Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-30

Fprence HeFe-Notc &o lneorperate-I Address by Mrs Mary Schenot< Aoeiman on The Part Heme- Making ! ! Should Play in Vocational School. 1 There was 9 large attendance of in | fesreatsd persons at the annual busi- l E1aees meeting of the Consumers league l Sof Connecticut followed by confer 1 ence on the wage earning woman and l Ter needs. which was held in the de- Sign room Of the Slater museum on 1 ! Friday afternoon at o'clock. DT. Rockwell Harmon Potter of ! lIaFtford waE unable to be present and MISS Helen Marshall presided The minutes Of the last meeting were read ! 0ysA Mrs. 8. II. Williams of Glaston- bury The treasurer's report gave ! s511.31 as the years assets. { Educational Campaign. The report of the general secretary, uTe Mary c. WelIes, of Newington, 1 told Of the educational campaign in 1 several Connecticut cities. Trade 1 schools have been started in Hartford, ! Waterbury and Putnam, and one Is ! about to be in New Haven. A voca- 1 tionai secretary is needed as an ad- iaact to the board of education. She tolG ofeWork done among newSboys and neEsgirls in Hartford, of the success of the employment certificate law and of sthe other various plans and aesivi-
 
 { Department Reports.
 Airs. Williams read the reports from th4 other state officers. That of Dr. R. 1T. Potter, committee on Legislation, gold of the five bills introduced in the present general assembly: that of Dr. John Coleman Adams of Hartford, committee on publication, reviewed the punphlet and four leaflets issue0; that of Miss Bertha P. Dennis of Hartford, press committee, aimed to gain the If Saf Miss Rose Churchill of New Britain, shap early committee, told of work done along that line; and that of Her bert Knox Smith of Pennington. com nittee on investigation, spoke of try ing to find out why there are so many married women working in factories, ons-hfth of the whole number.
 Officers Re- elected.
 sEhe report of the nominating com mittee was given and the present off cers all re- elected except the treasurer, Mrs. Solon F. Davis being chosen for hat office. It was also voted to take out articles of incorporation for the league.
 Home Making in Vocational Schools.
 Airs. Mary Schencl Woolman, for raerly professor of domestic art, 'Eeachers' codeCe- and organizer and l1Es director of the Manhattan trade st.If5cl for girls. gave an address on
 lse Part Home Making Should Play l1 a Vocational School. This is Q ser2us question iD the big industrial c-tjes. But the same conditions are not found all over the United States. New York Is ;n a. class by itself. This is due 10 the great mum beTs of urf- skilled workers who crowd into it and 10 other great numbers who leave school with too little education t0 be- come skilled workers. Many of these lst1er are not obliged to do s0--they Sfnf1Ir don't want to learn. In copSe- f74 ,nr Cr1i7 has 10 give three to six months of intro ductory. work This short ems the time It is no easy thing. she said. to make ga.pable home-nlalSer. Some of the qualities of character necessary for re- sponsiblity- Mathematics is also nee eSsaTy. Boston has no such serious problem. Milwaukee teaches home making from an economic standpoint. Other cities may build on work al- ready done in the schools. But there is mitch just criticism of the work of many public schools. It does not help in tfiIe home because of different eyltipIne eilI. different materials or over scie1tifis presentation. Domestic art is often impractically taught, too. ,1z1rift and energy should be con served.
 co-su1eneed Pre-Vecstional Schools.
 H4ie I,-c-vocational school in which tl.fs asupil learns many things by doing in e z1drzilaI way was highly commend t-7 by Mrs WoolTnan, These will tend ;0 raise inc standard of the vocational scEools into real business schools. They will correct the fault of not see ing the ma tier correctly. It is not the old kind Of home making that is need ed, hut professional work related to the home.
 Women in industry.
 Miss Florence Kelley. general secre- tsrs of the National Consumers lsssue. spoke on The Woman Who Remains in Industry. Working girls arg no longer all girls. Many are now married women, and elderly women as veil This default of the fathers s q 1liscourasing spectacle and brings Iooilt disastrous results which make necessary the various forms of phiIan- threpic work. \ woman cannot be wage esTner and a successful home maker at the same time. She told of tlle chaos in rates which prevails in all department stores, with few excep- lions, and the impossibility of raising wages when unskilled labor is so plen- tifuE In New York city 22,000 green horns, who should be kept in school, leave 1t every year to swell the waiting list of unskilled labor.
 connecticut's Situation.
 Miss Charlotte Molyneux Holloway, Investigator 1s13-1914 under the indus trial commission of Connecticut. spoke on Some Phases of the Industrial Sit uation in Connecticut, giving an i'm passfone0 appeal for department store workers. One-third of the working population of Connecticut she said are women. They are a valuable com mercial asset to the state-enougl1 50 70 command more consideration Khdn they receive at present
 
 Resinental Secretaries.
 The 2sd annual meeting of the Asso- FN--.