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Show A. Southern Need. ' "If you will agitate it sufficiently, before a year is over you will have the movement on foot, " said a new member at the club the other night "What movement?" asked half a dozon voices, and to their astonishment they were told, "Why, to have a woman's medical college in Louisiana." The speaker, a new comer in New Orleans, went on to explain the needs of such an institution in the south. "Why should the women of this state, Texas, Mississippi and other southern states have to go across the Ohio river to be instructed in medicine? medi-cine? Your state grants a license to practice prac-tice to a woman physician that will come from abroad, but in no way provides pro-vides for the entrance of her own women wom-en into this profession. It seems to me, " continued the speaker, "that you women wom-en would hate mightily to see a negress the first Louisiana woman to enter the medical profession. A colored woman will graduate in medicine in a very short time at the New Orleans univer sity, and so will enjoy the privilege of earning a living in a profession which is virtually closed to white women." This protest occasioned some earnest talk of making an attempt to raise funds for a medical college for southern women. wom-en. St Louis Globe-Democrat |