The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-04-11
SOUTHERN CONFERENCE TO
MEET WITH SOPHIE NEWCOMER

MEET WITH SOPHIE NEWCOMBE
In the Southern states there are
something like sixm illion5 of women
twenty-one years and over, and ten
million girls between the ages of five
and twenty-four, all of Anglo-Celt
origin. Of these the 1910 census re-
ports less than one hundred and fifty
thousand as wage earners. Subtract
ing still further the number who must
toll from morning into the night in
the dfudgeries of the home without
leisure for recreation or culture we
have left immense unused power.
How to teach the millions of hands
idle through millions of hours to turn
our waste materials into things of
beauty and value is the inspiring task
which the conference of Southern.
women is undertaking. The conference
is calling a council of all the forces
of organized womanhood to meet in
New Orleans April 1920 to determine
first of all the industries that can be
successfully cultivated in every home.
The next question will be how to
bring the necessary training within
the reach of all.
The conference is beginning with
our "pine-needles," our fibres, our
clays, our woods and metals and is
working out plan for the systematic
and united effort for tours of experts
who win teach groups at different
centers on and on until the woman
hood of the entire South is given an
opportunity to learn how to make use
full and saleabIe things out Of mate
rails going to waste around our doors.
AS a starting point, the following
program has been arranged for New
Orleans:
The Industries Peculiarly Suited
for Girls and Women in The South
ern States, introduction by Mrs. e. J..
Willingham, Macon, Ca, chairman of
the committee on industries for
women, followed by Weaving and
Basketry, Mrs. Gretchen NJ. Bayne,
West Raleigh, N. G.
Pine Needle Industry for the South,
Mrs. Jacques Busbee, Raleigh, N. G.
Pottery Making Showing how the
art can be developed through the
schools and through local clubs), Miss
Mary P. Sheerer, New Orleans, La.
Wood and Metal Work as House.
hold Industries, Miss Mary Frances
Wickliffe, Rock Hill, s. C.
Nut Growing Industry 1.-THE posi-
bilities of nut growing for women),
Mrs. E. j. Willingham, Macon, Ga.
Poultry Husbandry and Horticul-
ture, Miss Majorie Lambert, Milledge-
vile, Ga.
The Possibilities and Effect of
Women Cooperating in Agricultural
Pursuits, Mrs. G. n. Mathis, Gadsden,
Ala.
The conference meets with the So
phie Newcombe college for women,
where the women win have demon
strations In the making of the pottery
which has given Neweombe wide re-
nown. The conference viii see q
Southern girl with bit of clay coin
ing time and skill into wealth, wealth
of beauty as well as actual cash. II
will be a further revelation to see
how Newcombe is developing the pc
culiar genius of the Southern giri
into productive power along various
lines, all of which will be vital serv-
ice in the movement for wealth-pro-
ducing industries for the millions OF
hands now idle throughout the South
Another purpose of the New Or
leans conference is to get at the
means for bringing about the co,
operation of the forces of organized
womanhood in the development o1
community life as q whole. How com.
munity building is being done through
the school Improvement association
through the canning club, through
homework, will be set forth by womeI
from the thick of the struggle.
MEETING OF THE
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