The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-20
$4,000 Women
Fight For Thrift
viii Combat Waste and EXtrav-
agance in Home Budget
Federation of Clubs and Parent-Teach
ers' Association Advocate v. 5.
Treasury's Plan For Savings.

Treasury's Plan For Savings.
National thrift is up to the nations
women" said George e. Lloyd, Direct
or of The Savings Division, Third Fed
eral Reserve District, before the thrift
conference of sixty women of Eastern
Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey
held at Harrisburg.
Mrs. Henry d. Jump, Vice Director
of Savings Department in the Third
District, presided over the conclave.
She urged her fell0w-sisters to prac-
tice strict thrift and economy in every
household. "The thrift program must
be as big as the war work program"
she told the women, inviting their
clubs and associations to aid the Fed
eral government in improving the
present economic conditions of the
country.
Thrift is the most burning question
with every woman said Miss Flor
ence Dibert, of J%ohnstown, President
of the State Federation OF Women's
Clubs. "Our 10000 club women in
Pennsylvania are already forming the
squad for fighting he reckless extra
;vagance which has gripped the coun-
try since the end of the war. The
Federation stands firm behind the
plans of the Savings Division of the
Treasury. Together with Mrs. Jump
we will push the work effectively.
After all, thrift is the basis of our
national life. Home economics is
thrift. Amortization is thrift. Child
welfare is thrift"
In the t~wenty-four counties of CEN
trail southwest of Pennsylvania under
the general charge of w. Harrison
Walker, the slogan of fight the profit
teer and chastise the l. w. WIS" has
been adopted. Thrift is an individual
problem and no amount of legislation
without thrift can be effective in re-
ducing the cost of living or solving
the problem of Americanization," Mr..
Walker remarked.
In making his appeal for the aid of
women in the movement for savings
and economy, Director Lloyd stated,
1.-The country is economically sick.
Waste is rampant. No sooner was the
truce signed than we loosened our
habits of ~frugality and plunged into
reckless extravaganza. Forces of an
archy and disorder are among us. To
relax our vigilance in the virtues o.
order, loyalty, industry and thrift is
to neglect our foremost duty of citi-
Zenship."
The confereeS strongly urged the in
auguration of government savings So
cieties in private and public schools,
in the industrial plants, clubs and
lodges and to keep household budg.
cts in order to show the detained ex-
penditures with a view of setting aside
part of the budget. Educating of the
working girls and the leisure group
SO that they may be an example 70
the w~age-earner was discussed and
methods for reaching every spender in
the district were taken W.
Brief speeches were made and dis
cussion entered into by the following
representatives: Edith l.. Hughes,
Vice Chairman, Delaware; Evelyn Da-
vies, Cambria County, Ebensburg, Pa. !;
Mrs. F. G.. Hiestand, Vice Chairman
Group No. l. Marietta, Pa. Mrs. r. J.
,Ralston, Vice Chairman, Montgomery
County, Fort Washington, Pa; Mrs.
Walter Jackson Freeman, Philadel-
phia, Pa. Mrs. e. NJ. Cory, Riverton,
n. j., South Jersey Chairman on
Thrift, New Jersey State Federation
of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Paul Lachen-
meyer, Chairman of Home Economics
Association, Clubs of Delaware Coun-
.ty Miss Myrtle Haubert, Vice Chair
man Juniata County, Mif1in, Pa; Mrs.
1. NJ. James, Vice Chairman Bucks
county; Catherine Guilford, Vice
:, Chairman, Lancaster County; Frank
, G. Sites, County Chairman, Dauphin
Yates, Vice Chairman, Cameron COun-
ty Miss Martha Thomas, Chairman,
Chester County; Miss Augusta John
r son, Vice Chairman, Chester County,
!, West Chester, Pa; Mrs. William
, Brice, Jr, Bedford, Pa; Mrs. Lloyd
Shaw, .Riddlesburg,. Pa; Mrs. Edgar
z; Ws Mrss IDA Sic &. oGe oIbT, Vice ae9cahn air,,
man, Snyder County, S~elinsgrove, Pa. ;
Mrs. Mabel c. Jones, Vice Chairman,
Dauphin County, Harrisburg, Pa;
Miss Shuah, Vice Chairmi>l, Lycom-
ing County, Williamsport, Pa; Miss
Nancy Martin, Vice Chairman, Cum
berland County, S~hippensburg, Pa. /;
Mrs. Alfred NJ. Liveright, Vice Chair
man, Clearfeld County, Clarified,
Pa; Mrs. J.. Irwin Steel, Vice Chair
man, Group No. 3, Mechanicsburg,
Pa; Mrs. William Kase Steel, Vice
Chairman, Montour County, Danville,
Pa; Mrs. j.. P. McWilliams, Vice
Chairman, Blair County, Altoona, Pa.
Mrs. ]. H. Shearer, Assistant Chair.
man, Blair County, Altoona, Pa.
Sara F. Barnhart, Bellefonte, Pa, Sec
rotary Group No. 3; Geraldine NJ
Naunan, Bellefonte, Pa, Chairman.
Group No. 3; NJ. M. Charles, Lancas-
ter, Pa, Secretary to Jay N. Schroed-
er, Group No. L; M. r. Rooms, York,
Pa, Associate Chairman, Group No.
1; Mrs. r. L. Sackett, State College,
vice Chairman Edith p. Chace, State
Co1laun Sfotn chairman far IIo-.1