Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-12-06
MASS MEETING
HERE TONIGHT
Results Of Red Gross Study to
be Told About

The program for the Mass meeting
to be held in the High School auditor
ium tonight, by the American Red
Cross which brings to close the
Know Your Community Better"
study which has been carried on here
during the past week has been com
pleted. Every citizen of the city is
invited to be present and hear the re-
ports that. are to be read by the Chair
men OF the various committees taking
part in the study and the other speak
ers on the program which follows:
Community singing-Lawrence w.
Ballou, leader.
Address-The Future of the Red
Cross-Clarence King, Director Ci-
william Relief, Atlantic Division,
American Red Cross.
Community singing-Mr. Ballou.
Introductory statement concerning
Perth Amboy Survey-Tracey j..
Waring, chairman Community
Study committee.
Impressions of Perth Amboy-Dr. J.
F. Steiner. Director of the Commun-
ity Study.
Reports of Committees.
Family Welfare-Mrs. E. F. Spof-
ford.
Health - Dr. Chas. /. Silk.
Housing and Sanitation-Mr. Earl
Education-Prof. S. E. Shull.
Recreation-Mr. Hooper.
Juvenile Delinquency-Mrs. Adrian
Lyon.
Community Organizatlon-Mr. j.
Arthur Fish.
Community singing-Mr. Ballou.
Moving picture-'"The Awakening of
Moving picture-''Winning Her Way"
2 reels.
A large number of people were
present at the daily meeting of the
Community Study group which was
held yesterday afternoon in the Pub
lie Library. The meeting lasted until
nearly seven, as it was necessary to
complete final plans for the compile
ton of the work and for the mass
meeting to be held this evening in
the high school auditorium. A num-
Der of people were heard from,
among the speakers being John X.
Sheehy, president of the Board of
Education, and Dean William p.
Cantwell. pastor of st. Mary's church.
Forty workers met at the Elks'
Club today to prepare for their final
reports for tonight's meeting at the
high school. The preliminary reports
read at the meeting were very inter-
esting and the meeting tonight prom
ises to be of very constructive ma
ture.
An inspection of vacant lots In the
residential district made by three
troops of Boy Scouts in cooperation
with the Community Study Commit
tee, under the direction Of l.. O..
Heinold, local scout director, showed
that the majority Of vacant lots are
not suitable for Fairgrounds. OF
twenty-four vacant lots in which
children were playing, only three were
approved by the committee.
Miss Helen Sullivan, Miss Esther
Linotsky and Miss Edith Weiner, stu
dents at Trainers Business College,
volunteered their services yesterday
In preparation for the mass meeting
tonight.
The statement that medical inspec-
tion of school children was carried
on by The Anti-Tuberculosis League
and the state and local health depart
ments, which appeared in yester-
days NEWS, was an error. Medical
inspection of school children is car
Tied on as an activity or the Board
of Education, and the figures re-
ferred to were obtained from them.
Only two deaths from typhoid have
occurred in this city in five years,
which is far below the average for
cities of this size in this country, the
health investigation has shown. Fig
ures also show very marked gradual
decrease in the deaths from diphthe-
ria during the last twenty years, un-
I'll the present epidemic. Consider
ing the phenomenal growth of the
city during this period, these facts
speak we'll for those responsible for
its health