Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-21

center. Comfortable chairs, tables and
q good-sized stove make this library
coy place for reading and study on
the coolest day. =
Upstairs the women have their
meeting or club rooms. These, too,
are furnished in good taste, though not
deliberately. -... .-. F..
"The house is used as q general
community center and has been the
means Of providing great many bene-
fits and pleasures for the townspeople.
Nor have the women Of. Skagway
rested On their laurels with the pro-
vision OF the clubhouse community
center. They are constantly at work,
identifying their town. With its
abandoned buildings staring them
gloomily in the face, and the barren,
deserted atmosphere that still greetS
one In some parts Of the village-rot
to mention the many months of dark
ness--with only four hours of reflected
light and 20 minutes Of actual sunlight
in Midwinter;. they might have been
forgiven for feeling bafi1ed or dis
couraged over the prospect Of making
their town beautiful. But they were
not discouraged. They set to work,
first of all, to have the unsightly
vacant buildings razed; and have sue
ceeded in having this done In a num-
Der of cases. Then, as soon as one
came down, they began work on the
fore any one realized what It was all
about, pretty little garden would ap-
pear on the abandoned spot-and
bright colored flowers brought their
beauty to the place. This operation
has been repeated so many times now
that the town is getting to be quite
gay with color during the warm Sum.
mer months.
The women Of Skagway. Juneau,
Sitka, Wrangel and other Alaskan
towns have little time for idleness, but
never fail to find the time for the
worthwhile club work that is better
ing their community life day by day.
They have my sincerest admiration.
It is wonderful work that they are
doing"
MRS. HARRIS T. BALDWIN, chair
AvA man of the living costs committee
of the National League Of Women
Voters, was one of the speakers at a
citizenship school and New England
regional conference conducted by the
New Hampshire League Of Women
Voters in Durham. N. H, last WedneS-
day and Thursday.
The first day was devoted to con-
terence on power, WIFI MIS-. bdluWhi
as the presiding oficer. Ernest Gruen-
ing, editor Of the Portland Evening
News, discussed the power situation in
New England, and Lewis Goldberg.
public utilities commissioner for Mas
sachusetts. presented the Response
bilities Of the State"
The evening session. at which the
regulation of public utilities was con-
sidered. had as its speakers Walter S.
Wyman. president New England Public
Service Co.. and John Bauer director,
American Public Utilities Bureau, New
York City.
Public financing. with special en-
phasis on taxation and proposed
changes, was the theme Of the second
day meeting Town and City Govern
ment' was the title of an address by
Prof. John F. Sly. department Of gov
eminent, Harvard University, given at
the closing session.
Mrs. Robert A. Taft of Cincinnati,
who was the first president OF the
Cincinnati League of Women Voters,
was a caller at league headquarters
last week. During her short stay in
Washington she and MFR. Taft were
guests at the White House. They are
now on their way to Murray Bay