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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29
OUTING CAMPS CLOSE;
VACATION PERIOD Over
Total of /, 100 Children and Mothers
Benefited Past Summer-Baby
Hospital Continues.

After giving LOO children and mothers
vacation of two weeks each this sum-
mer. Camp Good VIII. in Rock Creek
Park, and Camp Pleasant in Deanwood
Heights, operated by the summer outings
committee of the Associated Charities,
have closed for the season.
The Baby Hospital Camp. also operated
| by the Associated Charities. is still open,
and will be kept open as long as the funds
hold out, it was stated last night. Many
Of the babies there are SO ill, it was said,
| that to have closed the camp and sent
them back to the city would have been
in many cases to send the babies back
| to die, or at least to lose the gain which
they have made in the camp
Crowded Beyond Capacity.
The baby camp has been running be-
yond its capacity all summer long, and
at times 1t has been necessary to use the
bathtub for a bed. Even now there is a
| waiting list of babies, all of whom should
| have been given the advantage of such a
camp outing, and some are still coming
TO the camp whenever opportunity arises
| for them to get in. The babies cared for
| at the camp are under two years of age.
Henry Lansburgh, who has taken a
great interest in the work of the baby
| camp. is conducting a coin card cam
paign of his own to help keep the op-
portunity open as long as possible.
Next year it is planned to increase
greatly the capacity of the camp.
Mothers as well as sick babies will be
taken there and will be taught to keep
their children well after they return
home. The nurses of the Washington
Diet Kitchen follow up during the year
the babies that have been cared for at
the camp in order to make their gain
permanent.
Party Given at Camp Pleasant.
Camp Pleasant, for the colored chill
dren and their mothers, located in Dean
wood Heights, closed its camp season
with a party given by a committee of
men and women from the bureau of
engraving and printing. There were
games and races and good things to
eat Prizes were given to winners in
the contests. The committee consisted
of Mrs. Julia West Hamilton, Mrs. b.
E. Fisher, Mrs. l; Devaul. Mrs. !.
Miller, Misses E. Ashton. A. Kirby. B.
Saunders, K. Pinckney, B. Smoot,
Messrs. W. L. Mills and Lewis Mutt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

Early Fall Weddtngs.
Consult GUIDE about the flowers and
floral decorations. Estimates given
1914 F st.-Advertisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29
Children of Mothers Who Work.

One of the surest ways of taking
large groups of children Off the streets
is to return mothers to their homes.
The movement for widows pensions is
due to a growing conviction that the
children Of wage-earning widow who
are either locked up in the house or
locked out on the street may eventu-
ally cost the state more than a pen
sion. But what of working mother
who is not a widow? Is she better able
to look after the children while out
washing or scrubbing? Is a drunken
husband who shifts the burden of sup
port on his wife any more useful to the
home than a dead husband? State aid
for such mothers Is gaining ground In
different states because, as one Judge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

1t matters little what it Is that you
want-whether situation or q servant
"a want ad in The Star will reach the
person who will NIL your need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29
TO CELEBRATE OPENING
OF NEW LIGHT SYSTEM
East Washington Citizens Associa
ton Plans Auto Parade on
the Avenue.

With District Commissioners Brown.
low and kutz and Mai Pullman. super
intendent of police, as guests, the East
Washington Citizens Association We'd
nesday night will celebrate the in
stallation of the new lighting system
on Pennsylvania avenue and Sth and
18th streets southeast
The District electrical department has
installed 2sS 100-candlepower incan-
descent lamps on Pennsylvania avenue
between I'd street and the Pennsylvania
Avenue bridge in place of forty-five arc
and thirty eight gas lamps.
On Sth street it has installed forty
six incandescent lamps of similar size
in place of fifteen arc lamps, and on
18th street fifty incandescent lamps in
place of eighteen arc lamps.
The new lighting arrangement will
be a big improvement, furnishing an
increased amount of illumination. Along
Pennsylvania avenue there will be four
rows of lamps, two of them along the
outer curb lines and two along the
outer lines of the parking in the center
of the street. The posts are set in a
staggered arrangement seventy feet
apart and around the triangular parks
formed by the intersection of streets.
Parade of Automobiles.
In celebration of the installation of
the system the East Washington Citi-
zens' Association. of which Dr. Charles
l.. Emmons is president, has arranged
for an automobile parade.
1t is planned to have the automobiles
start from East Washington Hall, 314
Pennsylvania avenue, at o'clock, and
make the trip to the bridge while the
thoroughfare is lighted by the old sys-
tenn of gas lamps, and to return in the
light of the recently installed electric
lamps
The Naval Gun Factory Band will
furnish music along the line of the
procession and at the hall upon the
return of the officials and members of
the association. There will be a pub
lie meeting In the hall about $50
o'clock, when speeches will be made
and refreshments served.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

