The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-01-23
WOMEN OF MARYLAND
FIGHTING HIGH PRICES
Are Organizing All Over State to Take
Up Battle With Menace OF In
creaeing Cost of Living.

What the women Of Maryland are
doing to bring living expenses down
to a sane level has reached such In
leresting proportions as to attract at
.ention throughout the Fifth Federal
Reserve District, where the thrift
movement Of the United States Treas
Try Department is now in full swing.
All over the state, women's clubs and
societies are hard at work on their
campaign to put the business OF
spending and saving on a firm basis
that will help bring order out OF the
present economic chaos.
Mrs. Francis sanderson, president
Of the State Federation Of Women's
Clubs. announces that sixty-three out
II the seventy -odd fedsNted clubs In
Maryland have already appointed
thrift chairmen, and q special effort is
Being made to have 100 per cent
record by the middle Of the month,
With thrift chairman in every club
a the state.
10 Strongly Supported.
The National Federation IL strongly
Importing the thrift program Of the
, ,tate clubs, having made thrift one
II the three national issues on which
{ will concentrate its efforts for the
coming year. Miss Georgia Bacon,
irst vtcepresident Of the federation
las been appointed national thrift
chairman, and Is asking the Mary
and clubs to devote themselves for
he next twelvemonth to work on
American zation, Community Welfare
md Thrift.
Campaign Is Underway.
To this end, tbs clubs are reporting
nat they have designated their local
shairmen who are organizing and ear
yfng out definite plans for the win
,er's savings campaign. Almost with
,ut exception certain number OF
meetings, or a part Of every meeting
ID set apart for q discussion OF ways
md means Of cutting dewn household
expenses. Model budgets. a series Of
twenty leaflets on such topics a.
having fuel, and ways Of prolongfns
the usefulness of clothing. and tbs
Ten Lessons In Thrift issued by ths
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
vised by clever club women. Tbs
women's Civic League Of Balt!ners
with q membership OF fifteen hundred
he's appointed a committee on thrift
consisting Of Miss Bertha Royce
chairman. Mrs. Sidney Greenfield and
Mrs. Wesley Brown. which has issued
N invitation to Mrs. Eudora Ramsay
Richardson. director OF the Woman's
Division Of the. War Loan Orsanizs
tion, TO speak before the Civic League
Had Thrift Booth.
From Centrevtlle comes the news
that the Civic League engineered 6
thrift booth at the agricultural e1hi
bit recently. Mss Sue B. Mitchell
who was In charge OF the booth. re
ports that this novel enterprise was
most successful, and the idea viii
probably be adopted by other organ
ixations for future fairs and exhibits
The Centreville women decorated
their booth gaily vita posters. leaf
lets and other literature which the
War Loan Organizati ton Of the Fifth
Federal Reserve District sent them ii
their request, and found that feminine
visitors at the exhibit were eager fol
their help in solving the H. c. OF l.
problem.
Numbers Of clubs are making plans
for the observance Of an annual con
ssrvation day, in order to give wide
spread publicity to the thrift move
ment in their communities. The Elk
ton Womans Club set December IL
for such 8 celebration, With Miss
Mary H. James, chairman OF the pro
gram. The MARYLAND Association o,
Graduate Nurses, Of whfch Miss Cora
Leo Sergeant In head. also plans te
observe a Conservation Day some time
soon.
That feminine ingenuity can cut
corners, can coordinate groups OF Pro
grsssive women working toward great
or domestic efficiency and sive vita,
assistance in the thrift movement is
receiving new proof daily in the re
ports that are coming out OF the
achievements of Maryland women.