The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-11-25
Women to House
Clean" Florence
During Winter

10 De HOuSe-CledHiHs llIiS aAi WIN
ter long in Florence The women o
the town have rolled up their sleeves
tucked up their shirts, and seized new
brooms and dust-pans to sweep clear
for better health, cleaner streets anC
homes, civic development, and TO,
keener interest in the problems Of th'
future citizens Of Florence-the chill
dren.
The National League for Woman''
Service has begun its winter program
of work here. War work is over fo'
the women, and, therefore, this is 6
new program of service through which
the town and people will reap the ben
efits. To facilitate the carrying out
Of their plans, the League has di,
yided the town into four wards with
captain in charge of each ward
Working under the captain are lieu.
tenants and various committees who
are handling al the details in con-
nection with each undertaking.
Four separate committees in every
ward have been formed and that the
house-cleaners may search out all the
dark, dust accommodating corners of
Florence, the house-to-house canvass
method, a survival of the war, is be.
ing used to produce results. The
committees have been named the Com
mittee on Health, Committee on
Cleanliness, which has to do with a
campaign to keep premises, streets,
parks and public places clean; Com
mittee for the Development of the
City; and the Committee on Chill
dren. At the head of all this worlI
is Miss Jane Evans, South Carolina
Chairman of the League.
Perhaps the Committee on Health
has received the warmest welcome
from many busy mothers of Florence.
In each ward, this committee visits
periodically all the homes to give
suggestions to mothers in the care of
their families, to direct them to prop
err sources for medical treatment, to
bring physicians where they are need
ed, and to make the necessary fol-
low-up visits. Best Of all, however,
members of the committee frequent
ly take over the care of home for
an afternoon while the tired mother
rests.
"The various food and Liberty
Loan campaigns taught us the val.
ne of getting directly in touch with
our people" said Miss Evans, "and
through the ward organization we
are brought into contact with the
problems vexing the souls of Flor
ence. We are not waiting for the
report to come to US. The war gave
us our organization and the interest
of every woman here. We will not
let this interest die now. Our town
is not very large, but we have our
problems and the emergency develop
ed by the women during the war is
now being used to help solve these
problems"
Through the Committee for the
Development of the City, the women
are attempting to register their dis
approval of the erection of any prit
vate residences, in fact--which will
not add to the architectural beauty
Of Florence. A bord of judges con-
ssting of both men and women mako
up this committee and to them are
submitted designs and plans for build
ings.
The League, too, has joined hands
with Governor Cooper in his fight
against illiteracy, appropriating funds
to pay the salaries of five night school
teachers. This money was earned
through the Blue Bird Tea Room, be-
gun by the League during the war.
The women are continuing this en-
terprise to buy new brooms and to
pay the bill for housekeeping Flor
ence.