The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-27
Audience of More than 800
Greets Miss Clark in
High School
LOCAL OPPORTUNITY
FOR WORK PRESENTED

Oversight of Work Elected-Nearly
100 Volunteer for Various Forms of
Patriotic Duty.
An audience of more than 300 COM
posed principally of young women and
girls greeted Miss Anna II. Clark of
New York city in the high school room
last evening, when Miss Clark explained
the object of the Patriotic league, a
branch of which was formed during the
evening She also exhibited % slides
showing women doing war work in
England, France and America, such as
cleaning engies actig as conductors on
street ears, running motor ears, doing
farm work, running elevators, working
in munitions factories, etc
The attendance was unexpectedly
large and the work started Off with a
decided impetus. The 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
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's
Christian association, the members
pledging themselves 10 render whatever
special service they can to the COM
munit,- and country. She said that
womanhood must stand shoulder to
shoulder with the men of America "a
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
IdIiCt Id Z tlOHC. fciit
TO the fact that the standards of WON
anhood in France and England have
been lowered BIZ the war and sought to
impress upon the audience that il 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. ". c.
y. arc working together to uphold this
standard.
At the close of Miss Clark s talk
branch of the league established in
Brattleboro 70 stand and nearly every
one in the room arose.
Pledge cards and registration cards
were explained by Miss Bessie L. Far
mum of the temporary executive com
mittee, and 261 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 Gross
IS 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
l Vtotd' MISS Il 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 b. Osgood spoke
Of the great patriotic duty that many
women now have of availing themselves
of the privilege of voting in the regu-
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, cSpe-
cially on the license question. Miss
Addie Warren mentioned the great call
for farm help and said that was a
place where women and girls could do
much, especially of the lighter work.
Miss Clark supplemented Miss Warren S
remarks with the information that DIR.
Grace W. Burnett had signified 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 un-
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 Marnc,
War and English Women and Beauty
for Ashes, possibly others, would be
placed in the library. a statement bv
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 an
plause
The temporary executive committee.