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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Women Called to
Instruct Manned
J And Ill Civilians
Occupational Therapy Is
Taught to Volunteers
By the National League
For Woman's Service
N OPPORTUNITY for service

4 N OPPORTUNITY for service
N is offered to women as in
structors in occupational Their
apy under the direction Of the Ma
tional League for Woman's Service.
The league maintains a school for
volunteer occupational workers at it's
national headquarters, II East
Forty-frst Street, where fall and
winter classes have been formed.
Departments Of occupational Their
apy introduced at the Vanderbilt
clinic and the Home for 1ncurables
have proved so successful that many
other institutions have requested the
establishment of classes by volunteer
women workers.
At the Home for Incurables a
former sailor whose lower limbs
are paralyzed has made and sold
more than one hundred netted shop
ping bags during the summer
months.
For the man or woman with the
use of only one hand, rake knitting
offers a means of amusement and
material gain. For those artist
cally inclined, there is clay modelling,
beadwork and painting. Attractive
bead necklaces and pendants are
made of self-hardening clay, dec
Grated with water colors and shell
lacked. These articles bring prices
consistent with handwork and origi-
nal design.
Women interested in taking up
this field of service are urged to
communicate with the league at the
earliest possible date. The demand
for trained volunteers is practically
unlimited, the course necessary for
complete training is short one, and
any woman who has been actively
engaged in war work is no doubt
qualified to become an instructor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Part of Exhibit
In Church

In the church on Second Avenue
are charts, pictures, manikins and
statistical tables on alcoholic facts.
Much of the information con-
tanned in these charts is absolutely
rev to the cosmopolitan East Slider.
But, according to Miss Wills, the
East Side is following the trend Of
the times and is not nearly so far
behind as are some other parts Of
New York City.
One exhibit in particular appeals
to children. 1t shows a neat little
two-story house which was bought
supposedly with the savings of a
man who lived in prohibition terri
tory and who put aside 81 a week
for stated number Of years in
order to pay for this house.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Adapted to
Environments

Without question, the Social
Unit plan would have to be adapted
to meet different circumstances of
population and environment, but it
is plan within which there is room
for modification. 1t has made its
chief demonstration in public
health and produced notable re-
suits. Whether results of similar
significance could be achieved in,
say, Americanization or education
or recreation is still to be proven.
cat any rate, the Social Unit has
suggested a clear-cut type of or
ganization. Many of US hope that
a demonstration will be undertaken
in New York under Community
Councils-that this will be one of
the tangible results Of this alliance.
Community organization is one
movement which it seems to me
ought to challenge the attention of
every thoughtful person. | feel that
it has been demonstrated in the last
six months that old-fashioned social
service methods are not capable of
meeting the desire of people for eff
ficient and genuine democracy.
"We need vitality in New York City
right now to develop a mechanism
through which natural human re-
sources can be used for the common
good. The Community Councils and
the Social Unit Organization offer a
program. They provide a medium
through which the common man can
come to basic understanding of the
way in which public services are ad-
ministered in this city, So that any
changes which he might want to sug-
gest in the administration of such
services are made on the basis Of
understanding.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14

