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CLUB WOMEN RECEIVED ADVICE FROM FEDERATION

Louise V. Hubbard, of Upper Montclair, Guest of Honor

Advice for concentrated study of international relations, education, music, literature and art were given club women by state federation officials at a district conference in the Beverly Episcopal Church Thursday.

Club women of the first district comprising Camden, Burlington, Gloucester and Salem counties, numbering around 100 gathered to hear how best they could develop themselves along these lines.

Miss Mary Louise Robbins, of Moorestown, first district vice president in the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs presided.

The necessity of abolishing prejudice in the study of international relations was pointed out by Miss Margaret Buttenheim, chairman of international relations, who was the first speaker at the morning session.

"Unless we see foreign situations through the eyes of the foreign people we cannot study them squarely," she declared.

"Be fair-minded. Abolish prejudice and develop an understanding not only for yourself but for your children, and teach them to know children of other nations as they really are," she admonished.

According to Miss Buttenheim international relations can be studied to advantage when combined with other activities such as a lecture or a musicale.

Mrs. Louis V. Hubbard, of Upper Montclair, state president of the federation, was the guest of honor at the meeting. She spoke also during the morning on club work in general and on the coming annual convention in Atlantic City in particular.

The organization of various classes to interest every type of woman was advocated by Mrs. William Hamilton Osborne, chairman of applied education.

Mrs. Osborne holds that the success of a club lies in its keeping the individual occupied. She suggested garden sections as one of the best means to attract women who are not otherwise interested in women's clubs.

Mrs. Osborne placed the study of child psychology high in the rank of important study subjects and advised holding classes to study its fundamentals with a scientific background.

Earning, learning, feeling or emotion and a sense of security should be typical of every home, according to Mrs. Osborne who opined that schools should work in co-operation with homes to bring about this situation.

She declared it to be the duty of every club woman to keep in touch with schools to assist in teaching every child to play the game of life properly.

Mrs. Edward Laterman music chairman of the federation, spoke during the afternoon and told of the aims of her department. One of the most important events planned by the department is the annual music week set this year for the first week in May.

A speaker's bureau is being arranged by Mrs. Chauncey Marsh, literature chairman, who asked for co-operation in her project.

Vocal numbers were given by Miss Lydia Beatty and Mrs. Oliver C. Bowne.