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THE BANNER, 8UNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1916.
FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS
Eighth District of Georgia
OFFICERS:
MRS. S. B. YOW, LA VON I A, PRESIDENT.
MRS. J. Z. HOKE, ATHENS, VICE PRESIDENT.
MISS LUCY ROBERTS.LAVONIA, SECRETARY.
The Press 'Bulletins.
The following are extracts taken
from the Press Bulletin of the Gen
eral Federation of Women’s Clubs.
These bulletins, and the monthly let
ters of Mrs. Pennypacker are medi
ums through which much information
and inspiration can be gained by in
dividual club members, as well as our
clubs as a whole:
Board Meeting.
The Board of Directors of the Gen
eral Federation of Women’s Clubs
will meet at the Chamberlain Hotel.
Old Point Comfort. Va.. January 10.
This will bevan important meeting, it
being the first since the one at Port
land, Ore., immediately following the
Council in June, and the last before
the New York Biennial. A full at
tendance is confidently anticipated,
and every phase of General Federa
tion activities will receive careful at
tention.
Ohio’s New President.
Mrs. George Zimmerman, chairman
of the Civics Department of the Gen
eral Federation, is the newly elected
president of tiie Ohio Federation of
Women’s Clubs, succeeding Miss An
na Johnson.
New Directory.
The new directory of the General
Federation, compiled by Mrs. Mary I.
Wood, manager of the Bureau of-In
formation, has recently been issued.
The form is more convepient, and it
is much more complete than any
heretofore published. Copies may be
had by applying to Mrs. Wood at
Portsmouth, >N. H., at 50 cents each.
Every committee member in General
and State Federations ought to have
one.
Baby-Week.
Clubs are reminded that the great
Baby-Week of March 4-11, 194.6, is
•under the direction of the Children's
Bureau and the three departments of
the Genera! Federation—Civics, Home
economics and Public Health. They
call upon every club woman to help
make this a success. Write to “The
Children’s Bureau, Washington, D.
C.. attention of Mrs. Goodwin,’’ for
full particulars. The time is drawing
near. Remember the babies.
GREEN & MICHAEL
417-421 SOUTHERN MUTUAL BUILDING
LOAN DEPARTMENT
We have money to loan on real estate security in any amounts
desired at 6, 7 or 8 per cent Interest. Kate of interest determined
by amount of loan and character of security.
A limited amount of 6 per cent money to be repaid in monthly
Installments.
Apply In person or by letter.
BROKEN AUTOMOBILES
AND
Machine Parts*
Repaired by ACETYLENE WELDING PROCESS
We have the most complete equipment in the South.
Work called for and delivered.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
S AS NETT & YOW
133 W. Clayton St. Phone 531 Athens, Ga.
ORR’S SCHOOL
SPRING TERM BEGINS JANUARY 3, 1916
No deductions for absence, unless providential and protracted for
at least one-fourth of a month.
1 will teach in the Athens Business College in the afternoon.
S. P. ORR, 182 Wray St., Athens, Ga.
Important Subjects.
The attention of club women every
where Is called to the following four
subjects, which are all urged to con
sider very carefuly during the next
few months:
1. The School Manse. This means
suitable homes for rural school teach
ers, with the advent of which it ia
believed the highest type of teacher
will be attracted to country districts
and the school manse will become a
civic as well as an educational center.
The Appeal to Youth. This is
another of Mrs. Penny-backer's favor
ite pleas, for she knows that if the
work of the Federation is to be kept
up to its present high standard there
must be fresh recruits from those
who wear the “rose of youth’’ upon
them. ,>
3. The Club Woman’s Duty to the
Immigrant. This subject is especial
ly timely now in view of the grave
situation that must follow the Euro
pean war, when million^ oi widows
and orphans, as well as of weakened,
diseased and crippled men. will doubt
less turn their faces towards our
shores. What is to be done with
these people, is a question calling for
earnest consideration on the part of
all club women.
4. Individual Responsibility. The
General Federation and State Federa
tions are made up of individual wo
men. each of whom owes something
to these organizations. By doing
ever the duty nearest in her home
and in her club, she unconsciously
builds character, and character is the
finest possible foundation for the su
perstructure of Federation. But she
should take a particular interest in
some one line of Federation activity,
and be prepared to render service
along that line. It may be Home
Economics, Public Health, Music, or
whatever most strongly appeals to
her. She should also keep in touch
with the work of the organization by
reading the General Federation Mag
azine, the procedings of each bien
nial convention and council, and in
every way possible familiarize her
self with the beneficent activities of
the organization of which her club is
a part.
Suggestions for the development of
the above four topics may be obtained
by addressing Mrs. Mary I. Wood, Bu
reau of Information, Portsmouth,
X'. H.
