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sponsibility to it's lair and see what
happens.
She says that the 65th Congress
had the job Of saving civilization
the war job--but that the 66th has
the UNNECESSARILY greater Job of
making civilization worth saving
the reconstruction job. She puts it
~.hus:
"The Goth Congress, now in SEES
sion, has the responsibility of work
ing out the immediate problems of
peace and reconstruction as truly as
the preceding Congress had rcspon-
slbility for the problems of war.
What will be done is Of vital impor-
lance to our nation.
THE eXigencies of war forced US
to cut loose from old moorings and
to face new conditions. For that
reason more can be done politically
tor progress in the next two wears
than would have been possible in
twenty years at any previous time.
But wise political action cannot be
expected without the support of in
telllgent and unselGsh public onin-
i'm -
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country have now got into the habit
Of trying to find out what Congress
is doing. Open covenants, openly
arrived at is, at least in domestic
affairs. conceivably possible This is
one of the results Of the war which
should not be lost"
At the end of the long, long trail
OF human comp ANTS about what is
wrong with the world there is
usually somebody to blame. Quite
frequently it is the complainer.
Mrs. Parks familiarity with Con-
eressional affairs has proved to her
mat the person who usually pushes
legislative matters in Washington is
TIE interested person. Congress-
men hear from home only when
some ones personal or financial af
fairs are touched, when all screws
possib' G are put upon the represen-
tatlve by a personally interested
constituency. 'Is it any wonder"
she wants to know, IF the men in
Washington come to think that the
so-called forces for good in the
country are lukewarm?
"1n this period Of reconstruction
since the war the latchstring Of
congress IS out as never before fo
the most recent group to be en-
tranchised-the women of the coun-
try. These women say they want
reforms in matters affecting their
daily living, such as the cost of
1ood, the care of children. the ed,;-
cat!onal standards Of the country.
DO they really want them? Behind
the political laissez faire which the
chronic grumbler holds responsible
for what's wrong with the world
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catch it. And In some strange way
the tale got back to Africa of what
had happened. The elephant had
taken to circus life at first just be-
cause Of peanuts, and then it's old
ambition returned and it just died
Of d broken heart. So, you see, even
the animals teach US that it is we'll
to follow ones natural AMBITION"
The ambitious child thought that
that story was just the finest she
had ever heard. The Colonel was
pleased with her interest.
"The people in grand opera
aren't poor citizens, are they, Mr..
ROOSEVELT"
The ex-President considered.
"Now. let me see.' he said. accord
ing to the prima donna. There was
one in our Rough Riders. He had
good position, but he gave it up to
enlist when the call of his country
cas's~ And he fought and fought
and was one of the best Rough
Riders we had That shows us that
a singer can love his country and
serve it, too, when there is need of
his doing So"
When the great war came, Miss
Lee was in Paris in grand opera.
The words of the former President
were part of her inspiration again,
she says, and she returned to her
own country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

