Show Forty Fifth Anniversary Observed By Athenaeum Tho The Athenaeum has hall reached another milestone in its history and the tho date was fittingly celebrated Monday February ary when two thirty-two members at attended attended at- at tended a one o'clock luncheon at the Memorial building to celebrate the forty- forty fifth birthday anniversary of the club A color colo scheme of cherry white and an added touch of blue combined the club colors and the Washington's birthday birthday birthday birth birth- day theme theine cut flowers of red white and blue in silver sUver vases and tapers of red white and blue In crystal holders adorned adorned ad ad- orned the tho table and the tho centerpiece was wasa a huge birthday cake iced in white with forty five blue tapers and the figures 1897 1807 and 1942 in red President Mrs Ruth Mawhinney was for the tIle party and acted as toast toast- mistress i j I The opening number on the program was the singing of one Verse of The St Star r Spangled Banner by the members accompanied by Mrs Mrs R R E E Biasing In Invocation Invocation Invocation In- In vocation by Mrs John Duck Buck Mrs Mawhinney then Said Bald Again we meet with happy hearts lo to o celebrate the f forty fifth birthday of Athenaeum and to honor George Washington To be alive in such an an age ge With every year a 0 lightning page Turned in the worlds world's great wonder book Whereon the leaning nations look When men speak strong for brotherhood brotherhood brotherhood brother brother- hood For peace and universal good When miracles are everywhere and every inch of common air Throbs a 0 tremendous prophecy of ot greater marvels yet to be When steel and stone and rail raU and rod Becomes the avenue of God A trumpet to shout his thunder through To crown the work that man may do OUR FLAG AND COUNTRY I Mrs Melvin Melvln KIdder Today the names Country and Flag have a deeper significance perhaps than thanIn thanin thanin in any time within our memory Yesterday Yesterday Yesterday Yes Yes- we heard the roar of battle in distant lands today It dins in our own ear ears Among us already has come the and heart rendering words Died In the service of his country Bloodshed sacrifice sorrow and tears tears tears' I Iare are In store for us in the preservation of those principles and ideals for which our country and the stars and stripes stand but we thank God we have the courage to serve and faith in the vision that our heritage will ever be preserved and peace will be In our fair land This tribute by Calvin Coolidge It It pictures a a. vision of a people whose eyes were turned to the rising dawn It represents the hope ope of a father for his posterity It was was never flaunted for lor the glory of royalty but to be born under it Is to tobe tobe be the child chUd of a king and to establish a home under it is to be the founder of ofa a 0 royal house houle Alone of all flags it exI expresses ex- ex I presses the of a people which endures endures when all else passes He who lives under It and Is loyal to It is loyal to truth and Justice everywhere i He who lives under It and is 18 disloyal to it is a traitor to tho human race every every- I where Again Mrs Mawhinney speaks I I O 0 O. O Memory Thou midway world twixt earth and paradise Where things decayed And loved ones lost in dreamy shadows rise As dusky mountains please the eye I 1 When twilight chases day As bugle notes that passing by In distance die away As leaving some grand waterfall I We lingering listen its roar So Bo memory will hallow all weve we've known and know no more I I PAST MEMORIES Mrs W W. J J. J Bardsley By memory's lane we will wander back I twenty years and take a look at club woman and her work Peace Peace I I I World Peace I A lasting peace the world 1 safe for democracy These were the watch words of the days we we look back upon The General Federation of Women's Clubs Is interesting the membership in making a lasting peace Under discussion are various plans The World Court the League of Nations the Geneva Convention Convention Convention Conven Conven- tion Can War be Prevented by Arbitration Arbitration Arbitration tion Security Disarmament DIs If It all nations na na- Joined the League economic war could be enforced against offenders Are these tools of peace We do not wage individual war when settling civic dis dis- Thousands of returned soldiers spent their days In Idleness on the street thousands of school age children spent I their days In mills women's clubs are Working for the Child ChUd Labor Amendment Every federated club in the United States participated in a make work survey sponsored by the General Federation of Women's clubs Through the years outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing speakers have told us that women could have anything they want wanted d. d If they wanted It enough Law enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment was prominent on our program particularly that law called prohibition We were warned against the old herding instinct of the tribe and of not becoming as great Joiners as all men are These were the days when a woman might bob her hair but she could not become a general traffic officer while shorn of her locks At times the biennial social functions were so numerous they became devastatingly devastatingly exhausting