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The Washington herald., 1919-08-19

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tied The Trials
and Tribulations $
of a G h c V y
Chaser" when she
took the stand to
testify before the
S e n at e subcOm-
mittee investigat-
ing the high cost
of living in the
District yesterday
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Daughters of Veterans
Guests of G. A. R. Officer

Col o. H. Oldroyd. assistant adju-
tant general Of the G. \. r. gave a
reception and entertainment to
members Of the Ellen Spencer Mus
sey Tent. No. l. Daughters of Vet
Grams, last night, in the C. \. R.
Hall. in appreciation OF the tents
kIndnes sses to him on his recent
CLGhty-sccond birthday anniversary.
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Daylight Law Repeal Veto
Comes Before House Today

TE" House will consider President
Wilson's veto Of the daylight savings
repeater.
Chal~ma0 HauGen of the AgriCuItu-
raj committee and other Western
members protested. claiming many
Western members who wish to over
,-Idr tho veto are not in Washington
The Washington herald., 1919-08-19
Marshall Islands
Found by English

Sydney-It :sn't generally known. but
the Marshall Islands which are taken
from Germany and given to Japan by
the peace congress were discovered
by an EnEIishman and take their
name from him John Marshall. mas
Tor of the ship Charlotte. and Thomas
Gilbert OF the Scarborough. sailing for
Ihina in lISS. ran into the islands
and that is how the Marshall Islands
md the GilberJ Islands got their
names.
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Snou, Ice and
Coal Oil Takes
Joy from Life

Mrs. W. A Shelton, 3211 Tenny-
son street northwest, staged an ap-
preciated little skit which might
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FOLLOW THE CROWD To
The Lowest Prices in Washington on Cqars Cigarettes

o. box .; Bond, Of So; SC straight; $40
Flor De MeIba (coronas de
luxe). for 25c; cedar ca m
boxes of 50......... pf.VO
El box norSi Of Sc sc. straight; S2.40
ors5,e San Of ran; 6c, &c straight; S2.4O
k:Dsy fsr nS1aSe, 1s" Set % 5Pra5f'os' Ct $3.50
Our box oo,Grr, aG 50 2 for Set S1.25
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Atkinson's Standard
Preparations

lhese remedies listed here have Druggist Akin
sons name on them. which have stood the test ~
@ .lnle more than htteen years. People OF Washing
ton have insisted on his own make which fs.eno,ISh
proof they have merit
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sen15o-M"; ba1 af so sc straight $2.40
senoF 6oE Srrfln' Of sG' for i'e' $3.50
'nsspe@Sen5e' sep o9 as 2 for l'e' S1.75
H1Gs''B nss box {FGtGShilds'' "f 5St 2 for $3.50
AIonn (petit perfectos). in
cedar boxes of so. 3 for cf m
25cj box. oX.................
s0i's@' ba% Sf Sc st, straight; $3.50
The Washington herald., 1919-08-19

Eskay's Food; 75e size. To- H
oae prlce wv II
Nujol Mineral Oil; s1OO size. 10
Sale price Observation-Disclosures. (OC II
Pnkham's Vegetable Compound; TO- Il
s120 size Sale price. ce......................l lOC II
Vnol; LOO size TO-
Sale price ce......................... lOC II
Horlicks Matted Mix s1OO size c7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

federation. Every neighborhood
worker realizes there is no stronger
force for Americanization in the
country than the settlement, and is
fully aware Of his or her response
bility. Americanization is taught
the children through school or kim
dergarten, to the boys and girls
through club work. to the grown
ups through English lessons and
lectures on civics, given in Yiddish,
IN Italian or in whatever language
is best understood by the people Of
the neighborhood. With the teach
ing of English and civics goes tho
education of the immigrant in
American ways Of thinking and liv-
ing. The aim Of the settlement
worker is to teach the people Of
the settlement neighborhood their
duty toward their families, their
nelghbors, their city and their coun-
try. They do this, not by nero
teaching Of language or citizenship,
but by strengthening in every way
possible the personal contact be-
tween the neighborhood house and
the community. The surest way to
make true Americans is to bring
them into direct contact with men
and women who themselves are fine.
loyal Americans. This is the great
work that the forty-five united
neighborhood houses Of New York.
are doing TODAY.
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Spinsterhood: Dodged and Embraced