in her hurry to eat lunch, or hadn'.
so much breakfast as usual. Will
the downcast one come downstalrs
with her while she eats bowl ~
soup? Perhaps have one with her,
It always wornT.
Telephoned out Of bed to get jols
for Opportunity School #tucenls. ~
to hear of jobs they know about ic-
others; autographed to from far
parts Of the state 10 aid those who
had fallen into misfortune. and who
know that Emily Griffith viii vouch
for them and find a way out-nn
this is part of her days and night.
And beautiful as is the story Of the
Armenian boy who, called home n
war, left an old coat hanging IN
her closet that he might know IL
had a home in America and that she
was his sister, there is an nciden.
that seems to me to touch even
more surely and significantly the
spirit of her relationship with ner
students.
Came illness and bereavement IN
her home. The night after the news
was printed Miss Griffith was called
to the telephone by foreigner who
had studied n the Opportunity
School and had gone away to WORK.
Might he come TO see her? Some
perplexity or trouble. she thought.
and told him TO come. As soon as
the streetcar could cover the dis
lance between his Lorimer Stree.
rooming house TO her York Street
home, he was with her. Inarticuiate.
trying to find words IN the stil.
difficult English, he tod her he knew
how hard it was and sometime
He gave up the effort and thrust
into her hands his savings Rank
book.
Ernily Griffith not only befrie-d
those who need her. hut she makes
those whom she helps to find be,
ter, surer way in the world feel ths-
they are her brothers. which is "a
very different thing. This is the ana.
test OF the sincerity and success -
the social welfare worker.
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execution. Indeed, it seems a mira
Gle that it was not in these sad days
Of card-index efficiency and the in
stitution-minded and machine-made
methods of dealing with persons and
conditions. Miss Griffith has none of
these qualities in her mental and
emotional makeup, and there is no
better proof than the schools phe-
nomenal history, even the compare
lively unimportant part that figures
tell. For instead Of the two hun
dred students hoped for that first
year more than two thousand came,
and the teaching force was raised
to forty. In this the fourth year
the registration has reached five
thousand.
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boy who has just left her desk for
the English class. All alone. Doesn't
know anybody She hopes he won't
look SO downhcarted when she sees
him again. And he never does. His
countrymen, having had the way
pointed, see to that.
Nor is it only in Denver that the
foreigner knows how much the
school and it's principal can do to
help along the far-from-easy bust
ness of living in strange country.
From remote part Of the state
came a young Japanese to meet his
picture BRIDE" just arrived from
Japan. He had never seen the girl,
the engagement having been made,
according to their custom, by family
arrangement and exchange of pho
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-emote, off at Washington, the Con-
sress was something right at home,
.omething with it's hand in the mar
ket basket and on the wage scale.
Even when it's deliberations were
barraged Under such titles as "the
revision Of the tariff" what it was
really talking about was what you
would have to pay for shoes and
stockings and kitchenware and
woolens. And through some Of it's
dullest sounding powwows over the
reclamation of arid lands there beat,
Ike a tom-tom, the intimatjon of
some great land steal that would
some day get across the homestead
path Of many a woman who was
probably not at the moment con-
sidering that she had anything per
sonal at stake in the United States
Congress.
Over and over these things have
been borne in until finally there has
come to be, all over the United
States, definite effort on the part of
the women expert Congress watchers
to try to rouse all women TO an un-
derstanding of the functions of Con-
gress and an intelligent demand on
Congressman. 1t amounts TO small
but growing crusade. In the result
you find women's organizations all
over the country taking up the Fed
eral legislative program for discus
sion and you find women leaders go
ing about the country TO speak be-
fore these organizations in clarifca-
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in something that life in the large
or the emergency of the hour had
brought the need Of. 1t might he
arithmetic or auto-mechanics, beauty
culture or broom making. citizenship
or cooking, and so on through a list
that can never be complete because it
is elastic and is constantly being
stretched to meet new demands.
Opened in September, 1916, by
Carlos M. Cole, superintendent of
public instruction, the school was q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
Gallanhy and Swift
Comprehension

Emily Griffith's we'll carried head,
her shining, steadfast eyes, her
rounded chin, and her sensible,
humorous mouth give evidence of
the good sense and unfailing humor
and the gallantry that are hers, and
that she brings to bear in a swift
comprehension Of people. 1t is in
dividual to individual with her, and
swiftly attempted solution matched
against swiftly understood problem,
just as surely now with the five thou
sand students Of to-day as with the
two hundred of the other year. If
you are a judge and wish to learn
the mechanism of your new car she
sends you to the auto-mechanics
class. If you are an ashman and
wish to better your fortunes by be-
coming a chauffeur you go to the
same class. And if either of you is
bit shy she probably walks down
the hall and down the stairs with
you. And passing class rooms, where
gray haired people are perhaps
learning to read, never having had
the time to get at it before or busy
fingers are working at fractions,
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federaI Record of Student Health

neither has there been standard
requirement of health other than the
demand for doctors certificate
upon entrance.
At one of the experiment stations
the New York State College for
Teachers at Albany, Dr.. Caroline
Croasdale has established her WORK
on the premise that women have no
huch reserve energy as men. but
nave not the knowledge for storing
IL up FOR judicious use. Women are
now expected to do mems work
lhelr brains are considered to be
at least equal in scope ia mems
brains. Women can never achieve
ehe muscular development of men.
out through knowledge of how best to
distribute their powers of endur-
ance they will rapidly come to stand
OF comparative equality with men.
physically.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
On the Trail
Lf Responsibility

