Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-16
H0ME IMPROVEMENT
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ASSN. TOLD DUTIES
IT SHOULD PERFORM
sMRS. BANGS AND MISS NEW1uRh
ADDRESS MEETING IN OTTAWA
THIS AFTERNooN-MANY IN
ATTENDANCE.


ISOLATION, Mrs Margaret Bangs
chicago and Miss Naomi Newburn o.
Champaign were the principal speak
ers of the day. ald in very interestin;
addresses told of the work which tn,
Home Improvement Association eX
poets to accomplish in the near fl
ture.
Both Miss Newburn and Mrs Bang
are interesting speakers and delighted
their hearers. Miss Newburn is tn
assistant state leader of home demon
stration work. department of the
University of Illinois extension
course. She has recently been devo
ing part of her time to the wOr
OF the Home Improvement Associa
ton.
Mrs. Bangs is well known in thi.
section of the state for her work il
connection with farmers institutes
I For twelve years she has been Z;
[ speaker, devoting most Of her time t
\ the work of Institutes. During III
4 war she was connected with the dc
"A partment OF agriculture as an eXter
n sion worker, but is now returning e
the institute work
The conference opened at II O'cloc
with a business session in the Count
Court room The regular routine o
business was transacted and shor
talks were given by Miss Newbuu
and Mrs. Bangs.
At noon four-course luncheon wa
served in the dining room of the Gil
ton Hotel to more than fifty ladies
This was one of the most enioyabl,
informal social affairs ever held il
Ottawa.
About $50 ladies were on hand at
O'Clock this afternoon TO hear the al
dresses given by Mrs. Bangs an,
Miss Newburn. This meeting wa
presided over by Mrs r w Esmond
president of the association, who in
troduced the speakers
Mrs. Bangs talk today proved to b
as enjoyable and as instructive as he
addresses on previous visits to
Sale County.
She discussed the Americanizing O
our foreign population, taxing III
viewpoint that our foreign ciyizeL
were men, women and children. jus
the same as the American citizen,
and had the right TO be fraternalize,
and educated The best way to ac
complish this purpose was throua
the uplift of the homes. This, sh
thought, could best lie accomplish
by going into the homes. The wome,
of these families mus. be met on
democratic basis and through a demo
cratic medium be raised, of their owl
voltion, to a position where they vii
be fitted to become American women
The Home Improvement Associ0tio,
is the kind of organization through
which this unfit can best be accom-
plshed.
Mrs. Bangs warned against any dis
play of patriotism which would MAX,
the foreign population draw awal
from the tendency of becoming cit
zens rather than fostering such {
tendency.
She discussed fully the relation o
the home to the Home Improvement
Association and the relation of tn,
home adviser TO the association. Tho
latter she said was a part of the as
sociatiOn and not the association
part of the adviser. as many member,
have the feeling. Women were urged
not to feel timid about joining an OF
ganization for the improvement
their homes which was compared to
business mems association or to a
chamber of commerce, where men.
business problems are handled
She ended her talk by plea 70.
women to promote patriotism through
the home and quoted a poem sayint
that the worth and patriotism of a ma
ton might be measured by the homes
Miss NeWburn is a woman of great
personal magnetism and poke of th'
better organization of the association
in manner that showed she had spc
cialized along that line. She was in
teresting and held her audience dur
ing the entire time she spoke.
Miss Newburn has just returned
from Washington, where she at
tended a national meeting Of workers
of the Home Improvement Associa,
ton. There are now 500 county home
advisers in the United SCates, more
than twice as many as there were this
time last year. In Illinois there are
now sixteen counties organized with
home advisers. and great many
cities who employ city home advisers.
She spoke of the many benefits de.
rived by housekeepers from the Home
Improvement Association but devoted
her time almost entirely to the work
of lettering the organization. She
took each branch and phase of the
work which is carried on by the home
adviser and outlined the possibilities
of a more complete organization. A
general executive committee for the
entire county has been formed, with
general officers and chairmen OF each
of the branches of the work is being
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