Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
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GETS SOCIETY
GIRLS AID
Atlanta Young Women TO Be
Guides and Lecturers When
Biz Exhibition Comes Here,

y4rty Of Atlanta's leading society
arls will serve as guides and lectur-
ara during the display'o the Health
and CHILD Welfare exhibit Of the
RUSSELL Sage Foundation and the Ma
,io,al Child Welfare Exhibiting Com
r,,tree. which will be shown in At
Ior+a from November "a to Decem-
her 10, under the auspices of the
Associated Charities.
The exhibit is the same shown at
the National Conservation Exposition
In Knoxville recently, and is consid-
cred one of the largest and most
,omplete in the United States.
Joseph C. Logan, secretary of the
Charities, through whose efforts the
exhibit was obtained, has called
meeting of Atlanta women for Friday
afternoon in the First Baptist Church,
n complete the details of the exhibit
ton.
school OF instruction to train the
girls who will serve as guides during
the show probably will be started as
soon as Miss Ellen c. Rabbit, of the
RUSSELL Sage Foundation, who will
have charge Of the exhibit, arrives in
Atlanta 49,,
Mr.. Logan said Wednesday morn
ne that the guides will include
practically all of the seasons debu-
antes. They will be taught the
meaning of the charts and maps and
he models by Miss Babbitt, and they
have promised to be on duty every
dav to explain the exhibit to visitors.
Though it was mostly through Mr.
r.ogan's individual efforts that the
exhibit is to come to Atlanta, he has
he aid and Endorsement of virtually
every civic organization in Atlanta
in the movement, and prominent At
anta women have volunteered to help
TO the limit of their ability in making
the exhibit a success.
The Civic Federation of Women's
i Clubs was one of the first organiza-
i lions to get behind Mr.. Logan in the
move to bring the exhibit here, and
he organization has promised to in
4 Cerest, as far as possible, every wom-
an in the city.
Pupils to See Exhibit.
The Men and Religion Forward
Movement has also pledged its sup
port, and will endeavor to interest
The ministers of the city and the
churches in the display 1t is proba-
bic that a campaign of pulpit public
ny will be given the exhibit in the
nope Of attracting mothers to the
exhibit
Superintendent William Slaton of
the public schools is interested in the
exhibit, and will endeavor to evolve
a plan whereby every school boy and
girl in the city may see the exhibit
and hear the lectures by the guides
and by Miss Babbitt.
The exhibit is so large that prepa-
auOns have been begun for it's pack
ng and transportation to Atlanta.
There will be more than one thousand
apartments in the display.
The exhibit is primarily for the
purpose of training mothers along
ygienic lines, and instructing them
how to properly care for their chill
iren.
Charts and maps, prepared by eX-
9erts after a long study of child life,
VIII be shown and explained, depict
ne the life of the child from infancy
70 the stage where it is able to care
for itself.
The charts will show the rate of
ntant mortality all over the country,
he proper diet necessary to insure
he child against sickness and the
thousand and one things that all
mothers should know.