The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-12-03

are ero1gh clubs in our district to
east V make up a scholarshlpV hich
is 500. | think it would not
amount to more than four or five
dollars each club, surely We coult
contribute this much to the edu-
cation of one girl from our own
section.
While we are all heartily inte-
rested in the mountain work, for
surely it is needed, yet, let US not
f "get there are many IN the low
lands of Georgia who need the as
sistance. The district Vice Pres.
says she will interest the other
clubs in this movement and bring
it up for action at the next district
meeting.
The Students Aid Fund, anoth-
err excellent plan to aid the young
whose financial resources have
been exhausted is wise and bust
ness like. 1t is fund from which
loans are made for education and
as soon as the girl is self-support-
ing, the amount is paid back in
full and re loaned.
To this fund [ pledged five dor
lars, from our club. The movement
is young and needs more support
as there are many more applica
tions thar can be supplied. How
proud the Georgia Federation is
of their own school at Tallulab
Falls. and we'll we have reason to
be. The Georgia Federation is the
only one who own and maintain
their own school plant and it is
growing and charging every year
and is nearly self supporting now.
The Mass. Geo sCass station school
placed in our state by the Mass
Federation is prosperous and grow
ing and they had an excellent dis
play of canned fruitsand vegetables
the result of the good work OF
Miss Mary Creswell organizer OF
girls canning clubs. The motto
over the entrance of their booth
was, can equal training of head,
hand and heart.
The pictures of the white plague
and the plea from the Red Gross
seals committee awakened in all a
keener sense of their duty to aid
in the crusade against this dread
full desease. 1000 people died las
year in this state of tuberculosis.
The pictures at the Montgomery
theatre pictured true conditions
concerning the nature of the de-
sease and some of the worst but
true breeding places. The average
negro home, where sanitation is
not known is very good example.
How many housekeepers know
whether or not there may be a
case of tuberculosis in the home
where their clothes are taken every
week or but what their nurse girl
comes from such a home. Can we
not organize and work together to
better these conditions that con-
Germ US so closely.
We must not allow our state to
sacrifice her thousands of young
lives. let us also help in the sales
of the red cross seals. The money
thus raised will be devoted to anti
tuberculosis work in this state.
Each community will profit direct
| ly by it's contributions. They hope
to sell a million of these seals be-
fore the Dawn of Xmas.
Mrs. Nicklos Peterson of Triton,
gave quite an interesting talk on
the needs of south Georgia; while
she is heartily in sympathy with
the great work being done in the
mountains, still she says there is
plenty to be done in the rural dis
tricts of this section: She asks
every club woman to lend her in
fiuence toward compulsory educa-
tior. 1t is the only way to solve
the problems of the boys and girls
who cannot and will not attend
school This law is in force in