The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-17
Prominent Club Woman Tells
What F. F. w. C.. Stands For

a few things that we are interesting
ourselves in particularly, right now.
One of these is the moving pictures.
Don't leave the censoring of the
films to the National Association
You club women must do some of
this work yourselves. 1t is too i'm
portant to the morals of the child
rem of the country, to allow the
films to be shown, Unfortunately.
Unless a moving picture manage
! ment shows the proper kind of pic
lures, his house should not receive
your patronage. / do not believe in
boycotts, and / think every other
| effort should first be resorted to.
But if it is necessary, after a COM
mittee has called upon the moving
picture management and they do not
accede to the request to run the
proer kind of ictures, then the fed
Grafton does approve of it's members
boycotting these places. 1t is sell
dom, however, that the moving pic
ture men will refuse to raise the
standard of your threats, if you de-
mand it,
| Another think we are very vi
tally interested in just now is medi-
cal inspection in the public schools.
And compulsory education. In the
rural districts it is almost impos-
sible to impress upon the parents
that it is necessary that their chill
dren receive an education. 1t is
| criminal-oh, it is not fair-that
the children should have no chance
They must have a chance. And you
must help to give it to them.
For six years I worked on the
Social-Industrial conditions in this
state, as chairman of this depart
ment. And oh, I do assure you
there is a crying need for this work
Our work is two-fold. We have
to undermine-to do away with
much that is decadent in the struc
ture of thesocial fabric, and then W.
have to build up, strengthening
with scaffolding, until the new SUI
per-structure has been made perfect
This work is so needed in the state
but above all things, we want tt
avoid in our efforts anything tina
tends towards sensationalism.
Conservation is another thing il
which the women of the Federation
are interesting themselves. We ar
, planting tres and working for goo
roads.
Educational Hymn
THERE'S another thing I want t
ask you women of Pensacola to de
{ Teach your children to love the Ma
. tional airs. Teach them to sing tn
, National hymn. And to rise whe
] America is played.
b 81 want to tell you little inc
dent, if you will pardon me. 1t haI
e pened in a large, beautiful hotel, i
: Florida l was seated at table whe
o an orchestra began to play Amer
f ca. My first impulse was to rise
}, But looked about me, at the man
Y men gathered in that large room
: and not one rose to his feet. NJ
f one seemed to notice the strains {
1.-THE National anthem. was asian
d ed at my lack of courage, and I r.
. gret to say that / sat there, will
d out the courage of my conviction
O and did not rise, because / felt fol-
k ishly timid. But in a moment tt
t orchestra struck up the strains I
n Tipperary and those men not on
It burst into applause, but sang snatcl
n es of this song-cOme to us over Sc;
: from a foreign land, the marchir
r song of those soldiers engaged
e that unspeakable war-those me
y who did not notice their own nation
: al hymn, sang and applauded tn
e foreign war song. Oh, women
l. Pensacola, teach your children
: "holler" and shout with all the
hearts when they hear Dixie, al
teach them to rise and to appla,
1t when our National hymn is sung