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This Issue of Progress Presented by Finance Committee of Woman’s Club of Douglas
Volume X—No. 32.
AN ARTICLE BY MRS. S. B. CRAY IN WHICH ACTIVIIIES OF WOMEN FOR TWO CENTURIES ARE REVIEWED
Intensely Interesting Thoughts Brought Out Relative
To Activities Of Modern Day Women.
The equality of the sexes has loomed
into great prominence of l?te —that
is as it ought to be is clearly shown
in the Scriptural account of woman’s
origin. Not taken from the foot of
man to indicate subserviency, not
from the head to denote superiority,
but from the side clearly indicating
that in the great work of developing
nature and advancing civilization she
should be the co-laborer of man, and
it is only when we recognize this great
truth that the highest results of hu
man achievement reward our effort.
No civilization has lasted long or
achieved great results when not car
ried on, on this basis.
It is not given to all womankind to
be famous through some singular
achievement, though as will be seen,
women have been famous in all fields
of endeavor from the earliest times
down to the present day, and consid
ering their civil and political handi
caps, some of which still exists, they
have accomplished quite as much as
men; but their fame will always rest
mightiest as the encouragers and
patients helpmates of those who have
struggled and have achieved.
It is the function of woman to bring
into world geniuses who accom
plish the things that conduce to the
world’s achievement and that is sure
ly the greater glory. The world does
not forget the mother, of a famous
man, but in addition to being the
mother of famous women, and be
famous herself. The gentle hand that
rocks a cradle has rocked a»d wrecked
an Empire.
The highest enconium paid to any
one by the Saviour was to a woman,
’’She hath done what she could.” His
tory demonstrates that her energy
and devotion to the cause of humani
ty have lost none of their force. With
every decade her influence as a human
factor in the advancement of the
world becomes more potential. Wo
men have written a record of nobility
in achievement whose magnitude it is
difficult to gasp. All the pages of
history are illumined with her unsel
fish acts and her noble deeds.
THE CHARM AND VALUE
OF MUSIC DAILY
Ruth Evelyn Dean* Dixon.
“Music hath charms to smooth
savage beast”, is no less truth than
parody, else why do we find from
the earliest annals of mankind, men
tion of various instruments designed
for the production of first, rhythm,
then melody, and then harmony?
Why the development from the two
pieces of wood knocked together by
savage into the kettel drum, the;
bass drum, and the snare drum; of the ,
present? Or of the reed pipe of an
tiqnity through it’s variations into the [
electric pipe organ of to-day with it’s]
marvelous and infinite possibilities?.
Or, again, why was man endowed |
with a physieial musical instrument j
capable of sucli development as that j
of Caruso and Scotti, Bori, Galli Curvij
and .Teritza ?
As President Coolidge has so aptly
expressed it, “Music is one of the
oldest modes by which man has ex
pressed his emotions and aspirations.
It brings pleasure to probably more
people then any other one of the arts.
Whatever contributes to a wider dis
semination of interest in it is entitled
to be regarded as a real public ser
vice.” Mankind has realized this
time immemorial for does not
history tell us of the music, both
vocal and instruments, employed in
connection with almost euery pur
suit of man. whether religious or
secular? In Genesis 4;21 we c*ad,
“Jul'al; he was the father of all such
as harp and the organ”. No religi
ous. education, or social function or
organization In complete without it’s,
cmi4a u *' rntwic. Time arid space for-,
* ■ :*
(Boffte Cotttitj} JlJrogrcGo,
Not only have women achieved much
but they have learned much. They
have learned how to play together,
how to smile, how to become large
and generous and aglow with life.
Perhaps Frances Willard, this
gentle Christian reformer and prac
tical philanthropist, is the best loved
and most widely celebrated of all
American Women. To her devotion
and trained ability is due the pheno
minal growth of the Woman’s Christ
ian Temperance Union and very large
ly of the prohibition movement. She
became dean of her own alma mater,
resigning in 1874.
She insisted on woman’s suffrage
r
on the ground that the ballot was
the most effectual weapon to defend
the home. During her life time 35
nations lined up under the white rib
bon. largely through her influence.
