Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-05-17
SHORE WOMEN'S
CLUBS HOLD 5TH
DISTRICT MEETING
Large Attendance Reported At Con-
vention Held In Cambridge
Thursday Last.
MRS. SIPPLE, PRESIDENT,
MAKES STRONG ADDRESS

The charming town of Cambridge
was the mecca for the 5th Eastern
Shore District Convention on the 9Th
of May. The Cambridge Woman's
Club as the official hostess extended
the hospitality for which Dorchester
is famous. The inclment weather had
little effect upon the enthusiasm and
attendance, they came from Snow
Hill and Elkton and returned feeling
fully repaid after enjoying a delicious
lunch and the following program:
Call to order and singing America,
the Beautifully" Invocation by Rev.
Dunbar; Gould; Address of Welcome
by the president Of the hostess club,
Mrs. John E. Croft, and the response
by the District president, Mrs. An
drew A. Hathaway, who remarked,
cit is said that familiarity breeds con-
tempt or, if not "a sense of common
placeness and lack of glamour
that is almost as bad. We do not find
it so, certainly not in the case of our
district reunions instead we feel a
sense of security and enduringness of
friendship and confidence and long
vista of more meetings in which we
shall always come nearer to each
other working more freely and har-
moniously together and weave into
the warp Of our private personal lives
1asstrong Woof Of fellowship and affec-
tia
sscientists say that it is our SUBJ
conscious selves that do much of the
mental and spiritual work unknown
to us (which send us forward into the
open conscious activities of our daily
life. Let us expect that that silent
sleeping force will be at work thru
out the summer months building en-
ergy and enthusiasm and sense of
responsibility ready to take the field
when the club year opens next fall"
We enthusiastically welcomed the
president of the Maryland Federation,
Mrs. John F. Sippel, who told us all
about the State meeting held in
Frederick last month, as being the
largest ever held and so successful
that it is expected to meet every year
in the various districts.
She said there were one hundred
and eleven clubs in the State Fedora
ton, aggregating 1900 women and
increasing rapidly. Mrs. Sippel urg-
ed 100 per cent registration and
voting.
The treasurer, Mrs. Reginald Con-
stable of Elkton gave her report, fol-
lowed by the reports of the presidents
of the individual clubs Of the district.
The activities of these clubs would
have a set Of Judges hard put in a.
warding the palm for merit.
Recess for luncheon came at this
point, and the afternoon session open
ed with group singing under the di-
rection of the District chairman of
Fine Arts, Miss Florence Monk. Mrs.
Croft sang two fine solos followed by
an address by Mrs. Lucia Pym
Branch of Washington, her subject
being: "The Heritage of Women," in
which she carried US from the pioneer
days through to the legislation of the
present. 4.r.
: Women are difficult to organize be-
cause they are too individual, but
they are overcoming that; she touch
ed upon the present day morals, and
said women stay local the big things
are always started locally and the lit
tie things are what count, the little
personal relationships are really the
fine spiritual things of life ,and to
remember the fallen one, the one who
fails is the one who has tried, more
do not fail because they have never
tried.
Miss Lavinia Engles address came
next land it is to be hoped that ev-
cry woman present absorbed her wise
caution that we get what we vote for
and our recent National scandal
should arouse women to complete con-
viction that they can be big factor
in correcting such, and also in their
united efforts in demanding no more
war.
The Wicomico county, Cambridge,
Hurlock, Elkton and Worcester coun-
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