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the county.
With the idea in view OF getting
Lull knowledge OF the workings OF the
International Institute, your commit
zee held q meeting with Miss Warner
10 executive and at the same meeting
representative OF the Agricultural
college was present. Miss Warner
informed us that she has workers on
ner stan as follows: One club work
er whose aff1iation Is more or less
with the Y. w. c. A. One Finnish
worker who gives her entire atten-
lion To. working with the Finnish peo-
pie, especially with the women; one
SIavish worker who sepeaks several
Of tho dialects OF the Slavish tongue
and give her entire attention to the
people OF that parentage; one Italian
worker who gives 20 the people OF
that nationality her attention. Miss
Warner Is the executive who has
charge OF these women, complies the
reports and submits them 10 her su-
perIors. The Institute Is spending
at the rate OF $4,000 per year and the
funds set aside for the work will be
exhausted January LIST at which time
the work must cease unless funds are
available from other sources.
Miss Warner further informed us.
and we have the information verified
10 some extent. that certain indust-
rial interests In the county have in
dicated a purpose to keep the work
going by private funds II necessary.
Thisy means. OF course. that some OF
the mining companies are interested
In continuing the work
The representative OF the Agricul-
tural College stated to us that she
, could see no reason why the work
couldn't be correlated with the Home
Demonstration work and duplication
avoided; that she would be perfectly
satisfied 10 work with such an agency.
Your committee then turned its
attention to an Investigation OF the
public mind In regard to the Interna-
tional Institute We called meetings
at Alpha, Crystal Falls, Caspian and
Amasa. The meeting at Caspian was
Intended TO take In the Stambaugh-
Iron River district. No meeting was
called In Bates for the reason that
no work has been done by these peo-
pie in that township
"The Alpha meeting was a failure,
so few responding to the call that no
formal meeting was held Many Of
the people of Alpha, however. confer
red with your committee privately
and everyone asked that that this
committee intercede to have the
work continued.
"The meeting at Crystal Falls was
not largely attended but II was repre-
sentative and very general discus
sion was had which gave your COM
mittee some valuable information.
THE meeting at Caspian was about
In proportion TO that al Crystal Falls
and similar In results.
At these meetings your committee
put these questions TO the people:
"Shall the work be confined to Club
work. to Home Economics or to Club
work and Home Economics combined
The answers. sifted down to the meat,
was that II confined TO the rural
cofnmunities II should be club work
alone but the Club leader, to get re-
suits, must bc able to speak the Lam
guage OF a majority OF the people she
works with, that II possible to secure
the funds, both lines OF work should
be persued and with Il Americaniza-
tion and Community work.
How much money do you feel the
county ought to spend In this work?
FThe answer was about $4,000.
"Your committee has also approach
.ed the mining companies on this sub
[ject and finds that there is disposi-
zion on the part OF some OF the com