Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1920-01-02
VIRGINIA WOMEN FIGHT
HIGH COST OF LIVING
Clubs Organizing Under Thrift Stand,
ard to Make Study Of Plans for
Bringing Down Prices 70
Consumer.

n new CelSDf2tlOn mas been add ed
| 70 the calendar Of high days and hou
days of the women's clubs in Virginia
Thrift Day. in large letters, is rapid.
" making its appearance on one after
another OF these club programs for
the year, as the organizations complete
their plans and signal the opening o.
hosttlities against the rising cost O.,
living
Newport News led off by holding
the first Thrift Day IN this state The
Womens Club Of Richmond followed
| recently with a big meeting at which
Orrin Lester. associate director OF thu
savings division. United States Treas
ury, came down to make a speech OF
Spending and was followed by Mrs
Eudora Ramsay Richardson, directol
Of the women's division, Of the Wal
Loan Organization of the Fifth Fedora
Reserve District who told of the bis
things the women Of Virginia are do
ing to promote the government say
ings movement. All over the stat
she said, she had found that women's
clubs Ind societies were hard at wori
on a systematic campaign to put the
business of spending and saving on
firm basis
Clubs are Enthusiastic
Mr.. Lester went from Richmond <
Norfolk to attend a celebration
Thrift Day held BY the Women:
Club there. Mrs W z. Calender
city chairman Of thrift, reports tina
practically every club in Norfolk ha
. chairman of thrift and is studying
the subject enthusiasts tically The Nor
tosa Day. held urder the auspices O
the Wonen's Clu1, was such a pro
bounced success that the Housewives
League OF that city forthwith decide
20 hold Thrift Day Of Its own, /,
which the Housewives League c
Portsmouth will share, and to whfc,
all the Women's Clubs Of both cite
have been invited
AS result OF The Thrift Day ooaerv
ed recently by the Womene Club OF
Lynchburg. it was decided by the com
AAAtsSSr Ia "A4tSlA I'D ~ Nv. NTOCCu II
chairman, TO devo.a a pars q
every club meeting this year TO
systematic study OF thrift. at which
each member VIII be given emporium
ity to say her say" IA imned tai
result Of this activity in the won ~-'s
clubs Of the state is shown, say Mrs
Mark Reid. thrift chairman for til
federated clubs Of Virginia, IN the re
cent report OF merchants IN 1T leas.
one district where the campo ign /
we'll under way, t the effect th9t ther
has been marked dec ease in t
sales OF unnecessary ar, les
Every home demon stration agent +
every county in Virginia has been ask
cd to incorporate the study OF thrift IL
her yearly program, and Miss Ell
Agnew, who Is in charge Of the wor.
In this state. hores soon to have
thrift chairman in every club witt
which her deputies are connected
Literature telling Of ways to help stem
the threatening tide of wastefulnesl
have already started to spread thu
good tidings in their districts or viii
be glad to help organize the WORT
when consulted.
Great Interest Shown
Exceptional interest. reports show
has been manifested in the model bud
gets prepared Tor average families and
now being distributed by the Wa
Loan Organization of this district
Requests for this budget are pouring
IN at headquarters in Richmond, Va.
as housewives discover what real saw
ings in household expenditures may
be effected by governing them Ia
businoss-lke way Another popular Is
sue is the booklet Ten Lessons II
Thrift" which many clubs are usiRs
as basis for ther thrift programs.
Women everywl ere who wished t.
continue their patriotic work are vel
coming this ntw opportunity for ser
vice. The question that was 80 Otter
asked in those firs+ days Of relaxation
win the women ~ho have done suoa
| invaluable war wo. k ever be conteN
| TO go back to the old order Of things?
| seems to have been answered in the
negative.
The women are turning their energ
les to the next big national and worit
| lob confronting then-that OF bring
| ing things back to normal by reducing
waste and promoting thrifty habits Of
| living. They hold the purse strings OF
| the world, 1t has been pointed out
and upon them naturally devolves the
| duty It holding those purse strings
| tight by every artYiice known 70 clever
housewives.
And the United States government
IS strongly behind them In tAeir ef
forts. Headquarters for the work II
this district are ct the War Loon or
ganizatlon, Richmond. Va. and Mrs
Eudora Ramsey Richardson. directcl
Of the wonens1 division. will b glad
to send to those rriting for Il any d
the sovsrnra eats thrift llHSrature, =
Guiding the model hpdgss and tp nal
her chatty wsskiE .stter detailing. ~
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