Mrs. Pennybacker, president gener
al Federation of Women’s Club has
the following to say in her monthly
letter concerning Baby Week, March
4-11, 1916:
Nation Wide Baby Week.
We are receiving encouraging re
ports from preparations that are be
ing made for the nation wide Baby
week, March 4-11, 1916. What has
vour club done in this regard? If you
have not already done, will you not
write at once to Mrs. Goodwin, Chil
dren's Bureau, Washington, D. C., ask
ing for the plans and specifications of
this week? Should your state presi
dent desire to take as her topic on
the night of the Biennial dedicated
to tii.- state presidents “What has my
State done for Baby Week?” you
would not be willing to have her re
port weakened because you had not
done your duty. The state and city
I i
health officers and the extension de- have been borne. '
partments of our universities have | Most of the children have averaged
expressed themselves as willing to making one article a month. Rag rags
co-operate. Do not hesitate to ask
them to join with you in the work. Do
not be satisfied until you have aroused
the entire community and have
brought about a co-operation of all
forces interested in the welfare of the
child. Let us make this a community
work as well as a community blessing.
Should you desire one or two short
plays to emphasize the work of Baby
week, I can heartily recommend the
“Theft of Thistledown,” and “The Nar
row Door,” by Professor George M. P.
Baird, of the University of Pittsburg,
Pittsburg, Pa. Professor Baird has
enerously consented to allow the
plays to be presented anywhere, pro-
v'ded he be notified in advance and
furnish a copy of the program. The
playlets may be obtained from the
November number of “The Journal of
Outdoor Life.”
Report of Bethany Improvement Club
for 1914-1915.
The Bethany Improvement Club, or
ganized a few years ago, did not
federate until the early fall of last
year. Up to that time they had done
a marvelous amount of civic improve
ment.
Last fall their representative to the
convention at Albany brought back
the request from the federation that
a box of cotton clothing made by the
club members be sent to the Belgians
Several suits for a nine year old child
were made of warm material and senl
in with the Madiso nbox.
Some money had already been sent
through another chanel by many of
the club members.
In the early part of the school year
several club members were appointed
to teach sewing and cooking similar
to’the Crete plan. Also to assist the
pupils in school beautifying. For sev
eral reasqns not very much was ac
complished. however, some fruits
have been in the lot. |
Notvi ithstanding the long drought .
the school garden is said to be the
prettiest in the country. The teachers -
have been adding lettuce and onions
to their daily menu. Strawberries,
cabbage, peas, tomatoes, and many
other things are doing nicely.
The roses, sweetpeas, verbena,
lilies, poppies and other flowers are
In bloom but needing rain.
A tomato club was organized last
fall but the prepared soil and ready
are awaiting rain.
A pig club was formed but bad
luck came to many of the boys pig’s
from over feeding. ^
A poultry and calf club was also
formed bearing some fruit.
Through the efforts of the club
members another acre has been added
to the school grounds, $50.00 being
paid for it.
A now plot has been cleared up for
a play ground for the little girls—
much underbrush being hauled away.
The club appointed work day and
superintendented the above, also the
painting of the interior and exterior
of the annex room—porch floor, flow
er pots, benches, white-washing
arches,, fences, etc.
The school observed clean-up week
in their school building, oiling floors,
laundering curtains, rubbing up desks,
washing windows, cleaning walls, pic
tures, etc.
The entire neighborhood also ob-
seryed it. In fact they have been
painting interior of kitchens, floors,
and houses; white-washing out build
ings, fences; screening porches and
homes; doing house cleaning, plant
ing flowers and shrubbery; cleaning
up premises both back and front the
entire year.
MRS. ED WOOD, Pres.
ELIZABETH HARRIS, Dele.
Spend Y our CFiristmas Money at
O. A. Somd-d-er’s
M ONEY well spent is well invested, and to spend
the Christmas check on something worth while
is a compliment to the giver.
COLORADO’S “ORf LAW WENT
INTO EFFECT WITH NEW TEAR
(By Associated Press.)
Denver, Colo., Jan. 1.—Problems
affecting national, state and munici
pal revenues and legal controversies
have grown out of the enactment of
statewide prohibition laws in Colorado
—effective Jan. 1, 1916. Legal ques
tions involve efforts to obtain a refer
endum vote on the statutory penalty
law and the right of cities operating
under special charter to regulate their
liquor traffic.
Under the people’s mandate given
at the general elections Nov. 3, 1914,
fourteen breweries and more than
1,500 saloons will be closed, cutting
off more than a million dollars rev
enue of federal, state and municipal
governments annually received in va
rious forms of taxation.