In addition to this work she wrote 8
books, established and helped edit a
paper, inspired the Chicago organiza
tion to build a Woman’s Temple at
a cost of a million dollars to estab
lish a home for working women. All
this grew in 25 years from a very
small beginning. A statue of her has
beeh placed in Statuary Hall in the
Capitol at Washington, among those
of Presidents, statesfnen and military
leaders. She is the only woman who
has been so signally honored.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was
the first woman suffragette. Listen
ing to the sad complaints of women
clients in her father’s law office gave
her Ist thought that women should
also have the right to vou>. She
called the Ist Woman's Rights Con
vention in 1848. The resolution that
Mrs. Stanton demanded was years af
terwards adopted by our States.
Susan B. Anthony was another
pioneer leader of the woman suffrage
movement. She organized the Ist
Temperence Convention held. She ad
vocated National Prohibition through
out all the years of her long life and
tried repeatedly to get Congress to
pass what is known as the Susan B.
Anthony amendment to the Constitu
tion. Failing in this at the time she
agitated it in the various States with
1 bid my dwelling on this. Suffice it
| that we notice the present use of
| music.
j The churches have their hymns and
| chants, the program of every con
j vention is interspersed with singing
; of familiar songs by the entire body
each business organization such as
; the Lions, The Rotary, the Kiwanis,
! and other clubs, have their get to-!
i gether songs, towns large and smalt
! Cave their bands, their choruses, and
l their “Comunit.v sings”. The Wo
-1 nlari’s Club, local and general, is no
< xception to this rule for it l>as its
I song books containing the old famil.
! iar songs as-wcll as some of the-laier
| ones, end each meeting comprises its j
“sing”.
The ensemble singing—the snoi.-
taneouts burst of song from a general
gathering of The inhabitants of a city
or town—is at once a safety valve for
its pent-up emotions and brings man
kind together into such close fellow
ship as nothing else can do. It gives
us a new outlook on life'—in present
day parlance, it gives us “Pep". Music
should become a part of the life of
the people, and should be looked upon
in just the same way ; s the provision
of parks and pleasure-grounds and
o: her matters of public health, be
er use it. has a great influence on hu
man nature, and a great deal to do
wi h life itself.
Remove music from our life, either
individual or civic, and watch the re-j
suit. “Two things keep me up and
going.” said a business man recently,
“Golf and exercise, and music for in
spiration. The business man who
laughs a: the value of music is laugh
ing at success. Let me skip my golf
anti try music and I am only half a
man. Nu one knows'what thw means
until it is tried. There are lot* oS
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OFFICIAL ORGAN COFFEE COUNTY. CITY OF DOUGLAS, ANI) THE CITY OF NICEOLLS
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 1924.
much success. She became convinced
that the ballot was the only effective
weapon to fight with against any end
all kinds of moral evil and legal op
pression. There are few today who
will deny the debt that women owe
to her in their privileges of working
at innumerable occupltions, with equal
or very near equal pay as men, in
their control of their property and
children, in tlydr opportunities for
higher education and in the fact that
woman’s names on petitions can no
longer be dismissed with contempt.
Florence Nightingale of Italy was
the Ist famous war nurse. She visit
ed the cottages of the sick and needy
and when the Crimean War broke out
she moved on the battlefield. She was
indirectly responsible for the Ameri
can Red Cross.
Clara Barton was the Ist American
woman to interest herself in the wel
fare of the soldier in active service.
She became a volunteer nurse in the
army hospitals on the battle field at
the outbreak of the war between the
states. In 1870, on the breaking out
of the Franco-Prussian war she aided
in preparing military hospitals, as
sisted the Red Cross Society and at
the request of the authorities, super
intended the distribution of food to
the poor.
At the close of the war, she was
decorated with the Golden Cross of
1 Baden and the Iron Cross of Germany.
lOn he organization of the American
! Red Cross Society in 1881, she was
made its president. She had charge
of the movement in behalf of sufferers
from the floods at Johnstown, Pa. dis
tributed relief measures at the scenes
of the Armenian massacres, in 1900
undertook to direct thg reli§i
suffer&rs at Galvesfcdft. addition to
this work she founded a “Tree school,
opening with 6 pupils, by 1854 it had
grown to 600.
