Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-15
ADOPTION Of CHILD
LABOR LAW URGED
At CLUB NEE TING
Women's Body Recommends
Change in State in Method
of State Registration

Passage Of resolutions urging the
enaction Of a more stringent cl21ld
labor law in Georgia, recommends
ing a change in the method of
registration in Georgia, undressing
the Peach Blossom festival at Fort
Valley and recognizing various other
constructive movements. featured
Thursday afternoon session of the
Georgia Federation of Women
clubs.
All the resolutions had been dis
cussed Wednesday, and their adop-
ton Thursday afternoon was IN ac-
cordance with previous Indications.
An attack on the Georgia assem-
bly, for it's failure to pass the Shep-
pard-Towner bill and The Childrens
Code commission bill, was embodied
in the report of the depart
ment of education, read Thursday
morning at the second days session
of the federations twenty-eighth
convention at the Atlanta Biltmore
hotel, by Mrs. FELTON, Jones, o.
Rome, state chairman.
Mrs. Jones report declared that
clubwomen have found that legis-
lators do not always trouble them
selves to find out the facts in bills
on which they VOTE The report set
forth the Sheppard-ToWner bill as a
specific example of this charge, and
declared that when one legislator
was approached in an effort to find
out why he did not support the bill
he "blushed and turned red and re
piled that he never did believe IN
these birth control bills anyhow.
Grass ignorance" was assigned
as the reason for this answer.
In discussing the children's code
bill, the report declared that its pas
sage was made impossible for a
peculiar and political reason" set
ting forth that j. was not reported
favorably by the house judiciary
committee, but instead was referred
to a special subjudiciary committee,
tn chairman of which was known
to be an opponent of the measure.
Road Program Approves
Endorsement of the pending pro-
gram of state highway development
was given in the report of the com
mittee on federal laws, Of which
Mrs Walter Purdom, is chairman.
"In legislation" said Mrs. Pur-
dom, "our motto 'Haive Faith in
Georgia. should be stressed more
than in any other field"
In a speech at the morning SEES
sion Mrs. Alonzo Richardson, state
director, praised the federation for
it's activity in persuading women to
go to the polls at the recent cleo
ton, declaring that the splendid CO.
operation of the federation lied the
! way to the fulfillment of the great
est duties of citizenhip."
Take back to your club the spirit
Of federation" said Mrs. Richard
son, the spirit of cooperation of
| the smallest club with the biggest
and of all clubs with the federated
organiza ton. Let us pass on to all
clubs the good that is done in any
one GLIB. In this way we will
fulfill our greatest duty.
Mrs. w. II. Griffin, chairman Of
the resolutions committee, an
nounced that d resolution had been
state holiday in celebration of the
birthday of Joel Chandler Harris,
Geor9ia's famous writer of negro
folk songs and Uncle Remus"
stories.
Mrs Wey then made the report
for the student aid foundation,
showing that $39 ,991.25 had been
loaned to 2S3 girls in the last fiji
teen wears One hundred and fifty
| five of the beneficiaries have re
turned the loans in full. she said,
and last year alone, $4,419 wa3 re-
/ turned to the fund.
words cannot tell what these
figures mean" said Mrs. Wey, the
real story lies outside the figures"
Letters From Women Read
She then read several letters
| from young women in various sec
lions of the United States express
ing appreciation for the help given
them by the foundation in obtaining
an education One of these letters,
from a young woman who was
made an orphan while very young
and bound out to service until she
was tWenty-one years old, said:
The clubwomen have rescued me
from a helpless and hopeless con-
dition and have done so in man
ner which enables me to keep sny
Self-rcSpeCt.'
The call for new loans is constant
and urgent" said Mrs. Wey, and
last year we were unable to grant
fortysiX applications. The impor-
lance of this work cannot be over
estimated because it IS one of the
greatest that the federation is do
ing"
Immediately after Mrs Wey's re-
port, Mrs. D. c. Ketchum, third dis
trict president, announced that the
report had so impressed the repre-
sentatives Of the Fitzgerald Wom-
ans club that that club had decided
to give 500 to the students aid
foundation. This announcement was
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