TIME annual dinner of the Ma
tional Association of Women
Painters and Sculptors will be
held Tuesday evening, December 16,
in the rooms of the Architectural
League, 215 West Fifty-seventh
Street.
Captain Ernest Piexotto will speak
of his work with the A. E. F. Art
School in France, and II. Van Buren,
Magonigle will talk on "Mural
Painting from an Architects Point
of View"
The annual Autumn Sketch exhi-
hition in the Arlington Galleries, 274
Madison Avenue, will be held from
December 16 to January inclusive
Lord and Lady Dunsany will be
the guests of honor this afternoon at
the monthly tea of the Pen and
Brush Club.
The Motor Corps of America held
a reception yesterday at the Ritz
Carlton.
The Oasis entertained Thursday.
December II, at the Hotel Commo-
dore with twilight tea. Haywood
Broun, of The Tribune, and Judge
Lindsey, Of Denver, were the speak
ers of the afternoon.
John D. Lindsay, president of the
New York Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children, at 297
Fourth Avenue, read an extremely
interesting communication to the
board of directors of the So
ciety at their annual meet
ing this week. The letter contained
check for $4,000 donation to
the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children and came from
the trust remittance department of
the United States Trust Company.
The letter stated the sum was paid
on behalf of Alphonse P. Pettis,
whose address is Nice, France.
At the board meeting Charles A.
Peabody was elected one of the
vice-presidents- and Arthur M.
Crane, Robert D. McCarter and
Corwin Black were elected members
of the board of directors. During
the recent visit Of the King and
Queen Of Belgium to America, King
Albert decorated Mr.. McCarter for
his wonderful work with the Ameri-
can Relief Commission in Belgium.
The second Of a series of card
parties given by the Daughters of
Ohio in New York to raise money
Tor the benefit Of blind soldiers was
held at the Hotel Hamilton Thurs
day, December IL. Mrs. William
Hessel and Mrs. Clapence I. Phillips
were hostesses for the day. The
December meeting of the club was
held at the Waldorf Astoria Mon
day. The program for the day was
arranged by Nine. Carolyn Lowe
Hovey.
The Life as Fine Art Club, Mrs
Mildred Marley Easton, president.
held meeting on Wednesday after
noon in the west ballroom of the
Hotel Commodore.
The HARLEM Philharmonic So
ciety entertained Thursday, Decem-
Der 4, with tea in the Aston apart
ments of the Waldorf-Astoria. Mrs.
G. Victor Twiss, president, and the
other officers and mem |rs Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Social Unit and Commu-
nifty Councils Associa-
tions Combine Their
Machinery for Welfare
Mrs. Tiffany
Believes i'm Move
Old.Fashioned Social Ser
vice Work Fails to An
swer Need, She Says

(IH AM more pleased than i can
say that the Community
Councils of Greater New
York and the National Social Unit
Organization have come together to
promote jointly community organi-
zation in New York City," said Mrs.
Charles L. Tiffany last week. az
have been a member of the execu-
tive committee of Community Coun-
ellis for some time and l have also
been the chairman of the promoting
body for the National Social Unit
Organization: From the beginning I
have felt that the two organizations
had much to contribute to each
other.
"The Community Councils opened
up the territory in New York, es-
tablished the need for community
organization and interested many
groups Of people.
"On the other hand, the Social
Unit, by combining its efforts to one
district (the Mohawk Brighton Dis
trict of Cincinnati), has worked
out sustained, carefully measured
plan, getting the best available adj
vice and basing it's efforts on all
, available experience for working
out what is, in my opinion, the most
sensible, complete, reproducible type
of community organization in the
country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Woman Voters
Interest

II am interested in this as a
woman voter. We are aware that
much of our legislation is based upon
superficial knowledge of the needs
which it is supposed to fill, and until
we get unit organization embracing
the whole population we are never
going to know what those needs ar,
and we are going to have useless
legislation and ineffective use of
public funds and an unappreciativo
mind on the part of the public.
IL see the real purpose OF the So
cial Unit and Community Councils as
that Of making government real and
making it possible for the citizens to
bring about changes in an orderly
fashion. When we reach this state
we will not need to fear revolution.
Community organization seems
to offer an immediate constructive
answer to these problems.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Happenings in the World
Of Women S Organizations

board Of directors received. The So
ciety will give it's second musical of
the season Thursday, December 18.
The artists for the program are Nor
gan Kingston, tenor, and Mildred
Dilling, harpist.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Temperance Exhibits ON Sec
Ond Avenue Attract Both
Parents and Children
With Educational Movies
Presents Scientific Side
East Side, According to Miss
Wills, Is Not Behind the
Times on the Question

