The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-16
AIMS TO TEACH
BETTER LIVING
IN COAL FIELDS
Hiss Marguerite Walker JORDAN
Would Garry on Social Ser
vice Campaign


vars:sy and besides Der educational
advantages hiss peen schooied by eI-
psrienSe, ErsI in The great cities. es-
-pac:aiiv Philadelphia. where sSe
worked with Al assignment undes
Hiss Scott, food ~expert@fcr-the NorIh
American,-in social service work. She
has fond n West Virginia mining
Communities field witch is crying
out for workers and It is her desire
to bring about the Development OF
tbs idea.
Alreadv she mas interested coal
; operators n some OF the fields and
has worked with good results, but
what has been done has only opened
ner eyes to what is yet 10 be done
towards what she believes viii be the
nearest thing to a solution OF the
problem afforGed by the relation OF
employer and empioye IN the coal
fields tnat viii ever be reached.
Trouble with Women.
Hcre;nterest IN the work originated
at NcaIow, where she Glanced TO be
visitor, when the terrible. labor
/ troubles OF 1a13azA began. The con-
ditions led her to investigate and what
Ishe learned caused her TO form the
opinion that the trouble was with the
women and not the men: that while
the men might be employed at SUNG
/ lent wages. life could not be made
/ bearabIe : enough until something
should be done TO tighten the burdens
! Of the women and children
Relative TO the domestic economy
OF the average miners household she
says that the waste is appalling
that they buy the most expensive
food and then throw away half of It.
The cooking practlced IN the noun
| tain homes, filled her with something
akin to despair. Grease she found to
| be the basic principle OF every food
preparation-grease. grease. grease,
until she dreamed that she swan n
it. Moreover. she found conditions on
the interior and exterior OF many
/ homes unsanitary and unattractive;
| there were few amuSements TOT the
men and none at all for the women
and Children. These children she de-
clares, do not follow the proper in
stincts OF childhood-they do not even
play.
To correct the conditions which ex-
isl will require patience, time and
money for a struggle against an ap-
pallins Ignorance on the one hand
and a sitting Indifference on the 9TH
er.
The schools need the introduction
of domestic science and manual
training courses, she says, and adds.
that the rural schools OF West Viz
Sinia are friShtdIIly inadequate.
Social Work IN Schools
cnfldren are suffering N many
cases from malnutrition. due to I'M
properly prepared food and poorly ar
ranged diet. Too much starch IN 900
constant supply is her criticism.
Her idea is to start this social work
IN the schools and by first getting
bold Of the children. paving fhe way
for constructive work among the par
enfs: sos IN at homes may be bright
.ened. inside and out, sanitation inn
proved. food made more wholesome as
wei! as more pa1ataole.E and amuse-
7rent and recreation introduced into,
lives which too often have hitherto
been given ever only to toll and sor
Gidness.
L, She has worked n several feds
and has found many of the operators
wiling and ready to cooperate VITA
her. Particularly she mentioned Col
Leckie and the Hon " ID. Ord. sootn
OF rhe Norfolk and Westem field. as
men anxious TO contribute in every
Nay towards the betterment OF their
people
Her object now. Is. to engage the in
tarest of some force-either the Fed
Grated women,s clubs. the West VIZ
GINA Coal Operators Association or
the state itself in tbs work to sucn
an extent that they Will make Il pos
sible for L TO be.carried on. She IS
anxious to work in West Virginia
prompted by motives Of loyalty to
ms section. and the fact that mining
as West virginia's greatest industry
Offers ? wide field IN which there are
great things to be accomplished she
has received attractive proposItoas
from. points in the. West, but is an
xious TO remain nero.
To Speak at Warrington.
+ Enroute to Warrington. where she
q TO make an address, she stopped in
Huntington this week for confer
snce with Mrs. RE L. Hutchinson,
prcsident OF the State Federation OF
Homen's Clubs, and other prominent
club women. From Warrington she
NIL so TO Columbus, o.. for con-
ference with some western operators,
after which. she hopes 10 return 70
, the West Virginia fields
~ She hopes eventually to see the
work She IS Interested in made that
81 a state department There IS much
need of this, she thinks. One OF the
crysnx evils which she has found in
che neglected health of the children,
4 larsespercenSage ofswhom are duh
ana backEa I'd for the want OF the re-
moval OF torsiIs and adenoids, while
many others suffer from bad teeth
she IS always. on her
work by district nurse and 1t 8
taroush this agency that these phys
eaf needs are discovered
| g MISS Jordan IS younssand enshuss
| ias4fc and q pracfcaI worker and not
IN idle theorist. Her presentation Of
Ter cause Impressed the local club
! Nosnen most favorahly and 1t viii M
donbtedf lead them 10 give due eon@
.sderafton to the work which she suss