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any rate it has helped me in what I. ’ want i to oay I today. ,L •i j “My grandmother's point of view is (‘ that of a pioneer in this great move-. | ment, of one who has nursed it from I j its infancy, who is its loyal supporterand advocate and who is now almoat ( ready to relinquish her hold and turni! over her work to young hands. And she feels that the juniors are the logical ones to be trained for the carrying on of this work. Her great plea, she says, is for the continuity of that club life which has been so helpful to her and to the community, and she is sure that we juniors can help to hold it the flavor of perpetual youth.Land Army Clubs.After a conference with the League of Women Workers, their Advisory Committee voted to ask the Executive Committee of the Woman’s Land Army to take a place on their Executive Committee to form a Land Army Committee of the League, thus closely affiliating the two organizations.At a recent meeting of the Girls’ Land Army Club they voted to join the Girls’ City Club of the League of Women Workers and form a Land Army Department of that club, thuswayJ*Iaffiliating in the closest possible the Land Army and League girls.The Executive Committee of theLeague voted, to set aside a room at1525 Locust street for the Land Armyand other committees of the league, to have their own office force informed of the work of the Land Army, so they can answer all inquiries, etc., phone calls at three cents each exclusive of toll calls, are granted the Land ArmyCommittee; all available storage spaceoffered the Land Army Committee. Iu fact every possible offer of hearty cooperation is made to the Land ArmyCommittee and executive secretary of the Land Army, it is said. *“A very erroneous idea has been current that the farmers have been receiving the benefit of the high food prices,” says a Land Army report ‘‘This report has no foundation on fact Farmers have not received 35 cents of the dollar the public has paid. His costs have risen enormously. Practically the only rhasonable priced labor which Pennsylvania farmers have had has been furnished by the Land Army. The girls received $2 a day for an eight-hour day at most of the camps. After these girls became more experiencedthey received higher wages.”Bernard G. Waring, 102 East Mermaid lane, Germantown, wraa placed upon the programme as a speaker at the National Industrial Conference which was called in Washington for October24-26 at the National Board of Farm Organizations building.Mr. acing is a member of the New Social Order Committee of the Society of I* riends, and his talk on Friday afternoon was scheduled under the general topic: ‘Factors in the Solution and Interpretation of the Labor Problem.” Mr. Waring^s theme was “A ChristianEmployer’s Ideal.”Another interested visitor at the conference was Miss Margaret Nairn, ofToronto, who has been appointed by theDominion Council of the Young Women’s Christian Association as the firstgates who represent 30,000 women enlisted in the national industrial move-ent of the Y. W. C. A., were official-1 yinvited to attend the aessions of the International Congress of Working Women which convenes October 28. The invitation was sent to Misa Florence Simms, executive of the industrialdepartment of the Y. W. C. A. by Mrs. Raymond Robins in the name of the ! National Women’s Trade Union League of America, by whom the congress is called.II41ETruck Almost Falls Into RiverParked at Thirty-first and SpringGarden streets, yesterday morning, amotor truck rolled down the incline ofthe bridge, broke through the railingaIand nearly plunged into the Schuylkillanational industrial secretary in Canada. Miss Nairn has spent two wSeeks visit-River. The machine was loaded withplumbers’ supplies. Policeman Quinn,cing various cities in the East Central Field, and taking notes on the American handling of the industrial problems of women in America. „ 4At the conclusion of their own conference, the sixty-five industrial deleog the Thirty-ninth street and Lanscaster avenue station, stopped thecdriverless truck just as it was on the ! sedge of the bridge. Milton Caldwell,rof 1726 North Woodstock street, thes
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Oct 26, 1919
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