Woman's enterprise., 1921-08-19

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FAVORS A GREATER FEMALE
| COLLEGE.
Baton Rouge La, Aug. II, 1921
Miss Matte McGrath, Editor Woman's
Enterprise, Baton Rouge, La.
Dear Miss McGrath:
1gladly avail myself of your invita-
tion to contribute a thought to your
new enterprise.
First. I congratulate the women Of
Baton Rouge. upon finding so ex-
perienced and competent an advocate
and leader as yourself to direct and
manage their new journal.
The public services and activities Of
women have become so numerous and
| far-reachine. so potent and all-per-
! vading in the economy Of our modern
civilization that broad field has been
opened for a strictly woman's journal,
making it even a necessitv and your
wide experience in business and iourn-
alism and your lifelong devotion to
public service combine to equip you
for this new field Of service uneoualled
bv any other woman in this section.
You ask what. in my opinion, is the
first and most important work that
Louisiana womenin general and their
journal in particular can address
themselves to.
would say. unhesitatingly, the es-
tablishment Of great state literary
college Of high grade and advanced
curriculum for girls and young wom-
en-. I use the word literary in con-
tradistinction to technical institu-
tion. and I would restrict it entirely to
| females.
The files Of the old Advocate when
I was it's editor and you and I were
co-workers in the journalistic field
will show that advocated and urged
the establishment of such an institu-
tion here at the state Capital, in sea.
son and out Of season, many years
ago.
It is not desirable here, and it would
be bootless task to discuss the ques-
ton of co-education. I confess to BE-
ing bit old-fashioned and antide-
luvian in nv ideas about quite few
questions that seem settled and fixed
bv modern thought and policy.
make bold to say this much. however.
| Nv observation and exnerience con-
firm me in the conviction that it is
wisest an safest for all concerned
| that co-education be limited to chill
dren of tender years and boys and
girls who have reached the age Of
sound discretion.
The most advanced protagonist Of
co-education will admit that with
equal facilities and opportunities it
will not injure either sex nor dis
count either the amount or quality Of
education received bv either, if they
be schooled apart with complete segre-
cation Of the sexes.
It then becomes a question of mon
ey and suitable college facilities. The
wealth Of our state is multiplying as
the years advance. From an alimony
Of few hundred thousand under
Governor Foster, little, over two
decades ago, vesnow are to have a
golden stream flowing into our state
Golfers running into many millions
annually. s''
The states first duty is to educate
her boys and girls and educate them
properly.
We are to have the greatest
agricultural, mechanical and mill
tary college in the south. Let the
good women join together and cause
to be established here the greatest fe-
male college in the south. They can
do it, if they will. Where? Upon the
unsurpassed, magnificent, grand and
beautiful site presently occupied by
L. S. U. The fates and the powers
that be seem to have determined
that either by the process of a slow,
lingering death or a "coupe de graco",
the present site is to 60, as the domi-
cile Of L. s. U.