The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-03-30

? present. She said tndl dl lh'
meeting of state presidents th'
national president, Mrs. sherman
urged the delegates to go home
and stress conservation conser
walton of natural resources ant
conservation of human life. There
should be conservation OF natura
resources so that there VIII Dc
sufficient not only for our owl
time, but for all time to come ever
to the hundredth generation. she
spoke of the great waste OF gas IL
California and said that steps
should be taken to reduce OF
eliminate this waste. She also
spoke of a recent water survey
made in the state when 1t showed
that San Francisco was getting
its water from a source which
should be conserved to supply
southern California, whereas there
was an abundant supply to be
had in another direction from the
city.
Mrs. Green sits in at the meet.
ings of the governors cabinet. by
his invitation each month and
keeps tab on what is being done.
In fact it seems as if the women
in California are considered as
minding their own business when
they attempt to season the poll
teal pie or stick their fingers in
the governmental business. There
is a $4,000, 900 bond issue to be
voted on at the next election, the
money to be used for the preser-
walton of the california trees. The
men in favor of this issue say
frankly that they cannot hope to
pass the measure unless the club
women are for it. Fortunately
they are, for it comes right in
line with their conservation pro-
gram. In fact the club women
have a fund of $4,000 which they
raised to purchase a certain red
wood tract. The tract hasn't been
purchased yet because, according
to Mrs. Green, when the women
got the money together mere
man couldn't make up his mind
how much he wanted for the
tract"
She told of the work that is
being done in the state in the
line of adult education. She said
that, as was often the case when
men didn't know what to do about
a thing, when the question came
up as to what would be done with
the foreign population which was
pouring into California. the men
hemmed and hawed a while and
said they guessed they
would let the club women handle
They did. They started
schools for the foreign children,
md then it occurred to them that
hey would never be able to do
much with the foreign children
they had Americanized the
homes, so they started classes for
he foreign-born mothers. This
ed TO the need of text books suit
I'd to adults, and so the California
;lubwomen had text books written
md published. The success of the
adult schools for foreigners was
so great that the thought occurred
If adult education is good for the
foreigner, why not for the native?"
led to a further extension
Of the adult education schools.
Ct haven't found out much about
his. but maybe I can before I re-
to Wolf Point. It seems as
if it would be an interesting sub
iect to study
Another thing Mrs. Green stress
ed was the tremendous influence
Of the Federation of Women's
clusb. She said that in point of
numbers it is second only to the
American Federation of Labor and
in point of influence it is second
only to the United States govern
ment.
The county club organizations
seem to be strong in the state,
and also the Parent Teachers S
s~ociation, which | believe is in
some way affiliated with the fed
Grated clubs. Have to look that
up, too.
I attended an interesting meet
ing of the local Parent-Teacher
association here last week. A
man from Oakland spoke on
Education of the Parents by
Children" He is a direction of
the Institute of Child Welfare.
He is of the opinion that people
are best fitted to bring up their
own children if they have previous
ly studied children in general. In
which case teachers ought to
make the best parents. There is
always a personal bias in dealing
with ones children, and n who
has had much experience with
children and has learned from
this experience, will be less likely
to get the wrong perspective in
bringing up his own children. He
said that the old fashioned mother
., un,,lh r-nu1r o. hn11rc q day for