The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-06-08
R|HbANy MAKES
STRONG ADDRESS
Federation Meeting Closes
with Stirring Defense
of Foreigners
WINDSOR WOMAN is
CHOSEN PRESIDENT

Clubs in Vermont Coming Year =
Next Annual Meeting in Burlington
Votes to Buy Liberty Bond
The closing sessions of the annual
Injecting of the Vermont State Fedora
tion Of Women s clubs yesterday con
tinued the general discussion of the
roblem of immigration, but in the after
noon session Charles II. Darling, former
assistant secretary of the navy, an in
tcrpolated speaker, aroused patriotic en-
thusiasm that resulted in the unani
nous vote to buy from a depleted treas
ury 500 Liberty loan bond
An invitation from Springfield to
hold the mid winter meeting there and
from Burlington to hold the next an
nnal meeting in that city were ac-
cepted. The sum of 5000 was voted
from the health fund for the war re-
lief committee Of the Y. NJ. c. A., with
the request that it be devoted to the
use Of associations where Vermont Ma
tional Guardsmen are located.
These officers were elected unani-
mouslv: President, Mrs. Gilbert +. Da-
Wis of Windsor; vice presidents, Mrs
Walter Slack Of Springfield, Mrs. H..
| J.. Folsom of Lyndonville, Mrs. George
S. Laird OF Royalton; recording sccre
itarv, Mrs. Leonard d. Wheeler of
White River Junction; treasurer, Mrs.
II e
| Mrs. J. +. Weeks Of Middleburv; gen
eral state director, Mrs Oliver G. Ash
ton of Rutland; general federation
secretary. Mrs. Robert f. Smith Of
White River Junction.
The afternoon session opened with
the report of Miss Edith \. Gilkev of
Brattlehoro, chairman Of the credentials
committee. She reported 81 clubs rep
resented, seven state officers, nine de-
lpartment cLairmon. Is presidents and
rs delegates, a total Of / II official visi-
tors
Rev p. D. Vassilef, an interpreter At
Ellis island and a missionary of the Con
=, grcgational Missionary society, gave an
address on Ellis Island. H. told of hav
ing come to this country l. years ago
from Bulgaria 4 country that 40 years
ago contained AtfN lew natives nHb
could read or write hat today boasts 4
population Of which o. per cent are lit
crate He gave something OF the history
of the rise of that country, giving credit
for much of the brains that made the
change possible to Robert college in
Constantinoplc He said that Russia
had helped Bulgaria from political OPP
preston. but the United States had led
! 81 ~ -. +.
Speaking Of immigration, he said that
persecution is the beginning of al emf
grafton and that God set this country
apart as a refuge for all prosecuted peo-
pies. Ellis island Sits those who are
fit to land from those not qualified to
make their way unaidcd. 1t is the arena
r of the struggle between the rich man
and the labor unions The rich man
wants the cheap labor and the labor
I unions want to keep it out Of the coun-
/, try. He cited some instances that left
i the impression that some immigrants
are deportcd who, unhampered by in
+ huenec, should have landed
' Under the head Of unfinished bust
: ness it was voted to make the same con
tract for Red Cross seals for the coming
year that was made for last 1t was al
SO voted to make the committee on de-
pendent children, a new one, a perma-
ncnt committee with the chairman to
be appointed by the president
The president S report recommended
that the meetings be more dignificd and
: said that there were too many commit
t tees and that the Christmas seals com.
/, mittec and the health committee should
be consolidated, 4 suggestion later vot-
. ed upon fayorably The report ex
{ pressed the belief that in the present
crisis all should be ready to obey orders
but also that there is the right to de
mand of the government that better
protection be given the morals of the
r soldiers than was given on the Mexican
border last summer, and concluded with
the suggestion that the motto Of the
d federation for the year might be "Oul
J Children.
o Ralph s. Thompson, a representative
Y of the Travellers Aid society of New
n England, with headquarters in Boston
[. was introduced to ask for volunteer
k workers. The society S objects are K
investigate for girl or woman a pro
lspectiye place in a city; to assist then
IN travelling; to locate suitable lodgings
and to introduce them to suitable com
IpaniOnskips. The society is powerlesS
r without volunteer assistants in impor
tant railroad towns in New England
BrattlebOro, Montpelier. Wells Rive
! and White River Junction had already
y furnished the names of a volunteer an6
7 an alternate. He asked the endorse
e ment of the federation. which was given
and Bellows Falls, Barre, Burlington