The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-05-05
CHAPLAIN OF 26TH
DIVISION SPEAKS
Close of Conference of Older Girls of
Invitation to Meet Next
in Burlington.
Especial to The Reformer.)

RUTLAND, May 5.
The conference of the older girls OF Yer
mont continued its sessions Saturday af-
ternoon, Miss Bertha NJ Terrill of Bur
lington presiding Mrs Ludmila Kuch-
arova Foxlee, a native OF Bohemia, wear
ing festival costume of her country
sang Czecho-Slovall folk-songs depicting
episodes in the life of the Bohemian girl.
Mrs. Katherine Willard Eddy, recently
returned from a year in the Orient, spoke
on Girls Around the World and the pro-
found changes that the war has caused
in the lives of the women and girls of
the East. christian western women"
said Mrs. Eddy, ARE imperatively need
ed to direct these changes and to make
the world not only safe for democracy
but safe for women and girls to live in"
The late afternoon was spent in hikes
and sightseeing and the evening devoted
TO recreation in charge of Miss Vera Bar
ger Miss Barger won her reputation as
an organizer Of good times at Camp Gum
ston, from where she was called to the
national board staff Of the y w. c. A
delegation. Stunts enlivened the evening,
which was planned with the purpose of
giving the girls something they could take
home to their communities
On Sunday the girls attended church
and Sunday school with their hostesses.
An organ recital at the Baptist church
was followed at O'Clock by the closing
vesper service led by Miss Anna NJ. Clark,
her subject being, The Great Adventure.
Dr. Oscar f. Maurer, acting chaplain
of the 26th division at the front, in his
address Friday evening on The Redemp-
tive Community, said in part:
Il always wanted to come to Vermont
| had read about the battle of Benning-
ton and | wanted to see if the girls in
the Green Mountain state today have the
| pep their grandmothers had.
! Your community is the place where
! you live and your problem is how to get
! along with folks. Is yours a 'poley
| town? What do you contribute to it?
Some people think there must always be
scrap heap. Don't believe it. You girls
have energy enough to make over the
worst towns in Vermont, if they are your
towns
Let me tell you something For sc
hours thin line of the 26th division was
the only force between the crown princes
army and Paris There was the salient
of St Alihiel; the military experts said
it couldn't be pinched off. Well, l was
at St AIihiel, and the only danger I was
in was of running to death, keeping W
with our soldiers, who were chasing the
Huns
Girls, go home and conquer obstacles
as the American boys conquered them ii
France.
Il was at Verdun when the armistict
was signed at II o'clock As though Goo
had shut down great cover on the world
the noise went out Three or four hun
bred of us rushed into the cathedral fol
the bell ringing, and there English, Scotch
Americans, French and Mohammedan
knelt down and together prayed, Gu
Father, who art in heaven That is tn
prayer OF the great world community.
Among those registered at the confer
ence are all seven members of the Y. "
c. A. council of Vermont, Mrs. NJ d
Chittenden of Burlington, Chairman, Mis-
Bertha NJ Terrill of the University o
Vermont, Mrs. w. s. WATSON of Water
bury, Miss Fanny Fletcher of Proctors
Vile, Miss Florence Hemenway-Wells o
Bratteboro Mrs. James II Brooks of ST
Johnsbury. and Miss Ellen B. Cramtol
Of Rutland; also student delegations iron
the University Of Vermont, Albany MOI
. NAL school, Burr & Burton seminary, SaS
tons River academy, Peoples academy
Morrisville and Troy Conference acadt
my.
| James b. Taylor of Burlington extende
an invitation to the conference to hol
! its next session in Burlington.