The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21

A strong Plea for Help in COmplet-
ing 1t


Editor Morning News: I beg to
call the attention of the community
through your paper, to the great eff
fort the Georgia division of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy are
making to aid in completing the beau
tiful memorial at ADMINISTRATION in
the name it will bear, that of pure
and lovable woman, and the daughter
of the ConfederaCy's great leader and
only President. still more attractive,
perhaps, in the good the benefaction
will do for woman dependent on their
own exertions for a support and yet
too poor to pay for the necessary
training TO fit them for the high Vo-
cation of teachers of the future citi-
zenship of the state.
Georgia has not been generous in the
educational advantages it provides for
its daughters; but individual Geor-
gians are in many instances alive to
the needs of the home, especially as
the needs bear on the lives of women
laboring for their daily bread. Then
broad-minded men and women are Of
ten willing, not only to exercise gen
crosby themselves but to influence
others to help their sex to enter more
satisfactory fields Of human endeaVor
than the South, especially Georgia, has
offered in the past; they are anxious
to see that this bread, hardly earned
at best, is not a bare crust, that sim
ply prevents starvation, or loss of self
respect, but is wholesome, plentiful,
heartening food to the toiler.
Here then is an opportunity for APP
probation and generosity to show it.
self. Only a few thousand dollars are
wanting to complete the sum required
to build the Winnie Davis Memorial,
a dOrmitory house that is planned 10
give a free home to the daughters OF
dead, and of INDECENT Confederate sol
diers, while these young women secure
the necessary normal school training
to enable them to follow the line of
work they desire to adopt.
Surely the ma jority of the citizens
of Savannah are able to afford the
price of ticket to an entertainment
to be given by the Savannah Chapter,
Daughters of the Confederacy, the pro-
ceeds of which will go to the building
of this memorial that will express our
reverence for the dead, and our sense
of the trust committed to our honor, |
through services the world has lived to
acknowledged as sublime in heroism
and suffering.
Nor should the community fail to re-
spond in support of the effort being
made by the Daughters of the Confeder-
acy,if for no other reason than feeling |
of admiration for the united labors of
the self-sacrificing women throughout |
the South, who are banded together |
by holy ties, and for the purpose of
keeping green the memories of a dead |
but ever living cause. With hearts |
and hands and minds that will ac-
knowledge no higher duty-these wom- |
en- of our beloved Southland work |
early and late, to care for the graves |
of the Boys who wore the Gray" |
who have answered to the last roll |
CALL and to cheer the lives and save |
the sufferings of those still with us.
With hopeful devotions these women |
have contributed their lives, and with |
one hand they hold aloft the memorial |
urn that contains the sacred ashes OF |
a peoples hope and with the other in |
tender and reverent touch, they gather |
together the matchless records for the |
future historian to write a story un- |
parelleled in the worlds imperishable |
book.
Help these brave, good women!
Men undertake an entertainment like
this the Savannah Chapter, Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, contemplates
giving on the 9th. and instantly %om-
mand success. They demand patron
age (for each man is a power), when
women must plead, in the selling of
tickets and spaces on programmes
which must be done to make the en-
terprise pay. Woman must always
stand for principle, for the higher life
must avoid even the appearance OF
evil, and perhaps in a business way,
this hampers. For instance, the Pro-
gramme Committee were offered by
a most courteous young salesman a
nice round sum for a space. He
wrote his advertisement and handed
it to the committee. On inspection
it was founded to advertise a certain
brand of liquor. The money was
promptly, but as courteously refused
as it had been offered. The committee
needed the money sorely, but the COM
munity needed its women to set the
best example more.
l make a plea for patronage-libSra
patronage of this entertainment for