The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-29
TRIBUTE TO THE WOMEN OF
 THE SOUTH AND WOMAN'S WORK nv Mre (xfalow

I5y MITE GIciOW.
 In an address before an enthusiastic gathering in her native city on the work being done by the Southern In dustrial Educational Association. of which she is president, Mrs. Martha Gielow paid a glowing tribute to the Daughters of the Confederacy--the representative women of the South land
 Tt Is the women of the South" she saidy '.who directly. or indirectly are going to preserve the Anglo Saxon child of the rural districts from degen- eracy. 1t was to the women we ap- pealed first, when our association was organized. Our very first message went forth to the Daughters of the Confectionery, for being a daughter my self and knowing the grand work done by the United Daughters, memorially. educationally and otherwise, and realizing the power of their united CO., operation, my first desire was that they should have the first honor in this great crusade to better the educational conditions in the rural districts of our Southland. Knowing. however, that their chapter memorial work would present their entire co-operation with us, yet felt sure that history would record the fact that every chapter in the land had a hand in this mighty crusade. And so our association paid them the tribute of honor. and asked them to become assisting alshitects with us in the building of this, the greatest Of monuments---the monument of education. We know that if each chapter would donate even the 'wid- ow's mite as an annual aid to this cause Gone small rock in the founda- tion), collectively, it would make a mighty whole, and give our Daugh- ters the credit due on record as sup porters of this monument, which great men have called the greatest mis- sionary monument of the century and a crusade greater than that led by Joan of Arc" And our Daughters Ing from one end of the land to the other. Some chapters pledging s10o annually, some $50. some $25, and many $ie.
 We did not count amiss when we sent our cali to the Daughters of the Southland. And we ask all clubs, all patriotic societies, all individuals to aid us. We care not what name--- ubscrfbers--auxiliaries associations. Only join our united effort and let us stand solid for enlightened eftfzee- ship, and the upliftment of our white illiterates.
 The Southern Industrial Educational Association. with It's great mission, is now recognized organization throughout this country. Backed up \ by such men as Bishop Satteriee, Rev Randolph H. McKim, Col. Hilary A. Herbert, Judge Seth Shepard. General l Greely. Rev. Doctor Davidson. and such women as Mrs. Samuel Spencer Mrs. Aigena Sullivan, Mrs. William Mean, Mrs. Dement, Thompson. Miss Mary vanderpool, Miss Mary Sinclair Burkham, Miss Caroline Taylor. Nc wonder it has commanded respect from the very start. We have more than three hundred subscribing members and a long list of distinguished 1ifs members, among whom are Mrs. Jef- ferson Davis, Mrs. Douglass Robinson Mrs. Porter, Mrs. General Woodford Mrs General Butterfield. Mrs. Admiral Curtis, Mrs. Admiral Sampson, Mrs. Donald McLester.
 | The Spartanburg Journal in e long editorial commenting our work says Let all of the organizations and all lof the forces that seek to benefit 1.-the South, ana desire to uplift hu'
 manity join in the building of this
 the greatest of all monuments" | The New OrleHns Times-Democrat fin
 its comment on our Message" said
 Tt is memorial work worthy the Daughters of the confederacy" Ths Norwich Courier Bulletin said '"rhs Daughters of the Confederacy will helI pursue the campaign of the S. I. A. Association to decrease illiteracy In the South. This is a noble work and to | the credit of woman be 1t said that in her public work for the children and homes in this land, she Is prior tc be the true advance of her race, and the very savior of the nation; and fn this blessed work. the American wo- men Is unit with no North or South or East or West.
 Our Association is to help what is already being done for the upliftmenl of the race. There is a great awak- | ening all over the South and our schools everywhere are improving and 1 great credit Is dce to our Southern
 women and men. Our work is espe-
 cially to help them reduce the great
 per cent og illiteracy in the rural dis tricts where education has hardly pene-
 trated.