The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-25
LESS TALK
MORE ACTION"
Miss Katherine Williams
Urges Members Of Catho-
lie WOman's Club To Take
Stand On Questions.
WANTS HOUSEWIVES LEAGUES
speaker Declares There Is No Need of
New Organizations To Combat High
Cost of Living Problem Can Be
Solved BY Existing Clubs.

Wv
ly gathered about the supper table,
Oh, / was so inspired by SoandSo, or
Those were just my sentiments or
That 3 what l have always thought. ,
If they are just your sentiments, get
out and do something. Don t let mat
tiers rest with discussing them at the
supper table, implored Miss Rather
inc Williams, of Milwaukee, in her adj
dress on Delinquency in Some of its
Phases, before the members Of the
Kenosha Woman s Catholic Club at the
Il. Of G. Hall, Saturday afternoon.
Judging from the favorable com
ments heard on every hand, there is no
doubt but that the suggestions set
forth in Miss Williams talk are not
going to rest with discussion at the sup
per table, but are going to be the basis
Of some energetic work on the part Of
5he Kenosha Woman Is Cathoic Club.
Miss Williams, who was formerly a
member Of the State Board of Control,
and who has spent much time and study
on the question of delinquent children,
repeated her conversations with many
so-called boy bandits. y She said that
all these conversations led her to the
conclusion that trouble of this sort
could be greatly prevented by making
the homes more attractive to the boys
than the lure of the gang"
Not all the delinquents are found
among the boys and girls, according to
Miss Williams. Many are the delin-
quent mothers and fathers; and she pre-
scented many cases to bear out her
statement. Miss Williams stated that
she considered divorces, in great num-
Der of cases, to be one Of the worst
phases of delinquency She said that
she believed matters had come to such
pass that public opinion, by which,
after all, we are ruled, would shortly
veer and frown disapprovingly upon
wholesale divorces.
Miss Williams also discussed the
problem of the high cost of living. She
said that the women of the nation
would have to work out the solution,
and asked the Kenosha women to band
together and do what they could. She
said that there would soon be house
wives leagues all over the United
States, but that it was not necessary
to organize new bodies when there were
such splendid women s clubs already in
existence. If the question of forming
housewives league were to come up,
1t was up to the clubs already organ
lied to say, There is no need of a new
organization Here we are all ready
to work. Come and join us.
Miss Williams appealed to the mem
bers Of the club TO familiarize them
selves with all momentous questions
and to take a decided stand one way or
the other
Saturdays meeting, which was the
first of the current season, was very
well attended, more than two hundred
being present Mrs. Walter White, in
her opening address, compared the
membership of the club at the present
time with that when the club was first
organized nine yesrs ago, and expressed
tho hope that it would continue to
grow as rapidly in the future. The
19l920 roll call shows 1877 members.
Miss Katherine Flynn, chairman of
the education committee, told of the
AUGMENTATION work which is being
done among the foreign born children.
Miss Williams praised this work very
highly and said that Americanization
must be taught by contact and by Civ
ing newcomers an opportunity to learn
by actual experience.
Mrs Mary Phillips, chairman of the
home and visiting committee, appealed
to the women to devote part of their
spare time to the mending Of linens and
the sewing of curtains for st. Gather
inc S Hospital.
Miss Winifred Farley, who had
charge of the tag day for st. Gather
ines Memorial Hospital, told of how
the work had been accomplished and
how much had been realized A letter
of appreciation from Mrs. e. c. Theirs,
for the work which had been done BY
the club members, was read.
An enthusiastic vote of thanks was
given to Miss Mary Langan, retiring
president, for the capable manner in
which she presided at the state confer
ence Of Catholic Woman s Club last
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