Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-10

ECAUSE woman is the chief purchaser, it
is up to her to solve the high cost of living
X problem, as Mrs. D. G.~Craighead pointed
out at Mondays meeting OF the, Omaha
IL Womans club social science department
Ninety per cent of everything purchased
except for business purposes, is bought by women
and all equal percentage of all advertisements IS
addressed to women, it is estimated
What could women do! 49,
Organization was the first move, in the mind
of Ms. Vernon c. Bennett and so Omaha boasts
in scant week and day the Omaha CONSUMERS
league with already several hundred members. Inc
with Mrs Bennett as president week ago AT "a
large meeting at her home Thursday evening the
name was changedto include all local persons who
wished to join.
was towards restriction of the Of eggs that the
women bent their first efforts. "Boycottlng' is dis
tasteful both in theory and practice to the women
so it will not be officially resorted to- though every
woman is urged to curtail the OF eggs as muca
as possible she perforce obliged to do by their
prohibitive price.
In New York an official boycott on eggs has
been called to force food SPECTATORS to lower their
prices In more than 700 moving picture theaters in
Greater New York signs were displayed calling upon
the public to stop buying eggs until prices fall
Commissioner Hartigan is reported as saying
The egg boycott should be maintained for at least
two weeks. That will be the only way to break up
gambling in eggs. Buying should stop except for
children and nvalds The problem OF speculative
food prices can be solved only by the organization
Of the consumers, through public officials Our ult
mate aim is to educate the people to demand rational
state and national legislation to prevent speculative
prices for eggs and other food products"
The keen interest shown by womens club shows
that on this point many Of them are already; edu
Gated
Two constructive policies, cooperative buying
and municipal market have been widely advocated
relief measures Central Park Church Brother
hood has already embarked on cooperative pur-
chasing plan for about fifty families. Its progress
will be noted with inteyest.
With the Decembep/issuc the new General Fed
Grafton of Womans Clubs magazine makes its first
appearance. The magazine has changed hands as
far as the editorship concerned and in the makeup
and general contents there will be notable change
Mrs. Haryot Holt Day. president Of the New York
Womans Press club, is the new editor. The Gen
cral Federation Of Womans Clubs has forty nine
individual state declarations, with roster of 5000
clubs and membership of 100000
Matters of wide interest TO club women are nat
, urally featured in this magazine. Mrs. Emma A.
Fox, official parlamentarian OF the general fedora
ton, conducts question and answer column con-
corning procedures for the benefit of clubs. There
Is an interesting article by Mrs Wnifred Sackvillc
Stoner on teaching by play or Natural Education !"
Mrs. Stoner trained her little daughter so she could
speak several languages and write for periodicals at
the'ag of years. Mrs. Philip North Moore, for
mer president of the federation now president OF
the National Council OF Women is represented in
All article on the council, so that all women in the
federation may learn of its work. Motion pictures
also much discussed Miss Jane Stannard John
son has article on How Better Films May Be
Obtained in Cities" The motion picture problem
and its solution received a notable impetus at the
biennial meeting in New York last May, when Che
general federation formed motion picture commit
tee OF which Mrs G. w. Cartwright of Minneapolis
is a member Omaha club women also embarked
the movement