The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-05-11
WOMEN'S CLUBS
HOLD ANNUAL
con Y ENTION
Publicity and How to Get Is
is Main Topic at White
Bluffs Session; Elect Dele
gates to State Meet

Inc aKlmd DlSCFIcC reucTdtlOII
of Women's Clubs held its thirty
ninth semi-annual convention at
White Bluffs Saturday, May 6. An
attendance of more than two hun
bred and fifty was reported.
Mrs. E. E. Corwin Of Wapato
was elected president of the feder-
alton for two year term and also
indorsed as candidate for the Of
flee of state president. Mrs. Cor
win has long been active in club
affairs, having served as vice
president of the state federation
and chairman of the legislative
committee.
Mrs. w. F. Pletke of Teton was
elected second vice president. Mrs.
E. j. Brand of Kennewick, third
vice president; Mrs. r. P. Hall of
Sunnyside, auditor and Mrs. Jas
per Mcdonald of Harrah was ap-
pointed to act as corresponding
secretary.
Delegates to the state conven-
tion in Spokane will be Mrs. o. X.
Williamson of Prosser, retiring
district president; Mrs. Brand,
Mrs. Pletke and Mrs. Paul Hamil-
ton of Prosser. Their alternates
are Mrs. D. S. wilkinson of White
Bluffs, Mrs. B. l. Whitney of Ken
newick, Mrs. Wayne Wood of Yak
ina and Mrs. G. A. Clumpner of.
Mckee.
Rev. E. X. Mahoney of Yakima
gave the principal address on "The
Psychology of Publicity" tracing
the growth of news-vending and
publicity from the first posters on
the walls of cave men to the swift
ly DEVELOPED present-day news
papers. He defined the meaning
of publicity as the making known
of facts to mass of people and
then enlarged upon the subject by
stating the ideals and ideas with
which publicists work.
Mrs. Logan H. Roberts of Yak
ina, chairman of the program
committee, spoke on 'sThe Press
and Publicity" giving the essen
tials necessary for a good news
story and assuring the club MEM
bers of the willingness Of newspa-
pers to cooperate with the clubs in
their desire to receive necessary
publicity.
Miss Helen Remsburg, Yakima
librarian, spoke most interestingly
at the morning session of the work
being done by the public Libraries
to aid those who are now out of
work to regain lost trades or learn
new ones. Recent books which
have been well received by the
public are the new biographies of
Mary, Queen of SCOTS, the Prin-
cess Charlotte and Marie Antoin-
cite. Others of current interest
mentioned by Miss Remsburg are
Pageant, The Store, Green Banks.
The talks and business of the
meeting was interspersed with en-
tertainment provided by the White
Bluffs band, the Junior Woman's
Club of White Bluffs and children
from the grade school. After the
adjournment of the convention,
tea was served at the home of
Mrs. F. E. Taylor. The next con-
vention of the district federation
will be held on the first Friday IN
November at Wapato.
-Bay Kennesoick---
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Mulkey and
daughter, Joyce, Mr.. and Mrs.
Newton Mulkey and daughter, Sill
va Mae, drove to Moscow, Idaho
Saturday taking their daughter
and sister, Mrs. Ray Maxfield to
join her husband, where Mr.. Max
field will graduate from the Uni
versity of Idaho with the class of
'33. Following graduation they will
go to Boulder Dam, where Mr..
Maxfield will be employed as an
engineer. The Mulkeys returned
by way of st. Johns and spent the
weekend with relatives.