The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-25
CHOOSE BENNINGTON
FOR NEXT MEETING
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ent time.
In Cleveland during the riot in May,
DIR. Holt saw first hand what the hood.
lums of city could do again in Chi
cago, it was the hoodlums who did the
same in the riots with negroes, and then
again the same class was to blame for
donel Nothing was done to the hood
lums until they began to steal shoes
from show windows in the Massachusetts
city. No action taken against them
+, while they were causing the riots among
the negroes, but the stealing of the shoes
was such a crime that it called for ac.
ton. Is this justiceY Which are better,
shoes or negroes?
Hard work does not guarantee the re-
wards of hard work usually Every
community must offer to the people who
work such privileges that the community
be worthy of their loyalty. Then train
the people in their obligations to be 10y.
al to their community. The word 10y.
atty is not in the vocabulary of many
people and youths. You hear them talk
of loyalty to country, in connection with
the war, but this is small part of the
place that loyalty may occupy in the
hearts of all.
The trouble with the whole situation
is that some people believe in fighting
for their rights, and as soon as every
body begins doing this, society is in a
social anarchy. There can be no prog
ress. Capital is fighting for its rights;
labor is doing the same; society is going
/ hungry. That is the condition OF things
at the present time. Children must be
trained in loyalty to home life, TO church
life, to industrial situations, to the pol
itics of a community and to their coun-
try.
LOYALTY must be raised to high plane
Of service. II is not the right spirit in a
business, church or professional man
when all they are looking for in com
munity is how they may gain prestige
or money Their aim should be to find
how they can help that community. The
church can help the people to see the
building of the kingdom OF God on earth.
Service in community is service in the
kingdom of God The Sunday school is
one place to train citizens. The church
must lift the community and individual
life of the place. Service and service
alone is the only basis on which people
can gather as a community and dwell
happily together A community or
homes cannot be built in the spirit Of
fight but only in the spirit of brother.
hood.
DR.. Holt was very convincing speak
er and touched question in which
everyone was interested. With closing
PRAYER and henedietion by the same
speaker. the 32d meeting Of the W. H..
NJ. L. and the 4Tth Of the Vermont
branch of the w. B. F. NJ. came to a
close.
Election of officers.
! Yesterday afternoon the principal
business was the election OF officers Of
the Vermont branch, many of them be-
ing reflections. They were as follows;
President, Mrs. NJ. H. Buckham, Bur.
hngton; honorary president, Mrs. Henry
Fairbanks, st. Johnsbury; first vice
president, Mrs. George S. Mills, Benning,
ton; vice. decentralization county,
Mrs Sara Dickens, Middlebury; Benning-
ton, Mrs. S. X Perkins, Manchester;
Caledonia, Mrs. Il. S, Truax, st. Johns
bury; Chittenden, Mrs. j, p. Ramsey,
Charlotte; Franklin, Mrs. w. r. Price,
East Berkshire; Lamoille, Mrs. Myron /,
Stiles, Morrisville; Orange - Orleans,
Mrs G. j. Patterson. North Craftsbury /;
Rutland, Mrs George Cassidy. Rutland I;
Washington, Mrs F. F. Barber, Mont.
pelier; Windham. Mrs Henry l.. Bond,
Brattleboro; Windsor, Miss Margaret l..
johnson. Woodstock; recording secre-
tary Mrs Edward Kirkland, Bellows
Falls; home secretary, Mrs. Z. H. Crane,
Brattleboro; foreign secretary, Miss
Katherine f. Worcester, Burlington; sec
rotary of young peoples work, Miss
Florence Hemenway. Wells, Brattleboro;
treasurer. Mrs. Walter o. Lane, Burling.
ton; assistant treasurer, Mrs. Henry
Hickok, Burlington; auditor, w. B.
Howe, Burlington chairman Of finance
committed Mrs Walter ?. Smith, st.
Johnsburv
An invitation was received from Ben
nington for the women's organizations to
meet there next year, and the invitation
was accepted
Mission Work in Turkey.
There were reports from various Off
GERS and then the address of the after
noon, "The Utmost Heights" by Mrs.
| r. S. Enrich of Turkey Mrs. Enrich
is an exceedingly forceful speaker and
her intimate knowledge Of what she has
to tell drives it home with power. She
said one could not measure what was
their utmost height OF devotion by
comparison with what their neighbor
did, either in works or contributions, but
that it was matter wholly between
themselves and God. War cleared the
dimness from the eyes of American
women and they can never 90 back to
the same plane as before No greater
tragedy could come. The speaker was in
France last summer and felt that the
world is charged with new spirit. She
related instances of the marvellous cour.
age of the boys who had fought and re-
ceived injuries which would disable them
for life, of the work of the French girls
in the ammunition factories in the most
dangerous operations Of its manufacture,
how if death came through explosion Of
the powder in their hands, as it did so
many times, it was only an incident,
merely dying for France. II was the
people at home who stood back of the
fighting troops and enabled them to
carry on, who sacrificed and gave much
that the cause of democracy might win,
and so in the missionary cause, it is
those who remain at home who make
possible or impossible the extension of
the work
Mrs. Enrich is engaged in mission
work in Turkey and so could speak with
authority on conditions in that country.
Terrible tests are put to the Turkish
people who have given up the worship of