Nitrate of sodium crystals as clear
az the best glass have been made by a
Partisan scientist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

An English airman recently looped
the loop In a speed boat. the hrst time
the feat has beentdone. !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

To Land Of the Sky, September 4.
15-day trip, $40. Southern Railway
Advertisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29
. Had Over 200 Rooms.

Clif Palace. the second of these i'm
portant ruins. Is nearly three times the
size Of Spruce Tree House, and has
more than 200 rooms. It was repaired
In 1908 and now presents a very re-
epscta,s appearance to the visitor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

put it. 'ff poverty compels them to
leave the home. the obvious remedy is
to remove poverty itself" The eight
hour day, which gives working parents
more time. for homes and children, is
also wise economic expedient and a
social necessity.
AS the kindergartens effectively take
off the streets in the morning thousands
Of little children under compulsory
school age, 80 the rapid conversion of
schools into social centers is now TAX
ing off the streets at night the youth
above the compulsory age. Four hum
dred social centers have been opened In
the United States within a decade, with
tude of activities.
In line with the second movement,
to improve conditions for children on
the streets. is to close certain side
aside for play under supervision. There
Is precedent In other fields for such
trafhcless streets.
Commercial Zones Established.
Commercial zones have frequently
been established for various purposes.
For example, for peddlers during GER
tain hours. Safety islands, or guarded
spaces and squares. encouraged by
European examples, are common in
New York. Heavy teaming has been
excluded for years from avenues bear
ing the legend, For Pleasure Driving
Only"
Residential streets will, it is hoped,
bear similar legends. For Play Only"
or "ChiIdren's Playground; Do Not
Enter" The suggestion of the crea-
ton Of streets for children only" was
enthusiastically adopted by. the first
city and town planning conference of
Massachusetts as a basic plank in it's
platform New York and other cities
are experimenting this summer with
such streets with very promising re-
suits. Undoubtedly this is the entering
wedge of a system of street supervis
ion of child life which is certain to be-
come nation wide, and which will guar
antee to every community that the
cherished ideals of home and school
shall henceforth be not destroyed but
reinforced by street influences.
Tolstoi says somewhere that Russia's
greatest needs are schools, schools and
Schools" Congested Americas great
est needs are Fairgrounds. Fairgrounds
and Fairgrounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29
Streets as Fairgrounds.

HleHt-HOuSe coI1HllSSiOnSs Immigration
commissions, city surveys and especial
ly recreation surveys, all point to one
conclusion: The street, though unfit for
play, is, nevertheless, the playground Of
95 per cent of the children of most
American cities.
How to extract the good from street
life and suppress the evil, how to get
the street to cooperate rather than
compete with home and school, are the
great educational problems.
There are two distinct movements
The first, an effort to take (and keep
attempt to improve the conditions for
children who are on the streets.
The first movement has always
stimulated home and school reform and
the demand for more Fairgrounds. It
may well be. as Charlotte Perkins Gill
man has argued for years, that reor-
ganizing the home will dispense with
crowd out children. Wash days are
certainly hard on children. Why not
let the children use the so-called-par-
lor or front room as a playroom on
such days-indeed, every day? Moth
ing could be more useless than the
parlor. generally crowded with stiff
furniture and locked, while the chill
dren play in the cutters.
The use of the back yard, too often
devoted to the needs of garbage, is as
urgent as the conversion of the parlor
into playroom. Roof gardens are
similarly possible. In the Justly called
lung blocks" where tenements are
damned in, side to side, often sharing
a party wall, a roof garden could run
from end to end, thus restoring to the
children nearly every inch Of space the
tenement took from them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29
STREET AND CHILDREN
DISCUSSED AS PROBLEM
Effort Made to Keep Youth of Cities
Off of Thorough
fares.
Present-Day Evils Theme Of Article
Written by Philip Davis
of Boston.

