Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Wornan's Club Gets
Down to Business
Of Learning to Vote

The regular monthly meeting of the
WOman's Club of Cliffside Park was
held ON Thursday afternoon at 81
o'clock at the home of Mrs. George
Dickinson, with the president, Mrs.
Benda, in the chair and splendid at
tendance
After the regular reports of the Off
GERS the home economics department
report was read by Mrs. J. Scott, the
chairman, telling of the fine success
of the travelling luncheon, etc.
The literature department report
| was presented by the chairman, Mrs.
G. Donaldson, with its past activities
and the future ones of the playlet of
April %.
In the absence of the legislative |
chairman Mrs. Koch read a number of |
laws for which the New Jersey state
legislation desires letters sent to SEN
ators to ask their support for the bills
pending, the principal bills being the
education one and the health bill. Aft
voted that a committee should be ap-
pointed to confer with the legislative
chairman, Mrs. j. G. Vosburgh, for
more information and to bring such in
formation to the club, such committee
being Mrs. Dickinson, Mrs. MacDon-
aid, Mrs. White and Mrs. LeCato. Mrs.
w. E. Sammis, as chairman of COM
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Committee, reported the desirability
of putting to use the empty tin cans,
the waste paper, ETC., this thrift to be-
gin right at home with the small things.
And she also read the causes of the
high cost of living.
The Board of Trustees of the club
house fund, through it's chairman Mrs.
George Clark, reported the careful in
vestigation of the possibilities of the
purchase of lumber at Camp Merritt
for the erection of a clubhouse, but
the matter was found to be too big
and expensive proposition, and the
trustees desired the Endorsement of
the decision against the idea, which
was unanimously voted.
Mrs. Stein gave a splendid and de-
tailed report of the Sixth district con-
ference, to which she was delegate,
full of valuable reports of the work of
these clubs of Bergen county and full
of valuable suggestions for all clubs
and others.
Mrs. John White, as the delegate to
the suffrage conference at Newark, re-
ported especially the proposed courses
in preparedness for citizenship on the
part of women voters of the future
The president put before the club
the recommendation of the executive
that political study department be
created to inform the club as to the
way to vote, methods, ETC., the commit
tee to consist Of the following women
and their husbands as counselors:
Mrs. Charles Brown, chairman; Mr..
Brown, also member; Mr.. and Mrs.
HI. Everett, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Burns, Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. B. Dana
and DR.. and Mrs. J. d. White, such
committee to assist in extending the
benefit of such education in broad
sense to the other women of the town
at general meeting.
An unusual and most pleasing piece
of news was that the prize of $40 of
fered for the year book of club had
been awarded to the Womans Club of
Cliffside Park by Mrs. Hand, Sixth
district vice president. AS it had been
courteously offered in return by Mrs.
Bender for any pet project of the dis
trict and again given to the club, it
was enthusiastically voted to the club
house fund to be used for a special OBJ
ject in the house of the future. The
other winning club was the Woman's
Club of Hackensack.