The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-05-15

and not dealt with by the methods
| employed, when adult and hardened
| criminals are brought to justice. The
bill making medical inspection in
| schools a state law, passed both Iou-
ses, was vetoed by the governor and
its passage over this veto was defeat
ed by only 6 votes. That this bill
had the ardent support Of all right
thinking citizens and the medical pro-
! fession, was proven by frank endorse
mcnt of the leading newspapers of
the state, by the splendid address CT
/ President Jervey, before the recent
convention of the South Carolina Med
ical Association, and by the Yolul-
tary attendance at this convention
Of DR.. E. A. Hines of Seneca, secre
airy OF the above named organlza-
| ton OF South Cardinals Physicians.
1t is to be hoped therefore, that lie
moral victory, achieved by our women
in the winters campaigns, will, In an
| other veal become an actual one,
! and that in the future the children
of South Carolina may not be need
lcssly exposed to communicable and
prcvcntable diseases, nor deprived OF
the opportunity to grow to healthy
manhod and womanhod, for the fur
therance Of political schemes, or the
/ qualification of personal animosities.
1t was real thanksgiving that all
Clubwomen learned that during the
| recent legislative session, despite the
| governors veto, the bill for the APP
preparation of $4,000 for the much
NEEDED additional building at the Flor
ence Industrial school was passed.
Conditions generally at the school are
encouraging. Superintendent En-
mons reports SO boys, now under his
care, doing good work and bidding
fair to become capable men and use
full citizens.
The chairman of Civil Service Re-
form still finds much uphill work
falling to her share. Our women are
strangely slow to grasp the signifi-
canoe Of this committees endtavors,
and your executive a but urge that
our women set aside some portion: OF
their yearly programmes to study the
conditions of our penal elemosyn:ry
ind correctioal institutions, to learn
nore Of the economic and po'itica!
conditions under which they live to &C.
luaint themselves with the ord
nances regarding health and morality
If the communities Of which they an:
their childrne are a part, and thus
it themselves to deal more intelli-
GENTLY with the many civic problems
! affecting so keenly the home n
| family, and which could be readily
adjusted if merit and efficiency, in
| stead of political pull and personal
aggrandisement could become the
! controlling forces in community, state
! md national life!
Recommendations.
The S. C.. Federation OF Women's
| Clubs, to contribute from it's treas
ury, $500 to the General Fedora
| TONS endowment fund.
2. Federated Clubs to e~ndeaveor
to fix approximately uniform dates
for annual meetings and elections OF
cifCers
8. The sc. Federation Of Women's
| Clubs to strive to increase annually
| the number Of its scholarships at
| Winthrop, thus insuring to an over
increasing number of South Caro-
lima women the means OF a liberal
education and Independent livelihood.
4. Work for the medical inspection
bill to be energetically continued.
5. Chairman OF departments and
standing committees to communicate
frequently with federated clubs, en-
gagged in special work Of said depart
ment or committee, and %enedavor to
organize and bring into Federation
membership, all bodies of women sim
ilarly interested. .
Let US gain from this gathering,
too, a spirit of devotion and un-
selfishness; a desire for service, not
| glory; a yearning to give, rather
than a gaietaoin etaoin etaoin aoinn
than to gani.
Thus and thus only, will the Club
woman attain her true mission as
upbuilder and reformer.
Not for reward or recompense
must she labor. Hers must be the
loyalty that falters not; the love that
asks little in return, and a faith that
never questions, but endures.
And, in return, will come, a city
beautiful, which she may never see;
a better and a higher citizenship
which will arise and call her memory
blest! Amid civic righteousness will
ignorance, disease and sin be eclipsed
by enlightenment, healthier bodies,
sounder minds and cleaner souls, and
though the present workers will not
behold this, others will, who taking
up these tasks, will yet enlarge and