The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-03
CLUB WOMEN HEAR
LECTURE ON HEALTH
SCHOOL CHILDREN
SURGEON GENERAL RUPERT
BLUE TALKS TO FEEDER
TION IN ARKANSAS.

Hot Springs, Ark, May 3.-One
OF the most important sessions OF
the fourteenth biennial convention
OF the General Federation Of Wom-
ems Clubs is scheduled to take place
today when Surgeon General Ru-
pert Blue OF the United States health
service will address the convention
on the supervision OF health OF
school children.
Other outstanding features OF the
session include the reports OF the
charmen OF the departments OF con
servation and public health. the
General Federation presidents rec
concentrations, and an address by
Miss Helen Fraser OF the national
war committee OF London.
The conservation and public
health conferences are also sched.
uled to take place this afternoon.
The business sessions OF the CON
vcntion have been packed full of
serious work, There has perhaps
not been any day since the entrance
OF America INTO the world war when
so large body OF representative
women worked together in con-
vorton having for its central theme
war service, with thousands OF
American women standing out con-
sricuously for definite war service,
each bringing message OF achieve
mcnr in cooperative war work.
Hot Springs, Ark May 5.--F c. |
Walcott, special representative OF
the United States food administra-
ton, in an address at the fourteenth |
biennial convention OF federated |
women's clubs, described the con
dilion OF the suffering peoples OF
Europe, outlined the European food
shortage and emphasized the fact
that the entire responsibility OF
freeing England France and Italy
falls upon the United States and
Canada.
Mr.. Walcott made stirring APP
peal to the American women, de
claring the woman part in the war
the most difficult OF all. The speak
er said that owing TO the shortage
OF man power the useful occupations
aud the unbalancing OF the country's
economical equilibrium, upon the
women of America would rest the
task OF bringing back to normal the
Chief source of supply, and that her :
part was the most difficult OF all.
Hot Springs, Ark, May 5.-"Wo- =
men of England now can build p,
complete airplancs, and this year g
Britain hopes to make iolu times as 4
many as last year. This will all de q
pcrd upon the women Miss Helen a
Fraser of London, England, told I
delegates to the General Federation b
OF Women's Clubs here today. Miss f
Fraser has been actively engaged in r
war work since the beginning OF Il
hostilities. h
The speaker told her audience
thai between 100000 and 100000
occupation or another and that H.
100000 women are now working for
wages who never worked for money +
before. Great Britain. She said. had
,pent $l.OOO,OO0OO0 on housing alone )
to provide for its munition workers.
"The smaller shells arc made en- l
.irely by women She continued.
ard they now make in one fort ,.
night more shells than were made i
Turing the cntirv year from August. ,-
.Gl4 to August 1915. -
Farming Is work among the
most patriotic undertaken Ll the
, omen. because it lacks the excite
rL and stimulation furnished in .
he mGT1r~-uu factori,, Ii also was ~
liflicult to convert the farmer to
he idea that women couh ,c OF any
ls, on the land. "a
we arc couscinu, of our dc -.
oats." She concluded. ~but we know m
hat We fight ON the side of RIGHT Il;
md humanity. .nd we are going 10 ~,
he finish. and 60 victory" p,