inspired one Of the best beloved of
French war poems. 1t was the red
rose in his cap--a rose placed there
to cheer up the boys in the trenches
which. attracted the attention of a
German sharpshooter, who picked
him off in the trench on a quiet af-
ternoon. In the home of his widow
in Paris Miss Bourne met many
French women Of class travellers
and war workers seldom know
III believe the French people have
reacted more normally to the war
than either English or Americans"
said Miss Bourne soon after her ar
rival at the Hotel Martha Washing
ton. "Just as they took to their Gel
lars during an air raid, but went on
calmly discussing hooks and thea
tres, pcrchcd on crackerboxes in
the dark, so now they refuse to have
any friction with fate. When there
is absolutely no one else in the fam
lily to go to work the daughter does
it, but she makes no complaint about
it, and never realizes that she is
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Americanization Work
Centres in Settlements

Neighborhood houses are finding
also that the intimate cooperation
within the federation not only
makes possible a broadening of the
services they have already under
taken, but allows them to branch
out into entirely new channels. An
arbitration board has been planned
to assist in the impartial arbitration
Of disputes, either industrial, eco
nomic or social, that may be re-
ferred to it. The members of this
board will act, not only as unit,
but will stand ready to serve on
any arbitration body as non-parti-
san citizens. Club service with a
director to advise and standardize
club work in the various houses,
hospital service and household eco
nomic service are all new channels
being followed by neighborhood
workers. A public health programme
has been mapped out whereby the
city may be divided and health cen
tres established to carry out health
education.
characterization work carried on
by the neighborhood houses is being
broadened and systematized by the
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eyes bullying and their cheeks hol-
low. They had stuck to their posts
from the very beginning.
"The French women, on the other
hand, seemed not to have the stay
ing quality in war work that the
English girls did. They soon drifted
back to the home when they found
the English and American girls were
doing all the necessary hospital
work. 1t sometimes made us a bit
provoked that the French women
did so little for their own men.
remember a railroad canteen where
| worked for a few weeks, near
comfortable village where many
women of leisure might have carried
on the work as we'll as we did. I
said so to one of them. All, made
moiselle,' she smiled, we have our
home duties
There it is. The French woman's
life is bounded by her home, and ex-
cept for some terrible emergency
she never leaves it. She will care
for her cousins. and her second
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cousins up to the ninth cousin, but
there her home ends, and she has
no training in public work to make
her efficient beyond that This is
the problem that the refugees are
facing in the devastated areas now
There is plenty Of money in France
to help rebuild those regions there
were French protteers as we'll as
American--but the French mind has
not been trained to see a general
need. The rich women Of France
will shrug their shoulders and say
of the refugees, why don't their
people take care of them?' The fact
that the refugees have no people,
that they are old and feeble. and
their people arc the ones who lie
unier the peoples, is something the
nation does not yet realize. That
is why think America will still
have to send money to the devas-
tated area. but we should send it on
the condition that the French people
double the c e,onFibution by public
subscription"
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BY EN- M A BUG EE-

typical of a changing civilization.
She thinks herself a sad exception
to the general rules of life and
takes as much interest as usual in
the love affairs of her friends.
"When a French girl does take to
a career nowadays it is with no
sense of JOY, no ambition to make a
rame for herself.
"That is why the problem of the
French woman in industry and pro-
fessions is going to be so much more
difficult than that of the English
woman. Neither can marry, but
the one is still trying to dodge
spinsterhood, while the other rushes
to meet it,
Perhaps the English method is
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ers body of Individuals is instead
q federation Of organizations all
working toward the goal of social
betterment in developing higher
reighborhood standards, richer COM
munity life and q more intelligent
Americanism.
The war that created q world
scrapheap Of outgrown institutions
showed the settlements the neces-
sity Of broader, stronger organi-
zation than the old association under
which they had been cooperating in
formally for twenty years. With
the beginning of the war came con-
slant appeals to the neighborhood
houses for help in the great drives
launched by the more general or
CARNATIONS, the Red Cross, the
United War Workers, the Fuel Adj
ministration, the food boards and
the Liberty loan committee. All of
these and more came to the settle
ments because they realized that the
settlement knew its neighborhood,
that it was in touch with the foreign
element in the city and could appeal
to those great groups which were
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q n q