Prior to the adoption of the consti
tutional amendment a large portion of
northern Colorado was “dry” territory
under the local option law passed in
1907. Colorado Springs, third largest
city, excluded saloons, the late Gen
eral William L. Palmer, who laid out
much of the land upon which the city
was built, having barred saloons In
deeds to property.
The vote of Colorado electors Nov.
3, 1914, on the prohibition constitu
tional amendment was: For 129,589;
against 1118,0.7. Denver alone re
turned a “wet” majority, the figures
favoring retention by approximately
10,000. George A. Carlson, an avow
ed adherent of -the “drys,” was elected
governor at this time.
The ensuing legislature enacted a
measure designed to enforce the pro
hibition amendment and to provide
penalties for its violation. This law
was enacted by a unanimous vote in
the senate.
The law prohibits manufacture,
sale, cr giving away of liquors, but
provides that liquors may be secured
for sacramental, private and medi
cinal use, under certain restrictions.
Purchasers for sacramental purposes
are required to pay an annual license
of $1.05. Physicians are permitted to
issue only numbered prescriptions
which must state the date and hour
and specify the malady of the pa
tient. The prescription must not call
for more than four ounces of liquor,
is not valid after 4S hours and can
not be refilled. Wholesale druggists
must pay an annual license of $100
and retail druggists $5, to handle in
toxicants. Private consumers may re
ce-ive {liquor through common car
riers, signing a receipt in the form
of an affidavit showing the goods are
for no other purpose than medicinal
or private consumption. Each pack
age must be labelled to indicate its
contents and a fee is charged to
cover the cost of filing a record of de
liveries with the secretary of state,
required monthly of railroads and
quarters of firms handling liquor. ,
Violators are subject to severe pen
alties. First offense are made mis
demeanors carrying fines of $100 to
$300 or a jail sentence of thirty days
to six months, or both. Second or
subsequent offenses within five years
are made a felony, punishable by
penitentiary sentence of from one to
three years for an individual, or
fine of $1,000 to $3,000 for corpora
tions. Officers refusing or neglect
ing to enforce the lew are subject to
being ousted from office.
Advertising or soliciting intoxicat
ing liquor for sale is prohibited.
Any building used for illegally
handling liquor is subject to being
closed by the courts. Liquor, or liquor
containers found on the property are
to be held without property rights
pending the decision of the court.
As to civil liability, the law pro
vides that any person injured or
whose property or means of support
has suffered at the hands of an in
toxicated person shall have right of
action against any person or firm that
illegally furnished the liquor.
At the Denver city election May
19, 1915, the electors by a vote of
21,3-72 to 18,722 authorized the addi
tion of an amendment to the charter
empowering city officials to issue sa
loon licenses and assume general su-
basis of a friendly suit to determine
the constitutionality of such legisla
tion by cities operating under special
charter and at the request of Gov.
Carlson the supreme court accepted
original jurisdiction in an action
brought to prevent Denver authori
ties from issuing a saloou license to
August Koch, extending beyond Jan.
1, 1916.
Counsel for the state argued that
It possessed authority to enforce the
constitutional and legislative prohi
bition enactments and that cities op
erating under special charter had no
more right to adopt legislation In con
travention than they had to provide
penalties for murder or other crimes.
Attorneys for the city held that the
charter, granted by the legislature,
gives the city authorities peculiar
powers with reference to liquor super
vision as well as other matters of
municipal government.
Prior to the filing of the suit, op
ponents of prohibition filed with the
secretary- of state a petition seeking
to submit the prohibition penalty law
to a referendum at the next general
election. Secretary John E. Palmer
refused to accept the petition on the
ground that is contained a “safety
clause”—a proviso stipulating that the
measure is necessary to “the imme
diate preservation of the health,
peace and safety” of the common
wealth. Under Colorado’s initiative
and referendum law the “safety
clause” may be attached to any bill,
and was designed to prevent referen-
dums. Secretary Ramer was upheld
in the district court in mandamus pro
ceedings to compel acceptance of the
petition and this was appealed to the
supreme court.
Liven Up Your Torpid Liver.
To keep your liver active use Dr.
King’s New Life Pills. They insure
good digestion, relieve constipation,
and tone up the whole system—keep
your eye clear and your skin fresh
and heialthy looking. Only 25c at
your Druggist. adv
pervision of liquor traffic. The en
actment of the amendment formed the
Advertise your wants.
ROSES, CARNATIONS,
Cut Flowers
CYCLEMES, AND
AND FLORAL OFFER-
BEGONIAS.
INGS OF ALL KINDS
Bulbs
Grueedale Greenhouse
JONES GREENHOUSE GO.
Phone 1167
Phone 364
REDUCTION SALE
Boy’s Children’s and Men’s Clothes
Off On All Clothing
Suits, Overcoats, Raincoats, Odd Pants, Every Article of Clothing
In the House Included in This Sale