Queen Victoria ably directed th •
destinies of the British Empire for 60
years. The reign of Queep Victoria
was the longest and one of the most
prosperous in English History. She
saw England expand from a kingdom
to an Empire. She was considered
the most constitutional monarch of
Britian. Her home life also was an
example to her subjects and earned
he respect of the civilized world.
Tennyson dedicated poems of his to
DOUGLAS WOMANS
CLUB ACITY BUILDER
Halfway hidden from view by a
clump of pine trees stands, in the city
of Douglas, a bungalow type of a i
club house. Back of it, and on and j
up, grow cypress, more pine, ’ trees, j
and other evergreens.. In side of this:!
club house is a seating capacity for!
one hundred persons. On the mem- i
beship roll is one hundred names. 1
with a waiting list. What does this
bit of architecture and organization
• stands for? It stands for. service,
i Service for humanity.
Its motto has ever been “To a
better world in which to live.” This
club is a city builder as the his ory cf
its seventeen years of existence will
clearly show. 1
I’he Ladies Rpst Room, located in
the heart of town is operated by the
club, and the parks of the ci‘y are
fostered by her effort*. Special
mention of the play-ground equipment
in Ward Park should he made. The
Devs and Seasons for planting flowers
and trees have been stressed, and the
statewide clean-up Days and Weeks
have been observed.
The social side of the Huh has'been!
most wholesome. The annual oyster 1
roast, which has been so well man
aged each year, i= an outstanding even
tire I business men taking dope, out of
bottles when the re?] cure is recrea
tion Music- and golf help to re
create."
Music is THE Divine Art -it was
the Divine intention that man should
use it for ihe expression of his emo
tion. May its puri>o»e never be de
feated.
this worthy woman.
Rosa Bonheur was the first woman
i
to become famous as a painter. One
of her paintings, “The Horse Fair,”
brought $50,000 and was bought by
Mr. C. Vanderbilt and placed in the
Metripolitan Museum of Art at Nevvi
York. During the siege of Paris her
studio and residence were spared and
respected by special older of the then,
Crown Prince of Prussia. Emperor
or” the first time it was bestowed
her the “Cross of the Legion of Hon
ors” the first time it was bestowed j
on a woman.
Mme Currie, scientist, who discover,
ed radium, is one of the world’s most
distinguished women. She was award,
ed the Nebel prize. When on a visit
to the U. S., the women made her a
gift of SIO,OOO for the purpose of
continuing her great and noble work.
No one has done more to benefit hu
manity than Mme Currie.
George Eliot wps the first woman
to achieve fame as a writer and to
make writing her business. She had
wonderful insight into character. Her
attainments were in the highest de
gree remarkable. There was no art
nor science with which she had not
I
! some sort ot acquaintance; no creed
i
nor system of philosophy in whose
history she was not versed, no im
portant European language whether
classical or modern, with which she
was not practically familiar.
Selma Lagerlof, novelist, has con
tributed novels for which she has been
deemed worthy of the award of the
Nobel prize for litera’u'e.
Countess Noalilles had been a dis
tinguished leader in the world of
French literature since the publica
i tion of her first book of poetry in
1902.
Sarojini Naidu, distinguished con
temporary woman poet of India and
the wife of Ghandi are leading the
nationalist movement among their
people.
Mrs. William Gladstone, humanita' i
an, performed notable service for the
women of England.
Emma C. Willard, American educa
tor and author was the first woman
to advocate the higher education of
women and the substitution of kind
ness for the rod. In 1815 she opened
the first College for Women in N. Y.
| A LETTER FROM ALASKA
ON SUBJECT OF LIBRARY
rhrough its Librarian, the Church
i Periodical Club, has been sending out :
; evading matter to places and people i
so situated or so isolated that books,'
■and magazines are almost unattain-,
able.
i
In acknowledgement many wry in- j
teresting letters have been received;
i
the following one, juet at hand, is so !
full of the pyisonal touch the.', *th.-
librarian gladly shares it with the i
Progress renders.
