Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-09
''SERVICE" BUTTON.
PLAN LAUNCHED
BY CLUB WOMEN.

A small button of white enamel;
SERVICE"
Wherever you see it, you know you
can approach the wearer-man or
woman, cid or young-assured that
they will answer you with kindness.
will do for you whatever they can,
because they have pledged them
selves to the high ideals embraced
by the word on the button.
That, briefly, is the genesis of the
movement launched by Mrs. Charles
P. Byrd, of Atlanta, through the
Georgia State Federation of Wom-
ans clubs at it's convention last
week.
ton, whereby the service buttons
Will be awarded at service meetings
to be conducted by women through
out the state, the buttons to be given
those who are willing to pledge
themselves voluntarily to the high
est locals Of service.
Inc movement is the first concrete
efort to preserve in a tangible form
that philosophical, sacrificial spir-
1t or help and kindness that swept
over America in the world war.
Mothered by the Woman's clubs Of
L..
make, it an all-Georgia movement,
ana later to omake ii a national
movement, so that service buttons
VIII be wcr1 the length and breadth
of the land
The service buttons vii. cot he
limited to members of women's clubs
Ihey Will not be limited t. any wom-
al. Men and boys, girls as we'll as
thelr mothers, can wear the but
TONS, provided they will make to
themselves the sincere pledge of
service.
=, The nuttcns cannot rs bought.
They will be awarded only when the
applicant proves to the buttons
sponsors that >he or she has made
the pledge of service
me butto1s-in reality. the spirit
burning, the 1dealism and helpful
heart of America as it was shown
during the war. but should prove a
wholesome, wonderful Influence in
guiding individuals and the nation as
a Who!7 through the unsettled days
While plans for distribution of the
button are not yet perfected, it is
hoped to finance the plan through
the individual woman's clubs. The
buttons, when bought in bulk, will
apiece. Once distribution starts, it
is hoped the day will soon come
when the man or woman who does
not wear service button will be a
rarity, and when every wearer of
a button will practice the spirit of
service for which the button stands.
The purpose of service buttons
couli not be better set forth than
in the resolution adopted by the
state convention. 1t follows:
whereas, we have just emerged
from great world war. in which
the divine principle of service has
received new baptism on the field
OF battle, and desiring to foster and
preserve the ideals which actuated
our brave soldiers in their struggle
to make this better world, as well
as to cultivate the same spirit of
VIII do to promote the worlds hap
plness: and realizing that the present
conditions of unrest and dissatisfied
ton demand a remedy, and knowing
that in beautiful emblem there is
constantly kept before us a visible
we stand. and for which they suf-
fered and died.
'Th erefore, be it resolved by the
Georgia Federation of Woman's
clubs. in annual convention assem-.
bled, That we do ordaia, sanction.
and, adopt Service button, to be
made of white enamel with the word
Service" stamped in gold letters.
said emblem to be awarded at service
meetings to be conducted by women
under the auspices of local clubs,
and to be worn by such recipients as
are w ling voluntarily to pledge
themselves to service in the spirit
set forth in this resolution; and that
al observance of this resolution be
solemnly requested of the various
clubs throughout the state, to the
end that love may continue, that
bonds of friendship may be cemented,
harmonized, for the welfare of So
cclety and for the uplift of human