Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-04-09
League of Women Voters
NEWS LETTER
By MRS. SAMUEL B. BLEDsoE

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ice is beginning to function beyond
the county's suburban area, Mrs.
Keith Himebaugh of Norwood, up
Layhill way, who has done nota
BILE work with the consumers Sec
ton of the Women's Division,
Maryland Defense Council, thinks
so much of the "broadside"
being circulated by the league on
all subjects which the CHS is in
{, terpreting, that she has deposited
a certain sum with the broadside
chairman, Mrs. H. w. Hiemke,
Chevy Chase, and will receive a
copy as each new issue comes
from NATIONAL League headquar-
tiers in Washington where they
are publised.
Titles thus far have been This
is Rationing; Bigger Taxes are
Better Taxes; Why Buy Defense
Bonds; and Two Fronts: War and
Postwar. The league thinks
Mrs. Himebaugh's lead could we'll
be followed. Mrs. Hiemke's tele-
phone number is OIL. 8155.
Mrs. Bernard Oliver, chairman
of the CTS, continues to address
groups of league members and
non-members to tell them about
the program. Last week she
talked to neighborhood sewing
group in Lux Manor at the home
Of Mrs. Joseph Kaylor, Rosemary
Lane. A Red Gross Blood Donor
Committee also heard Mrs. Oliver
last week. Mrs. Gordon Nibbetts
heads this particular one in Be
thesda and at its meeting in her
home Mrs. Oliver was asked to
come and tell what the league is
doing to spread information on
the average citizens part in the
war effort.
Contributing a great deal to
the consumers education these
days is a study group coming
under the leagues regular yearly
program. Mrs. Francis Goodell,
chairman of the department of
Government and Economic We'll
fare, organized this group early
in February to study consumer
problems, and believe it or not, it
is now in it's ninth week. Tuesday,
this group which has been inspir-
ingly led by Mrs. M. 0. Lorenz
of Washington, heard Mrs. Gard
ner Jackson, Chevy Chase, on the
subject of the proposed revision
of the local milk agreement. Next
Tuesday the. group will go to
Beltsville, the Agriculture De-
partment's experimental farms, to
see some of the work that Agri-
cultures Home Economics Blu
reau has done on the standardiza-
ton of clothing.
One Of the conclusions reached
last week by the group in study
ON present day shoe and stocking
problems was that there is great
need for research in shoe manu-
featuring similar to that already
SO well done for children's cloth
ing. In that field $4,000 chill
dren were measured in an effort
to devise better ways, other than
ages, of arriving at sizes for chill
dren's wear. This work, recently
finished, was done with the CO.
operation of WPA.
Any person interested in taking
the trip to Beltsville next week
with Mrs. Goodell's group may
call her at WI. 5238.
Mrs. William J. Duiker, Chevy
Chase, has "a going neighborhood
unit and pressed neighbor, Mrs.
John Verkouteren, into service to
lead it for her last Thursday.
That old bugbear "the cost of liv-
ing" was encountered and wrestled
with. The consensus of the group
was "do not buy exorbitantly."
Serious shortages will not occur
if demands for unrationed civil
ian goods are not out of proper
ton to the supply; keep initiation
down by keeping prices down by
keeping buying down-the refrain
we are all learning!