The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-04

IleNe0, Out tne Impossible has been ac-
eomplished. Our purse strings have been
opened, and we are no worse for our self
denial, but rather better. Shall we lose
the impetus of the past two years, its
benefits, etc.I No, we must be loyal to
the end.
The appeal of the war savings cam
paign is now to common sense We have
learned habits of thrift during the war
and got along just as well. Now we
must not be known to other countries
as spendthrifts Of money We must
build financial foundation individually.
This scheme of buying war savings
stamps is especially good for children,
as it is a means for them to save by
the little.
w. S. s. is also said to mean, 'We seek
silver" which is true. Keep the quarters
and the $40 bills will take care of them
selves. Major Atkinson urged the won.
en- to go home from this convention and
inculcate these ideas of thrift in their
homes, in the schools and everywhere
they have an opportunity. Something
should be done in the schools to keep
the children interested in this matter of
war savings during their vacations.
We must be 100 per cent Americans,
true to every call and cause of war saw
ings or thrift for ourselves, our COM
munity and our nation
Reports of Club Work Given.
At the conclusion Of Major Atkinson's
address, three department reports were
given, that of Conservation by Mrs.
Alvin Flint of st. Johnsbury, who read
the message prepared by Miss Bertha
Lee of that place, who was not present;
on Civil Service Reform" by Miss Ellen
NJ. NJ Hoar of this place, and on "Reci-
procity" by Mrs. Henry w. Dutton of
South Royalton.
In the line of Conservation" boys
and girls club work is of the first i'm
portance. On the recommendation Of
the national conservation department,
considering vegetable gardens, poultry,
bee culture, the clubs are responding
Loyalty to the program. In Caledonia
county a womans department of the
farm bureau has been organized and an
agent is now in the field at work to do
among the women in the agricultural
district what the county agent is doing
for the men. Gardening, fireless cook
cry, clothing and food values are the
subjects treated, with two great ends in
view, better homes and better citizen
ship.
Miss Hoar's report on civil service re-
form referred to the work of urging
women to compete for civil service ex
aminations for appointments in the fed
eral service, thereby filling places made
vacant by those who had gone to war.
The service of the department has been
largely an emergency work, and the
chairman of the committee aided by
giving her services while acting as an
associate member of the legal advisory
board for Washington county, working
under Judge Advocate Crowder. In many
ways the committee has aided in mat
ters pertaining to the carrying on of the
war
Mrs Henry W. Dutton of South Roy
alton gave the report on Reciprocity"
saying, More papers have been sent out
from the bureau in the last year than
for several years previously. Already
some papers have been ordered for the
coming club year | wish to enter a plea
for those having papers worthy to be
put into the bureau to send them to the
chairman and thus enlarge the colee-
ton"
About noon the session adjourned,
when dinner w.ls served at the Methodist
church, and the carly part of the after
noon was given over to trip to the
quarries as guests of the Barre Board of
Trade. On their return, reports are to
be given of the work of the various club
with an address by Miss
Marion Gary on "The Y W c. A. in
Vermont"
This evenings session opens With
group of songs by Robert Louis Steven
son, the music to which was composed
by Mrs. Dean II. Perry of Barre, with
Miss Henrietta Ingls as soloist, and a
violin obligato by Mrs Edward Bruce
This will be followed by an address on
"Bolsheyism VS.. Democracy" by John
Spargo, an author of note.
This evening at 80 in the vestry will
be held meeting of the woman's com.
mittee of national defense.
Convention Welcomed to Barre.
Last nights session of the convention,
which was presided over by the fedora
tion president, Mrs. G. F. Davis of Wind
sor, opened with the singing of "Ver-
mont" the federation song, followed by
an invocation by DIR. f. H. Goodspeed.
Miss Blanche j. Tilden, vice president of
the Barre Woman's club, in behalf of
that organization, welcomed the visitors
to Barre. She referred to the fact that
it was Ia years since the Barre clubs had
a convention like the present
one, that since then the smaller clubs
here had united into one large one and
that the Philomathian club of Barre was
one of the first five clubs which made it
possible for the state federation to or
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