The Washington herald., 1912-11-17
F''The Educational Daughter of the South"
Founder of Southern In
dustriaI AssociationIs Is
Doing Big Humane
Work.
By JULIA CHANDLER MANI.

During the convention last week in this
city of United Daughters OF the Confed-
eracy delegates and members from every
State in this broad domain Of ours hailed
Mrs. Martha Gielow, OF Alabama. as
THE Educational Daughter Of the
South" a tribute which she has won
through a work 50 vital that its far
reaching value to the American nation
cannot be estimated until the seed she
has sown shall have produced their har-
vest which Is not yet, for the splendid
work Of the Southern Industrial Educa-
tIonal Association, of which Mrs. Gielow
Is the founder, viii not be completed un-
til It has carried education to the heart
OF the mountains, spreading enlighten-
ment and hope in the heart OF every
mountaineer OF the Southland. particu-
larIy the folk of the Southern Appalach-
aims. whose lives are spent remote from
the railroads, with the possibility of but
casual contact with the well-informed
world, to which we are so accustomed that
We value the blessings OF our own as
sociations and environment as a matter
of course and forget the men and women
and little children who are buried away
in the mountain Businesses without con-
tact with even q common civilization.
While Mrs. Gielow was among the first
to receive her charter membership TO the
u. d. c., and while she is an honorary
life member OF her home chapter at
Greensboro, Ala, and an honorary men,
ber of the Mary Mildred Sullivan Chapter
of New York. IT is for her work for the
educational uplift of the less fortunate
descendants of the Revolutionary or Con-
federate heroes that her name stands
pre-eminent in America
Author OF Famous Poem.
Under the red rosette as aide to Mrs.
Rosalle Bocock. Mrs. Gielow wears a
beautiful badge, the associate badge of
the veterans OF New York, presented to
her by the Confederate Camp of New
York in honor OF her famous poem THE
Confederates Farewell" dedicated to the
Confederate veterans OF the South, re-
cited by her at the'unveiling of the Con-
federate monument at Mount Hope Semi
nary. New York, and on many other oc-
casions when she has given dramatic re-
citals for the benefit of the Confederate
monuments
Mrs. Geilow has done splendid work
among the Daughters OF the Confederacy
in their effort to commemorate the cour-
age OF the South by building monuments
which shall keep in the minds of Ameri-
cans for all time the bravery with which
the men of Dixie gave their lives for their
cause. but all this pales besides her ef-
fort to conserve the splendid human
product OF the Appalachian Mountains
the people whose work Is lost to the ma
ton not because they lack aught in virtue.
pride or courage, but because their vast
energies have not been realized; their
worth to the world of humanity, their
place in the world of progress not suf-
ficiently considered until a woman's heart
wss wrung with grief by the pitiful hu-
man waste, and still more pitiful conse-
Quent human suffering and sacrifice.
The Greater Work.
II believe In building monuments to our
heroic dead" Mrs Geilow told me one
day last week when I talked to her about
the work Of the Southern Industrial Edu-
cational Association, but work to COM
memorate the bravery Of our Southern
dead should not overshadow work for
our living men and women who are to
take the place of those to whom we
build monuments
IF I could but show you the APPALLING
ignorance with its resultant effects upon
some OF the Appalachian folk there would