However through the I years the General Federation of clubs brought to the attention of the members the foremost In the arts aria literature literature litera Utera- ture drama painting sculpture world events a a. brilliant array of famous lecturers lecturers lecturers lec lec- lec- lec authors poets composers painters paint- paint ers era and sculptors Men and women such an artist and famous in his respective field of endeavor Its It's the song ye sing and the smile ye wear that's a makin the sunshine everywhere A Bong song Blue Blue Birds Over the White WhiteCliffs WhiteCliffs Cliffs Utts of Dover MIss Dover Miss Mary DeJonghe accompanied by Mrs R R. E. E Biasing Tl The program continued with Mrs Mav Mawhinney introducing each speaker The old Hindu saw in his dream the tho human race led out of Its Ita various fortun's fortunes for for- tunes tuns First we were in ch that went bark to to a an Iron hand Then he saw law thorn them th rn led by threads thread from the brain which went v ent upward to an unseen lo to d 4 The first was absolute power and ruling b by force the last was civilization rill nUll g by Ideas Behind me In is infinite power powe I t before 1 me la is possibility u wound 11 me Is boundless opportunity why opportunity why should I fear ear 7 TO OUR CLUB clun i Mrs Clements Hansen For hor forty five years year Athenaeum you have been slowly yet steadily growing Through the and perserver- perserver ance anco of a small email group of civic and cultural cultural cultural cul cul- cul- cul tural minded women you have come a 0 long way In the face taco of obstacles and discouragement your leaders have gone ahe ahead d undaunted and ready to serve and showing such willingness your members I have always responded Not for selfish j reasons alone but for the preservation I Of an ideal implanted in their hearts and it gives us something to live livo Up to Lita Bone tells I spent a little littlemore littlemore littlemore more for this than I planned A neighbor neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor observed in showing me a beautiful new rug but then it gives me meOme something some some- something thing to live up to This struck me ma as Continued on Page Two Forty Forty Fifth Fifth Anniversary Observed By Athenaeum I I Continued from Page Pace One Onel a good Idea Having something In ones one's house so lovely that It gave an incentive Incentive Incentive tive and pull up as my neighbor expressed ex expressed ex- ex pressed It It Is often by Just lust such devices that we are heartened and encouraged Wh Why y no not plan definitely to have ab about ut us u one or two things that make our living Just lust a little more vital a little more worth while a picture a piece of pottery pottery pottery pot pot- tery a bit of fine fabric or any other thing that that- gives you the sense of ot being In the presence of ot something really beautiful In applying this to Athenaeum Athen Athenaeum we do find a picture that Is painted paint paint- ed by description a piece of pottery inthe Inthe in inthe the the- learning to be tolerant tolerant- and more considerate bits of fine fabric are found In bits of ot Information our pull up comes through the knowledge that some come comein in some small email way we are striving to help someone else and our lasting friendshIps friendships friend friend- friendships ships are Inde Indeed d things of beauty And so Athenaeum it Is fine tine to gather and enjoy the pleasant things of life lite Gathering and holding what he most desires gives man a high sense of ot power and when man Is filled with power he is happy To Women Women- There is no thrill In easy sailing When the sky is clear dear and blue r Theres There's no Joy In merely doln doing Things which any anyone one can dI d do But Dut there is some satisfaction That Is mighty sweet to take I When you reach a destination That you thought you couldn't make TO WO WOMEN IEN By Dy Laurence Binyon Your hearts are lifted up your hearts That have foreknown the utter price Your hearts burn bum upward like a lame lam e Of splendour and of sacrifice For you you too to battle go Not with the marching drums an and d cheers But Bt In the watch of solitude And through the boundless night pf fears Swift swifter than those hawks of ot wa war r Those threatening wings that pulse th thair the theair theair e air Far Par as the vanward ranks are set You are gono gone before them you are there Amid the thunder of the guns The of lance and sword I Your hope your dread your throbbing pride Your Infinite passion Is outpoured Prom From hearts that are as one high heart Withholding g nought from doom and vale Burningly offered offend up up-to up to bleed bleed- To bear to break but not to fall tail Hartle Is le well sold said to be the speech of ot angels angela In fact nothing among the utterances utterances ut ut- t- t aea allowed to man U Is felt to be eo so divine Piano solo solo Claire Claire de Lure Debussey Debus- Debus sey sey Bey Mrs R. R E. E hissing Biasing Mrs Mawhinney then said And now let us pause for a moment In remembrance and respect to one of or our beloved club members Esther Rather who during the past year hM has lasso beta called called call- call called ed home Dear Esther Father the tie that binds ua us nere nave can severe seven Tho The thou