The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-01-23
WOMEN'S.CLUB
FAV0RS LIBRARY
p E sou TtoNs ADOPTED AT
FARMERS SHORT COURSE
YESTERDAY.
Interesting Topics Discussed at Meet
INC Held In Bethany and
Prominent Persons Spoke

The WOmsn's Section OF the Farm
ers' Short Course continued an inter
esting session yesterday al Bethany.
beginning at II 30 a. m The matter
OF passing resolutions favoring the
passage OF a library commission.
The resolution IL as followz:
| Resolved that the Women's Section
OF the Farmers Short Course assem-
bled at Bethany College. W. Va. Janu-
AIRY 10. 1915. hereby endorse the idea
Of free library service for the state of
West Virginia embodied in a bill pre-
scented to the present legislature OF
the said state. but recommend the ap-
pointment by the Governor OF a dis
tinct Library Commission. whose sole
duty shall be the promotion OF library
efficiency throughout the state,
Resolved. that AT least one woman
be chosen from list OF three names
furnished by State Federation OF wo-
mans Clubs.
Resolved. that copies Of this resolu-
ton be sent TO Senator Parrish. and
senators and delegates % this district
I Resolved. that a letter OF criticism
and suggestion accompany these reso-
lutions
( After this. a paper on The Power
OF ORGANIZATION Among Farm Women"
was read by Mrs. Dorothy Heryey
kean of Franklin district.
Miss Beecroft. "a trained nurse. who,
at the time OF the Spanish-American
war. went to the Philippines as a Red
Cross nurse and after returning home.
she became superintendent of a
Nurses Training School in Indiana
Her home is now at West Alexander.
Pa. Miss Beecroft divided her lecture
into two parts. First-Personal Hy-
giene: second-care OF ID case OF pneu-
monia.
Mr.. Frame. State Leader OF Farm.
ers' Demonstration Work. spoke on the
Organization OF women in the various
communities and the necessity of
choosing some certain phase OF work
in that certain community.
Miss Dayo. of the Domestic Science
/ Department at West Liberty State
Normal school, gave in brief the
things that the cities had had to con
tend with along this line and spoke OF
THE necessity of caring for the springs
and wells in the country
One of the most important commit
tees appointed by the Council of
Health and Public Instruction of the
American Medical Association is that
| OF cooperation with the National Edu-
cational association.
| DIR. Wood of Columbia University.
I gives a few specific instances in proof
/ OF the general proposition that the
country school child is from 49, to
| zoo more defective than the city
child. For instance. a comparison of
the children of Orange county, Va,
! with those of New York City shows
that with all the surroundings and dis
advantages OF city life the number of
New York City school children with
lung trouble amounts to only a trac-
ton of e.. while 3.79t of all the child
Iren In Orange county, Va suffer from
some affection OF the lungs.
IL was owing to a knowledge of
these facts as given by a woman OF the
: West Va State Board of Health. that
lead TO Miss Ross. visiting nurse of
the public schools of Wheeling. being
invited to speak before the women at
the Bethany Short Course Miss Ross
gave many examples from her own ex-
perience of where the visiting nurse in
the city schools had been able TO &C
lcomplish many excellent results.
In the township OF Walpole. Vt.
there has been a rural visiting nurse
for ten years and the same idea il be
| ing worked in one of the southern