Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION
Interesting Speakers Program of American Home Eco
Monies Association Meeting Membership of Rural Women
in Clubs Sought-Feminss Hear Foreign Speakers-Notes

I tempting most of us in the cities to
put aside our work a day thoughts and
HE us to a green hill far away, interest
in the problems of the farm woman
and in the possibility of linking her
more definitely with the club life OF
the country is doubly keen. It Is in
the Summer time that the rural and
urban women are drawn more closely
together and each catches q glimpse
of the problems, duties and pleasures
which go to make up the life of the
other. This is most propitious time
for the announcement Of the task which
Mrs. Phoebe K. Warner OF Claude.
Tex, the newly appointed chairman of
rural cooperation of the General Fed
Grafton of Women'S Clubs, has set for
her department as its major project.
Mrs. Warner plans to bring into the
General Federation of Women'S Clubs
as large percentage as possible of
the six millions of farm women scat
tered through the country.
Farm relief is the most vital ques-
ton In our Nation today" says Mrs.
Warner. More human interests de-
pend on the prosperity of our farmers
than any other class of citizens. The
knowledge gained and power set in mo-
ton through the organization OF
6,000,000 farm women would do more
20 bring about economic justice and
rural prosperity than all the Legis-
1atures can ever do A better under
standing between the women Of our
Nation and their interdependence will
eventually Seep into the minds Of our
men and help solve those conditions
that are now Transforming our Nation
from a true democracy to a land Of
millionaires and paupers, idle rich and
unemployed poor, great universities for
few and little one-room schools for
millions oF farm chfldren naved hiOh.
ways for the tourists while the farmers
still wade the mud hub deep to get
their crops to market
so long as there are ITS 900 one
room schools In rich America, that Is
in itself q challenge TO the organized
womanhood of the land as represented
by the General, Federation to draw
within their organization the wives and
mothers in the 100000 farm homes.
Organization is the key that has un-
locked and set free the latent talent
of our more than 100000 federation
women. It is organization that has
caused our cities to outgrow our coun-
try. The country must be organized
for self-protection and self-preserva-
ton. Where there is no vision the
people perish.
I'm Lancaster County we have the
farm women units and they are making
progress, but it seems to us that they
do not rub elbows often enough with the
great mass of women club members, and
for that reason the farm women do not
understand the urban viewpoint, where
women's clubs flourish, and certainly
the urban women do not understand the
rural viewpoint, which we conceive the
greatest drawback in an effort to get
economic justice for the farmers and,
therefore, economic justice for so many
farm women, who are still pumping wa
ter, washing clothes and doing other
farm work as their grandmothers did.
"It may be taken for granted that the
blase urban women club members will
find their farm sisters not quite so
deeply concerned with matters of fash
ion and social intercourse, but q few
times and places of intermingling and
the urban women will find that the
farm women progress very rapidly in
dress and social eclat, and once they
are interested they will be the best pos
sible members, for they are used to hard
work and will carry that forte with
them to club work"
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Mrs John w Sippel, president of the
General Federation Of Women's Clubs,
left Washington Thursday night for the
Pacific Northwest. Her first stop will be
at Yakimaw, Wash, where she is to be
one Of the principal speakers at the
State Convention of the Washington
Federation Of Women's Clubs, to be
held In Yakimaw, WASH June Is to 81
After the convention Mrs. Sippel will