Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-27
Women Have Failed to Establish
Their Place in Halls Of Congress
Club Federation of Maine is Told

, everything. Its power is untried as
yet.
"A great help in carrying out this
program would be membership in the
American Federation of Art, our only
national organization. For $40 any
club may become an active member,
with the privilege of choice of
three free illustrated lectures, sew
eral Kinds of travelling exhibitions
and the American Magazine of Art.
IA new idea in the art world today
is circulating library of pictures.
One Is sponsored by the Phila-
delphia Art Alliance and the Penn
sylyania Museum and School Of In
Gustrial Art
Child Welfare
Mrs. ]. S. Sturtevant of Dixfield.
chairman of the committee on child
| welfare, reported in part as follows;
Among the resolutions passed at
| the memorable meeting of the feder-
alton at Pressure Isle in September,
1914, as recorded in our newly ac-
quired history, the first is, that we
| will endeavor to double our talents,
| and secondly, that we will make child
welfare the measuring stick Of orr
| work.
81 am, aware of the responsibility
of being chairman Of this department
of child welfare which believe is tn g
most vital of the entire departments
| of this federation. But with the in
| spiration of the cooperation which
such resolutions by an organization
| composed of our states most excel
| lent women assures US, we are asking
that every club represented here will
see to it that one program in your
club will be entirely devoted to child
! welfare. We propose to omit the
| sending of circular letters. seldom
, read and never needed, and to make
OUR request through the press.
1.-THE following is model program
proposed by this committee:
Roll Call. Don'ts for mothers.
Paper, THE Most Neglected Age Of
Childhood to be followed by dis
| cussion.
| Sketch, Keeping a Child's Conf
| dence'.
Ladies, will you do this for this
committee and will You have a
| mother and daughters day to balance
| the Father and Son banquets all
| through the state?"
Social and Industrial Conditions
Mrs. Blanche E. Folsom of Nor
| ridgewock, chairman of the commit
| tee on social and industrial condi-
| tions, reported as follows:
THE present committee on indus
| trial and social conditions having
been organized less than two months,
| our work has been only preparatory.
We have been considering the ground
| to be covered, getting in touch
with those who can best aid us in
| grasping industrial and social condi-
tions, assuring State workers along
| these lines of our desire to cooperate
| with them and learning where the
most effective work can be done. In
| brief, your committee has been for
mulating plan of work for the com
| ing two years.
After weighing and eliminating
, various lines of work which might
well be undertaken by the committee,
we have decided to adopt the sugges-
| ton of the preceding very able chair
| man of this committee Mrs. Ruth
! Ellingwood that the work of the next
{ two Years be devoted to a study of
the problem of our delinquent women
| and children.
I'm pursuance of this object We
have enlisted the cooperation of Mrs.
! Libby, superintendent of the Reform
| atory for Women at Skowhegan. In
! coping with this problem the commit
, tee needs the sympathy and aid of
every club woman. To quote Mrs. Lib
/ by, The really delinquent woman is
! so far removed from the normal
| woman that she knows little about her
yet every woman can be of service in
preventing delinquency
I'VE recommend that every club in
! place of any size should do all it can
| to maintain or aid child clinics, for
health and cleanliness are powerful
agents against evil and recreational
centers for girls from the sixth grade
up. who have left school, substituting
| recreation other equally powerful
agents against evil.
1--WE feel that a matron should be
employed at our State prison to look
after the woman confined in that in
stitution. We also feel that something
should be done Immediately to provide
steady employment and definite
forms of recreation for the inmates
of the Reformatory for Women.
We believe that theer is very
definite way by which the latter object
may be accomplished"
The American Home
MIS-. f1cieH montgomery Williams
of Guilford. chairman of the commit
tee on the American Home in her re-
, port said that this department is or
ganized to serve three general pur-
poses. to bring about a realization on
! the part of the public of the impor-
lance of the vocation of home making
! and the need of providing compre-
hensive training for prospective home-
makers in our educational system. to
give practical help to the home-maker
in meeting the problems of the homes
as social institution and to CO.
operate with other departments of the
! federation and with other organiza-
tions dealing with specific subjects
concerning home and community life
and help these to function more di-
, rectly in the daily life of the home
and family.
''The work of this department. is
,, carried on under three divisions. home
! economics teaching, home extension
service and home making" continued
Mrs. Williams.
A., The work Of the first division is be-
ing conducted under another head by
Mrs. Ellis of Fairfield, the chairman
of the home economics committee. The
work of the second division, that of