Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-09
State Federation
Presidents
Letter Calls
Attention To
October Meeting

October Meeting
Raymond, Miss, Sept. Elm a
letter released for publication this
week, Mrs. G. w. Williams, lPresi-
dent of the State Federation of
Colored Women's Clubs calls atten-
ton to the October State Meeting.
The Presidents letter, follows: :.
1t is with the most profound
pleasure l take time out to chat
with my Mississippi State Fedora
ton Club ladies and interested
friends. Having just returned from
our twenty Biennial Ses-
sion of the National Association of
Colored Women's Clubs in Atlantic
City, N. J. the delegates and | are
filled with enthusiasm and zeal to
do more in achieving the full mean
ing OF the theme: Achieving Our
Goals" which was so beautifully
portrayed at the National. We are
hoping you are making all plans
to be present at our Annual State
meeting in Clarksdale, Miss, Oc-
tober 26 and q. Echoes of the Ma
tional will be given. | want to
congratulate you for the fine pro-
gram of work you are endeavoring
to put over and the full coopera-
ton you have given me across
these months l have endeavored to
serve you in my small way. | es-
pecially want to thank and express
my appreciation to our very fine
loyal past presidents that have
stood solidly behind my every
move. | also want to express our
appreciation for the very fine in
terest you have manifested from
time to time in us and our school
here. That has definitely helped
US to carry on. Because we have
problems after problems. One can
not safely think of this school as a
separate entity. The problems with
which it deals is national in its
scope and its significance.
The entire country as never be-
fore in its history, is concerned
with the problem of juvenile delin-
quency, and is seeking ways of pre-
venting it if possible, and dealing
with it more effectively when it
occurs. The juvenile delinquent of
today is the mal-adjusted adult.
perhaps the criminal of tomorrow.
unless he is dealt with wisely.
Those who are in now, are faced
with troubled significant task of
preparing them to meet the in
creased stresses and strains.
We are trying to get our boys to
demonstrate their usefulness so
convincingly, that the public, legis-
lators and officials who control the
purse strings will realize what
dividends more adequate invest
ment would pay.
1t is well-worn truism, that the |
prime essentials for a training
school, or for any other institu-
ton concerned with the training
and treatment of human beings. are
personnel, plant and program. The
most important of these is person.
nel-Plants, buildings, ground and
equipment are compared to a car
penter shop, and it's tools. He has
plan. 1t should be accurate, and
the pattern essential. But the skill
and wisdom of the worker. his de-
votion to his task, and his desire to
see a sound and well finished pro-
duct grow under his hands. are all
important when the material with
which ne works is boy or girl in
the formative years of childhood
and adolescence. If tools are lack
ing, if parts of pattern are missing,
or if it is not suited to the ma
terial with which one is working.
the problem will not come up to
specification. If the workman is
poorly trained, inexperienced and
verify most of them are, because
this work is new, if he is indiffer-
ent and doesn't believe that any
thing worth while can be made of
the material given him If will no t
almost impossible to turn out any
thing but inferior product. This is
true when working with cloth or
wood, it is doubly true when one
is working in the delicate and
changing materials that make up
growing boy or girl.
Mississippi State Federation of |
Colored Women's Clubs has for