The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Women's Publications - All Publications 5-1-1949 Maine Federation News vol. XXV, no. 4 (May 1949) Maine Federation of Women's Clubs Staff Maine Federation of Women's Clubs Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/maine_women_pubs_all Part of the Women's History Commons Repository Citation Staff, Maine Federation of Women's Clubs, "Maine Federation News vol. XXV, no. 4 (May 1949)" (1949). Maine Women's Publications - All. 450. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/maine_women_pubs_all/450 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Women's Publications - All by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 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Swift, College Road, Apathy in a participation in governmental affairs. Orono, Maine The big things of life and the oppor­ The official organ of apd published Democracy tunity to help formulate policies for by the Maine Federation of Wom­ Mrs. John L. Whitehurst the future pass us by while we bicker en’s Clubs. Entered as second-class over nonessentials. matter at postoffice at Orono, Maine, “The dogmas of the quiet past are The desire to be entertained in or­ inadequate to the stormy present. December, 1948. Office of Publica­ ganized groups today is taking prece­ tion, S. R. College Road, Orono, The occasion is piled high with dif­ dence over the study program. Fash­ Maine. Published four times a year: ficulty and we must rise to the oc­ ion shows bring out the largest October, December, February and casion. As our case is new, so we crowds in the women’s organizations May. Address subscriptions and all mu t think anew, and act anew. We throughout the country, with card communications pertaining to news must disenthrall ourselves and then parties running a close second. If items and advertising to the Editor, we shall save our country.”—Abra­ women must have a fashion show to Inez E. Swift, College Road, Orono, ham Lincoln. keep up their morale, then such shows Maine. should be preceded by a program for Subscriptions, $1.00 the year. Our ancestors bequeathed to us the dissemination of information Clubs subscribing 100 per cent of the greatest ideal in all history— which will help them to vote more their membership will receive the freedom for mankind. Yet today we intelligently. special subscription rate of 75 cents have strayed far afield from the Women have two million more per year. ideals and aspirations of the great votes than men in this country, there­ men who helped in the formation of fore they should shake off the apathy our great Democracy. Many of our that surrounds them, quit bickering OFFICERS FOR 1947-1948 people are accepting the ideas of and do all in their power to preserve President substitutes for our present form of the form of government that has Mrs. Bert A. MacKenzie government. Many proposals are given us the highest standard of liv­ 169 Main St., Orono made but most of them have for ing in the world. Unless we do so, First Vice President their basic philosophy the control of we stand to lose that great heritage Mrs. Gilbert F. Loebs individuals by the State. This is the we call Democracy, because those 43 Burleigh St., Waterville antithesis of our form of government, who are working to destroy it are not Second Vice President and it is the antithesis of our form of apathetic, they are not bickering over Mrs. Donald W. Small East Machias religion. petty things—they are working in­ Recording Secretary The psychological war now in pro­ dustriously in all parts of the world, Mrs. W. Bradford Cushman gress, between Russia and the world, while our vision is beclouded with 11 Belmont St., Portland 5 is more than a war between people apathy and nonessentials. Corresponding Secretary believing in different ideologies of The pioneers of this country fought Mrs. Donald Folsom government. It is a war between valiantly to establish a form of gov­ 63 Forest Ave., Orono those who believe in a cold atheistic ernment which has for its basic con­ Treasurer world and those who believe in a cept—religious principles. Now that Mrs. Norman F. Plouff world built on a faith which estab­ form of government and those princi­ 51 Free St., Dexter lishes a moral code for its people. ples are being challenged by a great General Federation Director We have a confused people. We Colossus, which aims to end Democ­ Mrs. Bert A. MacKenzie have an apathetic people. Many racy throughout the world. It can­ 169 Main St., Orono shrug their shoulders when the word not be preserved by simply sitting Honorary President “politics” is mentioned, believing that back and doing nothing. We must be Mrs. George H. Mayr it is something foreign to their daily on the alert. We must work to pro­ Beverly Hills, California lives. Many do not even go out to mote those programs that aim to (Formerly Mrs. Elizabeth Burbank vote on election day, little realizing counteract the propaganda dispensed Plummer of Dexter) that Democracy cannot function in Europe and Asia. Who cares Poet Laureate without the full participation of its whether food comes to a starving man Edna St. Vincent Millay citizens. and his children from a Democracy or Austerlitz, N. Y. Petty bickering and jealousy in (continued on page 2) 2 MAINE FEDERATION NEWS Club Presidents . STATE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Attention Please! A club data sheet has been sent to your club. The data sheet should be grams for the coming year I trust you filled exactly as you wish the infor­ will turn to the program suggestions mation to appear in the 1949 Maine; of our Department Chairmen for aid. Federation Y'earbook. Under the guidance of their Dean of If your club has held an annual Chairmen, Mrs. Donald W. Small, meeting between July 1st 1948, and second vice president, a pamphlet is the time this issue of the Maine being prepared for each club, and Federation News reaches you, the should be of invaluable aid to the data sheet should be filled at once; president and program chairman. and sent to your district director. If “World Peace Through Study, yours has already been sent in, that Faith and Understanding” has been is fine and I thank you for your the theme of this administration. As promptness. the two-year term comes to a close, If your club is to have its annual your president wishes to thank all meeting and election of officers be­ women who assisted her in any way tween now and July 1st, 1949, please in carrying out this theme, and those have the data sheet filled and sent who served as officers, chairmen and to your district director immediately committee members. following the annual meeting of your It has been a privilege to serve club. Make sure it gets to your direc­ you, and a happy experience that will tor before the annual meeting of the always remain in my book of memo­ Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs, ries. which will convene at Rockland on Faithfully yours, June 28th. Maude Ethelyn MacKenzie At any time during the year, when As your President writes this last a change in the officers of your club message for the Federation News be­ Conference Time Is Here! occurs, notice of such a change, to­ fore completing her term of office, Organize Programs and gether with the address of the new she is preparing to leave for the Gen­ New Plans . officer, should be sent immediately to eral Federation Convention in Florida Further Federation, the Federation’s corresponding secre­ with other Maine delegates. A re­ Educate for Peace— tary, that the mailing list may be port of this important international Review Past Successes, kept up to date. convention will be given to you at Extend the Hand of Friendship. Olive H. Folsom (Mrs. Donald) the annual meeting of the Maine Neighboring Clubwomen Corresponding Secretary Federation at Hotel Samoset, Rock­ Continue Progress With 63 Forest Ave. land, June 28-30. Eternal Cooperation. Orono, Maine. All clubwomen attending the Rock­ land convention are urged to come APATHY IN A DEMOCRACY prepared to discuss the future of our (continued from page 1) official publication, the Federation a Communistic State? As the moth­ Compliments of News. A recommendation was made ers in Europe leave their children on at the last convention to discontinue the streets in the dark of the night, Springvale Women’s Club certain issues, with action postponed lost to them forever, due to lack of until the June meeting.