Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1919 — Indiana Club Women at Kokomo. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Club Women at Kokomo.

Kokomo, Oct 24—The in the Indiana Federation of (Sub? qver which there is no contest is that of corresponding secretary, Mrs. S. M. Grimes of Brazil being the only candidate In the field. Mrs. H. L. Vandorin of Indianapolis, who was nominated at the morning session, withdrew her name and Mrs. Franklin White offered the name of Mrs. Grimes, which received no opposition. Two-minute talks by Americanization chairmen featured the dinner given at the Y. M. C. A. The address of the evening was given by Edward Howard Griggs of Croton-on-the Hudson. Mr. Griggs talked on Philosophy, Music and the Spirit” During the afternoon he discussed “Education for the New Era,” declaring that the progress of a century is possible in the next ten years if we but take advantage of the opportunity, for the war has taught us to think in terms of all mankind. Bolshevism he termed the Spanish influenza of modern life, for which the cure lies in granting voluntarily in advance the measures of justice due those struggling underneath, and education. “The need for a reasoned philosophy of education was never so great,” he said. “The two fields of study which should be Especially emphasized are history and literature.”