The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-30
HAS ACCOMPLISHED MORE IN LINES OF CIVIC IMPROVEMENT
 THAN ANY SOUTHERN STATE
NAVIGATE ARKANSAS RIVER
Movement Started at Southern Com mercial Congress Calls For Another Convention 10 Be Held at Little Rock in July to Further the Plans.

Muskogee. okla, April 29.-Arkan- sas was awarded the flag of merit of the women's auxiliary of the South ern Commercial Congress here to- night as being the state in the south that has accomplished most toward civic improvement in the last year. Tle flag was held by Tennessee last year
 In making the award. Miss Louise c. Lindsley of Nashville Tenn, presi- dent general of the women's auxiliary, pointed out the vast improvement made by Arkansas in rural schools, roads and sanitation. City women and country women in Arkansas are learning to cooperate in facing their problems and are thus removing big obstacle in the path of progress, she said.
 For tho first time since the opening of the convention the women's auxil- iary conducted the night session. American women can do much to help solve the problems of rural and town credit by observing the modes of European peasant women with re gard t0 clothing, according tn z r. a. serlion of Mrs. Marion SI<srwoop I.ahman of Tulsa, Olela Mrs. I.ah- man presented a report of the Ameri- can commission of which she was a member appointed last year by gov ernors of various states and aanc- toned by President Wilson. to inves- tigate agricultural conditions in Ea- | rope
 European women make their cloth ing for warmth and utility and of style that is as fixed as the laws of Medes and the Persians." she said This example if followed by my fashionable sisters, would be tre- mendous factor in the solution of many of our financial problems" {
 Speaking of intensive farming inl Europe, Mrs. llahman pointed gut that the part played by BuropeaB wo- men in working farm lands permits of a system of cultivation which our farmers cannot afford
 q doubt if the most ardent advo- cate of applying che EurOpean plan to our country would urge Kansas, for instance to double the number of her farm laborers in the same way shs doubled her voters" she said.
 Mrs. Lahman told in detail of the value of European community plants in doing the routine farm work
 Miss LindsIey urged closer rela- tions with South American nations in her annual address. asserting it is the duty of every state to compel the teaching of Spanish in the public schools.
 ''The Panama canal has given us the opportunity, we should seize it." she said
 Mrs. B. A. Enloe of Nashville. Tenn pointed out that "the greatest field in which women of today can labor is in obtaining legislation along the lines of juvenile reform.
 "Tae practice carried on in some states of requiring erring children to be dealt with in the same manner in which we deal with adult criminals is barbaric," she said.
 As an aftermath of the address of Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Louis. iana, before the congress earlier in the week, preliminary steps were taken here today toward the organ ization of an association to promote the navigation of the Arkansas river, and a meeting to effect a permanent organization was called to be held in Little Rock July I. Delegations rep recenting the commercial bodies of Tulsa, Little Rock, Fort Smith and MUs.kogee participated. Senator Rams dell pointed out that the river is navigable to Muskogee and should be used