Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-05
RESULTS COUNT
WOMANS CLUB IS
TOLD BY LEADER

'nbhANAty lie WOlHdu CluD OIL AmeTl-
Gus met in regular session for January
on Wednesday afternoon in the audi
forum of the Carnegie Library
Mrs. Chas. Council, the president,
occupied the chair for the first time
since her election, having been physi-
cally unable to attend the only other
meeting of the club year The greeting
10 the club from the chair, though so
long deferred was inspirational and
most happily delivered, and was in
part as follows:
Ladies: Since it has been my priv
ilege and pleasure to be chosen your
president, l am anxious to adopt as
our motto And by their fruits We
shall know them feel that no more
fitting words could be found. Results
only count, and the Woman's club
will be known by those things which
it accomplishes. We are banded to-
gether for the uplifting of the locality
in which we live, and if each individ-
ual labors faithfully, refuses to be-
come discouraged, considers others be-
fore self, keeps a cheerful heart, ana
remembers that God is in his heaven,
then she will realize that all will
no ri orb n ~ of
and team work be our guide
Il amt the guns nor armament,
Nor funds that they can pay,
But the close cooperation
That makes them win the day
1t amt the individual,
Nor the army as a whole,
But the everlasting team work,
Of every bloomin' SOUL"
Business matters of the club were
next considered. An appropriation of
$500 was made for the TalIulah Falls
school for mountain girls.
A general discussion was held as to
means of raising funds with which the
club may meet its various obligations
and demands.
An offer from Mrs. Frank Lanier of
her home to the Woman's club for a
benefit card and forty-two party was
accepted with expressions of appracia-
ton. Committees were appointed for
making the necessary arrangements,
Friday, Jan. 10, being decided on as the
date for the occasion, which assures
a most enjoyable afternoon to, all who
are present
In resuming our club work it SEEM
ed a peculiar and suspicious co-inci-
dence that the day should have fallen
with the first day of the first year in
the new era in the worlds history.
Peculiarly appropriate, too, seemed
the subject which fell to the days pro-
gram, Second Line Trench; The
School Room" Miss Sarah Cobb, hav-
ing charge of the subject made, as
only she could, an eloquent and feeling
plea that the club women carry on
and keep faith" with those who from
falling hands" threw the torch" and
that they bend every effort toward
bringing about a more appreciative
recognition of the fact that now the
school room is really the first line
trench where the battle is being fought
Tor the preservation and advancement
OF the very soul of civilization. She
called attention to the presence of the
enemy which is now or never before
likely to weaken these trench lines.
That enemy is the inadequate paw
which school teachers receive.
1t is very evident to all observers
that the higher salaries and wages of
the commercial world will deplete the
ranks of the teaching profession. and
that the brains and training needed
to preserve in our schools the highest
intellectual and moral standards will
be lacking, and that since every prom
Use and every hope for the future is
centered in the child it behooves us to
protect their interests.
Miss Annie Mclaughlin, relative to
the subject of schools, read a speech
of DIR. Stockton Axon, delivered last
summer to the Womans club, at
Athens, Ga.
Mrs. E. l.. Carswell read newspaper
clippings giving an account of Mr..
Wilson's European tour up to date.
Mrs. Frank Sheffield read current
articles from the Womans Club Mag
aZine.
Miss Melva Clark gave a vocal solo,
which was so sweetly rendered that
all felt it would, indeed, have been a
misfortune not to have had her pres