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Washington Journal., 1916-05-12
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Washington Journal., 1916-05-12

Nlepet uul We Speus
uppe. 3pei pfuno bur9padfes
ner, re4t trGftiser Sped pirb entiues
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gut abgepnfden. an Morgen nit
2%-3 Quart toltem @oIfer ouF
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ben lan9iom geto9t. Na9 benz Mb4
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ben lam. 3. 3. geihdIte 3erf9nittene
peibe Riiben uno Mobrriiben, &obIs
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reft beiB an, inbem Sped unb Rarz
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biinitete 9adpflaumen ba3u. 8iele
0eute eiIen rieies fsbr idttigenbe Gee
ri4t nit 3ugobe bon e.tpos Giia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17

His time had come, as with grim faith he
had known it would!
Six months afterward fifty school leagues
we're organized and five thousand children
marched in review before the Mayor and the
Commissioner, accompanied this time by the
whole Street Cleaning Department.
A triumph indeed for this man, who could
not even see his little conquering army.
Then came the advent of Commissioner
Fetherston. Once more there was dread and
forebodng- perhaps he would stop the move
ment altogether!
"Well, what can | do for you?' was the
Commissioners CHEEKY greeting.
Give me your support" said the blind man
before him.
III that's all you want, you are welcome
was the reply.
And Mr.. Smons cannot speak with sufficient
gratitude and admiration of this Commissioner.
who decreed few months ago that the chill
dren's leagues should become permanent
auxiliary of the Street Cleaning Department.
How does this blind enthusiast go about his
self-imposed task?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17

Day after day, year in year out from early
morning until late at night, he has made
speeches to schools. clubs and factories or the
personal responsibility of citizenship; guided
by the hand of his assistant from place to
place, he hurls his message with the enrapt-
ured enthusiasm Of an evangelist
The secret of his success? That he instllS
into his hearers some of the enthusiasm and
patriotism for the "grandest city in the
world"-theirs to cherish and care for-their
personal pride!
Even the tiny kindergarten tots under three
are reminded that they have civic duties. They
sit before hin, eager to hear what this man
who cannot see will have to say to them.
Where do / come FROM" he asks.
Street Cleaning Department" shout back
a hun lred shrll little voices.
What do want you to learn to do?"
He begins to answer for them. Keep the
Streets
- clean" they finish for him
Of you see banana skin on the pavement
what are you to do"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17

TOYS

fore thing can actually take form it must
out. The difference between mere dreaming
and doing consists in an imagination which is
idle and one actually set to work.
If imagination teaches resourcefuneSs il
can be made means of al-around develop
ment. The word "all-around" is used advis-
eddy Not long ago little girl was seen to
toss her doll rather roughly aside. 1t fell in
a dishevelled heap and the mother-chd ran
along thoughtlessly. few moments before
she had been talking in fond tones of endear-
ment to the same doll. In a moment she was
back and stopped to observe her mother pick
up the discarded dolly carefully and speak to
it in a soothing tone Of voice.
you see, Susan she said, turning TO her
little daughter, you would feel badly if your
mother should love you one moment and then
treat you so harshy the next We must be
kindly in our treatment of our children or our
children will surely not love US in return"
Susan nodded agreement. Poor dolly
Florence she said taking her favorite in her
arms, mother will remember another time to
be more gentle with you!'
THE GUIDING HAND.
Her imagination was being used to make her
personally more lovable and to show finer
consideration for the feelings Of others.
In the same way imagination can be the
means of training in systematic orderliness, in
contentment, in cheerfulness, and in all the
other virtues and good qualities we desire to
inculate. Cultivate the child's imagination
by wise letting alone and also by interfering
a helpful and timely lesson into its play from
time to time. even as did Susans mother.
BE prepared to follow the budding mind
with intelligent understanding, as it in turn
becomes initiative realistic. creative or dra-
nratic, hero-worshipping or ideaIistic, construc-
tive or ambitious.
To know when and where to bring the wise
suggestion. the helpful game. the right COM
panions needed at the time and books suited
to the particular stage of the development of
the Imagination is To build safe and sane
foundation for the structure of life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17
This time they find their own reply in a

