The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-09-18
THE FAMILY BUDGET
Will Be Explained at Eastern States
Exposition.

The women visiting the thrift ex-
hibit of the savings division, first fed
eral reserve district, to be held at the
Eastern States Exposition in Spring
field, Mass, Sept. 1925, will be given
an opportunity to obtain first hand
knowledge of how to arrange budgets
for themselves or their families. Miss
S. Agnes DOMAIN, associate director
of the division, will be the expert who
will advise on budgets. Some special
budget suggestions have been prepared
for school teachers and so many re-
quests for these have been received by
mail that it is expected many teachers
will want to consult the expert at the
exhibit.
This is only one of the services main
tanned by the division, without charge,
to help the thrift movement. Members
OF womens organizations will find Mrs.
Irving 0. Palmer of Newton, state
thrift chairman of the Massachusetts,
Federated Women's clubs, ready to ex-
plain thrift activities of women's or
CARNATIONS. r. G. Ayers, associate di-
rector, will give some helpful sugges-
tions regarding investments; A. w. De-
Moulpied, one of the field secretaries,
will have charge of the information
booth. Mrs. Florence A. Warner, home
director OF the Maine State Chamber
of Commerce and Agricultural league,
and executive secretary for Maine on
behalf of the savings division, also will
assist in carrying out the programme.
what Women's Organizations Can
r. -. r. ,1f
the Savings Division of the Treasury
Department" is the wording of large
sign, which will be displayed in connec-
ton with the club section. Placards
will explain the II activities suggested
for the women's organizations as a
means of helping the treasury depart
ment, as follows:
|. They can study the economic con-
dition, which the world is facing, and
determine their personal and group re-
sponsibility toward that situation.
2 They can apply the simple prin
ciples of economy to their personal and
household transactions. They can pop.
ularize the keeping of simple accounts
of household and personal expenditures
leading to the adoption of household
and personal budget, and put the Amer
lean kitchen on q more business.lfke |
basis
3. They can save money out of their |
income and household allow.
ance through wise buying and careful
use of materials.
4. They can use the money they save
through the application of sane econo-
my to aid the present economic sit
uation. and TO increase their personal
capital
s. They can buy more government
savings securities.
6, They can buy more Liberty bonds
md Victory notes if they have money
70 invest and thus relieve the banks of
iome of the four billion dollars worth
If bonds, which they still hold
I They can hold the Liberty bonds,
which they have bought.
8. They can encourage others to hold
heirs.
0. They can develop among their
membership large knowledge of the
principles of savings, the laws of in
'estment and the technique of sound
nance, making investment among
women as popular as among men.
10. They can work out for the in
ormation and the use of their mem
,ership an economic formula as a
uide in their everyday financial tran
actions.
II. They can encourage their chill
ren to put into practice in the home
he principles of economics taught in
he schools; encourage them TO earn
nd savn money and IN invest their
mall savings in War Savings Stamps.