so 10 pure so 80 good were called away Thy memory lingers well we'll well forget th the they never The Th Father called called we we would not bid thee then stay tay Go claim the crown of honor and approval ap ap- that you through usefulness usefulness usefulness useful useful- ness have earned Our lives are enriched because vt v we knew thee We count thy friendship as a precious boon And as aa one of the finest women of our club Your name shall long Jong be known Mrs Mawhinney continued It Is 11 a funny thing thin but true That folks you dont don't like dont don't like Uke JouI you Jou I dont don't dont don't know why shy this thin should mould be 10 BO so But Bu Just lust the same acme I always know If U I am friends sour sour friend are fowl few If U I X am friendly folks folk are too Sometimes I L get up In the morn mom Wishing I was wal never born I X make of cross remarks remark a few And then my family wishes too too That Tha I X had gone some ome other place Instead of ah showing them my face But Dut let me change my little tune And sing Ing and smile And pretty soon won the folks folk around me Sing Bing and smile mile I X guess guese twee catch In all the while Yea Yes It Its It's a funny thing but true A That folks you like will sure like Uke you TO FRIENDSHIP Mrs Ur Percy Williams What Is a friendship To me friendship Is one of ot our most cherished possessions The love and esteem we have one for far another is what really counts To know and to feel the same things to know you youcan youcan youcan can fuU fully count on another to help share your Joys and sorrows To give a helping hand to be kind In thought and In word and In deed means so much In being a real friend After all If It It were not for real friends what would we have in this troubled world When even our government Is counting on the undying friendship of our allies to help save ve this world so EO we may enjoy life lite as aa our God Intended us to do It Is 18 these worth while and beautiful things that we we all aU love so dearly that Is the flowers flower blooming of the seeds called friend friend- ship When we glorify each others ac- ac we do so 80 for the love and friendship we have for them Our Womans Woman's Athenaeum Is one large chain of friendship In which each one of ot us ua Is a link May this chain stand tand unbroken and as the years pass us by let each link become stronger than ever eves So when we have finished our work here and are called beyond may It be said of ot us as aa we can say of our departed friend Ive I've roamed the highways of all the world I IMet In search of a friend like you Met a thousand folks in a thousand ways Loyal honest and true I Ive I've sailed Balled to the end of ot all aU the Wide and deep and blue lint But never Have I found a truer friend I Than the friend Ive I've found In you The Individual and the race are always always al always al- al ways moving and as we drift Into new latitudes new lights open in the heavens heavens hea base I vens vene more Immediately over us I TO OUR OUR- FUTURE Mrs Douglas Merrill Love life lUe and liberty May our love be pure Our life lUe be bo long And may our every thought and Energy be utilized to make our Liberty boundless Music 1 hath path charms channa to soothe tie the savage ear sav age breast 88 1 To sorted lofted rocks and bend a knotted oak I I Song SOng We We Did It Before and We CanDo CanDo Can CanDo Do It Again sa Again Miss Mary Marr DeJonge Accompanied Accompanied Ac AJ- companied by bJ Mrs R. R E. E Biasing Gi Give e me wide walls walla to build my mJ house of life Ute The north shall be love I Again the winds of fate The south of tolerance II That I may outreach hate The east of faith I That rises clear and new each day dar The west of hope That een dies die a a. glorious way The threshold neath heath my feet teet shall be humility The roof the very sky Itself infinity Give Olve me wide waits walta to build my house of lire life TO HOME m I Mrs E. E J. J 1 Defense begins begin at home The home trains Individuals to live in a family and to understand the families duties and responsibilities towards society The greatest asset to any home Is spirituality real spirituality does not Just lust happen It Is not a thing apart from our dally daily lives It cornea comes as aa a re result result re- re result sult of faithful consistent righteous dally daily living and obedience to Gods God's laws i 1 Ernestine Schumann lie Inks definition j I I of ot home Is A roof root to keep out rain tour four walls sails to keep out wind floor floors to keep out cold yes YM but a home homo Is 11 more than that It 1 is 11 the laugh of ot a baby the song of ot a mother the strength of ot a father warmth of loving hear hearts f light from happy eyes eye kindness loyalty com COlD Home Is the first school and I the first tint church for young ones where they learn what Is 11 right what is good what Is i. kind where they go for comfort when they are hurt or sick siek where when Joy oy Is shared and sorrow eased where father fathers j I and mothers mother are respected and loved I where children are wanted where when the simplest food Is la good enough for kings because It It 14 earned wh where re money Is 18 not I Iso I so 10 Important as aa loving kindness where even the tea kettle sines from happiness |