This time they find their own reply in a
joyous:
Pick it up"
IF you don't somebody will get ---?'
hurt" and so on-with the result
that the babies in their play hour can be seen
with toy wheeIbarrows picking up stray paper
in the playground!
At the formation of a league in public
school the pupils who desire so to do-and
never does hand fail TO go up-are enrolled
as members, represented by delegates chosen
in the first place by the directors of the school,
From the various delegates are selected
corps of officers responsible for the boys and
girls under their control. Each officer has
much coveted badge, promotions being made
according to the monthly reports sent in of
work done. The best record of the year re-
ceived a certificate we'll worthy of framing.
Not only are the members of the Civic
League supposed to assist the Street Cleaning
Department, but it is their duty to help every
department of the city. So they are instructed
to urge that homes be kept in sanitary con-
dition, to study fire exits, to prevent boys
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17


hood can visualize train of
choo-choo cars from a string Of square, wooden
blocks, or even few pieces of kindling wood
while another child can see nothing in the
blocks or kindling wood except material out Of
which 10 build more or less pretentious
edifces In other words, out Of house ma
terial they could improvse nothing but
houses
To the imaginative small boy the broom
stick becomes a galloping horse; or to the
small girl number of discarded garments
offer wonderful opportunities for grown-up cos
tunes and endless materials for doll ward
robes and furnishings. 1t means quick and
well-rounded development for children to have
TO exercise their resourcefuness in improvis-
ing a part at least Of the articles with
which to conduct their plays and discon-
tented lack of interest when everything is
ready made and finished to their hand.
THE NATURAL PLAYTHINGS.
The city child unfortunately lacks the ma
terial for odd playthings,-such as bits of
broken crockery, showing beautiful colors and
quaint patterns; shining stones, with specks of
gold and silver cleaning therein; brilliantly
hued leaves; fence corners, which may be
rooted over into playhouses with bits Of board;
lumber piles. with their fragrant, pney
corners, and the numberless other things from
which and with which country children can
amuse themselves in the wholesome fresh air.
Because these things are lacking the city
child is likely to be oversupplied with toys
for bewdering variety may be found even
on the counters Of the owl priced novelty
stores. That some of these do not last long
does not give the child much concern. There
arc more where these came FROM and friends
and relatives are likely to be ndulgent where
children are concerned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17

Thus the child reared in city surroundings
receives one very definite lesson along the line
of extravaganza, and in expecting all its wants
to be filled with the finished article 1t fails
to receive much-needed lesson in the opposite
direction also, in that it never learns holC to
use the material at hand with which to supply
its wants and desires.
When it grows little older the moving
picture show and the entertainment house of
various kinds afford amusement. There is no
call for the exercise Of Imagination or in
genuity.
THE BEST KIND OF EDUCATION.
Here is where the child more remotely sit
uated receives broader education. He must
improvise, in many cases, his own playhouse
and its furnishings, and if he wants enter
tanment it must be made out Of the things at
hand. The butcher knife becomes capital
dirk knife, and neck muller a belt for the
pirate. Ravelled rope makes wavy, flaxen hair
for the heroine, and tableaus of Greek figures
are staged which call for long and careful
study of the characters and the parts they
play.
The man or woman who has never, as
child, shared in producing an exhibition" in
the schoolhouse or town hall has missed one of
the events of lifetime. After that ordinary
obstacles do not daunt him, and the challenge
of difficulty only suflces to stir his blood.
Had the beloved characters in Louisa Al
colts Little Women" been differently en-
vironed it is exceedingly doubtful If those
wonderful amateur home plays would ever
have been invented or the dramatic ability
shown. nor would Louisa Acott's own pen
have gained strength and power to delight the
hearts and souls of children everywhere
THE REALM OF FANTASY.
Even the child of three or four years
possesses a rich Imagination. If its play is
constantly supervised this faculty does not
have chance TO develop. The little donkey
attached to the cart is an actor in the chlds
drama, and every doll, whether it be paper.
rag. or the more aristocratic bisque, takes a
part BETTING It's size and type
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17