Getting Congress at home in this
way, women are opening their eyes
and ears with far keener interest in
that body than they could possibly
take in a Congress off at Washing
ton. 1t is conceivable that it is go
ing to be an awful nuisance to the
Congressman-to begin with; for it
promises to reflect itself upon Wash
lngton in unprecedented ways. Per-
haps, to end with, it may help some to
have intelligent and active co0pera-
ton back home when the fortunes of
constructive measures are in the bal
ance.
The woman who more than any
body else is instigating this Garry
ing Congress TO the Women" crusade
is woman who probably knows
more about Congress than any other
woman in the country, not just it's
personnel and its tricks and man
ners, but it's whole potentiality, as
well. Her name is Maud Wood Park.
She was for two years chairman of
the Congressional Committee of the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association. AS she starts out to in
troduce Congress to the women of
the United States she takes along
the firm, fixed purpose to track re-
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asked her, according to Miss Lees
account
The little girl, thus encouraged,
told him her whole story.
alice says that l shan't and
Grace says that I ought not to be,
but | am going to be a prima donna.
am going to sing the grand ladies
Of grand opera and die at the end Of
the opera when my lover kills me
with knife or | am condemned TO
die because | love him. And | am
going to be a prima donna and no
one is going to stop me-"
Roosevelt stroked her hair.
"Now, do you know" said the
great man of Miss Lees memory. 81
think that is just fine. You see,
was in Africa lately and l got well
acquainted with elephants 49, he
had dropped into the fairy-lore he
sometimes used with children-"and
I learned their talk. And they told
me of little elephant which had
wanted to be the elephant in the
grand opera Aida but its relatives
and parents insisted that it wasn't a
grand opera elephant at all, but just
a circus elephant. So they taught it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
BY EVA CHAPPELL.
. PPORTUN1TY with Office
hours-soag ones.

hours~-song ones.
Opportunity no longer
light-footed and fugitive, but become
dependable person with an estab-
iishment. and, not the least of it,
with wise, gracious woman at the
door to welcome all corners. New
IDEAS these. though they meet a
world-old need. No wonder the in
stltution where they are being sue
cessfully worked out-the Denver
Public Opportunity School--is at
tracing the attention of the cities of
the world. "They fit you for life in
the Opportunity School not as they
think it ought to be but as you've
got to live it. They teach you the
thing you need" wrote Alma and
Paul Ellerbe in their brilliant and
understanding study of the school
and its three years history, which
recently appeared in a magazine.
1t must not be forgotten that back
OF the great work is always the
great worker. The name of Miss
emily Griffith, its principal, must
ne bracketed with that of the school.
The spirit of the one is the spirit of
the other.
The simple idea of the thing is
this: School age is an exploded no.
ton. One is entitled to training of
hand or brain at whatever time in
life the need, or the realization of
1t, comes. During its short life the
Opportunity School has given this
training to thousands, and these of
ali ages, and stations in life, and
tongues and colors. On the steps of
the all but worn out building | have
seen fourteen brushing shoulders
with seventy, professional men with
peanut vendors, women of wealth
with boys and girls whose shoes let
IN the Denver snow. And this brush
ing was one of absolute equality of
purpose: each had come for training
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dennatlon, the rigid. souaro-too
lineup, gets Us nowhere. rar,ica
larry the rigid lineup within II
party gets US nowhere. One
America acute political needs -
Gay IS body of independent voters
who will look the field over. .udr,
relatively and change party ~
opinion az need may be.
Manifestly what Mrs. Par
efter is to rouse ian woman ~.
sense that the man at Washinetor.
whatever his faults ant his fo.bles
- but the effect of backbone
situation or lcthargy for whtl
woman must assume her fair snar
Of responsibility.
As she goes about among th,
women, all over the country. nitro
ducing them to the ways and mar
rcrs and personnel Of Congress
eNpounding pending Federal legs
iation. explaining the Kenyon
oils as part Of constructive
industrial program, showing Wny
women should support the smith
Iowner bill for national educa-
tlonal department, interesting them
N CONGRESSES proposed Legislative
safeguards for mother and child.
making them pay attention to tho
national resources and Congress-
disposition of them, getting them
to formulate their convictions a. to
the budget legislation. Mrs. Park Is
also mapping out for them the mair
Drifts of the day. economic an
political, so that they shall not &c,
Congress and It's acts in ISOLATED
splendor, or obloquy. but as par,
OF the national whole which is n
relation to the whole world
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