What to do with the children Of
"streetland'' is the problem which Is
discussed in an article written by
Philip Davis, formerly supervisor Of
licensed minors. Boston public schools,
and just sent out by the Survey press
bureau. Mr.. Davis takes up the prob
lens of the children, the causes under
lying those problems. and presents
solutions which he believes would do
much to lessen present day evils.
The article follows:
Many growing boys and girls loiter
in the market places in search of food
to supplement their meals. Some fill
themselves with pickles, cakes and the
refuse of the pushcart. Chronic indi-
gestion Is the only price these street
children pay for this market food. But
the cost to the community in wasted
effort to educate such groups OF chill
dren, labeled backward or indolent in
school. while in reality half nourished.
is greater than that Of the school
luncheons now provided by some COM
munities These findings are the result
of the first organized attempt at super
wishing the life and labor of boys and
girls on the street.
Observation in Many Cities.
The work was undertaken under the
auspices of the Boston school board,
with the idea of discovering how seri-
ously the labor of these street traders
interferes with their school work. 1t
began with the appointment Of a d.
rector to supervise the licensed minors
of Boston-some 5000 newsboys, boot
blacks, peddlers, messengers, delivery
boys, bag boys. wood pickers. who were
found everywhere on the streets, too
often during school hours It led to
visits to many cities, in order to find
out what the children Of STRICKLAND"
were doing and what was being done
for them.
Everywhere the Investigation showed
the same problem and the same results.
While the children of Boston frequent
the city dumps, those of Baltimore use
the gutter as their playground-th
open sewer their laughing brook of the
kindergarten story. The East Side OF
New York is so crowded that a vacant
lot is luxury. Each side of the street
is pre-empted by pushcart peddlers
hours before the children rise in the
morning. Even in the famous Chicago
Loop. one of the most congested busi-
ness districts in the world, children
were IouHu playing anu WoTklHS ana
loafng in the midst of danger.
And likewise, although each city may
be singled out for some special phase
of the street problem, the data proved
that certain quarters in all cities de-
velop the same street environment and
the same street product Every juve-
nile court proves the same contention
regardless of the nationality of the
child and the country from which he
came. Close, crowded homes, offering
little opportunity for study or play:
poverty in varying degrees, undermin-
ing the basis of family life-these are
universal causes driving boys and girls
onto the street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

Il hadn't the remotest idea there
were so many continuous miles of per-
feet road in the United States as I
encountered on my tour to Washing
ton," said c. J. Peterson of Chicago,
who. accompanied by F. A. Anderson
of the same city. motor toured to this
city via northern Ohio. central New
York, the New England circuit. the Jer-
sey coast resorts and Philadelphia.
Mr.. Peterson and Mr.. Anderson are
members of the Chicago Motor Club,
which is affiliated with the District
organization. and called at local club
headquarters for route home via
Frederick, Gettysburg and the Lincoln
highway.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-07
MAKE Mine a Matted Milk"

One hundred and forty-one thousand,
two hundred times a year this order is
repeated by students of the University
of Wisconsin to Madison dealers, says
the Madison Daily Cardinal.
These figures are not the result of
guesswork. but are based on carefully
compiled reports submitted by dealers
in the University district.
Some idea of the vastness of the
consumption of Horlick's Matted Milk
by the students of this one university
alone may be gained when it is con-
sidered that the straws used in serv-
ing would, if placed end to end. form
a line thirteen miles long, while the
total amount OF Matted Milk would
fill a reservoir of thirteen thousand
gallons.
The investigation also developed the
fact that the students do not order
/ Matted Milk merely as delicacy or 4
! thirst uuencher but because they have
discovered that its highly nourishing
and sustaining qualities enable them
to make satisfying lunch on a glass
of HorliCk's.'
! The total amount annually expended
bv the students in this manner is
SI4,12O and it is estimated that the
saving through the resultant economy
on restaurant checks represents a
least an equal amount. or enough t.
pay all expenses for fifty students fo'
one year at the university, or to bu,
two hundred students a high elias!
library of one hundred books each.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-07
The People and War.

