The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14
Social Service and Educational Work of
 the Alabama Federation Of Wonens Clubs Eve of Annual Meeting aI Attention the nspinal Efforts
Social Service Department By MRS. SIDNEY NJ. ULLMAN

ventions, such as this, members have been able to take home the plan of establishing beautiful parks, high ways and cemeteries; they have throughout the state maintained social centers, night schools, vacation camps, equipped playgrounds, day nurseries, reading rooms and rest rooms. Better conditions have been secured in and around the school building, food has been inspected, and public buildings kept more inviting and sanitary.
 Scholarship Work
 Last year the federations inspira- tional and scholarship work did the fol- lowing:
 Libraries assisted, 23; school libraries established 4; scholarships maintained University l, high school IA, music 8, IS; rural schools helped, Il; kindegar- tens maintained, 3; pianos given, 1; pie lures to rural schools, 45 drinking fountains in schools, 1 ; playgrounds es- tabished, 1; park established, 1; junior leagues formed, 5.
 EXPENDITURES
 Education, S3,367.35; civics, sS734.S5; philanthropy, s412.15; total, $12.514.35. The following have not been estimated in figures: Books, pictures, magazines, flowers, fruit and clothing sent to mis- sion schools, hospitals, prisons and tu- berculosis camps, free dental inspection secured for public schools, matinee tickets given to educational plays, book and clothing given to put children in school, dolls dressed for empty stock ings, Red Cross seals sold, free lunch tickets supplied clerks for the week before Christmas, free lectures and recitals, park concerts, parks and play grounds beautified, literature on com pulsory education distributed, etc.
 This year will, 1t is believed, far ex- ceed the work of 1914, when the reports are made.
 After a venture of the federation is on it's own feet, this body of women turn their attention to new work. Many years ago the federation backed Mrs. R. D. Johnston in getting a boys industrial school started. She went before the legislature armed with 1900 names of clubwomen, signed to a petition and succeeded in getting a hearing and an appropriation. The clubs had up to that time supported and maintained the school For years the clubs maintained a system of pub lie libraries and only when a state library association was formed was it taken out of their hands.
 The 1914 Alabama School Improve ment association report has this to say
 
 in that movement: Through the tire less efforts of a few of the intellectual, persevering women of the state, with the cooperation of some true hearted teachers. this has become one of the greatest factors in the uplift of Ala bama girls and boys"
 Every county in Alabama was or ganized for this work until it became a state work and the federation's chair man became the state president of Alabama School Improvement associa- tion. In the last year, through the improvement association. s169,000 was spent on the schoolgrounds and build- ings in the state. This is just about as much money as the poll tax yielded through the whole state, and consider ably more than was turned in from this tax for school purposes. Forty scholarships, valued at $3602, were given, many of the girls becoming teachers in the Alabama schools. Hundreds of books have been collected and distributed throughout the state into rural districts. 1 Now with desire to foster new