The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-12

1 luLcICSlS VI ludAO, ouC 1hAhho viz
Academy at Pocatello should be
made department of the State Uni
versity at Moscow. That both of the
schools would be benefited and
strengthened by such unity and
that the youth of the southern por-
ton of our state would remain at
home for the higher courses, who
now 60 to some eastern college or
Salt Lake because of the distance.
Miss Beach, of the press commit
tee, thought much had been accom-
plished in the way of closer fedora
/ ton, unity of action and despatch
in district work, but that there was
much to be developed before the sys-
tenn of press work would be made
perfect.
At the close of this careful canvass
of the district work, 1t was the unani-
nous opinion of the ladies that we
request Mrs. Morgan, chairman OF
the program committee, to arrange
for paper on THE NEEDS OF OUR
/ DISTRICT, that she invite some
practical club woman Of the district,
who has been past officer or has
given conditions in district work
careful study, to prepare this paper
and that women who have served
on committee work, enter a hearty
discussion after the reading. They
were also in favor of short paper
or talk on "OUR DISTRICT PRESS
WORK.
They considered the most import
ant work for the clubs of Idaho for
the next few years was that Of civ
les and education. We hope to get
something from the outlook and re-
ciprocity committees for next week
and the historical when Mrs. j. B.
Davis returns to town.
These Blackfoot district commit
tee club women, send greeting to
their sister committee women and
ask that they hold like meeting
and consider these things and report
through Echoes. They also want to
know what our president thinks
about 1t.
! The first district program COM
mittee earnestly solicits considera-
ton of their work. Has Mrs. Nor
gan written you and have you re-
piled? Have you in mind a good
subject for paper and some woman
to handle it intelligently? Let us
as a district unit be up and doing
for the success of our district federa-
ton. | hope the press committee OF
this district will see that some ex-
preston of their president and dis
| trict members is given in Echoes.
To be sure number of the clubs
have adjourned for the summer, but
YOU can reach some Of them by
phone.
Have you paid your district and
state dues?
We are frequently asked for
information in regard to books
/ illustrative of the South that are not
I mere articles of romance and fiction.
One lady said, "It seems the South
is all romance" No, the South Is a
stern reality now, and its sufferings
were stern realities during the war.
It was terribly torn assunder, but a
united spirit cultured people and
favorable climate, have done won
ders. Tt is "blossoming like rose
now and club women are doing their
share. We of the North have the
advantage in many respects but we
had better look carefully to our
laurels or we shall be outstripped in
the work. They are cleaning towns,
building monuments, Libraries, con-
trolling child labor, studying forestry,
civil service reform, appealing for
aid for the orphan caring for the
sick and attending to the graves OF
their dead just the same that we are.
In fact, the woman who neglects the
opportunity to engage in broad, lib
| eral work, club women in all of our
states are doing, is being considered
an unusually strange person. But
we started to tell you about the fol-
lowing books that we are told are
quite worth the while for those who
would gather accurate ideas or
Southern life.
GLOW Beauty Was Saved" and
other memories of the COS, by Mrs.
James Madison Washington, is an
attractive collection of simple, ten
der little stories about the part play
ed by Southern girls in the days of
the COS. The book is dedicated to
Southern girls, and is true and
beautiful tribute to the women of the
South. Mrs. Washington was born
near Jackson, Miss, educated in Lou
isiana and now lives in Jacksonville,
Fla. Through her husband and
brothers she has strong claims on the
confederacy and she has published
this present volume with the hope
of putting in permanent form some
truths about the South and its peo-
pie in those troublous days. Mrs.
Washington has for many years con-
tributed poems and sketches to the
Jacksonville newspapers but this is
her first book. This little volume Is
only seventy-five pages, artiscally
bound in green and gold, ornament
ed with spray of yellow jessamine,
and makes a charming gift book as
friendship token" (Cloth, $1.25.
The Neale Publishing Co., New York
city,
"The Cotton Mills of South Caro-
lina," by August Kohn, a pamphlet
of 1928 pages, is valuable addition
to the literature on sociological prob
lens in the South. Mr.. Kohn pre-
pared a series of articles on this sub
ject for the News and Courier in