XIII ROHIBITION is here for
the foreign born as we'll
as the native-born Ameri-
cans. 1t will be much easier for
them to obey the law if they know
something about the effects of
alcohol"
So says Miss Edith M. Wills
Field Secretary and Director of
Exhibits of the Scientific Tenn
perance Federation. Under the
auspices of the World League
Against Alcoholism, she has opened
a temperance exhibit at the Second
Avenue Baptist Church, Second
Avenue and Ninth Street.
Miss Wills's exhibit is in a neigh.
borhood where live Russians, Ital-
ians, Poles, aLithuanians and Jugo-
Slavs.
For the most part, they are un-
familiar with facts on prohibition
their newspapers having simply told
them that the 18th Amendment had
become the law of the land.
Miss Wills, with her exhibit, at
tempts to tell them few of the
fundamental, scientific facts which
she has cleaned from medical au-
thorities, statisticians, actuary de-
partments of big life insurance
companies and other sources.
Moving Picture
Exhibits
The first thing she did when she
opened her exhibit was to set up q
stereomotograph machine, a minia-
ture moving picture apparatus, in a
large window in such a way as te
throw a series of pictures on a
screen.
The stereomotograph first flashes
en- the screen a picture of rail
road accident, with this statement
beneath: ''T'wo fingers of red
liquor can turn $10,OOO,OOO safety
block signal into a $10,00O,O0O loss
of money" The machine clicks and
chart is flashed on the screen
stating that as a result of investi-
cation it has been ascertained that
insured drunkards have three and
one-half times as many small acct.
dents as the average insured
worker.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Kitchen Work
On a Large Scale

1T was the organization of the
women of Belgium, together with
the philosophy Of Belgium, that
made the work possible. 1t was done
through the organization of school
stats. Those children who were in
school were cared for by their
teachers, assisted by volunteer
women, and it was a wonderful
thing for them to do, for it was
nothing but kitchenwork. The re-
suit was that on the day of the ar
mistice the undernourishment was
below that of the pre-war period.
eve felt that the conservation
of child life in the war area was
the most important service we could
perform. There is still need to care
for about 100000 children, and
there will be need to care for a
larger percentage over the winter.
eve have in this country in our
schools a large amount of under
nourishment. The undernourish-
ment here is, however, more than
half due to the ignorance of par
ents. 1t is not financial ques-
ton, but is simply sheer ignorance
as to the character Of the food re-
CURED by child life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14

the season Thursday, December 49,
The artists for the program are Nor
gan Kingston, tenor, and Mildred
Dilling, harpist.
The American Criterion Society,
Of which Mrs. Leonard L. Hill is
president, will hold it's second din
ner dance of the season in the grand
ballroom of the Hotel Plaza Friday
evening, December 10. The host
esses, besides the president, will be
Mrs. Charles V. Palermo, Mrs. John
P. Laff1in, Mrs. Joseph Palermo, Mrs
c. H. Peck, Mrs. W. T. Hoops, Mrs
l.. A. Cushman and Mrs. John S.
Gaines jr.
The Theater Assembly, Mrs. J,
Christopher Marks, president, held
an executive board meeting Thurs
day afternoon to make final ar
engagements for the annual Christ
mas festival to be given at the
Actors Fund Home, West New
Brighton, Staten Island, Friday
December 26.
The Society Card Club, Of which
Mrs. Harold George Wood is presi-
dent, will hold it's regular Monday
meeting at the Aston tomorrow.
The National Opera Club is de-
voting its December 10 meeting to
a Christmas fete and ball, the pro
ceeds of which will be given to the
Newsboys' Christmas Dinner Fund
The main feature Of the program
will be a Christmas fantasy called
the "Newsboy's Dream"
The Maine Women's Club, Mrs
Ada Shorey president, held it's De.
cember meeting at the Waldorf or
Saturday. The subject Of the day
was "a Maine Christmas Party
Miss Grace Moore was chairman
The greater part Of the entertain
ment was provided by children OF
the clubs members. Particularly
pleasing were the recitations by
Frances Reed, Adeline Rumery
Agnes Rumery, Frances and Harriet
Flye, Lucille Turrell and a piano
solo by Eleanor Turrell. Miss Van
Bryck, with Mr.. Augustine at the
piano, sang "The Silent Night" Mrs
Newbury, accompanied by Mrs
Bachelor, sang "Holy Night
Miss Cakes danced "Christmas
Bells" an original dance. Miss
La Frentz told the Christmas story
The tree was from the Maine woods
laden with presents for old anc
young. A vote was taken to send
the overflow of candies and the tree
to the Children's Hospital, and this
ended the old-time Christmas party
The New York Colony of New
England women is to cooperate with
other organizations in the Christmas
carnival "Playland," which is to be
held at the Grand Central Palace
Lexington Avenue, December 22 tc
27, 1919. The Santa Claus booth is
in charge of Mrs. Henry Clarke Coe
with the presidents of various wom-
ems organizations as vice-chairmen
each having charge of the booth one
afternoon and evening of the car
nival. The New York Colony of
New England women will have
charge Of the booth Tuesday, De.
cember 23.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
"Propagandizing"
Ry Posters

