The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-06
WOMAN
VERMONT Close
ANNUAL MEETING
All Parts of the State Are
Represented at This
Convention
HAS A BUSY SESSION
Next Meeting of the Conference Will
Be Held in ST. Johnsbury Next
October
HAS A BUSY SESSION

session was filled to the brim with
meeting of the Vermont State Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs in Barre. The
business but the extreme heat that
has prevailed ever since the conven-
ton began did not dim in the slight
est degree the enthusiasm of the vis-
itors. There has been good attend
ance throughout and businss has been
/ dispatched in good time. Practically
all this forenoon was given over to
reports of club presidents and an
address on vermont Conference of
Social Work" by Prof. K. r. B.
Flint of Norwich University, North
field.
The morning session opened with
an invocation by Rev. B. G. Lipsky,
which was followed by the singing
of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic.
The report of the literature and Ii
brary extension department of the
federation was read by the secretary,
Mrs. Leonard Wheeler, the chairman,
Mrs. o. II. Coolidge of Rutland not
being present. This department has
striven for service rather than sug-
gestions. The books sent from the
clubs to the industrial school last year
werem uch appreciated and the same
plan has been adopted for this year.
Thanks were extended to Miss Evelyn
Lease of the Kellogg Hubbard libra
ry, Montpelier, for her assistance.
The object of the department has
been universal Americanization, and
through the IL departments of work
each club is pledged to it. Libraries
in town lead to classes of English
for the foreign population and it is
hoped the women's clubs will study
into this matter when it is applicable
to their locality. The personal effort
of all club women is most important,
for they inject into their efforts joy,
power, sweetness and life.
Miss Bertha Terrill, chairman of the
home economics department, being
absent, her report was read by the
president, Mrs. Davis. Miss Terrill
reported the most valuable work done
in the past IL months of any year.
Although the war caused stopping
of activities along certain lines, and
the rising cost of living somewhat
changed the trend of affairs, yet this
very fact gave the home economics
department a chance to be of real as
sistance in many communities. All
the state clubs should consider some
phase of home economics work this
year. There is no hope for the re-
turn of pre-war prices and so we
must learn thrift and how to spend
wisely. Local chairmen should be
appointed to meet community needs.
At the closing of the business meet
ing yesterday forenoon, Prof. Flint
of Mortified was introduced by the
president and spoke on the subject of
"The Vermont Conference of Social
Work. His talk in part follows:
''The Vermont Conference of Social
Work should play in the state of
Vermont the same part which the ma
tional conference plays in the nation.
1t should be clearing house of ideas,
a conference to which those interest
ed in the various organizations in
the state may go for the purpose of
enlisting the support necessary for
the success of any worthy social
movement
"This organization, founded in Bur-
lington in 1916, has already accom-
plished much for Vermont. Not only
has it been responsible for the crea-
ton of the state board of charities
and probation, but under its auspices
several important social welfare
agencies have been formed, most i'm
portant of which is the recently
created Children's Aid society.
"At the next meeting of the con-
ferene which will be held in St. |
Johnsbury next October, the central
theme will be the rural community.
The timeliness of the subject must be
apparent to all. We are just begin
ming to realize that if we are to have
the Greater Vermont which all Yer
monters so much desire, we must be-
gin with the foundations of the COM
monwealth. AS stream can rise no