The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14

child. the federation will, this coming 1 year, undertake to further child wei
 fare work.
 New Juvenile Court Law
 l The enactment of the new juvenile
 laws makes Alabama take step much l in advance of any child welfare leg
 islation the state has ever known 1 The new law makes it possible for i any community which wishes to do so, l to establish a juvenile court and pro- l bation system, the same to be financed | by the county in which they are es- l tablished. Under the law, provision is also made for the establishment of
 an advisory board, whose duty shall be 1 to counsel and advise with the court i officials and assist in the most effec- | tual way to put the law into action, , linking the community with the board. i Women, as we'll as men, are eligible I to be appointed on the advisory board, i volunteer probate officers are ap-
 pointed with police authority. Tn small 1 counties the appointments are made by | the court on recommendation of the
 public or some agent such as a woman's
 club
 l Therefore, in order to keep the work out of politics and have it started properly the federation vii cooperate with Judge s. D. Murphey, and the
 child welfare committee of the Ala | hama Sociological congress.
 1 Through the president of the federal
 tion, Governor Henderson and Judge Murphey, request has been sent to | the children's bureau at Washington to | send to Alabama an expert. This person will visit such communities as will in vite him or her, to look over the field,
 and advise the best methods.
 | It is expected this trained worker | will be in Alabama several months. l Tndn ha 1ao6 6ar af Toe l Moody, the chairman of the civic com
 mittee, proclamation was isued by | the governor in the name of the federal 1 tion for general cleanup day. We quote the report issued by the depart ] ment of education some of the re
 suits of cleanup day, October 30, 1914: Mrs. R. L. Faucett, president of the l School Improvement association of Ala ! hama, rallied her state, county and To- 1 cal forces to an active support of the | movement, and the county superinten- 1 dents of education proclaimed holi- ] day and assumed active leadership in | the work of improving conditions of 1 the schools under their supervision. 1 AS a result of cleanup and school 1 improvement day, Alabama has a greater number of clean attractive and 1 convenient school buildings for her ] children. and fewer places of refuge l for bats and owls; her teachers and 1 school leaders have experienced the | first piece of practical result getting | team work; more communities were
 brought together in a common cause I at the school on that day than ever 1 before in the history of public educa- l tion in Alabama, and thousands of 1 children of the districts are more com l fortably housed, more conveniently pro- vided for, and consequently happier be- cause of the same. It was all accom- | plished at little cost. Time, service and loyalty were the result getting fac | tors" ~
 l Needless it Is to reiterate the neces- ] sity for woman's clubs, it Is recognized l they are among the greatest factors l for good any state can have: needless ]! it is to say that Alabama can be justly proud of her Federation of Women's l Clubs, and the outgrowth of splendid | activities it has to its credit; needless | to say that such a body of women will l be the mothers of sons and daughters well equipped to cary the fine work on
 further and further. for even greater
 and wider good. &