Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-01
Club Women Given
Summary of Their
War Time Service

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clubs was given by Mrs. Eugene Reil-
ley, chairman OF the business commit
tee, at the fourteenth biennial con-
vention. known Is the war Service
Convention Of the Federation, held in
Hot Springs. Ark. April 20-May 8,
1918. 1t was founded on reports Of
all the Federation state secretaries
concerning the work done by the
clubs n their respective states.
Mrs. Kelley. in the preface to her
report. said:
Statistics make dry hearing. It is
There is not time to tell the real
stories these represent and the SER
services, little and great, which no
money can purchase and whfch can
not be rendered in dollars and cents.
But this will tell us that the club
women, since April 6, 1917, have for
gotten themselves arid have kept their
thoughts on the big, splendid dreams
that invite us to labor and todare."
The clubs in the general Fedora
bonds; expended 55.l2s in thrift
stamps; raised e $4,000 for the
Red Cross, $65 ,106 for the lihpary
fund, and $ss.7ss for the work Of the
Y. M. G. A. activities. French, Bel
gian, and Armenian relief, and sever
al hundred French children were
adopted by the clubs.
The convention passed the resolu-
tons proposed by the war service
committee of the Association Of Col
lege Alumnae at the annual meeting
of that body on April IS, 1917, which
calls for recognition Of women, in ad-
mi~nistrative and governmentalfposi-
tions, particularly where interests of
womensare affected. This set Of reso-
lutions aAo petitions utilization Of
women physicians for military SER
vice, enlistment of women physicians
in the Medical Reserve Corps of the
United States army with the same
conditions OF pay, retirement, insur-
physicians are entitled, and the fur
Their use of wome physicians in the
contract service of the army.
A resolution, which received the
approval OF the food administration,
was in which the delegates volun-
tarily pledged themselves to consume
no wheat or wheat products until the
next harvest, or about September I,
1918. The convention urged upon
the health authorities in the, different
states the adoption of approved meas
uree for the prevention and treatment
of v%enereal disease, and advised that
a special committee be appointed by
the Federation of Women's clubs for
every state, territory and insular pos
session Of the United States for the
duration of the war to cooperate
with existing tuberculosis organiza-
tions. TIA.
The plan tor federation aid for the
protection Of maternity and infancy
as set forth in the nth. annual report
of the children's bureau of the de-
partment Of labor was approved.
The war garden movement of AM
erica was endorsed and agreement
made to lend active aid to the rapid
consumption Of the potato crop of
this year, as requested by the depart
ment Of agriculture. z..
Industrial and social conditions
committees in each state were urged
Of employment in war industries Of
women and girl prisoners and in
mates Of jaiis and warehouses;, CO.
operating with state representatives
Of national committee on prisons and
prison labor in working out the solu-
ton Of these problems
Regarding the problem Of the re-
turned crippled soldier. the conven-
ton expressed the desire that each
accept government training for a
useful occupation to insure his inde-
pendence and s~elf-respect. All the
federated clubs ware ur8ed to coop
crate in every possible way with the
federal board OF vocational educa-
ton in its plan for the returned war
cripples.
RESOLUTIONS were passed indorkng
maintenance of labor standards and
continued support Of legislative pro-
lection Of women and children In in
dnstrv and fha orennfxafi0n Of yv0m-
EN- for labor necessary in food pro-
fductlon.
Tho American Home Economics as
ISOLATION, the National Education as
board@were Requested to their in-
fiuence in Introducing child welfare
a an integral part Of all home-econ-
omics courses In schools. colleges,
and universities.
The General Federation Of Wom-
ems clubs went on record as standing
behind every effort to make clothing
artisticAlly better and moro economic
nj. purchasing only what 10 suitable