The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-06
VERMONT CLUB
WOMEN ADJOURN
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Belated reports of the Winooski and
| Swanton clubs were read at this time.
For the legislative committee, the chair
man, Mrs. George Fl. Smile of Mont
pelier, reported. This committee is in
| existence only for the assistance it may
give in backing up other committees
when there are measures the federation
| is DESTROYS of putting through the legis'
lature. There has been little to do along
| that line in the past year. Only one bill
was considered, that of compulsory med
ical inspection in the schools, and when
the state board Of health prepared an
other for introduction to the legislature
which embodied all that the federation
had sought, the latter body gave up the
idea of presenting bill on its own
account.
Mrs. Arthur Brooks of St. Johnsbury
reporting for the public health commit
tee, referred to the progress the Red
| Cross had made along this line in recent
months Cooperation spells efficiency
Circulars have been sent out regarding
nursing and tuberculosis A public
health nurse is possibility in Vermont
1t is easy to start a movement, but 1t is
up to club women to keep it going
Time, strength and influence must be
/ exerted to keep up enthusiasm.
The credentials committee reported
through its chairman, Miss Blanche j
| Tilden of Barre, who stated that the
number of state officers present was 4
chairmen of departments H., club presi-
dents ID, delegates 65, total "a. The
number of guests registered was IL, al
though it is known there were many
guests who did not register.
President Mrs. Davis Reported.
Mrs. Davis, the federation president
who has done so much for the organiza.
ton by her splendid executive ability
and gracious manner, gave her report at
this time, which is printed below in full:
my dear Co-workers: In submitting
to you my yearly report, let me recall
to your minds the manifold and stirring
! world events that have taken place since
we met together in convention Just a
year ago. Then we were in the heat of
preparation and mobilization of our
| forces, both of men and of material re-
sources, to take our place by the side of
the allies in the greatest and cruellest
war the world had ever known. The
fervor of doing our best to aid in this
great struggle, absolute loyalty and
whole hearted willingness to sacrifice
were the salient notes of our 1918 con-
vention-our war convention. So all
through the summer months, whether in
the routine of letter writing or in the
| collection of data for the new year book
or in the more interesting work of so
Letting funds and furnishings from our
| federated clubs for the soldiers and
sailors club at Burlington, that same
desire to do urged us on. For although
we were walking in accustomed ways
and had not been wrenehed from our nat
ural mooring in the tide of things, ac-
cepting them as facts of contemporary
life, yet out of it all was forged a noble
will to sacrifice.
"As the summer went by and autumn
approached, with accounts of the victo-
rious onslaughts of our valorous Yankee
troops and the rapid retreat of the forces
of the central powers, ending in bitter
defeat, our minds began to look ahead
to the times after the war, when the
tumult and the shouting died. to the
problem of reconstruction and especially
to the plan for league of nations, which
it was our intention to stress at our
board meeting scheduled for Pittsford,
Oct. 10 and l8-and Miss Helen Varick
Boswell noted for her work in the G. T.
w. C. and as the woman the late Col.
Roosevelt appointed to go to the canal
zone and organize the women into clubs
and an ardent supporter of the League
to Enforce Peace, had consented to come
to Vermont and explain the great move
ment, which has since swept the world
and has been made part of the articles
of peace recently handed the central
powers.
"Then came the great influenza cpl
demic All club meetings were postponed,
all plans given up and men and women
everywhere had to turn their attention
to the afflicted within our gates Emer-
gency hospitals were organized and
everything done TO curb the spread of the
disease.
Following almost Immediately came
the false rumor of the signing of the armi-
stice and week later, Nov II, the actual
event. so when our board finally met
Mrs. Edward Kirkland, the point of view
had changed War in all probability
was over. We must develop new pol.
icy. Pick up, clean up, resurrect, recon
struct. And everywhere over the world
men and women Immediately began to
determine that such q cataclysm as a
world war must never again visit this
earth.
''You can readily see that the number
and variety of events have made it diff
ficult to do much constructive work dur
ing our administration. Such conditions
have made it impossible to keep to one
point of view. We have taken as our
motto, resiliency, so when we saw plans
and projects carefully thought out made
absolutely useless because of the trend
of the times, we have tried to develop
along new lines
while we have undertaken no new
state work, as all our energies have been
bent toward winning the war, we believe
there never has been time when so
much money has been raised by the fed
Grated clubs of Vermont and paid over
to be used out of the state Let me cite
some figures for you collected a year
ago: $4,000 worth Of Liberty bonds have
been purchased from the treasures of
our federated clubs, $1,000 Red Cross,
$500 war libraries, $500 American women
physicians overseas hospital unit, 81, 400
for the war victory commission and
hundreds of dollars for allied war relief.
"While for use in Vermont, 5000 for
the soldiers and sailors club in Burling-
ton, $45 for the preyentorium at Essex
to furnish bed, and sum for the
scholarship fund. Ordinarily we would
not favor such course, but the times
demanded that We sacrifice the interests
of Vermont for the time being.
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