&y OOICAo
II do not believe that among the
children in small town life and in
the agricultural centers, so per cent
of our children, there is much under
feeding. In our large cities the I'M
derfeeding is due largely to the
shortage of necessary food supplies
in the homes, and that is why l be-
lieve in the feeding of children in
the schools. That is the only rem
edy, because it is impossible to go
into the home and undertake to in
struct every mother.
"There is little use in propagan-
dizing unless we prepare to show that
we have a social philosophy Of our
own which is real substitute.
81 must confess to a certain
amount of experience in propagan-
dizing. tried to propaganda the
whole world in regard to Belgium,
and again the United States, on the
food question. We have had more
success with the picture poster than
with any other device that came to
our hands. So we deem it worth
while. and reco9 mend it to you"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14

their homes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Herbert Hoover
Emphasizes Value
OF Child Welfare
Children the First Consid-
Grafton of the Relief Com.
mission i'll War-Ravaged
Belgium, He Points Out
TT ERBERT HOOVER was the
guest of the National Child

guest OF tne NaCIOnal Chlld
Welfare Association Tues
day evening at a meeting of the Of
ficials, members and friends of the
association at the residence of the
president, Judge William Wadhams,
48 East Seventy-sixth Street.
Mr.. Hoover addressed the organi-
cation on child welfare work in the
light of his experience with the
children of Belgium.
"In the early days of the Belgian
relief we found that there were
severe stages of undernourishment,
especially among the Children" said
Mr.. Hoover. eve undertook to feed
the entire child population, some
million and three-quarters in num-
Der, one million Of these outside
their homes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Jean Norris Addresses the
League of Advertising
Women on Her Work
as a City Magistrate
Shoplifting Is Common
Finger Prints, Physical Ex-
animation and Probation
Inquiries Aid Decision

TEAM NORRIS, New York's first
ID woman magistrate, addressed
last weeks meeting of the
League of Advertising Women on
Wednesday noon at the RENDEZVOUS.
The subject of her speech was her
work as judge in the women's day
, court.
A petition has been circulated
recently among the women's clubs
of New York City indorsing Judge
Norris's work, and asking that her
position be made permanent by the
Mayor.
The Experiment"
In Larceny
"ShQplifting is the charge against
many Of the women brought into
court at this time of year," said
Judge Norris. "Petty larceny is the
technical term for it. The women
are brought to the women's court
and given a preliminary hearing.
Then later they are sent to the Court
of General Sessions. In the pre-
liminary hearing of one of the cases
recently the defendant was all old
lady. She insisted upon this hear
ing. She said that she had Shop
lifted simply as an experiment. She
had read about how easy it was
and wanted to see whether she could
carry anything away. She would
have come back the next day and
paid for the articles, she said-that
is, if she had not been caught"
The other cases Judge Norris ham
dies are those of incorrigible girls
and women. The charges against
the women are usually for lettering
or soliciting.
Three Checks
On Defendants
"The number Of young women
brought into court on these charges
is awful" said Judge Norris. "In
handling case of this kind there is
time given for finger print record
to be taken, a physical examination
to be made and a report secured
on the woman's family. There comes
through these Investigations suffi-
cient information to enable me to
know enough about the case to rem
der a fair Judgment.
"Many Of the cases that have come
before me are those of drug addicts,"
continued Judge Norris. "These
cases have to be specially handled
and hospital attention often has to
precede the actual hearing of the
case"
Judge Norris is president of the
National Association of Women
Lawyers. She has recently accepted
the presidency of the New York
State Federation of Business and
Professional Women's Clubs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14

