Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
WELFARE SHO v.
Gets SOCIETY
GIRLS AID
Atlanta Young Women To Be
Guides and Lecturers When
Big Exhibition Comes Here. /

Fifry of Atlanta's leading society
,irs will serve as guides and lectur-
.rs during the display the Health
Nd Child Welfare exhibit of the
pnssell Sage Foundation and the Ma
+oral Child Welfare Exhibiting Com
nfttee which will be shown in At
iorta from November "a to Decem-
,er 10 under the auspices of the
associated Charities.
The exhibit is the same shown at
be National Conservation Exposition
/ IN Knoxville recently, and Is consid-
cred one of the largest and most
complete in the United States.
Joseph C. Logan, secretary of the
Erbarities. through whose efforts the
eybibit was obtained, has called a
meeting of Atlanta women for Friday
afternoon in the First Baptist Church,
10 complete the details of the exhibit
1 4 school of instruction to train the
\ pirls who will serve as guides during
I fhe show probably will be started as
! soon as Miss Ellen C. Babbitt, of the
5Russer Sage Foundation, who will
fbaye charge of the exhibit, arrives in
Atlanta
Women Promise Aid.
Mr.. Logan said Wednesday morn
sng that the guides will include
Specifically all of the seasons debu-
Eantes. They will be taught the
meaning of the charts and maps and
zbe models by Miss Babbitt, and they
have promised to be on duty every
Nav to explain the exhibit to visitors.
Though it was mostly through Mr..
Il ogan's individual efforts that the
Exhibit is to come to Atlanta, he has
HE aid and Endorsement of virtually
livery civic organization in Atlanta
In the movement, and prominent At
#anta women have volunteered to help
H. the limit of their ability in making
s the exhibit a success.
The Civic Federation of Women's
f7lubs was one of the first organiZa-
lions to get behind Mr.. Logan in the
&nove to bring the exhibit here, and
& the organization has promised to in
#erest as far as possible, every wom-
an in the city.
Pupils to See Exhibit.
& The Men and Religion Forward
&Iovement has also pledged It's sup
bort, and will endeavor to interest
Hhe ministers of the city and the
*thurches in the display. 1t is proba-
b lie that a campaign of pulpit public
y ty will be given the exhibit in the
hope of attracting mothers to the
Exhibit
81 Superintendent William Slaton Of
he public schools is interested in the
Exhibit, and will endeavor to evolve
4 plan whereby every school boy and
#irl in the city may see the exhibit
#nd hear the lectures by the guides
#nd by Miss Rabbit.
n The exhibit is so large that prepa-
Nations have been begun for its pack
&ng and transportation TO Atlanta.
here will be more than one thousand
departments in the display.
The exhibit is primarily for the
8urpose of training mothers along
#ygienic lines, and .instructing them
now to properly care for their chill
%ren.
Charts and maps, prepared by ex-
Serts after a long study of child life,
&Rill be shown and explained, depict
ing the life Of the child from infancy
70 the stage where 1t is able to care
#Or itself.
n The charts will show the rate of
#nfant mortality all over the country,
he proper diet necessary to insure
he child against sickness and the
thousand and one things that all
¬hers should know