The child naturally weaves into its play
elements of life which it sees, and the things
which particularly call forth his admiration
are again and again repeated in play. If he
lives near fire engine station he is likely to be
alternately the fireman, the horse and the
truck. If the little girl has gone to visit the
school with her sister she will initiate the
teacher in her play for weeks, and the older
boy will reproduce, in endless ways, the acts of
the circus he has viewed.
The Imagination of the growing child is
faculty given it by nature, and so it must have
a purpose, if not a manifold purpose. By the
exercise of its own imagination the child is
able to be happy in the ideals he holds in his
brain, and little by little this same magma
ton helps him to achieve those ideals.
Imagination is the possession of hope and
hope leads to faith and belief in greater things.
Moreover, the child's own Imagination is so
vivid and the world in which he lives so won
derfuI that he is able to accept unquestion-
ingly the great facts of the universe which he
cannot understand For this reason wonder
tales and fairy stories appeal. There is no
stretch of Imagination too great for him to
take.
THE BUILDER OF CHARACTER.
The effect of imagination upon character
should not be overlooked. If the child is al
lowed to live wholly in a fancifu world, or
even to spend too much time in make-believe
surroundings, the result will be dreamer of
dreams and a builder Of idle fancies. On the
other hand, if imagination is guided from
childhood by wise mother and the child is
led, step by step, from the wonders of its own
fantasies to the greater marvels of nature its
thoughts will be led outward and upward and
its horizon constantly broadened.
In time the imagination impels the grow
ing youth to initiate the character rather than
the acts of the heroes he admires and later
that same imagination becomes constructive,
and the adolescent boy or girl thinks out large
situations and even plans inventions. Not a
few notable accomplishments recorded to
the credit Of young people under twenty. Be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17
Little Immigrants Are
Ledgued TO Help Keep
City Clean
The Children's Pledge.

We. who arc soon 10 he the citizens
Of New York. the largest city on the
American continent. desire TO have her
possess a name which is above re-
proaoh.
We. therefore, agree TO keep from
Iitteriug her streets and as far as pos
sible prevent others from doing the
same, in order that our city NAV be
as clean as she is great and as pure
as she is free.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17

Learning Hon toDo Then
Share in Municipal
Housekeeping

trial remembered 10 pick mp papers whom =.
found any closed the doors anv s,,,.
found them open. About two weeks aco ,Ia
] was going home one Of the girls in nv c...
told me that the janitor keeps tho bmls;..
very dirty and that there had been no v.,'
in the toilets for more than three week. !,
| went up to her house and saw that svo,.
thing she had said was true so remarked 4.
to Miss Aitken and she told me she would s..
about it. heard that it was reported n Pa
mond Hill House and Miss Aiken has i.
heard anything about it., but think r..
everything will be alright" optimisi,,r,
concludes this black-eyed immigrants 90.
her report should cause the COMMISSIONS p.
due anxiety.
Mary Gagliano also tells the CommisSns,.
II saw girl peeling a banana and thrown,
the peel in the street. | went up 70 be,
pick it up and put in the garbage can. 81.
refused. told her some person ngit PASS
and would probably get hurt. ethsn picsel
up the banana peel and put it in he gsrbago
can"
4 manly member of the league aged nine
wishes to state:
Since the beginning Of the month have
picked up fifteen pieces Of loose paper On h,
streets Have told janitor TO cover his gar.
bage can. have taken my post in 1903 street
courtyard with the boys Of my squad and have
seen a great improvement, although it is ys
very dirty. My squad and myself are looking
up to the end of the time when our yard viii
be all clean. SO DO many Of US, little Victor
Wessberg, although we are ashamed to sag
we have not taken as much action as you to
see that it is!'
These official statements arc produced in The
shakest of hands, for to write without lines
at the tender age of eight We must remenh;
is no easy task. Alas! that We had no "ot
fetal" reports to send on our own civic respn.
sibility; surely would We have learned to writ
on blank paper earlier.
One small inhabitant Of l03d Street rt
Second Avenue keeps a diary from which rS
one single day is missing. The writing is I'm
and large but hardly able to keep on the srg'
lines of the pages, which toward the END ar
somewhat yellow and finger marked, althoug'
on the whole it is of scrupulous neatness
This young lady takes her duties yer!
seriously, for besides picking up banana SKINS
orange skins and paper, We read that se'e'S
times a week she put out fires, erased SeVs's
bad words written on pavement, stopped ngns
and reproved boys for the use Of bad Language
In the case of the dad language We lsa'i
that big brothers services are lnyaraoy FL
listed and we are left to wonder whether u
exerts moral suasion or resorts to more stFsn''
Gus measures.
One delegate, we are told, proudly produce.
at a meeting 5,141 matches; another ~
peanut shells, picked up during the proce'A'
month.
Our young citizens are even INSPIRED
poetry about their civic ideals and endes'O,
Here is an effort that shows fine SPIN
tolerance, for it explains matters in term"
cuated to spare the feelings Of the trespsS-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17
MY LITTLE GERM.

