The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-05-13
BUSINESS AND RESIDENCE SEC
TONS OF CITY TO BE THOR.
ouGHlY cANvASsED.
DR.. LEATHERS SPEAKS
ON PREVENTING DISEASE
state Director OF Public Health Says
This is Great Field Of Charity-In-
vltes Cooperation of Board in Work
OF Sanitation And Health.

Every section of the city-business
houses, offices and residences, will be
canvassed within the next few weeks
for funds for the Associated Chari-
ties.
At we'll attended meeting of the |
charities workers at the Commercial
Club last night motion was unan-
imously carried to have a committee
of six women for each ward in the city
and a committee of business men for
the business section to solicit every
man and woman in Hattiesburg for
this association
The committee of business men ap-
pointed is H. A. Camp, chairman; B.
NJ. Foster A. d. Draughan, DR.. J. J.
Stevens and DR.. c. c. Hightower
Two Separate Funds.
This committee will begin work
within the next day or two and win
canvas for two separate funds. One
will be for membership to the chari
ties board and S. per annum will be
asked for all who subscribe to main.
tain the office expenses of the. asso-
citation.
This money will be kept entirely
separate from the fund to be used in
the actual charity work, and monthly
contributions of any amount whatever
will be asked for this fund Contribu-
tions may be made to either or both
funds, but they will be kept separate.
The committee of women who are
to canvass the residential portion OF
the city has not been selected but Will
be as soon as possible. By dividing
the city into wards, the leaders in the
movement expect that it will be pos
sible to reach practically every woman
in Hattiesburg and many Of those
present last night believe the women
of Hattiesburg will contribute just as
literally as the men to this cause.
Dr.. Leathers' Address.
Those present last night heard an
interesting address by DR.. w. S.
Leathers, state director of public
health, who impressed upon his audi
ence the idea that the standard for
health, growth and development of
the human animal should be no lower
a
urged upon the Associated Charities
the need of planning constructive
work as the most efficient means OF
carrying out the purposes Of that or
ganization. He cited the experience
of Greenville, Miss. as one city in this
state where the president of the AS
sociated Charities, Rabbi Sternberg,
who had seven years experience In
the city Of London, England, as set
tlement worker" has so organized the
benevolence of Greenville that the So
ciety is able to keep a visiting nurse
constantly employed whose duty is to
visit the homes of every applicant for
help. and advise such changes as Will
tend to remove the cause OF pau
perism.
DIR. Leathers suggested that Hatties'
burg is amply large to support such a
service. He claims this is the most
effective way to relieve pauperism
Dr. Leathers said the Board OF
Health campaign has proven SO ef-
fective that today Mississippi is reia-
lively the best screened" state in the
South.
4 "This does not mean," he said that
\ there is to be any let-up in the aggres-
3sive methods adopted by the board
0several years ago" He invited the Co
of the board of charities and
4 Maid that it is gratifying to note tne
tTgeneral cooperation among the peop'e
II for a better state through improved
yAhealth conditions.