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Show Annual -- EDUCATION & VOCATIONS This year the annual report has gone directly to local club presi dents with instructions to return the completed form to the state president. While filling in the data to go to the state president please make a duplicate copy and send to me so I can report to Mrs. Reports -- necessary for them to be functioning as active citizens, put on fund raising projects to I not merely existing as anoth increase their income. "club" shuffling through a speci Fourteen of the clubs reported, fied yearly program. interesting ways of raising funds, Gladys McConnell with a total reported of $2,220.00; I State Chairman nng the amounts so received were for j, the Rheumatic fund, not was I I Stat .Fever scholarships, band umforms, publie improvements, and. expenses Ferguson, of delegates to. conventIOns.. I LEGISLATION. . roje . Chairman of the Legislative I Committee for the year 1949-50, 'Oi I herewith submit my report: Inasmuch as this year our State Legislature will be in session, let us single out the most important, As National Chairman, before May The State Fmance Committee 15. She is interested in small .bust a budget for the ness clinics and the good that has WhICh was approved a the August come from them. Be sure to give 28, 1949 Boar meeting, and e condi- rA perplexing problems and how well they were received and have stayed within he budget m tions facing us as citizens today, e actual benefits from the clinic. of the most and lay the foundation for con- f "Plans for your future ean best Seven c.lubs report mcrease In crete action when the legislature be made when you build on the membership, and 12 clubs expect is in session next fall. to send delegates to the National past." We cannot attract a vote until "What Nobody Seems to Know Convention. we stand for something and stand "hi About Woman," by Mary Ritter Annie eterson,. by it irrevocably. We need a more Beard in the April Independent State Fmance Chairman. careful search of ourselves to deIh Woman is an excellent article. termine a new set of princlples j, Woman's long impressive history INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS upon which we as a nation can u' will give each member the inspir While the reports, both volun stand. ation she needs to realize that and from the club Your chairman urges the womtary solicited, i woman blazing new trails have a chairmen of International Rela en of the state to be alert as to fins example -berore them in the tions throughout the State have the dangers confronting our counaccomplishments of our forebears. been practically non-existent, it try by forces seeking to undermine aD Call your members' attention to is quite obvious that all the clubs our system of government. this article. had an interesting International We are the divinely appointed The program suggested in the Relations because the heirs to all that the men and womprogram, ;ID March Independent Woman is to greater part of the news coverage en of the past have achieved. Bebe developed in detail in the May in the metropolitan newspapers fore we can possess that which issue. Planning of bread and but from all clubs dealt with Inter we have inherited from our fore- ,i ter sidelines and to develop small national Relations programs this fathers, we must first earn it for business clinics will continue to ourselves. Since the of Inter year. study receive emphasis. Eternal vigilence Is the price of national Relations is one of the Good worker-employer relations four corner stones of the National freedom. Freedom cannot be taken in attaining work attitudes that club and .since Inter for granted but must be eternally program, make for promotion and for happy national Relations is of such guarded. It is not a free gift. We relations between and workers moment in our national life of must continue to earn it over and prepared yea:, expenditures, . I ;e . ,m management job done. are getting a good today, it is natural these programs should receive special emphasis. new Financial education is a phase of our work. Doreas Camp bell's article on financial cltizen While there have been many reported in over agin. In a meeting before the 18th annual forum of the New York It Herald Tribune, Gen. Dwight D. I Eisenhower delivered the keynote speech in which he warned the " interesting programs the papers, the Brigham City Club ship in April Independent Woman presented a most unique one con introduces the subject which will dream Arne ric a n sisting of two parts: (1) a meet be developed in the May issue. "the American into wo will tur.i nightmare" ing introducing foreign-born Call your committees' attention if the people of this country be men citizens who presented varied to these program helps and pass come slaves of the government. He characteristic mer displays of them on to your successor. that each new government chandise native to their countries, urged It has been a pleasure to work its for be scrutinized and organiza proposal with you in planning and carry discussing customs, effect on personal freedom. He tion of society of their respective out the Federation Program. said: "We believe in human digni ing in counties; (2) a radio Wishing you success in Federa which a German-bornprogram ty, in human rights not subject to American tion work. Pearl Shaffer Chairman. FINANCE CHAIRMAN FINANCE CHAIRMAN REPORT The local clubs were contacted through the State Paper-Forward was interviewed concerning differ in German and American ences life. The Cedar City club approached the matter from a different angle by holding a round table discus sion of world relationships, CO:l sidering many phases of their vital Together, and encouraged to set impact upon our daily living. From the wide spread interest up a budget to operate on the entire year, and were Inter given a in all clubs concerning percentage basis on which they national Relations, I believe we women of the Business and Pro might prepare their budget. Sixteen of the Clubs reported fessional Women's clubs are com to me, 12 using the budget method ing of age in our thinking along of financing, two partially so and the lines of world politics. If that two did not budget their funds. is really true, then the only The budgets covered general ex recommendation I can make is ex pcnses, program material, penses of delegates to conventions, and local projects. The dues range from. $4.10 to that we we make want our certain up our nation minds how to act in circumstances, and voice our opinions, or should I say, make $10.00 a year; the clubs having our demands loudly jand emphati higher dues were able to budget cally to the responsible heads of their funds for the year, and_it government. Then. we shall really arbitrary curtailment. We believe that these rights can be fully pos sessed and effectively exercised only so long as man asserts and maintains himself the master, not the serf, of institutions be creates. If to-day we never giveup the ef forts to determine-so far as each of us can-the probable effect of I I every new governcental proposal upon our personal f'reedom, we will be discharging one of our most responsibilities as American citizens." Let each of us as women and as citizens of this great United States rejoice in our right to exercise our franchise, let us sense our deep responsibility, let us show that we are worthy of our divine heritage. Let us take our hats off to the past, let us take our coats off for the future. '''God's gift to -us is LIFE. Our gift to Him is what we do with that life." acute . • |
