The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-09
WOMEN LISTEN TO
STATE POLITICIANS
FOOte and Proctor Address State Fedora
tiOn-PublicatiOn of Less Criminal
News Urged.

SPRINGFIELD, June 9.-The State
Federation of WOman's Clubs yesterday
listened to two Republican aspirants for
governor in 1924, Lieut.. Gov. a. w.
Foote of Cornwall and Redfield Proctor,
and passed resolution urging the news
papers of Vermont to devote less space
to crime and more to national and inter
national affairs.
Lieut.. Gov. Foote told the delegates
that the result of the recent primaries
in Indiana and Pennsylvania demon
strated that the women hold the balance
of power as between the "Old Guard"
and the Progressives.
1T is to the advantage of women, and
all who do not make politics a profess
Sion,' he said, Ito support the direct
primary. Under the convention system
candidates usually are selected by the
few and the average citizen has no
voice"
Redfield Proctor urged the women not
to permit themselves to be formed into
groups of voters. ANY bloc, based on
ser, vocation or religion, is distinctly
Objectionable" he said.
More than 800 delegates and visitors
were entertained last night by Governor
and Mrs. HARNESS. The guests were
ground Observatories, a suite of eight
rooms built into a side hill a distance
: of 120 feet. These are used by the gov
ernOr as an observatory, offices and
studio.
In all Vermont there are only six ru-
| raj schoolhOuseS considered satisfactory
! in equipment, Mrs. Dorothy Garfield
| Fisher of Arlington. a member of the
| state board of education, reported to the
state federation yesterday Describing
/ the results of a survey of rural schools
| by the state board, Mrs. Fisher. who is
widely known as a novelist, said that
| none of the LOO rural schoolhouses
could be considered to meet a complete
| standard of efficiency.
| She said the state department of ed
| ucation estimated that an average of
J $3.50 a school would bring every rural
| schoolhOuse to a good condition of mate
] rial efficiency. The needs. she said, in
cluded books, toilet facilities, comfortable
| furnishings and something to bring mu-
sic to the children.
! Four new clubs have been admitted
/ to the State Federation this year: The
State Nurses association with headquar-
| terS in Burlington. the WOman's club
| of Calais. the Judith Lyford Woman
| club of Cabot and the Newport Woman $
club. The total membership of the state
| federation is 7.23J, which shows a net
| gain of So in the last year. The larg-
| est club in the state is the one in Rut-
| land. which has a membership of 43I,
/ and this club also reported the largest
| increase of any during the year, having
received % new members.
The committee on community service
reported the establishment of a munich
| pal forest to be known as Memorial For
est in memory of the boys who gave
their lives in the World war. Industrial
/ classes for foreign women have been con-
Quoted in sewing, millinery. typewrit-
| ing. basketry and cooking. Baby clinics
also have been held during the year with
advice given by eminent physicians to
mothers on the general care of infants.
| 4 fine start has been made in securing
special programs of high standard at
movie matinees for children. and one
theatre on request has eliminated crime
enacting serials The censorship COM
mittee finds it difficult to cause the re
lection of films with the sex-undertow.
as Vermont has no state censorship and
it is impossible to judge of film before
| it is shown.