The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-08

and repairing public school houses, anu requiring that the community receiving this aid shall contribute an amount equal to that received from the state, provide at least two acres for school grounds, and construct it's school house in accordance with the plans and specifications either furnished by or indorsed by the super intendent of education of the state. This is entirely in accordance with the recom- mendations of this committee, and MT. Arnold of Calhoun county, who took the initiative in the passage offthis bill, gave due recognition of the work of the Ala bama Federation of Womens clubs.
 The work has grown so, and the results have reached such proportions, that it IS not practical in this report to go much into detail or to give the personnel of the workers. Last year there were three county associations, 25 local associations, and one city association This year there are 27 county associations, "A local asso- citations, four city associations, and in connection with the city associations there are 25 branch associations, making q total of 130 organizations, as against a total of 29 last year.
 The county organizations are:
 Autauga, with four local associations; Baldwin, with four local associations; Butler, with five local associations; Bul- lock, with one local association; Choctaw, with one local association; Chambers, with one local association; Crenshaw, with two local associations; Dallas, with four local associations; Geneva, with three local associations; Jefferson, with three local associations; Lawrence, With one local assoclation; Limestone, with two local associations; Monroe, with four local associations; Montgomery, with three local associations Monroe, with four local associations; Pike, with II local associa- tions; Calhoun, with one local associa- ton; Winston, with one local association; Wilcox, with one local association.
 Besides these there are three local associations in Chiffon county, two in Conecuh. one in Blount, one in Fillmore, two in Escambia. three in Jackson, one In Sumter, two in Tallapoosa and one in Colbert.
 In the work of organization your committee has had the help of Miss Burns who was employed from Sep tember, 1906, to September, 1907, for this purpose also of enthusiastic sup erintendents and teachers, club women and other friends of the schools, and last month Col. ". W. Brandon, who Is a member of the county high school commission, organized the Winston County association and a local asso- citation at Haleyyille, in Winston county.
 It is especially gratifying that quite a number of communities have organ iZed associations without assistance from the outside. Notable among these is the Sheffield Improvement assocla- ton, which reports membership of 90. I think 1t is a conservative estimate to say that there are 50 such organiza- tions in the state that have not been reported to your committee. At a round table conference on school improve ment at the University Summer school at Tuscaloosa in July, most inspiring reports were given by the teachers present, and President Abercrombie stated that he saw in the movemnt the possibility of revolutionary results for the schools of the state. since with each community improving it's school to the extent of hundred dollars the aggre- gate expenditure would soon easily reach a million dollars