Time, IVY Little GIRL
My little germ we know you like US
And you know how much We like you
Ny little germ you cause much slcSnsN
So we're trying hard to crush YOU
We have our best in the struggle
And they'll surely make you hustle
Ny little germ we won't have you
SO you'd better hurry through.
Then. to the tune Of the ever p0p''
"Tipperary":
It's a hard thing to fight the small germ
It's hard thing to do
It's hard thing to fight the small germs
And the people know il too
Goodby dear hearts and dear lungs
If the battle isn't won
It's hard, hard thing to fight the SIns" ."
But cleanliness will win.
Not bad for diminutve poet OF t"e'' :,
bursts into song entirely on his own '''''~s
1t is almost impossible for US TO s'',r
that this one mans achieved task may
to our future citizenship. -,
A child that with folded hands mas !. -,
ly said each month of its life from u s
it can speak the children's pledge o. w. 80,
will not, when it comes TO mans eS'""' -,
the numbers in our prisons and reiofH''
or foster unclean, diseased conditions. -.
Let us consider, too. the thousands :" ,,s
ing men and women in our shops ana i''' .,r.
hardly able TO speak a word OF our '''s n
who have not the fainteSt concep'o" 4
personal responsibility Of existence ~ -,
are the mothers and fathers OF our "''
Grafton. Ike,
Not only their children but they 'n'"A, AS
through their children will now oe ' "a,
practical ideal of citizenship, an idea' VI, .rs
understand because it is rooted !"
things.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17

from building bonfres in the street and to
prevent destruction of property.
Order of business at the monthly meetings
is as follows
/. Opening of meeting by the president.
,. Recital of civic pledge by the members.
3. Reading of the minutes by the secretary
4. Reports of committees.
). Reading of special reports by members
6. New business.
:. Remarks of supervisor or director.
SO Vita Riccombemi, aged ten, of p. ). 80,
Borough of Manhattan, under the date Of
March Is writes, somewhat breathlessly:
"To the Commissioner of Street Cleaning:
81 Vita Riccombemi, member Of the Aitken
Civic League respectfully invite your atten-
ton to the following report:
Il told three ladies to take the things off their
fire escape. | told the janitors of 10l and 105
Thompson street to cover their cans. picked
up more than fifty pieces of papers. | told
a girl to pick up piece of paper and said she
wouldn't pick it up because she had not thrown
it so picked it up. The girls of 7B2 Indus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17
Bv EMMA GARY WALLACE.

HE child who has the gift of a
keen imagination can always
amuse himself, no matter how
commonplace or uninteresting
his surroundings. But children
differ greatly in their power of
imagination. Some from baby
hood can visualize a train of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17
BY ALISSA FRANC.

r WAS for a man blind and
deaf for the last twenty years
Reuben s. Simons-to conceive
the idea Of enlisting the pa
triotic feeling, so strong in the
heart of every child. in battiino
with the gigantic problem of
Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-09-14
WATERWAY men TO HEAR
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY

Philadelphia, Sept. 14;-The plan
for system of inland waterways to
insure the transportation OF freight
and passengers in The eastern part of
the United States in case of general
railroad strike will be considered by
the annual convention of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways convention here.
An inland waterways system connect
ing all navigable rivers, lakes and
canals, delegates pointed out, would
serve the dual purpose of rendezvous
for the navy in time of war and of
a means of transportation during
labor troubles.
Although Congressman J. Hampton
Moore, president; Rear Admirals Will
liam s. Benson and A. w. Grant;
Major Generals William M. Black and
Tasker H. Bliss and Brigadier Gener-
al =. M. Weaver and others confined
their remarks to plans for the At
lantic coast, other speakers later Will