The Washington herald., 1913-04-08
IDEAS
ARESUGGESTED.
Monday Evening Club Recon-
mends Commission Con-
slider Social Welfare.
DISTRICT NEEDS RECITED
Women's Welfare Department Of the
National Civic Federation
&" Promises Its Support.
DISTRICT NEEDS RECITED

Resolutions indorsing the suggestion.
recently made to President Wilson by a
committee of American experts on mu-
nicipal problems that he favor a commits
sion for survey of conditions i'm the
District, were unanimously passed at a
special meeting of the Monday Evening
Club. held last night at the Y. M. c. A.
Nearly the entire membership of the
club attended the meeting.
II is understood that the commission
proposed is to be established by act Of
Congress upon the recommendation OF
President Wilson, and that money Is to
be appropriated to defray the cost Of
examining the whole question of Dis
trict betterment. The relations of the
District to the Federal government, and
a study of the means by which the local
government may be improved. are also
to be included in the survey.
In addition to these objects Of re-
search the Monday Evening Club last
night recommended that the commission
also consider all question of social well
fare affecting Washington.
The resolutions as adopted In their
amended form by the club read:
Resolved, That the Monday Evening
Club, in special session assembled. in
dorses the request for the proposed sur
vey, such survey, however, to include
the social service. health, and recrea-
tional needs of the community; and be
1t further resolved, that the proposed
survey, in the judgment of the club
based upon three years study of the
local situation, should cover the follow
ing subjects:
81 A sufficient visitorial and inspec-
ton corps for the enforcement of school
attendance laws, regulation of child la
Dor, supervision OF dependent and neg
lected children. sanitation, and municipal
tuberculosis and school nurses.
Other City Needs.
go Efficiently organized and adequate
governmental agencies to supply the
need for a modern municipal hospital;
modern municipal clearinghouse; provi-
sion for the care of the feeble-minded;
Juvenile court building, with proper de-
tention facilities; provision for the care
of the feeble minded; provision for the
treatment of dipsomaniacs and drug VIC
Tins; parental school; open-air schools:
playground and recreation centers; pub
lie comfort stations; public baths and
wash-houses; a system of branches and
better support for the public library,
and a cottage where delinquent or way
ward girls may be given advantages
similar to those enjoyed by pupils at the
National Training School for Boys, such
with the present reform school for girls
"3. Legislation to accomplish the fol-
lowing ends: Use of school buildings as
social and recreation centers, establish
ment of a social welfare department, the
removal of careless and dam
gerous tuberculous patients, revised
child labor law, a revised school attend
ance law, amendments to the so-ca:led
loan shark law, elimination of all inhab-
tied blind alleys. improved procedure for
the commitment of the insane, and the
adoption Of an indeterminate sentence
law
It was also voted to include in men,
orandum accompanying the resolutions n
that the moral condi-
lions of the District be investigated, and
that women special agents for the pro-
lection of girls in streets and public
places be appointed.
The resolutions were drawn up by a
of the clubs executive COM
mittee, consisting of +. L. Siddons, DR..
w. c. Woodward, Health officer of the
District; Myron Jermain Jones, director
Of educA ton Of the Y. NJ. c. A, and DR..
Walter s. Ufford. of the Board of Chart
ties. The subcommittee was empowered
to appoint committee Of club members
to present the resolutions to President
Wilson.
Rev. Dr. John Van Schaick, jr., who
presided, announced that the Woman's
welfare Department of the National
Civic Federation. through its chairman,
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, had promised its
support of the clubs resolutions.