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Show FORWARD 3 TOGETHER To me, living on the home front never-ending effort to ac means a quire serenity, patience, courage, sympathy, understanding, and a firm belief in a power greater than our own, with unswerving faith in the ultimate triumph of right. Jeannette E. Rosser REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE CHA.IRMAN JEANNETTE E. ROSSER port of the work of her correspond ing commitee from National, so I trust you will feel free to call upon her for any help you need in your in dividual club. She will :be glad to assist you. This is also true of my office, it is always at your serviec. hope during the year, at your pleasure, to visit your club, not so I much that you need me, as that we need each other. I expect to derive much benefit from these visits with you. One thing our National president, Dr. Maffett, stressed was to urge us to get women in public offices in our communities and on to school boards. These places are being filled this fall and now is the time to select the term lois laUe! : igary I your corn office. tins also hair' capable woman in munity and see that she is elected to rrepi :very most "LIVING I ON THE HOME club this winter, is being dis", FRONT," the theme of f?r work cussed in a very splendid district conferences. I our way in our hope you have already, or will take part in them. It is peculiarly fitting that this Federation should be much con", cerned in the Winning of the War and the Peace. It was organized in 1919, just at the close of the last great war, when women had served their country well in war work, had proven their usefulness in the nation al endeavor, and it was apparent that their training, experience, energy and ability formed a huge reservoir which should be utilized for the ad vancement of both men and women. That reservoir is only now beqin ninq to be tapped. The Federation has not been un mindful of that trust, but has during and prosperity, times of peace through every emergency, and in every crisis, been ready, willing and able to serve. The members of this organization have much at stake, and must, per", haps in the immediate future, meet the question of what their economic, political and social situation will be after the war. That cannot be deter mined upon any selfish basis of in dividual need or desire. The solu tion rests upon an expanding civilian economy to take the place of the present war economy, upon the re establishment of a sound fiscal sys tern which will lighten the burden on the tax payer, upon the education of all for more satisfactory living, upon the creation of more comfortable liv ing standards for all citizens, upon ... ... (Continued on page 4) |
