The age-herald., 1900-05-01

] tional qualification of county superinten- dent of schools, to foster the kindergarten idea and pave the way for industrial education.
 The Gunterville Literary Circle has been a model club in assisting the cause of pulp lie education, and led by Mrs. B. l.. Wooley | has performed notable service; also the | Nineteenth Century Chautauquans, Tus- cumbia Helen Kellar Literary association, | and several others, in cooperative federal | ton work The Birmingham Woman's club has stood alone, doing, perhaps, more than any.
 The present year has been employed by the committee in endeavor to get the individual members of the club educated on the subject of education to become fully in- formed of what other state federations are doing, so that at the approaching conVen- ton, out of full minds and quickened souls l could be evolved plans and purposes, whose | execution will bless Alabama forever. | Special effort has been made to keep in l touch with the practical ideas now prom | inent in every educational organization
 the ideas that girls and boys must each 1 have that industrial education that fits them for their future sphere, the girls for 1 homekeepers, the boys for supporters of the homes.
 Careful and sympathetic study of the ne- | gro problem has been invited, for it is or unspeakable importance to mothers to
  little children and the servants of their 1 households.
 There are three things of vital impor- tance to schools
 l. Qualified superintendency. How unfair to teachers to have them superintended by one who could not pass the examinations required of them. How cruel how de- moralizing to children to be victims of a political scheme that puts them in the treadmill created by a barter of offices What need to have at the head of our sys- tenn a scholarly superintendent, when county superintendent can send, and has sent, to his office a batch of teachers ex- animation papers. addressed: ITO the Su- perintender of Edication.'
 ?. We must have industrial training for our boys mechanical and agricultural mer- its. that they may have that power or self-support that safeguards principle and insures useful citizenship
 3. We must have domestic or household science for our girls, that they may be such homemakers create the state. or regenerate it when adverse conditions threaten.
 The committee on education is as fol- lows:
 Mrs. E. P. Morrissette, Dixie Chautau- qua, Montgomery, chairman; Mrs. John Cox, Excelsior club. Carrollton; Mrs w. F. Johnston, Studiosis, Anniston; Mrs. T. C. McCorrey, Irving Book club, Tusca- loosa; Mrs w. G. Cochran, Up-to-Date, Tuscaloosa; Mrs. B. T. Wooley, Literary circle, Greenvile; Mrs. J. T. Andersen, Thursday club, Auburn; Mrs. J. c. Ken drick, Inter Sc, Greenvile; Mrs. J. N. Thornton, Helen Kellar association, Tus- cumbia; Miss Agnes Young, The Poet cir cle, GreenvlLe; Mrs. S. G. Michael, History club, Citronelle; Miss Mamie Yeatman, Sesame, Marion; Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Reeves, Magazine club Montgomery. 
 Keformatory One of the most important reports that will be made at the federation will be that of the reformatory committee. The chair man of this committee is Mrs. R. D. John ston of Birmingham, who has devoted many years to studying prison conditions, trying to devise some means whereby the young boy convicted of a minor offence could be separated from the hardened criminal Handicapped by state laws that condemned the small boy to the chain gang or to the coal mines, and hedged around by barriers of opposition and prejudice, the effort has been an Her culean one. Three years ago at Anniston Mrs. Johnston made an appeal to the fed eration to take up the work in behalf of the youthful criminals of Alabama. The following year at Selma the sentiment had grown so strong among the club members | that the federation appointed committee | to petition the legislature for charter and l for an appropriation to establish an indus l trial school for wayward boys. The appropriation made by the state the | subsequent generosity on the part of the | Commercial club of Birmingham in donat- l ing magnificent site for the school near | East Lake, the substantial aid that the | industrial school board is constantly re- | ceiving from various parts of the state are 1 subjects with which the public is familiar | That at the approaching meeting of the l federation Mrs. Johnston, the president of | the board, will be able to extend an invi- l tation to the club women to visit the in- l dustrial farm and see for themselves how l well situated the school will be and how l splendidly adapted the land is for the pur- l pose of farming would inspire brilliant
 chapter touching alone upon the work of | Mrs. Johnston herself for the state appro- | priations, the donation of the land, the l securing Of materials for the erection of
 the school buildings have been the result | Of her untiring efforts The industrial
 school board has issued the following cir l cular showing what classes can be admit
 ted to the industrial school, the needs of | the school, and the necessity for estab- fishing it.:
 l mere cover for obtaining money Children abandoned by their parents or l who have left their parents and are with | out means of support.
 | Iuie children who can't work or go to | school and have no support
 Orphans without guardians or means tt | keep them from pauperism. Children whose mothers are drunkards | or lewd, or in prison and are without sup | port or control.
 Children whose parents are drunkards | and do not support or control them.
 Children arrested for crime and who ap- | pear beyond the control of parents | Such children can be committed by any
 judge or by the parents themselves to the
 Reformatory until they attain their ma-
 Jority.
 The board of control of the industria
 farm is as follows:
 President-Mrs. R. D. Johnston.
 Vice-President-Mrs. George B. Eager
 Treasurer-Mrs. T. G. Bush.
 Corresponding Secretary-Mrs. Albert IT
 Munger.
 Recording Secretary-Mrs. S. D: Cole.
 Mrs. Orwin Craighead and Mrs J. C. | Converse, members.
 The governor of the state, the attorney
 general, and commissioner of agriculture
 ex-officio members.
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