. The committee is assured of the
privilege of a booth at the fair. and
is only waiting for official notification
of their location to start immediate
work to obtain lecturers and provide
interesting and educational exhibits.
The weights and measures ques-
ton has been the work of the Wo-
mems Civic league during the past
year. and a report of Investigations
and work. with recommendations that
something be one to obtain new
state laws regarding the weights and
measures used by grocers and meat
dealers. has been turned over to the
Fourth district of the Federation Of
Women's clubs. and will be a vital
part of the work of that organization
in the season opening September l.
At the state fair exhibit members
of the committee will be present all
during the fair. together with experts
on the food question. the reduction of
the cost of living and home eco
Monies in general. 1t will be the aim
of the exhibit to attract all women
visitors at the fair and give them
vital information in a concise form to
help them reduce their household ex-
penses. There will be a supply of
literature in addition to actual dem
constructions of weighing, measuring
and marketing.
The state and district committees
of the Iowa Federation of Women's
clubs is carrying out a plan for more
nffnnfiy.. 1-nr1- 10, &1,~ Dir%r;,t
committees have been appointed to
correspond with the state committee.
and to cooperate with them in various
lines of club work.
The work mapped out by the dis
'trlct chairman is simple says the
secretary. Miss Mabelle E. Douglas.
The plan will. if we get only one-half
the clubs to cooperate. cultivate and
develop this district as it never has
been before. 1t is better to do a little
each year n do it we'll, than to try
too much and get no results. That
You may know what We intend to do,
| just give a brief outline of some
committee work. We are hoping but
not expecting that all of the forty-fve
clubs will work along all lines. The
conservation committee will ask thu
each club observe Bird and Arbor
day. and on this day ask the senior
classes of the high school TO plant a
tree. The child labor committee will
ask the clubs to have the fourth
Sunday in January. which is Child
Labor day, observed in the churches.
The library committee will urge town
ship extension. and ask each club TO
organize and federate a rural club.
The civic committee will ask for the
rsanization of civic leagues in the
Sn111lar towns sat q claa ni, u-,, lox-
for the Eleventh district in the spring
of 1913. and urge the clubs to do
something for the school playground.
encourage basketball. croquet. bean
bags. etc. The club doing the most
work during the Year will receive
some special recognition from the dis
trict chairman.
W complain because our women
are indifferent; more often it is ig-
norance. How can We be interested
in things We know nothing ahouto
This rather Spectacular plan may look
like more work than it will i We
have been doing as much in sui
tory way. To move things. w. need
united effort and united method"
Ohio suffra sists are bending every
effort To spread the ganda
throughout the state before the CON
vening of the next legislature. when
tho equal suffrage bill is to be sub
mit1ed.
The enormous industrial interests
of the state necessarily mean a very
large foreign population. and it is
among the German. Italian. Hun
garian and other European women
that much of the campaigning is be-
ing done. The leaders report a strong
suffrage sentiment among italian men
and also confidently on the as
slStance of the Hungarian women
VIII" are. it is said. particularly intel
lieent and alive to the value of nro-
gressiye movements.