The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-04
WANT CHILDREN At
THE FIRST SHOWS
Prime Object of Moving Pic
ture COMMITTEES Is OBJ
servance of Curfew

The most interesting and best at
tended meeting of the Womcn's Civic
league this yea was held yesterday
afternoon at the public library in the
nature of an open session with Il pro-
gram. The papers n matters OF
business that came up created mucn
discussion and showed that the wom-
en- of h city are taking an active in
tcrcst in all things that affect their
welfare.
The committee appointed at the last
meeting to take up the matter of
moving picture theaters reported that
they had conferred with the Y. W. c.
Visibility of establishing Il board of
censorship. The prime object of this
board at present would be to prevent
children under curfcw age from at
tending the second evening perform
ance at the moving picture shows.
This action receives tho endorsement
of the police matron, Mrs. Pearl
almost necessary in order that she
may carry u her work properly.
Several bills that arc now before
the legislature We're presented to the
league for Endorsement and those pass
cd f%avorably upon were the slaughter
house bill. the snuff bill. the Critten-
ton bill and cold storage bill.
New Duty for Food Committee.
The work of the identifying
the pure food committee for this
spring and they will endeavor to make
some progress in tho way of securing
seeds and other means of beautifying
for the early spring work. Unsightly
bill boards which are standing III
some parts of the city were mentioned
and the league probably will investi-
gate the matter at an early date.
The open program was an eXcep-
tionally Interesting feature OF the
meeting with Mrs. A. II. Taylor. Mrs.
F. l.. McVey and Miss Esther NJ. Pike
as the speakers. Mrs. Taylor's topic
was current events and she dwelt
largely on the Housewives league
which was recently organized in New
York by Mrs. Julian Heath. This is
the league which established egg mar
kets in the east this winter and sue
ceeded in bringing the price down to
twenty-five cents per dozen when
dealers were demanding forty and
forty-tive cents. Mrs. Joseph kennedy
who is spending the winter in New
York with Dean Kennedy is much in
terested in the work of this league
and supplied Mrs. TAYLOR with much
Created Discussion.
Mrs. TaylOr'S talk was so. interest,"
ing that a lively discussion followed
with many suggestions from different
members on establishing such
kets in this city. Mrs. Taylor told
what the women at Madison. Wis.,. are
accomplishing through the co-opera-
ton of the newspapers. In h a city
the Of farmers who have pro-
ducts for sale arc published daily.
keeping the housewives in close touch
with a direct market at much better
prices than they r otherwise able to
secure. This plan also was considered
feasible in this city while some sug-
gcsted that names also of farmers who
sell undrawn poltry and others who
violate sanitary laws could be dealt
with in Il similar manner.
Mrs. McNey's paper was or Land
scape Gardening" and was exception
ally fine. The development of the
town beautiful was her theme and she
suggested a plan whereby a city art
club or circle could be formed for the
purpose Of studying ARCHITECTURAL
beauty. and applying it to public build
Iings. Mrs. McVey also showed ON
Very fine English pictures which i'll
Illustrated what had been done in that
country by taking up the study of
city plans and city identifying.
Miss Pike gave many valuable sug-
gestions in her paper on How Can
We Utilize Our City Parks to the Best
Advantage" Among the several new
things advocated We're the organiza-
ton of nature study classes for both
Young and old, converting ice Kinks
into swimming pools in the summer
time and studying the trees and birds
to be found In local parks.