The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
Women's Auxiliary of South ern Commercial Congress
 Makes Presentation
WOMEN CAN HELP
 SOLVE PROBLEM
Women's Auxiliary Has Charge of Night Session---Many Women De- liver Addresses-Dr. Bowling
 of Louisiana Speaks

Muskogee, Okla. April ga.-ArSansas was awarded the flag of merit of Inc Women's Auxiliary of the southern Com mercial congress here tonight as being the state in the south that has accom- plished most toward civic improvement in the last year. The flag was held by Tennessee last year.
 Tn making the award Miss Louise q 1sindsley of Nashville. president 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 biz obstacle in the path of progress, she said
 For the first time since the opening of the convention the women's auxiliary conducted the night session. American Commission Report | American women can do much to help solve the problems of rural and town credit by observing the modes of Euro pean peasant women with regard to cloth- ing, according to an assertion of Mrs Marion Sherwood Lahman of Tulsa, okla Mrs. Lahman presented report of the American commission of which she was member. appointed last year hy gover- nors of the various states, and sanctioned {, by President Wilson to investigate agri- cultural conditions in Europe European women make their clothing for warmth and utility and of style that is as fixed as the laws of the Medes and the Persians, she said. This exam pie. if followed by my fashionable sisters. would be tremendous factor in the so- ution of many of our financial prob l lerns''
 Speaking of intensive farming in Eu- rope. Mrs Lahman pointed out that the part played by European women In work
 ing farm lands permits of a system of cultivation which our farmers cannot af- i ford.
 T doubt if the most ardent advocate of applying tne European plan to our country would urge Kansas, for instance, to double the number of her farm labor CTS in the same way she doubled her voters," she said.
 Miss Lindsley Speaks Miss Lindsley urged closer relations with South American nations in her am nual address, asserting it Is the duty of every state to compel the teaching of Spanish in the public schools. Mrs. B. A. Enloe of Nashville, pointed out that the greatest field in which women of today can labor Is in obtain 1 ing legislation along the lines of 1uve- nile reform"
 The practice carried on in some states of requiring erring children to I 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 R. Ransdell of Louisiana l before the congress earlier In the week, I preliminary steps were taken here to day toward the organization of an as- socation to promote the navigation or 1 the Arkansas river and a meeting to effect permanent organization was called to be held in Little Rock July 1.
 Throw off Ring Politician
 Cities of the United States must throw off the shaclSles of ring politics, an- l tiquated assessment systems, haphaz 2 ard budgets, employment of the un- trained and extravaganza" before mu- nicipal efficiency can be realized, &C., cordng to pr. Oscar Bowling, president of the Louisiana board of health and president of the Southern Medical as- sociation, who spoke before the South ern Commercial congress here today | Dr. Bowling spoke on Municipal Ef- 1 flciency in Relation to tile Health pro- 1 gramme." and asserted that there Is not | one municipality in the United States where sanitation and the health pro- gramme Is as comprehensive as it should be.
 l a ttfI Ia Il. l.. accomplished" he said there is no city to which the term efficient rightfully may be applied.
 | Experiments Of European cities | prove 1t Is remunerative for city to create sanitary environment to pro- l tect the individual from threatened dangers by observation, advice and treatment and to establish agencies for the promotion of mental and moral health. A programme of health may de velop parasitism in few but il is cer- | tain to bring good to the many None of these can be accomplished" :" l he concluded. until you have thrown off the municipal shacl<les which tie so many cities to inefficiency" Commercial Secretaries Talk | Several commercial 'secretaries dis cussed problems involved in municipal efficiency. A. N Shell of Charleston S e, pointed out that the south must | stop shipping it's raw materials to foreign nations and to the north and must learn to produce finished produofS through co-opera ton"
 "The south should manufacture it's raw materials in the factories of the south and sell the finished products in the markets of the south" he said 'This can be accomplished by the busi- ress men of every community combin- | ing and establishing small factories ! that will finish the product of the sur rounding district. Such CO., o-operatior be- tween the farmer and the city man would eliminate an enormous annual | loss to the south
 l Carl J. Baer of Little Rock, Ark. 1 said that a great step toward munic- | ipal efficiency is thoroughly organ ized. thoroughly equipped commercial l body.
 l "I mean a body through which net only the business man. but also every citizen of town can get a vision of ] the opportunity and problems of fia city We should begin in the schools to teach our children to boost their mu- 1 nicipalty."
 l Howard Strong of Minneapolis. | Minn., asserted that the promotion oi 1 leaders in civic life is the greatest stump in the real progress of cty. | The kitchen should not be made a
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