The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-03-19
Our Ideals For
Achievement

VerSary OF our National FederatlOn
of Business and Professional Wo-
mems clubs, this span of years rep
reSenting one of the most interest
ing and significant periods in the
nations history.
In a period fraught with ankle
ties, perplexities and economic diff
ficulties, the National Business Wo-
men have found the incentives
great to maintain their status Of
economic independence and to meet
squarely the prodigious challenges
offered them in today's great crisis.
A sick world cries desperately for
a leadership which gives paramount
importance to persons rather than
to things and which elevates intel
lectual understanding and good will
to prime position above material
output and nationalistic wealth.
Women can and must help to give
this leadership.
In the past splendid aid has been
rendered by women's organizations
making possible the enactment of
many progressive state labor laws
and some federal legislation, which
includes nationwide laws limiting
the work week, the determination of
a minimum wage scale, the provid-
ing of jobs or adequate relief for
the unemployed, and the assurance
to workers of the right to organize
and to bargain collectively.
With the year of 1886 still inordi-
nately full of challenge, just what,
we wonder, should be our specific
goals? Those we have chosen may
be termed broadly as educating for
peace, securing the same education
al and cultural advantages for all,
helping to procure more efficient
government and a more honest and
effective judiciary, the promotion
of 4 fairer distribution of purchas-
ing power, and the contribution to-
ward the betterment of social condi-
lions generally. These are broad,
solid steps which should lead us on
by working together to notable
achievements.
We are convinced that prosperity
may be made permanent for any
country only when peace has be-
come lasting symbol Of the spirits
Of all nations. To make its position
secure requires education for more
tolerant attitudes and for q SYM
pathetic understanding of the prob
lens Of our foreign brothers and
sisters. The Business Women Of
all nations are seeking to equip
themselves with definite facts to
pass on to others as an aid to the
moulding Of public opinion in order
to create q friendlier relationship
among nations. Goodwill tours by
the Business Girls organizations
have been inaugurated as one means
Of promoting friendship.
In laboring for our objective of
q more effective democracy and
more efficient government we shall
strive to carry ON program to In
still ideals and practices Of loyal
citizenship into the minds and the
hearts Of our countrymen and to
enlighten them as to the real bene-
fits which they derive from their
inheritance, thus to further arouse
their appreciation to a point Of en-
thusiasm and to awake each indi-
vidual to the full extent Of his re-
sponsibidties. We can all then the
better unite in demanding more
highly trained and more deeply con-
secrated personnel in our public Of
fees and shall discover that we may
readily find the desired type. We
wish for equal opportunities for the
education of all for good citizenship
for work, and for the enjoy
ment Of living, regardless Of race,
belief, economic status, or physical
condition. Human and cultural val
ues Of q nation are never attained
unless they may be offered to all,
and ideal citizenship may never
reach its realization, nor may the
proper standards be set for our So
ciety unless all may have equal benz
eft.
We are ready to do all possible to
obtain the enactment Of measures
which win make our thirty millions
Of homes more comfortable, decent
and secure places to live, with hap
pier, richer lives for those abiding
within. We have been influen-
tial In assisting with relief pro-
grams and have initiated q number
Of large scale projects for coping
with economic distress. We are
working for continued Improvement
Of the characteristics of picture
shows and for the protection Of our
young people by legislation for IL
quor control.
We are greatly concerned with
the health of young and old, do all
in our power to provide the means
Of more extensive health super
vision program. Another of our
goals for social uplift Is to be Of aid
in removing the breeding spots of
crime, disease and unemployment,