men and women who elect certain
courses IN personal and theoretic.
hygiene. In addition 10 the elerti, 3,
courses, however, every student in
me institution is required to have
detailed personal examination. Re-,
ords are kept Of physical defects
Bulletins are posted regularly cor.
cernlng certain prevalent maladi.s
chart of foods. balanced according 70
caioric and nutrltive values, is made
out by each student, the oroner n.r.
centages being arrived al through
pattern charts which are posted n
the gymnasium and in the phvsi-
cans Offices. Sight and hearing
'e'>' are made and recorded. A
chart Is kept of each students feet
and the position in which he places
them when he walks. C.~-s..i.e
shoes are recommended aaa cases -
severe foot troubles are Followed rp.
sometimes through an ortho.~ae
surgeon.
Every students health record for
the week, the month and the
semester is kept as religiously as
ms record of attendance or scholar
snip Certain courses are prescribed
TO MT especially individual need
STRESS is laid upon exercise. Classes
III corrective gymnastics are at
tended by all students who require IT,
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when you look down on the top of its
head, which is bald in most spots.
They learned to recognize and bear
with the formal vanities with which
many Of the Senator'S fortify the
sense of their own Importance; they
learned the petty ferocities of party
politics. They came to know the
usual lineup on all questions; they
learned to expect that the man who
opposed the suffrage amendment
also opposed child labor legislation.
They learned to expect that many of
those men would on occasion bal
ance a great principle in the scales
with party advantage--stall, filibus-
ter, delay, juggle, maneuver, all for
the sake Of party profit.
They learned that to the con-
sciences of some of these men it
meant nothing to stand up and make
a loud noise for state rights when
that noise could be directed against
the Federal Suffrage Amendment,
and then turn about and vote for
the Federal Prohibition Amend
ment with never a sound for state
rights. They learned the program
of Federal legislation and took sides
on the great issues of the day with
a sharpened personal knowledge of
them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
The Farmer-Milliner
Gets His Desire

If one enters the school with I'M
certain step and wavering eye, Miss
Griffith%alks it out and clears the
mind and gives advice. But if one
is sure she keeps hands off his
desires, except to help him to attain
them and to try to stimulate to
higher possibilities. The millinery
class has welcomed many a strange
applicant, but never one with less
promise than the awkward, sun
burned young fellow from a ranch
who stood beside Miss Griffith's
desk one morning in late fall He
wanted to learn to make hats.
Twenty-Five or three. Freed from
the farm until planting time next
spring. There were so many other
where? 1t was a moment
for advice swallowing
Two or three weeks later I talked
with him, his brown, calloused fin
gers stitching skilfully at buckram
and silk. Sure, I'm good farmer"
he told me. "My wheat and my
pumpkins are the best in the county.
But this is the kind of thing | like
to do. Made a dress for my sister
Minnie once. Best looking thing she
ever had. Hung right somehow. And
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y NE Of the singers in the Roose-
welt Memorial Campaign pays