I An hour each month is devoted to a
! get-together social, at the end of the
business program. Reception for ce
I ebrities are held when occasion do-.
; mauds. There., is a “tie that binds"!
i the club women of Douglas.
The literary and musical side of
the club speaks very loudly of the 1
culture of the membership in the
lovely programs rendere I each month.
This club has put on move than ont
Lyceum Course for Douglas. Tie!
Educational Committee is a strongt
one. Short lectures on parliamentary |
usage is often a feature of the,
monthly program.
The finance committee of the dub'
is composed of very talented women.,
who have rendered valuable service.!
All the officers and members of ex J
ecutive. board, r re lefingd Christian,
women with high ideals end jiro-j
gross He views. Wi h the present at-,
t&inment to build to. and the advu.j'
<»f 1 urmer officers, great expectation ■
are ours. i
Her success made possible such gad’s
schools as Oberlin, Vassar, Barnard,
Smith, and others, and infinitum. At
the age of 67 she had the honor of be
ing the only woman delegate to the
World’s Educational Convention.
Mary Lyon was also active in the
movement for higher education for
women in the U. S. She founded her
famous seminary upon the plan of
uniting domestic labor with intel
lectual culture. Her success caused
many similar institutions to be estab
lished throughout the country, and
the name of Mary Lyon has become
a household word among all friends
of the education and elevation of
women.
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Jane Addams, an American philan
thropist and social settlement work
er has many achievements to her rec
ord. She inaugurated the establish
ment known as Hull House. She has
lectured on the improvement of the
condition of the poor in great cities
and has written extensively on social
and political reform.
Evangeline Boothe, a noted Human
itarian and commander of the Sal
vation Army, was associated with
her husband in the publication of sev
eral hymns and religious works deal
ing with the Salvation Army.
Our own Mrs. Felton has become a
National figure in recent years. She
is the first woman who has ever
I graced the Senatorial chair.
The success of woman in the field of
invention has been great. Twin
sisters were the inventors of wood
engraving; they invented the first
j steam working machine for making
hats end bonnets; a horse shoe ma
-1 chine which grinds out 1200 finished
horse shoes every hour was invented
| by a woman, and it is estimated that
; millions of dollars have been saved by
its use; a new glove fastiner was her
invention. Some writers accord to
the wife of Gen. Nathaniel Greene of
Revolutionary fame more credit for
the idea of the cotton gin than they
do to Whitney, who, they sry at the
best only enlarged on the lady’s plans.
The genius of woman perfected the
system which gave combined action j
to both teeth and cutters of the sower <
and reaper; a woman invented a ma
chine for sewing women’s shoes and ;
she disposed of the title to the patent j
in 1892 for $150,000.
Steel Creekj Alosaa.
12th, SepC 1924.
Mrs. Thomas B. Marshall, Librarian,
Douglas, Ga.
Dear Madam:-
j Your letter of July 9th, 1924 was
i received September 7th, 1 have not
! been to the Post ‘Office, personally,
since April 18th, I get my mad h!.i)u.
•once a month, the package you -peak
!of is most likely at the office: I will
.
get it tomorrow.
1 will be very glad to get the rt ad
ing matter for the long winter nights,
and will write you. frequently in re
gard to it it I am mining on Small I
Crook, 1 -miles from Steel Creel:, {*. n.
in th* 40 mile Precinct. This sea
son was dry, a shortage of wrier, J
1 and my partner did no: make mu. h. j
My partner is working on the claim!
while I came up to my hunting cabin,
ion the head of the creek to k.'.l men
for the winter. I have two Tabu
sleigh dogs with me to haul the meet
to the cache. It i-, a mile up to tho
Steel dome from the cabin. The C.iri.
bo and Moose c* mo here in September
when they commence to migrate. The
Moose do not really migra'e hut they
eu to high ground >yt this seas n f
<h« year. The Steel' dome ties b
tween Small and Jack Wade Creeks '
If MV. Gaither is in your neighborhood
he tan tel! you about my hunting cab-
V-* he located it when ho was taking
census.
