In the article below Miss Sallie Herring, who attended the national Club Congress in connection with the National Live Stock Show in Chicago just before Christmas, tells of her trip. Misses Sallie Herring and Jamie Edwards formed the team from Johnston County which won in the jelly-making contest put on in 16 counties during the fall. As a prize, they were given a free trip to the State Fair. When the club girls were judged there as to personality, spirit, etc., Miss Herring was given first prize in the state and the prize was a free trip to Chicago to attend the National Club Congress. The following is an account of her trip.
In the beginning I had an idea that everybody in Chicago would be strangers; that they wouldn’t even turn their heads to see a band of twelve hundred club folk go by. But now my view toward Chicago people is entirely different, and I believe after all the people there are just as human as those in the good old state of North Carolina.
Every one of us have this opinion. I am sure that not one of us has ever been to the home of a friend who welcomed us more cordially than the business men of Chicago welcomed us to their city. The hospitality shown us while there will be remembered the rest of our lives. A luncheon was served us every day at noon, and we were entertained at a banquet three evenings by Chicago people. Some of the great places of interest shown us were: Montgomery Wad and Company’s home stores, Sears, Roebuck and Company, Chicago Board of Trade, Union Stock Yards, Swift and Armour Packing plants, New Field Museum, Garfield Park Conservatory, Lincoln Park Zoo, and Marshall Field Department Store. In addition to all those places we went through all the larger parks and the prettier residential sections, traveling along the shores of Lake Michigan for miles.
Now for my opinion of the club members themselves. I thought that the boys and girls from different states would look, talk and act so differently that they wouldn’t even enjoy each other’s company. But, gracious, I found myself to be so absolutely wrong on this point that I felt ashamed of myself. I wouldn’t have known but that the Texas boys and the Maine girl came from the same state if they hadn’t worn badges to distinguish themselves.
Yes, it is true that people from different sections talk and act differently, but we all have the same views in mind, after all. The only thing that can bring us all to that conclusion is a mingling together such as we had in Chicago. Now, all of us have a broader vision of things—we are more interested in our fellow countrymen, and hence our minds will continue to grow.
Many thanks to those who made the trip possible.
Sallie Herring
From page 4 of The Smithfield Herald, January 13, 1925
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