The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-08
Women S Club
Council Meet
Is Concluded
Mrs. J. C. Williams and Miss
Dorothy Forbes of Will
mington, Attend Session

of the North Carolina Federation
of Women's Clubs closed it's three
day meeting in Raleigh Thursday
after the morning session at which
Young Conservation" the two
year project of the General Fed
Grafton, was emphasized.
The speakers were Mrs. J. L.
Blair Buck of Richmond, Va, first
vice president of the General
Federation, and Miss Alves Long
of Columbia, S. c., adviser to the
International Relations department
of the General Federation. Fol-
lowing the addresses Of the ma
tional officers, a symposium on
youth conservation was conducted
by Mrs. J. Henry Highsmith of
Raleigh, chairman Of the Youth
Conservation committee.
Mrs. Buck explained why the
General Federation chose youth
Conservation as a two-year prof.
ect and outlined the purposes and
plans of the General Federation
in channeling information for pro-
grams on youth conservation up
and down. through state fedora
tons. She pictured the General
Federation as a clearing house"
for such programs and informa-
ton.
Miss Long spoke on "Enlisting
Youth for Peace" and stressed the
Importance of teaching youth the
value of the ballot, and to appre-
ciate the ballot. "Youth must be
taught that through the use of the
ballot political power can be felt,
and that political power expressed
through the ballot can prevent
war" She urged that youth be
laugh that the United Nations
Charter can best be strengthened
and made effective through the in
telligent use of the ballot in elect
ing congressional representatives
and other officials who will work
for peace.
Mrs. Karl Bishopric of Spray,
president of the North Carolina
Federation, presided.
Mrs. j. K. Kindley of Charlotte
was appointed chairman OF new
committee on Moving Picture Ed
ucation; and Mrs. S. B. McPheeters
of Goldsboro was named State Sec
rotary for Foreign and Territorial
Clubs. Mrs. McPheeters' commit
tee will cooperate in a nationwide
Federation movement to create
goodwill and to promote friend
ship by helping to rebuild club
houses destroyed by war, and to
assist in club activities in foreign
countries and United States terri
tories. The first project of the
committee is to rebuild the Wo-
mans Club house in Manila.
Mrs. Aubrey Mauney of Kings
Mountain was appointed chairman
of the new Birthday Program, -
a project of the Federation's Wei
fare Department. Through the
birthday program every child in
a correctional institution in this
State will receive birthday gift
from North Carolina clubwoman.
It was announced that total SUBJ
scriptions to the Federation's En-
dowment Fund during the conven-
tion amounted to So, SIS.
Those taking part in the sym.
postum on Youth Conservation
included Mrs. w. T. Bost OF
Raleigh, chairman Public Welfare
department.; Mrs. Norman James
of Hickory. Junior vice"chairman,
Youth Cons ervation; Mrs. Gordon
Maddrey of Ahoskie, American
Citizenship; Mrs. Ivey Moore OF
North Wilkesboro, American Home
Department; Mrs George w.
Gold of Whiteville, Junior repre-
sentative, Youth Conservation
Committee; Mrs. Geddie Stcick-
land of Greensboro, Education;
Miss Ronnie Sheffield of Raleigh,
executive secretary, North Caro-
lima Youth Commission land Ed
ward Conover of the Raleigh Com
munity Council.
Pages for the meeting were Miss
Sara Anderson of Spray, presi-
dents page, and Mesdames Fed
Fletcher, George A. Moore, Jr..
Bernard Croker, Jr., T. E. Green,
Jr., Robert NJ. Council, Miss Eliza
beth Kelly; Mrs. Roger Wall and
Robert G. Fitzgerald, all of Ra-
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