Some years we have berries, this
mm, we have r.one, for it has frozen
ic? each end every month. I have!
reef! one flock of goose and five flocks'
of Sand Hill Crane* flying South: i
when the geeio and Crane move South i
we know winter is near. Then thej
He ad bird* go. the Swallows is gone!
in August. thiy are the laet In come!
$1.50 Per Annum in Advance
The Eureka street sweeper was the
product of a woman. Among other
inventions of importance by ■ women
are a spinning machine capable of
running from twelve to forty threads;
a rotary loom doing three times the
work of an ordinary loom, a volcanic
furnace for smelting ore; an improved
wood sawing machine, a steam and
chair elevator, a screw crank for
stemships, a fire escape, a wood
feeder and weigher, one of the most
delicate machines ever invented and
of incalcuable benefit to every woolen
manufacturer, a portable reservoir
for fireman’s use, a process for burn
ing petroleum instead of wood or
coal for steam-generating purposes;
a spark arrester for locomotives; a
danger signal for crossings; a plan
for heating cars without fire; a lubri
! eating felt for subduing friction (the
last five all bearing upon railway
travel); a rapid change box; a marvel
of simplicity and convenience, the in
vention of a mere girl, a machine for
trimming phamphlets; writing ma
chine similar to typewriter; a signal
: rocket to be used by ships in distress
deep sea telescope, method of deaden
ing sound, smoke burner. This en
umeration is not complete, but it is
! full enough to demonstrate that wo
men have a scientific nature capable
of boundless usefulness, a genius
competent to compete with man in
j the intellectual strife, and to success
fully grappel with the profoundest
problems of nature and mind.
I have only touched on a few of the
j many achievements wrought by wo
men the past 200 years, to attempt
■ even to outline the many accomplish
; inents of women The ..pasts— tma
: centuries would cover more time than
I am given in which to consider her
activities.
Woman’s shpere has become great
ly enlarged, as we have seen. It is
considerably larger than i‘ used to
be and vastly larger than it used to
be thought.
They talk about a woman’s sphere
as though it had a limit. There’s
not a place in earth or Heaven,
There’s not a task to man-kind given,
There’s not a blessing or a woe,
There’s not a whispered ’yes Or no’.
There’s not a life, a death or birth
that has a feathers’s weight of worth,
without a woman in it.
and the first to go; the first Robin
came to Small Creek on May Ist, they
and the black birds are ne r e vet, they
will soon hunch up for *h,* long fligth
South
The Caribo migrate Xort i in A;viJ
when the sun thaws the crust of ihe
snow, and in May and June when ‘.iv»
rivers are full from melting ice. The
first herd to go farther north than the
second: They come back in Septem
ber and November; the September
runs are fat, in November they are not
so good.
People living on the Yukon river
can get plenty of fish. We can catch
Grayling in the creeks in summer.
When the leaves begin to fall and
float down the creeks to the Yukon,
the fish go down with the leaves to
winter quartets; they come up when
the ice-jam bus passed down and the
.stream.- are high. The fish appear
to know which creek the low water
will bein. in advance; for instance,
Hall Creek was a great place to catch
Grayling two years ago, this year
my partner atid I went there, expect
:n ,r to make a big catch. There w?s
plenty of water, and r.o fish in July;
in August the Creek wont dry in many
places.
In this latitude North, you can see
the working of Nature and her lnws
more that) in any other part 4 jbe
Earth, i firs' came to Tfa v.vi
in 1880, went >ut end rnined i fa! -
forma and Nevada, ‘"ime !*uk ; r.
18frj and hav.* been, out <-:n. e 1
was at Klondike iu 1897-8-9; went to
Vp? None Strike in IP JO an 1 buck *o
40 miles, l was born m ibt'.-dsn g,
in 1849. My father was i»crn in
Kentucky in 1784 and Red in IVnrsyL
vahiu in August 1876. He wan n
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