country.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-11
WINGED PIONEERS

Explorers and adventures of the air have flown mighty
distances. This summer the ocean was spanned. Between the
Columbus and the Lewis and Clark of aviation is a long role of
9eroic names.
The transcontinental derby, stupendous in range and in
the extent of its brilliant entry list, does not excite the public
mind as much as the past feats of daring have done.
But think what it means!
There have been assembled for this great endeavor the
pick Of modern aircraft and the pick of modern airmen. All
makers, all nations, all theories of design are represented.
It's significance is practical rather than romantic, despite
The lofty qualities of craftsmanship called forth. The United
States government will analyze every detail of the achieve
ments and the mishaps of the many contestants. The day of
practical, unitarian flying will be brought that much nearer
as a result of the substantial material gained through this epic
test of machines and men.
Death put its mark on the undertaking at the outset. But
no one quailed or finched.
An older generation of Americans went westward, fol-
lowing the explorations of a fearless few, to take possession of
the wilderness.
the cross country flyers are crowding into hours and days
the perils which these other pioneers endured over months and
years.
There still is a question mark after aviation's future. The
automobile, at the end of its first decade of use, was an inter-
esting experiment in contrast to its present status.
What America did with the actor car America is doing
with the airplane.
In the air derby, the spirit of the old frontier still lives,
with undiminished vigors
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-11
Daily Sermonette

Sin is contagious.
It's worse than the c%ontagion of dis
ease.
1t is possible to guard yourself
against physical disease, but it's very
hard to shield yourself entirely from
sin.
You can quarantine smallpox but
you can't quarantine sin-and sin is
more harmful than small pox.
You may shut out sickness but it's
almost impossible to S~egregate people
who seek to destroy the soul-lives OF
men and women through pernicious
personal influences.
Bullets come a little closer.
What about parents who are
spreading disease of sin?
Have you ever noticed how your
little children have caught" your pet
sin?
You know how they initiate you.
You have passed on to them many
If not most-of the bad habits o
which you are guilty, and you have
made life more of a struggle for them
because Of this handicap.
1t will be harder for them to think
truly and to act squarely.
Besides this. they will be penaliZed
because of the sins which they have
inherited from you-Why add to the
burden by compelling them to carry
the weight of your bad habits in addi-
tion?
The facts hat sin Is contagious is
one argument for isolating those who
are guilty of sins which are harmful
to the community.
1t isn't as easy to be specific in de-
signaling types and kinds of sin as 1t
is to designate Contagious diseases
but we're coming more and more to
find out which practices and habits
of men a no longer be regarded as
SOLITARY" evils but social" evils.
And this refers to a much wider
range of sins or crimes than are COM
monty understood when we think o
the social evil"
We are just beginning to get a
glimpse of the pitiful effects of the
latter curse-in blighted and blinded
lives for others because of the su-
preme s~elfshness of one. but we will
undoubtedly 500 carry this principle
over to all forms of life.
Sin is contagious-it is THE great
social evil.
Some day We'll learn that mo man
liveth unto himself"
Then wen be more ready to consfd-
err others before we bring upon them
untold suffering because Of our per-
sonal sins.