Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-09
AFTERNOON SESSION
OF WONENS' CLUBS
Speaker Urges Women To Stop
Eternal Knitting And Look
After Morale of Girls
Visiting Camp
HELP PATRIOTIC EDUCATION
What Maryland Council of Defense
Has Done Economics Down To
Fine Point

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The program of the afternoon ses-
sion of the semi-annual meeting of the
Maryland Federation of Women's S
Clubs, held at the State House yester-
day, opened with the reading of two
verses of the hymn America" by
Mrs. Albert Sioussat, former State
President of the Federation, after
which the delegates and others pres
ent stood while they sang them.
Miss Anne M. Wilson gave a brief
talk on Art" which was interesting
and instructive.
Miss Katherine E. Lucke followed
with a paper on Music" in which
she made plea for greater interest
in music, saying that all would be
better for it, She advocated commun-
ity singing, group singing, chorus
singing, and urged everybody to sing
at least once day. Singing benefits
the human race, and the individual
The world is better for the music that
is in it, and there is music every
where.
The Social Problem.
One of the features of the afternoon
program was the talk by Miss Isabel
r. Harman, General Secretary of the
Woman's Christian Association. She
did not mince words and she called
&bade a spade when dealing with
the social and moral problem of the
camps and cantonments, and condi-
tions that surround the soldiers.
First, she told of the girls who, be-
cause of the war, must now do mems
work in munition factories. Hun
dreds of them go to cities and places
where these factories are, and the
housing conditions there are a great
problem. How are we going to at
tempt to meet it? she asked. These
girls may eat their meals on the side
walk, yet they must be housed some
where. The w. C. A. is expected to
meet this problem and solve it.
Miss Harman told of the building OF
hostess houses at the cantonments.
Four have been finished and six are
nearly finished, while 25 are under
construction. They are homes of the
Woman's Christian Association, where
the soldiers may meet their mothers,
sisters and sweethearts under the best
conditions.
Mrs Harman said the question of
the girl in the country in and around
the camps is a serious one that con-
fronts the w. C. A. When vice is ex-
pected to be driven out by the Fed
eral authorities, it still exists.
Seventy-five to one hundred girls are
left victims of these camps More
men are disabled from immortality
and the social evil than from fighting
i battle. This was proved when the
American soldiers were on the Mexi-
can border last spring and summer.
II is the ruin of our country. This
social immortality army is the biggest
problem we have 10 face.
Turning to the women present, who
were busy plying their needles on
sweaters, helmets and wristlets, Miss
Harman said;
Ladies. stop your eternal knitting
and take time to attend to the morale
of girls"
Britain and Canada had no time for
this, no time to prepare, but we of the
United States have Everything in
the w. C. A. is prevention It is that
Second Line of Defense" that we
must look into First, the upkeep of
character of women. We talk of our
American Army, it is not American,
but foreign She cited by way of il
lustration, q draft of men, mostly
Poles and Russians, who had recent
ly gone TO an encampment near home.
The officer in command could not call
their names and if he had done so,
they could not understand him He
gave orders, but they could not obey
them, but when at night he sneezed
in his tent, eight of these men ran TO
the officer
when vision is right and effort
strong, problems are only programs, -
said Miss Harman in closing.
Home Economics Discussed.
Mrs. Mary Hinman Abel, of Goucher
College, introduced Miss Louise Nc
Danell. Ph. D., Associate Professor OF
Home Economics of Goucher College
Miss Mcdaniel, spoke fluently, and
had her subject matter at her fingers
end Before beginning her line OF
talk. however, she congratulated
Maryland upon having secured the
services of DR.. Woods as President OF
Maryland State College Of Agricul-
ture. with whom she said she had
been associated at the University OF
! wisconsin. She praised his ability
and said Maryland was fortunate in
having the services of such man.
Miss Mcdaniel talked on the fam
lily income, and told how vital that
income is in the question of food
clothing, housing, etc. Incomes are 9
valuable quantity In the United