The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-02
WOMEN Of MARYLAND
FIGHTING HIGH PRICES
Are Organizing All Over State 20 Take
Up Battle With Menace o. In
ereaslno Cost Of Living.

What the women Of Maryland are
doing to bring living expenses down
to . sane level has reached such In
terssting proportions as to attract at
IGNITION throughout the Fifth Federal
Reserve District, where the thrift
movement Of the United States Treas
ary Department IN now in fwM swing.
All over the state. women's clubs and
societies are hard at work on their
campaign to put the business Of
spending AID saving ON nrm basis
hat viii help bring order cut 0f ~
present economic chaos.
Mrs. Francis sanAersoa, presidsns
Of the State Federation es WomeA's
Clubs. announces that sixty-thrse out
,f the seventy-odd fed6Aatsd clubs 10
Maryland have already appointed
thrift chairmen, and special effort IL
being made to have 100 per cent
record by the middle Of the month,
with q thrift chairman in every club
"A the state.
IL Strongly Supported.
The National Federation Ii strongly
supporting the thrift program Of the
state clubs, having made thrift one
| ~ the three national issues on which
L will concentrate its efforts for the
.oming year Miss Georgia Bacon,
arst vice-president OF the federation,
has been appointed national thrift
chairman, and is asking the Mary
and clubs to devote themselves for
the next twelvemonth to work on
decentralization, Community Welfare
md Thrift.
Campaign 10 Underway.
To this end, the clubs are reporting
that they have designated their local
.hairmen who are organizing and car
rying out definite plans for the win
ser's savings campaign. Almost with
Dut exception q certain number Of
meetings. or q part Of every meeting,
y set apart for discussion of ways
and means Of cutting down household
expenses. Model budgets. series OF
twenty leaflets on such topics as
saving fuel, and ways Of prolonging
| the usefulness Of clothing, and the
| Ten Lessons In Thrift issued by the
| War Loan Organization in Richmond,
Va, are proving most popular as
basis for these discussions.
All sorts OF original ways Of tackling
their knotty problem have been de.
rised by clever club women. The
women's Civic League Of Baltimore
with a membership OF fifteen hundred,
| has appointed a committee on thrift.
consisting Of Miss Bertha Rogge,
chairman, Mrs. Sidney Greenfield and
Mrs. Wesley Brown. which has issued
An invitation TO Mrs. Eudora Ramsay
Richardson. director of the Woman's
Division of the War Loan OrganiEa-
Hon, 10 speak before tAs Civic League.
Had Thrift Booth.
From Centrevills comes the news
hat the Civic League engineered
aarift booth at the agricultural exht
| cit recently. Miss Sue B. Mitchell,
who was in charge Of the booth, re.
ports that this novel enterprise was
most successful, and the idea will
probably be adopted by ether organ
lzations for future fairs and exhibits.
| The Centreville women decorated
heir booth gaily with posters, leaf
lets and other literature which the
War Loan Organization Of the Fifth
Federal Reserve District sent them at
their request, and found that feminine
visitors at the exhibit were eager for
their help in solving the H. c. Of L.
problem.
Numbers Of clubs are making plans
Tor the observance Of an annual con
servation day. in order to give wide
spread publicity to the thrift move
ment in their communities. The Elk
ton Woman's Club Get December 16
for such . celebration. with Miss
Mary H. James, chairman OF the pro
gram. The Maryland Association OF
Graduate Nurses, Of winch Miss Corr
Leo Sergeant ~ head, also plans to
observe Conservation Day some time
coon.
That feminine ingenuity can cut
corners. can coordinate groups Of pro
Ersssive women working toward great
Or domestic efficiency and give vital
assistance in the thrift movement Ia
receiving new proof daily in the 70
ports that are eOmiAg cut Of the
achievements Of Maryland women.