Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-20
MRS. PETER G. OLSEN
HEADS W0MAN'S CLUB

chard. Inc awards Will be made IN
may.
The third branch of civic work is
under the direction of the Girls Ex-
ecutive Committee. They nave been
striving for the reorganization of var
ious girls units which were initiated
the War Camp Community Ser
vice auspices and for their federation
into a local Girls Club League. The
Girls club and the Barbara Freitche
Club have accomplished their re-or-
.ganization and the committee has been
in conference with "a representative
from the Girl Scout headquarters
looking into a scout council.
The last and largest undertaking
of the civic committee was their
Americanization work and the estab-
lishment Of the Community House.
This gives a home for the workers and
a pleasant meeting place for their
various clubs which have grown out
of the work.
On May / all outside aid will be dis
continued and the responsibility of the
House viii be entirely local. The house
has been furnished largely with FUNDS
collected I'm this city in the united
war work drive and returned her by
the international Institute. 4 Polish
worker has been maintained through
ont the years work and q Hungarian
worker for a few months. Last August
Mrs. De Piklik, a teacher of languages
In a girls boarding school. who spoke
nine tongues. started work here but
was able to give but six weeks. Her
wide knowledge of dialect made her
invaluable in that way.
Mrs. Edith Cruise has been exeeu-
tive secretary and the exports from
July 1919, to March, 1920. show there
have been 9SS personal visits on girls
and mothers, 1876 Red Cross visits,
1913 interpretations, 234 classes held
in homes for teaching English to
mothers. "a classes for teaching Eng
lish held in the night school last
summer, GO women nave been enroll
ed long enough to give them a work.
ing knowledge of the English Ian
guage, six Working girls clubs have
been formed, three school girls clubs
have been organized and a mothers
club is now being planned.
These clubs held 1874 meetings with
an aggregate attendance Of 1929.
The organizations are as follows; In
July the Daughters of ~IlOnia, COM
posed of Hungarian girls; in August
the Polonia Girls, of Polish girls: In
September, the Riddles Club, of vari-
Gus ~nationalities: and Daughters of
Freedom, of Carpatho-Russian girls;
In October Victory Girls. of Slovakian
descent: in January Martha Wash
1ilElOh i vi F1@A
Besides these the Barbara Freitehe
Girls composed of American and
Danish girls and one girl scout troop
meet IN the Community House.
The Daughters of Ilonia and Polo
MIA Girls have helped the poor In
their own parish n have sent
money for relief work overseas. The
Polonia Girls and Victory Girls aid
ed In the Red Cross drive. All the
clubs together with the Girls Club of
Perth Amboy helped in preparing the
Christmas treat for the city school
kindergartens.
The women are taught English and
the girls come to the house for clean
social diversion and lessons in sew
ing. cooking and millinery. n
Board of Health holds a baby clinic
i'm tho Community House once a
week.
! that 1t is the hope of the committee
that those who frequent the house
/ Americans have to offer and that
they in return will give to us their
best, that the greatest need at the
present time is volunteer workers
who will go out to the house even
ings and do whatever may be fouhd
I necessary. She also spoke OF the Pc
tition for a policewoman and the
| ~protest of a woman not of mature
| wears and expressed the hope that
in the near future the town might
| have the benefit or a policewonlan 5
work.
The concluding report of the after
| moor was made graciously by MIS-.
A. Clayton Clark, the retiring presl,
| dent. She spoke on club spirit ana
growth. urging a widening, deepening
and unihcation of our human rela-
lions. May we not find a way she
said. 'to be more direct in our serv-
ice to each other. We should take
time to visit the sick, to speak TO the
stranger and to tighten sorrow wner-
but can we not do this Increasingly
with steadfast sincerity and dill
g~ence p" She closed with an express,
sion of appreciation of the personal
friendship and her debt to the ciul
for the discipline imposed upon hei
during her service as their president
Following the reception or the re-
ports, the new president, Mrs. Peter
G. Olsen was escorted to the platform
Inv Mrs. Oliver w. Ramsey. MIS-
Olsen made a short address In whlch
she outlined TO the club AFTER thank-
ing them for the opportunity OF ue-
velopment which the granting OF such
a position afforded, a lumber OF en-
terprises which had been engaged III
NV cluhs of This district and in which
she saw opportunities for service by
the Woman's Club of Perth Amb3y,
At the close of her greetings she
announced a meeting to be held today
In the high school by Mrs. RANGES
HowIett-Wright in the interests Oh
Florence Crittenton MISSIONS anu
asked the club If it wished TO go on
record as standing back of the I'M
portant work among the unfortunate
girls. Several speeches We're made
from the floor of the club endorsing
the splendid work In education when
Iett-Wright. a rising vote was theh
lettWright. A rising vote was men
taken on the giving or the clup >
moral support In this work. IL won
~ n largo majority,