The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-06-22
STATE CONVENTION
FEDERATED CLUBS
MRS. HAUGE, CIVIC LEAGUE
DELEGATE TELLS OF IN
TERESTING SESSIONS

Mrs. A. G. Hauge returned rhe
latter part of last week from Boze-
man where she attended the eigh-
teenth annual convention of the Mon
tana Federation of Women's Clubs
as delegate from the Civic League
Mrs. Hauge was enthusiastic about
the meetings Of the convention and
their inspiration. She said that with
out attending such a convention it
would be difficult to realize the work
that is being done by club women of
Montana and Of the other states.
Education Dominant Topic
The keynote of the convention was
education, and there were many able
and interesting addresses which pre-
sented different phases of the sub
ject. One of the most Interesting
addresses, she said, was that by Miss
Helen Bennett of Chicago, manager
of the Chicago Collegiate Bureau of
Occupation, who spoke of the work
women and girls are doing. Miss
Bennett said in part that although
women of all ages have had to work
it is not until recent years that they
have commercialized their efforts to
any extent, but that today there is
no type of business or occupation she
has not entered, and her only safe
guard in life is to know her work.
She also said that no education is VI
tai or worth while unless it teaches
people how to do something definite
and do it well. She spoke of the i'm
portance of making the education
conform to the natural tendencies of
the child and of every student hav-
ing some definite purpose in view
when choosing his education, or he
can never accomplish anything in
life no matter how much brains he has
Miss Trumper Speaks
Miss May Trumper, state superin-
tendent of schools, spoke on "Mon-
tana's Problems in Education" one
of them being the rapidly growing |
illiteracy in Montana, especially IN
the rural districts, due partly to the
lack of funds and 1njudiclous ex-
in many cases, of funds
available, and partly to the distance
pupils live from school in the sparse
ly settled communities To meet the
conditions she argued that personal
income and profits tay will be neces.
cary, and discussed in detail the pro-
posed measure and how it would work
out.
Mrs. Creston
Mrs. Josephine Corliss Creston,
State Superintendent of Public In
struction in the state of Washington.
N an address on Financing Public
Education, said that this is prob
EN- that is forcing every state in the
1nion to pause and consider ways {
md means. She said that in the s
state of Washington 81 per cent of
III school monies raised was paid out '
n teachers salaries. She discussed S
he problem of securing sources of :
evenue as education becomes more +
expensive, and outlined the plans L(
lsed by number of states. I
Address by Mrs. Hathaway 4
Mrs. Maggie Smith Hathaway, rep
esentative to the legislature from
,avalli county for three terms, who
as just returned from Washington,
}. c., spoke on the Sheppard -Towner
ct. While in Washington she said
hat she found 25 faithful men at
7ork in the senate and As of the
35 in the house at their desks, and
aid that she believed more women
yere needed there to help the men,
S women were more idealistic and
ad more deeply at heart the care of
ne future of the race. She men
oned that at the session of Congress
! 1912 when $500 was appro-
rated to carry on the work of the
hildren's Bureau, an appropriation
f $4,000 was made to investigate
og cholera.
She discussed at length the Shep
act, and showed that The
lstruction in the care Of children
nd infants was not compulsory, but
lie work was compared to the work
lat is being done among the farmers,
no are told about crops, how to Sc he
ct dairy stock, etc. She also said Of
was time we paid attention to the HI
1estion of health as the United n
5ates stood 17th in the list of ma ~,
rnity death rate, and seventh IN hi
FAINT mortality, and that the lives 10
mothers and children are worth do
hile and should be considered. on
Mrs. Wallace T. Perham of Glen ~.
We, who is being actively support do
by the club women of the entire
orthwest for the office of second
ce president of the General Fede-
ton of Women's Clubs, told of the
ork the General Federation is do ur
g, and Mrs. w. l. Higgins of Butte Sc
scussed cart in the Garden" M,
Social Events sta
There were many other excellent I'm