Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-01-19

Calls Upon Members Federation Wo-
men Clubs to Support Those Meas
ures Before Legislature in Which
This Organization is Interested.

This Organization is Interested.
Jackson, Miss, Jan. 15.--Mrs. isabel
Bratton Crisler, State Chairman Of
Legislation, M. f. w. c., has issued
an appeal to the club women Of Mis-
fsissippi to cooperate in securing
favorable legislation upon those
measures which they are advocating,
the two principal one being the edu-
cational bill and the protection home
for women.
The article of Mrs. Crisler presents
this matter in language, thought, and
feeling so much more effectively than
could be possibly done by any other
that is given to the people Of Missis-
sippi, just as it is written, and with
out comment, except to endorse same:
Dear Club Women of Mississippi:
This brings you a greeting from
your chairman of legislation--a fresh
appeal to your loyalty, to your state
to your love of your fellow beings.
Another call to arms for the fight
against that which is evil--and the
strong support of the cause that is
just and merciful.
The past legislature record of the
Federation of Women's Clubs is
worthy of review and must fill you
with pride and inspire you with cour-
ge to carry on These are the
works that must live after you:
The Child Labor Law.
The Enactment of the Injunction
and Abatement Act,
The Raising of the Age of Con-
sent,
Compulsory Education,
The Industrial School at Columbia
The Establishment of the Colony
for the Predetermined.
The Federation has also assisted in
all matters of public health legislation,
notably the sanatorium for the cure Of
tuberculosis.
The central committee has ordered
that the legislative program to be
pushed during the present session
of the legislature be confined to the
Educational Bill and Protective
Home for Women The first is being
so widely championed that there is
very little doubt of its safe passage.
The bill for the Protective Home for
Women has been all but written IN the
hearts blood of the women of Mis-
sissippi-so intense and oft repeated
is their cry for the relief of Innocent,
suffering ones the restoration OF the
womanhood so precious to the world
and the safeguarding. of the future
that must lessen in time the real hor-
rors of present conditions.
Your chairman would urge also
your earnest and sympathetic support
of the Child Welfare Bill.
A crisis has arisen in our legisla-
tive work that has dealt us blow.
Like bolt from the blue comes House
Bill No. 81 to repeal the law estab-
fishing the Colony for the Feeble
minded. 1t is of the utmost import
ance that you communicate at once
with your representatives.
Dear women, let us fight with all
the state pride that is in us to pre-
vent this backward step in the onward
march of the only progress that IS
ideal,-the progress in which we feel
an invisible leadership and yield
obedience to a Divine command.
Let us pray, that with the solemn
charge that is laid upon us we may
walk firmly, yet softly, act intel
ligently, and be reasonable in all
things, that we may do our woman's
work in the finest, most womanly way.
Faithfully yours,
ISABEL BRATTON CRISLER,
State Chairman of Legislation, M.
F. w. C.
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