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Show BANQUET HELD FOR B. P. W. G. HONORING THEIR NATIONAL WEEK A banquet was given by the Business and Professional Women's Wo-men's club of St. George on Wednesday night in the Science building in honor of the week beginning be-ginning March 17 to 23, which has been set aside as Business Women's week. Many prominent civic and business leaders were present. The special speaker for the occasion was Lethe Coleman, State Magazine chairman, of Salt Lake City. Anne Price, president, was toastmaster for the evening and introduced the various speakers and entertainers. Tillie Winsor was the first speaker. Miss Winsor gave a five talk on the club's accomplishments accom-plishments and objects and closed clos-ed by reading a beautiful poem entitled "A Collect for Club Women." Wo-men." . .. Mrs. P. D. Spilsbiiry sang, "Japanese Love Song." She was accompanied by Mae Pace. This was .followed by a pianologue entitled "Something New in Hats," which was presented by Edith Harris, accompanied by Mae Pace. A reading "O No" by Beth Schmutz, and a piano duet by Clara Woodhouse and Mae Pace. Short talks were given by Dr. Reichmann as representative of the Chamber of Commerce; C. W. Dove, Jr., Vice-President and Washington County director for the Associated Civics clubs; Wial-ter Wial-ter Smith, as representative of the American Legion, and Mrs. Vivien Wloodbury, president of the Chamber of Commerce auxiliary. aux-iliary. Other guests were: Joseph Jos-eph Milne, Rotary President, and (Continued on page eight) B. P. W. CLUB (Continued from first page) Mary McArthur, as representative representa-tive of the American Legion Auxiliary. Aux-iliary. As main speaker of the occas-sion, occas-sion, Lethe Coleman gave a very inspiring talk. In opening her I talk, she called attention to the i importance of the people of the j world learning to be neighbors and pointed out that through this agency war would be overcome. over-come. It was in this capacity that clubs of the world had their best opportunity to be of service, declared the speaker. "The world must learn to neighbor neigh-bor with each other before nations na-tions can learn to neighbor," said Miss Coleman. Miss Coleman stated that there are 55,000 women representing 1,400 clubs in forty-eight states, Alaska, Hawaii and the District Dis-trict of Columbia. These clubs met during the past week, according ac-cording to Miss Coleman, to in-terpretate in-terpretate their objectives to the American public and to seek to stimulate interest in . cooperative plans now under way, institute new projects for community betterment bet-terment and renew their pledge to lift the level of business women wo-men and to work for social and economic changes. - "The world is today at the cross roads," said Miss Coleman, "it is not easy to know what to do. We must choose religiously, educationally, politically, economically econom-ically and socially. Home of the most cardinal beliefs of our forefathers fore-fathers have gone away. Educational Edu-cational institutions of the future, fu-ture, state our best authorities, will consist more of Junior colleges. col-leges. These students will attend the higher institutions of learning learn-ing and each student will be given the opportunity of developing devel-oping along the lines that he is best adapted to. We are at the cross roads and any man may rise up from the praries and have his thoughts heeded. The history of the past has been a history of material development. We have now reached the point where there are no more frontiers. Our past history is a history of a mad scamble for material development, devel-opment, and they, our pioneers, brought the United States to the world power that it is today, but the greatest position that this country has today is the dream that made us a nation. The dream that all have equal rights, justice, and economic security, and the cause of the common man. "Men of the future must live up to their possibilities and in the future we must regard a man for his abilities and not just because he was fortunate enough or had ability to accumulate accumu-late a fortune." In closing, Mit- CoUman said, "Man's greatest position is his mind," and she asked what those present were doing to cultivate it. The meeting was brought to a close by the club members and guests joining in singing some of the club's songs. |