Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-03-01
PATRIOTIC LEAGUE
BRANCH Is FORMED
Audience Of 800 Greets Miss
Clark in High School
Local Opportunity for Work Presented
Board Of Councillors to Have Gen.
eral Oversight of Work Elected.

An audience of more than 300 com
posed principally of young women and
girls greeted Miss Anna NJ Clark of
New York city in the high school room
| Tuesday night when Miss Clark cx
| planned the object of Patriotic league, a
branch of which was formed during the
evening. She also exhibited 25 slides
| showing women doing war work in
England, France and America, such as
cleaning cngics, actig' as conductors on
street cars, running motor cars, doing
farm work, running elevators, working
in munitions factories, etc.
The attendance was unexpectedly
large and the work started off with
decided impetus. Tho room was deco
rated with flags and with posters which
were the work of Miss Grazia Henkel
and Miss Marion Knight. Miss Bea-
trice j. Yearly, chairman of the tenn
porary executive committee presided.
The program opened with selections
by the audience, entitled Pack Up Your
Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, Over
| There, Over Here, America For Me,
| The Marseillaise, and Keep the Home
Fires Burning, the solo in the latter Sc
lection being rendered in an especially
pleasing manner by Miss Dorothy L.
Hubbard.
Miss Yearly then introduced Miss
| Clark, who first showed the lantern
slides and then outlined the work of the
| Patriotic league, which is promoted by
the Junior War Work Council of the
national board of the Young Women g
| Christian association, the members
pledging themselves to render whatever
special service they can to the com
munity and country. She said that
womanhood must stand shoulder to
shoulder with the men of America as
they have done in France and England.
| This draft has called but few women in
to the various branches where men have
been employed, but after the next draft
there will be greater call for women
and when the third draft comes the
women will have to stand in the place
of men as the women of England and
France have done. She called attention
to the fact that the standards of WON
anhood in France and England have
been lowered by the war and sought to
impress upon the audience that it was
the duty of the women and girls of this
country to see that the standard of
womanhood in America is maintained.
The Patriotic league and the Y. w. G.
A. are working together to uphold this
standard.
At the close of Miss Clark s talk
Miss Yearly asked those who wanted a
branch of the league established in
Brattleboro to stand and nearly every
one in the room arose. ......
Pledge cards and registration cards
| were explained by Miss Bessie L. Far
| nun of the temporary executive com
mittee, and 26l persons signed the
cards. Patriotic league buttons were
given to each member
Miss Yearly asked for suggestions of
work that might be undertaken by
members of the league and Miss Marga-
| ret +. Root mentioned the Red Cross
as one channel and stated that the sup
| ply committee of the local branch had
promised that the rooms could be used
| by members of the Patriotic league on
Tuesday evenings. Miss Farnum spoke
of the stenographic and clerical work,
stating that some of the young women
already had volunteered to assist in the
| War Chest association work, and would
be given some of that within the next
| few days. Miss Ethel l.. Osgood spoke
of the great patriotic duty that many
women now have of availing themselves
lar town meetings and urged that every
woman in Brattleboro should take ad
vantage of her opportunities and vote
at the meeting on next Tuesday, espe
cially on the license question. Miss
Addie Warren mentioned the great call
| for farm help and said that was
place where women and girls could do
much, especially of the lighter work.
| Misc (lar qupnlpmantaJ Mics LUorron =
remarks with the information that DR..
Grace W. Burnett had signifed her will.
| ingness to help with the work to the
extent of giving physical examinations,
| and Miss Clark stated that everyone
undertaking the farm work should I'M
dergo such examination
Miss Clark stated that she had been
to the free library and that some of the
new war books, Hilltop of the Marine,
War and English Women and Beauty
for Ashes, possibly others, would be
placed i'll the library. A statement by
Miss Clark that Miss Margaret Slat.
terry might be induced to come to Brat
tleboro some time in the future for a
big rally was met with enthusiastic APP
plause.
The temporary executive committee,
who acted as nominating committee,
presented the following names to serve
al board of councillors to have the
general oversight of the work of the
local branch of the league and they
were unanimously elected; Gladys
Adams, Statia Novack, Beatrice j.
Yearly, Gladys Morrill,, Clara Warren,
Elizabeth Moran, Evelyn Austin, Char.
lena Thomas, Mary Coombs, Evelyn
Durham, Cecilia johnson, Elizabeth
Ranney, Gladys Stellman, Jessie Ran
som, Margaret McKeon, Ruth Baldwin,
Mabel Spaulding
The audience stood and read the
pledge in unison, after which Miss
Clark offered prayer and the meeting
closed with the singing Of America
Nearly hundred young women vol
unteered for the various forms of pa.
triotic duty divided, as follows: Red
Cross, 40; stenographic, typewriting
and clerical, %; rifle practice, 16; mu-
sic, /; garden club, Q; farming, .; mis-
cellancous, 6.
The ushcrs were Dorothy Hubbard,
Dorothy Schwenk, Dorothy Pratt,
Gladys Russell, Evelyn Fisher Rather