Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-02-04
SPEAKS TO CHILDREN
preset. CIVIC LEAGUE
Mrs. J. c Cressp Gives Telling
Talk to Grammar School.
WHAT civic LEAGUE STANDS FOR
Il Gives The Chance for Citizens To
Come Together and DO hiuSs"
Children Can Helm.


Mrs. j. c. Cresap, president Of the
Civic League, gave an interesting
talk to school children at the Gram
mar School, Miss Riordan. principal.
yesterday. Mrs. Cresap was listened
To. with marked attention and smoke.
in part, as follows
Children, know you are wonder.
ing why am here and what | am
going to say. Well, am here because
| am the president of our Civic
League, and want TO tell you some
thing about civic work and what il
means. We all love our town and
whenever we love anything, we want
to work for tive want to he In il
we want e make il better; we want
10 make n more beautiful. Now.
how can We do thisf OF course we
can keep our own homes clean-our
yards. We can keep from throwing
things into the sire cts. and be clean
and orderly ourselves, but there ara
bigger things than this; things that
concern, In more live way. the
whole town, and the only way you
can better these conditions is TO all
get together aud talk things over and
agree together as to what every body.
together, thinks is the best for the
town, and then when all the people
have a chance to talk thing over
and decide that they want il, then
they can go to work to get il. Now,
that is what the Civic League does.
IL gives the chance for the citizens
to come together and talk things over
and see what they, as whole. think
is best for the city TO make IL more
beautiful, more healthful, more or
Derby and advance civic, or city bet
-terment.
There is City Council that man
ages public affairs and you may say
that they look out for these things.
thought that, too, oncel But the
City Council has It's hands full to look
out for the daily, regular up-keep of
the city-making the laws that gov.
ern it. AMI seeing that they are en-
forced. They take care of the streets
and all public places, give us light;
see to IL that we don't do things that
are nuisances to another, ami do lot
Of things that take a great deal Of
time, so they have not always the
time to find out about great many
things that would bett n the city, SO
you see the Civic League makes il
possible for the. citizens t come to-
gether and talk things over as to
what will help US, help our next
door neighbor. Aud OH, it is a glori-
Gus thing'to be able 70 help someone
else-to try TO make the world better
for your having been in it.
"Well, now, there are other things
that make our town better and that
the Civic League thinks will do gocd
to us all and that is TO have people
who know more than we do about
certain things come and talk to US
about them. These people study and
thinl and find out the best way to
accomplish things; they travel eli
over the world and see how people
in other places do things they are
experts, and so the Civic League cen
get them some times 10 come and teach
us. We are never too old to learn
and we can never knew too much
Sometimes the Civic League hopes to
bring a member Of the Audubon
Society here to tell you all about
birds and how cruel people are to the
birds and how they have passed laws
to protect the birds.
"But first, the Civic League 10
going to have Mrs. Wilson come and
talk to us about child development
the expanding OF the mind and char
aeter, and Mrs Wilson has made a
study of this, and so she knows more
even than any of us grownups. So I
want you to go home and tell your
mothers and sisters all about the Civic
League 81 that you can remember
of what have told you, and then tell
them about Mrs. Wilson coming next
Friday here in the High School and
ask them 20 come and hear her. 1t
is all free-the Civic League has
brought her here and we want all
of sour mothers and sisters to come.