The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-03

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Key West Woman's Club
Elects Officers Yesterday

being urged to Earn A Dollar
and to state how that dollar was
earned.
The days program was under
the auspices of the Department OF
Education, of which Mrs. NJ. E,
Berkowitz 81 chairman.
AS Governor Cone has declared
this week to be Florida State Col
lege for Women Week, the pro-
gram opened with talk By Mrs.
Addah Ramsey, an alumnae of the
college and member of the fac
ulty of the local high school. Mrs.
Ramsey emphasized the beauty of
the campus with its fine buildings
and particularly the new gymna-
SUM which houses one Of the fin
est college swimming pools in the
country. She called attention to
the funds now being raised for
the erection of a new alumnae
building, which is sorely needed,
and stated that the funds now col
lected will be matched, dollar for
dollar, by the state.
Hector Barroso, playing the
saxophone. and Allan Neil Rob
erts, the cornet, both members of
the high school orchestra, accom-
panied at the piano by Miss Edna
Smith, supervisor of music, pre-
sented .The Shepherds Dream"
by C. H. Taylor.
The program concluded with a
forum discussion of CCC camps.
Guest speaker was Capt. James G.
Fargo, the present acting officer
of the locacl CCC camp, which has
only recently been opened as a
convalescent camp.
Capt. Fargo has been in charge
of COG camps in various parts of
the country for three years. Mem
bers stated it was enlightening to
hear his experience and to learn
of the fine work these camps are
doing.
The three outstanding objec-
tives, according to Capt. Fargo,
are as follows:
First, to give jobs to boys on
relief;
Second, to enable said boys to
contribute to the support of their
families, as s25 of the monthly
pay of $50 is allotted to the FAM
lies;
Third, to perform a tremendous
of good to the country in
the way of demonstration, in help
ing to protect forests from fire,
and in teaching others how to
prevent forest fires, in building up
state and national parks, and in
preventing soil erosion.
In the camps where Capt. Far
go has been in charge there has
been no attempt at injecting milf
tary discipline or of turning these
camps into military training camps.
The only form OF drill required
was in the form of setting-up ex-
ercises, calisthenics, this being
given to build up the phys cal
health Of the boys, who for the
most part come from city streets.
The Key West lCCC camp is to
serve as a convalescent camp for
the Fourth Corps of which Gen.
Mosley is the commander. This
corps comprises the states of
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi,
Alabama and Florida. As the
camp has but recently been estab-
lished there are only a few con-
yalescents at the present time but
even in the short period that they
have been here in Key West they
are already showing marked inn
provement in their physical condi-
ton.
Capt. Fargo announced that he
would be Pleased to show visitors
through the camp any morning
between 10 and IL o'clock.
A social hour followed the pro-
gram, during which time tea was
served by the hospitality commit
tee of which Mrs. Norberg Thomp-
son is the chairman.