NSie 4hCHioi idl SdinpaiSH pays
her tribute to the great man
with heart more full than that
of the others. She is Kathryn Lee.
one of our young prima donnas, and
her early friendship with the
Colonel was great help along the
hard road of ambition to success.
Miss Lees story Of her friend
ship with the Colonel is something
a little different in "reminiscences of
the great man. She met him first
when she was a little girl in Paris
and he was returning from GER
tain big game African hunt. He
rave her sound advice and inspira
ion and told her fairy tales which
had a decided moral application to
the little girls ardent wish for
vocal career.
There was some opposition among
some of the relatives Of the then
little Miss Lee to her determined as
sertion that eventually she would
be a prima donna. Miss Lees
narents were then living in Paris
and met Mr.. Roosevelt socially. he
matted the little girl on the head.
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he brought her, smiling and silent
to Miss Griffith. 1t was going to be
hard for her on the truck farm, he
said. No English. Nothing of the
new ways OF doing things. Even the
clothes she had changed her kimono
for . He wanted her to learn to
be American, like him.
Miss Griffith told him that nothing
could be easier, and slipped her arm
around the girl. 1t was honey
moon of hard study. The brown girl
battled smilingly and sturdily with
the new tongue, and, too, with a
strange monster Of wood and iron
that made new dresses for her to
wear on the farm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
"Openly Arrived At"
AT Least at Home

Has the United States entered
upon new phase of its political
career? Mrs. Park thinks it has.
She believes that there is now an
open door into which the people may
enter if they will. She says that "a
hopeful sign about the Congressional
situation is that the people of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
By ROSE YOUNG
Director Of the Leslie Suffrage
Bureau

D'~t''f .! me LeSt}e ,SUTTuQe
Bureau
oss'sr s" so ' csnsse s.' in ' s.
cent years. The Federal
VsuHrage Amendment started it.
For weeks and months, through ses-
sion after session, women sat in the
galleries Of the House and Senate
in Washington watching the for
tunes Of the Federal Suffrage
Amendment, and not oblivious to a
good many other things as thew
watched
They learned the ms and outs of
parliamentary procedure, it's subter-
fuges, its belittlng close-of-session
tricks.
They learned the conduct Of House
and Senate committee programs and
appeared at their hearings to be
ouizzed about suffrage or to listen
10 quizzes on other subjects.
They learned the etiquette of the
Hill and how not to trip over its
red tape.
They learned the personnel of
both houses. All through the 64th,
65th and seth Congresses they could
tell you the answer to the ever-per-
tinent question, who's that speak
ing" as quickly as they could get
a glimpse of the man on the floor.
They learned to know what the
United States Senate looks like
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part of the city school system
therefore free. Persons between the
ages of fourteen and seventy years
were invited to come at any time
between $50 in the morning and
$3.50 at night and learn whatever
they needed to know Miss Griffith
was chosen principal, and five teach
ers appointed. They hoped, but not
too sanguinely, that two hundred
students would come.
Simple and direct as was the idea,
it might easily have been spoiled in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

on her and that she in turn is i'm
pressing on the women is the fact
that there is nothing absolute in
good and evil, measures or men.
It's all relative, some good and
some bad in all. Wholesale CON
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
Kitchenware
And the Tariff

Over and over it was borne in on
the women who learned these things
and the corollaries that other wom-
en-, all women, should be learning
them. Instead Of being something
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

since it has suddenly happened that
a knowledge of those things will help
along, all shyness disappears. More
over, working side by side, both ash
man and judge learn great deal
besides the mere makeup Of car.
Not all the lessons in democracy and
citizenship are learned in the room
upstairs, where Armenian and Greek
and Italian and Swede, and repre-
sentatives from every other country
in Europe, study in preparation for
taking out their naturalization
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
BY GERALDINE II. MURRAY

~ N THE theory that a sound
Z J mind requires a sound BODY
Federal government aeen-
cles are carrying d system of nv
eiene supervision into twenty repre-
sentative colleges of the United
States. These experiment stations
nave been established by the Federal
lnterdepartmental Hygiene Board
and reports of the work will be made
at the end of the year to determine
whether or not similar courses will
be regularly recommended for the
currlcula of ali American colleges.
both for men and for women.