The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-02-04
Brilliant Success Of Present Administration Of AIabamas Fed
Grafton Of WOmGns Clubs

G. Converse, Mrs. James Jackson. Mrs. NJ.
f. lrloKbirdge, together with the CLUB cor
respondents have every reason to con-
graduate themselves upon their successful
journalistic venture of the year.
Perhaps in no work for the progress OF
Alabama has the federation achieved
greater results than in the cause of public
education.
Mrs George B. Eager, the president of
Alabama Federation of Women's clubs in
1928 appointed committee on education
whose first report described the conditions
that made necessary activity on the part
of the women of the state in the interest
of schools, and offred resolutions to CO.
operate with the Alabama Educational
association.
The report for 1889 showed increase APP
preparation for schools made by the legis-
lature, laws passed raising the standards
of teachers, and separating school money;
and it proved by quotations from the state
superintendent that the Alabama fedora
ton had been useful alles Ia bringing
about these salutary charges. Resolutions
were passed pledging the federation to be
a committee of the whole 20 assist Mrs.
r. ID. ohnston in carrying out her IDEAS of
the Boys Reformatory, to sustain the
Girls Industrial school, to investigate kin
dergarten methods and create sentiment
favorable to free kindersartens, and TO
seek to secure a constitutional amend
ment requiring educational qualification
for the office of county suparinte ldent of
schools"
With this brief summary of the work of
the fedora ton along educational lines, the
educational committee of tle federation
submit the following suggestions for the
Improvement of Alabama educational
status and as work worthy of the efforts
of Alabama women to insure the states
prosperity at the beginning OF the new
century:
aF HI
means to develop civic honor, state pride
and national patriotism in the youth OF
Alabama:
Insistence on patriotic celebration by the
schools of the birthday of General Robert
~ Lee, and on such i study ot his life as
is made by public SCHOOLS OF older states Of
older states of the life OF the sonora BILE
abraham Lincoln. Il would be well if
truthful biography of each were studied by
the youth of every state.
The encouragement of corporation be-
tween mothers AMI teachers by every
known and diseoverao,e method,
Persistent and intelligent effort to create
sentiment favorable 10 the Introduction of
Kindergarten as a part of the public school
system.
Jealous and urs'lng effort for the in
corporation of industrial training into pub
lie education-agreut urnl aiIc r1eena Al
cal for boys, domestic for girls; because
girls: because
(a). or their power to enlist the lively
interest of the young, thus retaining them
| longer in school.
| Gb) OF their relation to the prosperity
| of THE state.
(c). OF their abiding influence on char
aeter and direct citation to home life.
ID OF the self-evident truth that the
man behind the plougihshare, the mill and
the loom mean as much to any nation
1.-The man behind the gum" and because
,ifr
are as necessary to these United States as
Annapolis and West Point which foster
the arts of war"
The frightening of the free school term
in the rural Districts the grading of coun-
ty schools; the adoption of uniform
courses of study; the regulation of teach
ers salaries by the grade of certificate
held; the passage of law giving the right
of local taxation for school purposes; the
division of the counties into convenient
and relatively permanent districts; end
the erection in each district of a oommod-
ious school building each to be designed,
equipped, and--controled in accordance
with state law.
Strenuous efforts to put into every school
I library for supplementary reading, and
hearty support OF the travelling libraies
now directed by Mrs. L. j. Haley, of Biz
| mingham
Investigation OF the results in other
states and countries of compulsory edu-
cation.
Reservation of one club meeting each
month for the discussion of educational
topics, and reports on same ~ the educa.
tional committee.
Coo. peration with the Alabama Histori-
cal society whose secretary is AIr. Thomas
Owen. az Carrollton, Ala.
Sympathetic and active interes. in the
mental, moral and industrial training CT
the present generation of tie colored race
whose parents were our faithful nurses
house-servants and field hands, who
proved ~ their loyalty during the civil
var tile true value OF The 'a:.. aifec;lon
flthe.s and mothers who were really nom
given to them by our own fathers and
mothers who were really nom professional
kindergartens to the cherished 'sMinervy
AIMS" and Uncle Remuses," now rapidly
Passing away.
Increase of county superintendent sal
aries.
First, last and always, untiring effort to