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: The peo-
pie pay the cost of war-the cost IN
every way. They furnish the sons and
husbands who are shot down. They
supply the fields that are trampled
and the buildings that are rlddled.
Out of their substance comes the
money that is wasted-a sum now
equal to 100000 an hour, as it has
been figured. They assume the fear.
full debts to pay in the future, and for
generations to come they will take
little out of each days labor, and a
little out of each bushel of grain, to
help in the payment. 1t is the bust
ness of the people that is ruined. 1t
is the hearts of the people that are
broken. 1t is the door posts of the
people that are marked with the
badge of mourning And when il
is all over. the people gain MOTH
ing. Some general bcomes i'm
mortal as a fighting man. Some
king struts in increased glory across
the stage. Some orator boasts OF
the glories which have come to his
country. But when all is said and
done, war is miserable business. 1t
is cruel, wasteful and illogical. After
the cataclysm in Europe is over, and
the passions Of men have cooled, and
judgment returns to her throne, it
will be up to the people who have
done the suffering, and who have
made the sacrifice. and who have sent
their sons to untimely graves to rise
in their might and say, in laundering
tones, that war shall be no more!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-07
WARNING is SENT
TO RETAIL DEALERS
Must Be Cautious About Sale Of Flaw
oring Extracts Made With
Alcohol, is Word.

Warning to all retail dealers to be
especially cautious about the sale OF
flavoring extracts and similar sub
stances made with alcohol is to be
given by the wholesale dealers ofIowa
to their customers, says report from
Des Moines. They are warned to
look out for danger of violation of the
prohibitory law.
It is reported that business has
been set UP in one small crossroads
trading point in southern Iowa of put
ting up 'job-lots" Of favoring ex-
tracts to be sold in quantity at very
low rates to customers A "job lot"
to be thus sold will be sufficient
quantity of lemon extract to last an
ordinary family, if used for legitimate
purposes, ten years. The obvious pur-
pose of the scheme is to put out a
low grade extract which may be used
and will be used for beverage in
dry territory.
1t will be recalled that In the list
CT domestic drugs" which it has been
agreed may be sold in grocery stores
in Iowa without registration permit.
there is essence of peppermint and
other extracts when used for flavor
ing. All favoring extracts are sal
of the state when used for fiavoring.
If used for some other purpose they
are not salable. A circular from a
house manufacturing extracts ex-
plains the situation as follows:
1.-THE grocers and dealers in flaw
ors are urgently requested to see to
| it carefully that neither they them
selves or any of their clerks. sell any
| favors to be used as intoxicants; to
| do so is to invite charges against
such dealers for bootlegging. which is
dangerous charge. Note that alco.
/ hol is used in the best extracts to
bring out the flavor and hold the
various oils in solution. 1t also eyap-
crates in cooking and in freezing Of
| ice cream, etc, and the best extracts
cannot be made without it. The legis-
lative committee of the wholesale and
retail grocers' association of Iowa
backed up by the leading extract
manufacturers strongly urge that
each retailer give this matter his at
| tention, to the end that the people of
Iowa may respect their retailers and
| the extracts that they SELL
| or course this is preliminary to
recommending certain brand or
make of extracts: but these state.
ments fairly cover the situation. II
Is believed by the jobbers that there
is great danger ahead for some of til,
general merchants if they are not
over careful about the handling of
those substances in which alcohol has
been used for the making.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-07
History in a Lifetime.

