St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-05-16
COVlNGTON'S BOARD OF HEALTH
RECEIVES HIGH PRAISE
FOR IT'S WORK.
DELEGATES CHOSEN TO
FORESTRY CONVENTION
Remarks as to the Doings of the Con-
ventiOn Of Federated SOcie.
ties in New Orleans.

1t a meeting CT the Women's Pro-
gress.ve Union held Monday evening g
I..any expression Cf apprec alton wera
heard for the work Of the Board of
Health and the reaCy and prompt
response of the merchants aGl pep
gle IN general to it's demands. The
secretary was ordered to send let
te- to tn s eHect to tn. iJCa.u
4 letter WAS read from Secret Dry
r'untA.-y acknowledg rs receipt Of
te.4g.an TO President Wilson pro-
tta.lus against the Slight 70 New Cr-
leans i. the placing of regional
LaGke.
Mrs. Bodebenacr, pres dent, called
tor delegates for the Cot LventiOn on
Forestry to be leld N Bogal:,:;a Gu
May Ii and Is, Mrs. e. y. Warren
and Mrs. j. B. Wortham were naEl-
ed. and will probably represent the
lin On's interest in this important
matter.
The president then called on Mrs
JOS. Schuyler for report of the Fed
Grafton OF Womens Clubs. held last
week IN New Orleans, in the Gold
Room Of the Grunewali Hotel. 1t
follows in full:
Council Meeting Of Federated Socie-
ties.
At the council meeting on Tues
day afternoon was presented differ
ent matters that the clubs could best
bring before the Legislature. Mrs.
BRbfn, Of Baton Rouge, mentioned
compulsory education, minimum
wage law and ch Id labor laws. Mrs.
hn<
of our greatest needs was home
for INDECENT tuburcular patients in
the last stage. He suggestion was
applauded. Then arose discussion
on suffrage. some c ty members try
ing to make that the issue of the
meeting. Ladies from the country
clubs, almost as a body, protested
that while they were personally for
suffrage, It was not the time to sug
gest t as the members were not
unan mously for It and they had not
been instructed how to vote on the
Apsstion. Our president said from
fha floDT that, as our members were
divided on the subject, we could not
vote.
Mrs. Dunbar, lady from Victoria,
Australia, visitor at the hotel ask
ed for admission. The president
Mrs. Douglas, invited her to the plat
form and asked her to speak on what
the women were doing in her coun-
Try. She said that she was presi-
dent sf the Elsternwick Club of Vic
torin q branch of the National Po-
litical Club, ~h.eh had membership
Of $1,000 women. That women had
voted N some parts of Austral
since 1900, but on'y recently in V c.
tOr!a. Women do no. seem to have
any desire for Office, but wherever
.they yeted in Australia have made
themselves felt as power for good.
Mrs. CoHg'as asae a talk on the
amount of work an officer had to do
and asked for a paid stenographer
to report the meetings.
Tuesday night was the official open
ing of the sessions. Mayor Behrman
and several others made addresses
of welcome, answered by Mrs. Henry
Of Monroe, on behalf of the visiting
clubs. Col. Isaac D. Wall of Baton
Rpuge, spoke on juven lie court laws;
now to make them effective in the |
parishes.
State superintendent Harris spoke !
against twelve-months term and |
advocated compulsory education by |
wards or districts, at the option of !
the voters of those districts.
Mr.. L. E. Bentley gave general |
talk.
"Wednesday morning Mrs. Wilkin- |
son read the preamble for new con- |
stitut on, which was talked over pro |
and con and voted on N the after |
noon. which took all the time. We'd |
nesday night was presidents night. |
The presidents were invited to the |
platform and they made beautiful |
tableau-evening dresses and BAN
ners with the surrounds of howers
and palms. Each one made a 2
minute talk on the greatest need for
their club. Our members from Gov
1ngton were not n the background.
Our president was applauded both
on arising to speak and after she
had made her speech, in which she
asked for the help of other clubs
in getting the film houses to put out t
special programs for children, and
for help in saving the young trees
from fire, especially the pine trees.
Mrs Burns, for the School League,
made a good speech on education.
and told how we had carried the tax Il
for our $4,000 school bu aiding by
our women's influence and vote. She
asked for compulsory education.
There were some presidents who