Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-04-11
a SOCllL EXPEDITION.
DR.. Tolman 70 Study Economic
Conditions In Europe.
MANY CITIES TO BE VISITED.

Tue wors, MADE posaibie by Miss
Helen Gould.
ats a big scheme for national adver.
tislng mot commercial, mind you. but
national said Ir William II. Tolman
to d reporter OF the = York CONNER
cial Advertiser, speaking Of tile tour
he is TO take through Europe tlis sum
mer for the American institute For
Social Service. Tie institute has col
laboratsag members IA all parts Of Iu-
rope, and 1t has been its desire for a
long time to send some n abroad to
visit the distant members Of the flock,
to study conditions in the large conti-
mental cities as well rs those of Great
Britain, and to get accurate informa-
lion as to what these people are doing
by way Of social service. AS Or. Toll
man expressed it. WI want to get
ideas from them and put the good ones
into practice in this country At pres
ent there is no way for travellers inter
ested in social economic activities in
Europe. in municipal functions, in pub
lie or private charities. to know what
Is to be found of interest In each city
except through fugitive articles, half
forgotten and not preserved, or through
inquiry on the spot. Every picture and
statue of note, every old castle or me-
diayal church. is carefully noted in
g%uidebooks. with information how and
where to see it and why it should be
seen. But the great movements for so
cial betterment, the institutions which
show the trend Of human progress and
the industries, occupations and educa-
ton of the people have no Baedeker.
But Miss Helen NJ. Gould has at last
made this expedition possible, and on
May 20 DR.. Tolman, director of the in
stitute; Mrs. IDlman n Joseph Nor
row. an expert photographer and max
err Of lantern slides, will start on their
hour of inspection. The director will
personally gather all the material de-
sired by the institute in Great Britain,
taking the photographs himself where
he cannot End them ready made. These
photographs win form a complete sc,
ries, illustrating the most notable and
TYPICAL achievements in social better
ment in each line and in each particu-
lar city.
In Ireland. for instance, the studies
will be planned by Horace Plunkett,
president of the department of agricul-
tural and technical instruction for Ire.
land.
DIR. Tolman added: Throughout
Great Britain there WIN be made a
comparative study of the English sys
tenn OF municipal actfvlty-the parks,
Fairgrounds. model tenements, baths.
schools and care of the poor. In Eng
land different cities have done particu-
lar things particularly wei. In Lon
don there Is the great public bath sys-
TEN. Liverpool has docks which are
world famous and the most complete
system OF public baths outside of Lon
window gardens TO any one who APP
plies for them, and we shall get pic
lures of some of those tenement house
window gardens. They have done
some splendid work in improved hous-
ing in Liverpool. England can teach
us how she manages her great tech
nical training schools, where artisans
may learn the latest applications of
science to plumbing or textiles or any
other branch of manual industry.
Every country and almost every
city has some special feature which
the social economists of America can
study with profit. Fol instance. in
Brussels n finds the street signs car
ried to a high point of Artistic beauty.
The lampposts and the telegraph poles
are ornamental. In some cases a city
owns its own billboards and makes
them things of beauty as well as Of
profit. We shall get pictures Of those
lampposts and billboards. and NY one
seeking relief from American horrors
in that line in the future can come to
the institute and see how they do it in
Brussels and other cities.
The municipal activities of Paris,
without any d~isrespect. have been on
the spectacular order. She has devot.
ed herself not only TO the solution Of
economic problems. but also TO making
herself the show city of the world,
bANANDS biliSAi6 many ANNUAL LdtitlbhS
into the pockets of her tradesmen. We
want to know how she has done it.
We ought to know, too, just how she
trains her children to make those won.
derful artisans who bring all the wo-
men of the world to shop in Paris.
Some OF the best woDk in improved
housing has been done in Paris-for in
stance, Jules Slegfried. former minis
ter of commerce, is"the head of a hOus-
Ing society for providing better homes
for the people, which has started fifty,
two similar societies all over France.
"A valuable part of the trip will be
the establishing Of personal relations
with the leaders of social economy in
the capital cities of Europe, so that
they may realize the scope of the insti-
tute and see the opportunities which
it offers for the Interpretation OF the
higher social and industrial life of the
old world. All this mass OF material