The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-11
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wants to leave the land where the lot hlooms

wants to leave the land where the lotus blooms.
 The Presidents Address.
 Mrs. C. P. Orr, President of the Ala bama Federation of Women's Clubs, de- nvered her address as follows:
 Ladies and Gentlemen and Ladies of the
 Federation of Womens Clubs:
 In the first place I take this Federation work seriously. 1 see that by proper use of our opportunities, We may exert powerful influence in this State. When we become a power, 1t will then be our charge to use ourselves for good. We must have the power before we can use it. We have the force of numbers, we must attain the force of solidarity. We must pull together and, above all, should be the higher motive of justice to all We cannot afford to be partisans. Every partisan in our number weakens us. We must remember that the History of the World shows that where woman is not the peacemaker. she is the mischief maker.
 The power of Woman is no new thing. All through the Book of Acts we see that the conversion of woman to Chris tianity was as notable a triumph as the conversion of a man. When the Knight of the Middle Ages went to war. he en- trusted the care and defense of his castle to his wife, his mother or his sister. This hippancy of speech about the character of woman, is a modern pastime of our Western World-how far Justified by the behavior of women. l do not pretend to judge.
 Whatever other shortcomings have been charged against woman, no man has ever denied her patriotism. Sometimes 1t seems hot tc oP Ordar that only lasts through war, but 1t is a patriotism of peace that we now demand of her in our Federated work. There will be no flags flying, no drums beating, to lend excitement to this work. It Is plain, ev- ery-day work we must do, but that work will be for naught unless 1t has running through 1t the silver stream of a high purpose, of a devotion to the highest good for our State. In other words, conse- crated patriotism.
 Our work Is divided into many different branches. The same treatment will not do for all. There are some matters which the Federation helps best by arousing in- terest in them leaving the actual work to be done by the individual clubs. Such, for instance, Is the work of oul Ira yelling Library.
 l am glad to say that the Travelling Library has at last found itself" The solution of the problem of how to make this Traveller travel, was found in the need for such libraries in the country schools of this State. But, the success of this work brings with it failure unless We can get the assistance of every wo man in the Federation. We cannot be gin to supply the demand for books, w. need one hundred libraries of twenty-five books each, and, In nearly every instance 1t costs more to send a library out and bring 1t back than the $ we charge. If we can get book and 10 cents from each of the 1,200 women in this Fed eration. We will then have at least one half as many libraries as we need and money to buy cases for them When this is done, l hope that the railroads ol our State will be good enough, and big enough. and broad enough, to give us free transportation for these cases
 A list of the books specially needed will be given during this Convention.
 would like to see the educational oual- ihcation for employment of children which was left out of the Child Labor Bill presented to our Legislature as a la" deslred by us. to apply to all work Dy children, for which money is paid The Southern Educational Board has offered to duplicate the scholarships for the Girls Industrial School at Montevallo up to the number of ten. We have now three scholarships. These scholarships should be perpetual as the money is loaned to the beneflciaries and is expect- ed to be returned.
 At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees in Montgomery. I suggested that | they should get authority from the Iey- islature to elect an Advisory Board of three women, who would visit the school twice year, and report to the Trustees any recommendations they might think necessary This school teaches cooking. sewing. millinery and other branches a;