The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-06-16
CANNING AND
SEWING CLUBS

AS we see it the movement that is
now in progress for the organization
of Girls Canning and Sewing CLUBS
all over Dorchester county is one OF
the most important economic events
that has happened in this county for
many years. We believe it may be
rightly compared with those move
ments that have resulted in the large
increase in the yield per acre of the
farm lands of the county; with the
adoption of machinery that has made
possible the accomplishment of many
times as much work per day as was
formerly completed in that period OF
time.
For many years the government
has expended much money and time
in securing greater efficiency in all
fields of business. The Agricultural
Department was created for the pur-
pose of looking after and developing
to the fullest extent the agricultural
resources of the country. In other
lines of business the same care has
been exerted to increase the effici-
ency and to bring about the greatest
possible returns from the amount in
vested.
The Good Roads movement was
the natural outgrowth of investiga-
ton by trained experts who recog-
nized the needs of better facilities
for the moving of farm and other
products to and from markets, and
who realized that the cost of such
roads would be quickly returned
through the possibility of cheaper
ing the means of improving lands
and hauling the increased products to
the stations, ETC. The increase in
the, value of lands along the improv-
ed highways has clearly demonstrate
ed the truth and wisdom of this
judgment.
The same is true in almost every
line of enterprise in this great coun-
try. Within the last quarter of
century business conditions have
been revolutionized and only the
standpatters, those who refuse to
keep pace with progress, but are sat
isfied to stand still, have failed to
keep up with the forward movement.
Thus far, however, these move
ments have been very largely confin-
ed to occupations in which men are
engaged, but within the last few
years there has been a realization of
the fearful economic waste in the
lines of woman's endeavors and the
government is now devoting por-
ton of the time of it's trained ex-
perts towards improving these con-
ditions. Just what the use of by
products means to many large manu-
facturers; what the Pure Food cru
SADIE has done for the house-keepers
of the country, is the Home Econom-
ic Club movement doing for those
sections of this country that are
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en- more, for it is bringing about a
better understanding, among the wo-
men, of the conditions under which
the work, in which all of them take
part, directly or indirectly, is done;
and this, in itself, is worth the time
that is devoted to it. There is no
cost attached to it, but the beneficial
results obtained from it will, we
feel certain, compare very favorably
with those obtained from any other
similar work, whether it be- along ag-
ricultural or manufacturing lines
The savings, in money, that will re-
suit in the different communities, as
the result of the establishment of
these clubs, is almost incomprehensi-
BILE.
At first glance the Importance of
the movement may not be realized,
but the intelligent person, after
little thought, will readily recognize
that anything that conserves the
products of community or increa-