can women that I am constantly confronted with the problem of whether I shall recommend to the committee that we adequately feed 2,500 children and let 2,500 die, or whether we shall go on simply keeping 5,000 alive." We went down to Ismert and saw children just recently driven from their orphanages and up the Black Sea to Armenia. itself, and we saw that greatest orphanage of the world-18,000 children in one place. We went through the hospital where 3,000 children were sleeping four and five in a bed. I saw the children lying dead on the streets. I saw the children outside of the orphanages standing waiting in the hope that somebody might give them some of the food that was left when the children inside had been fed, and I stood in the tower of a church in Adrianople, Armenia, and saw thousands of children gathered together to form a star and the initials N. E. R., and as I saw those children coming and realized that every single child there was dependent for life itself upon the chance generosity of some Americans, I thought of this great General Federation of Women's Clubs. I thought of you as I had seen you at the Biennial at Des Moines, and I thought if I can tell this story to those women back home, every child here will live and have a change to grow to respectable and decent citizenship. Women, those children are the children of ex-service men. Their fathers gave their lives, that same service that ours gave their lives for, and I want to tell you when we came back and it was necessary for the Near East Relief to cut its appropriation 25 per cent, we went out to women like Mrs. Winter, who in the tremendous work of this past year has never been too busy to tell me how we could go ahead and what we could do, and we went to Mrs. Pennybacker, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Catt, and several of the women and told them that this would have to be done, this cut would have to be made, and they formed a committee, and they sent out an appeal to you, and that cut which meant the turning away of 25,000 children has been rescinded by your action. The last report I had, three days before I left New York was, if funds continue to come in as they are coming in now, we shall not have to turn away one single child. It is because you women have done it. Those children are our responsibility. We pick them up, we save their lives, they have no government that they can depend upon, they have no home, no family life, no anything to depend upon but America, and we must stand by them and take care of them not only this year but until they are able to take care of themselves. The Near East Relief Executive Committee has asked me to thank you for all that you have done and to ask you to carry on. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 23 2:30 o'clock Methodist House PRESS AND PUBLICITY CONFERENCE Lessie Stringfellow Read (Mrs. James J. Read), Fayetteville, Arkansas, Chairman of the Press and Publicity Department, and Editor of General Federation News, Presiding. Assisted by Mrs. Frederick W. Weitz, Vice-Chairman, and Mrs. S. E. Perkins, Local Board Press Chairman Greeting. L. H. Cary, Manager, Chautauqua Press. EFFECTIVE PUBLICITY AND HOW TO GET IT-(Symposium) 1. What the Magazines Want. Cooperation. Club Woman's Work Told in Featured Articles. Heart Interest. Illustrations. In the above discussions the following well known editors will speak: Elizabeth O. Tombs, associate editor of Good Housekeeping Anna Steese Richardson, associate editor of Woman's Home Marjorie Shuler, Review of Reviews. Barton W. Currie, associate editor of Ladies Home Journal. Ida Clyde Clark, associate editor Pictorial Review. John Farrar, editor of Bookman. Representatives of the Woman Citizen and other magazines may also take part. 2. What the Newspapers Want. Facts. News When It's News. Advance Copy With Release Date. The Correctly Written Story. The Good "Lead." The Clip Sheet. This discussion will be participated in by William H. Hawkins, President of the United Press, by a representative of the International News Service, and by other Press representatives. 3. What the Federation Wants. Front Page Space. The Club Page or Department. The Official Bulletin. The Trained Press Chairman. Co-operation of Press Associations. All state press chairmen, state presidents and other publicity workers are asked to take part in this conference. Adjournment 5 o'clock. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 23 2:30 o'clock Amphitheater Applied Education Conference MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, Chairman, Education. Miss Minnie Jean Neilson, Bismarck, N. D., Chair man. "Kindergartens." Miss Nina Vanderwalker, Federal Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C. "Library Extension." Miss Mary Elizabeth Downey. "Better American Speech." Mrs. Katherine Knowles Robbins, Chicago, Ill. "Public Revenues and Expenditures." Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, Denver, Colo. Former President, N. E. A. "Vocational Education." Miss Ellen Natalie Mathews, Federal Children's Bureau, Washington, D. C. "Highways and Education." John C. Long, Educational Department, National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Conservation of Natural Resources. Mrs. Francis E. Whitley, Webster City, Iowa, Chairman. "National Highways and Memorial Trees." Mrs. W. L. Arnold, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler, President General U. D. C. "Making the Highway Safe." Pyke Johnson, National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. "A National Forestry Policy." Herbert Smith, Assistant Forester, U. S. Forest Service. "Practice What We Preach" (with exhibit). Miss Mira L. Dock. "Your National Parks" (illustrated). Mr. Robert Sterling Yard, Executive Director National Parks Association. Adjournment, 5 o'clock. REPORT OF KINDERGARTEN COMMITTEE Kindergarten Extension. In order that the best good for the movement to obtain more and efficient kindergartens may result, your committee recommends: 1. That we secure for those who haven't it, legislation like that of California, which provides for the establishment of kindergartens upon petition of parents. We would suggest statewide campaigns for more kindergartens. 2. Constructive kindergarten legislation. 3. Publicity, from material furnished (free) by the Bureau of Education, Washington; International Kindergarten Union, Miss May Murray, Cor. Sec'y, Springfield, Mass.; and National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th Street, New York City. 4. That young women of ability be urged to become kindergarten and primary teachers, and that child training be included in the vocational work for women under the SmithHughes Act. 5. Appointment of State, District and Club Kindergarten Chairman. 6. That program committees give consideration to kingarten subjects. 7. That a place at all state and district meetings be given to a speaker on this subject. 8. That State Kindergarten Advisory Committees be formed of leading educators of the states, including State Superintendents, Presidents of Normals, Colleges, Universities, etc. on whom the chairmen may call for advice. 9. That a State Bureau of Lecturers be established who will talk on the kindergarten in interested communities. 10. That State Kindergarten Chairmen confer with State Superintendents and if possible secure their approval of work undertaken, and also their co-operation. 11. That Librarians be urged to subscribe for "General Federation News," 50 cents, Mrs. L. S. Read, Editor, Fayetteville, Ark.; "Kindergarten and First Grade," $2.00, Miss Mur ray, Editor, Springfield, Mass.; "Proceedings of the International Kindergarten Union," $1.00, Miss May Murray, Cor. Sec'y, Springfield, Mass. Also, that Librarians be asked to write to the Bureau of Education, Washington, for all kinds of . kindergarten literature, to be placed in the library for the use of the public. 12. Health inspection in kindergarten, that children may enter regular school in good physical condition. 13. Mental tests to ascertain the child's intelligence, so that tasks suitable to his powers may be assigned him. 14. Kindergartens as Americanization Agencies. The nonEnglish speaking child, through play in the kindergarten, ac |