Chicago Evening Post: The first
woman minister in the United States
has Just celebrated her Goth birthday.
TIE Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
within a decade OF century, retains
her faculties and is still actively en-
gagged with her pen in the advocacy of
those reforms to which her life has
been devoted She was among the
suffrage pioneers: in antebellum days
she earnestly espoused the abolition
ist cause; the temperance movement
has been supported by her voice and
writings. She graduated at Oberlin
Theological seminary, and is now pas
tor emeritus of All Souls church at
Elizabeth. \. J. AS she completed her
goth year she returned TO her pub,
fishers the corrected proofs of a new
book
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-07
BOARDS LETTER
ABOUT PATIENTS
Lee Supervisors Will Cooperate To-
wards Granting Request to Place
Insane in County Home.

Last week Supervisor Young told
The Gate City that the board of sup
eryisors would cooperate with the
board of control in keeping the mild
insane patients from Lee county In
the home at Summitville rather than
to send them to the state hospital
which is crowded Here is the letter
concerning the situation which was
written by the board of control to the
supervisors:
I'VE have finished our semi-annual
visits to the four state hospitals for
the insane. We are sorry to announce
that each of these institutions is over.
crowded. The legislature did nothing
for the state to relieve this sad con.
dition. There has been an increase
of over 200 in the population of the
institutions since our visit year
ago.
"You will hear it stated on all sides
that insanity is on the increase, but
we know from actual experience and
observation. We desire to call upon
the counties to help us in this mat
ter. There are two things which
your board can do to relieve the situa-
ton. Let me state them to you:
"First-You have the right, as We
uAuCA StdAu Tic low ~ AOAuoS W SSANO
harmless and senile dementia cases to
the state hospitals for the insane, and
instead to place them in the county
homes. The facts are there are
great many old persons in the insti-
tutions who really should be at home
with their children or with those
charged with the duty of caring for
them. Your body should take action
and stop the commitment of this class
of patients to the state institutions.
"Second-The next way we would
suggest that you could help us would
be having all of the patients from
your county, whom you care for, re-
called and placed in your county
home.
"This latter proposition, of course,
belongs to the board of supervisors
wish you would lay this matter before
your county board and it will undoubt-
eddy be only too glad to relieve the
situation if possible The county board
will make out list Of the patients at
the hospitals for the insane charged
against your county, and send the list
to this board, indicating those whom
they think they can take care of"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-07
LITTLE WATER POWER CURRENT

Little hope that any considerable
amount of electricity may be devei-
oped in the future by Iowa water
power is held out by the state engi-
neering experiment. station at Ames,
which declares, as the results OF a
special study, that not until there IS
big advance in the price of coal VIII
it be economically wise to harness
Iowa rivers for power purposes.
Iowa streams flow over fiat country
and the head of water is low, and
great quantities are needed for pow
err dams. The wholesale drainage OF
swamps and lakes is cutting down
the supply of water available during
the dry months, so that many streams
no longer have enough flow in sum-
mer for power turbines. The big in
vestment required for high tension
lines and equipment also stands
against water power.
In Iowa 5S water wheels and tur-
bines, with total horse power of
1929. we're used in 1912 for general
ing electric current. In addition to
the 10000 hores power development
of the Keokuk dam, the most notable
water power plant is that OF the
Upper Iowa Power Co., of DEBORAH,
which has two plants which total l.
400 horse power. Humboldt has
water power plant which operates
three IT'S kilowatt generators.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-07
CHUMS.

cHUMs.
r. should die tonight there still
would be
One favor left-one pleasure left to
me,
Ana tnat TO come from out my narrow
IN spirit form and see and wish you
To stand beside and hear you jest anu
quip,
And feel again the wholesome teilo"-
To see your smiles and Know your
hearts rejoice,
And hear our songs and raise my
silent ovice.
Ii YOU should die tonight what would
there be
OF fellowship and happiness for me?-
Except, perhaps, to sit alone ana
stare
Across the board and see your vacant
chair,
And, in the smoke, to see your kindly
face,
Or hear your cheer resounding
through the space
OF memory, and, while my fancies
stir,
To dream alone of happy times that
were,
If some must go and some must stay
behind
If fate must cleave the friendly ties
that bind
How better far that death should
beckon on,
THAN life should last with love and
friendship gone.
John D. Wells in Buffalo Evening
News