more abnormal than the French.
The English men are still living over
the war and preparing for the next
one, and the English girl is going
about saying to herself We'll, it's
Il sure thing that l can never marry,
so l won't look at a young man ever
again They will accomplish great
things along feministic lines, those
English girls.
''They are going at the business
of spinsterhood with the same Zero
ciousness that they went into war
work. l have seen them these last
few months, when they might have
been spared for vacation, going
around positively haggard from the
nervous strain of five years, their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
women Of France are still
looking for husbands, al

TIME women Of France are still
looking for husbands, al
though recognizing that there
is a shortage Of men. The scheme
Of life for the French girl
has always been "to love and be
loved" and it will take more than
a war to change her dream of 81
home Of her own into career of
her own.
While the French girl is thus re-
fusing TO meet fate halfway the
English girl has gone way beyond
the necessities Of the emergency and
has wiped marriage out OF her
scheme OF things.
These are sweeping generallties,
but Miss Margaret Bourne, who
made them, has been in France
nineteen months az Red Cross
worker and has had ample time and
opportunity to study the psychology
Ut the Allied sisterhood Miss
Bourne lived for many months with
the family Of Serge. Baesett, the
French journalist wlAse death has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
and planned that any community in
need of such work can become the
centre of a new neighborhood house.
Focusing
Influence

In matters Of public administra-
ton and welfare which affect all
settlements alike, the federation is
Of especial Importance In acting
for them as unit the United Neigh
borhood Houses increases greatly
its influence in questions of pub
lie health, education, comfort and
convenience. Besides Joint stand
on legislative proposals the neigh
borhood houses find that by acting
together they are not only able to
watch, but to promote pubic service
and take part in further widening
Of social enterprise schemes affect
ing the wellbeing of their separate
communities. The constitution of
the United Neighborhood Houses
provides that it may take steps to
create a favorable public sentiment
upon any matter falling within the
sphere Of activity of . community
work.
BY fostering a mutual exchange
Of services between it's members
the federation encourages them in
developing their especial talents and
resources. The small settlement is
finding its great opportunity in the
union. Some Of the forty-five or
carnations in the federation are
large and influential, but others are
small and specialized in the distinc-
tive service they give their own
neighborhoods. Some are devoted
to Kindergarten work, some to mugs
ing, some to cooking and sewing,
some to caring for the undernour-
ished children of their districts,
some to play schools. Through the
union the work of each of these
becomes better known and the ex-
change of methods and ideas broad
ems the service of the different
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Caribaldi
Still Serves

In fact. Garibaldi seems to be
about the only man in our square
who does not object to the children
playing around HIM. In so doing La
Is serving America as effectively in
marble as he did Italy in ode red
ode shirt an the blue ode breech."
DAD YOU hear that janitor telling
the policeman thar the woman who
had motloned from the apartment
window wanted him because the
place had been robbed by two young
men? The policeman said he had
thought that, as usual, she wanted
him to drive away the bows who
were playing under her window.
/ know that self-centred, comfort.
loving woman. | had TO listen ia
her rawlings about "our boys during
the war. You will not hear her call
these boys who have just robbed her
apartment "our boys" and yet she
has contributed much iowa ra makina
them robbers and nothing toward
making the others heroes.
child at play is not idle or "pas..
ing the time away" but is expert.
enclng real, actual life, without tia
lasting penalties that are visited
upon grownups.
Give thought" to the child Of
the city streets, all citizena new
and old.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Bullies at
Every Turn

And did you notice the big boy
make those small boys give him half
of their cake?, The three small ones
conscientiously divided the other
half. Surely, the bullying that the
small boys receive from the larger
ones has sinister influence.
Hurry and let's see about that
expressman who is driving those boys
off the top of his wagon, All the
big ones escaped--he keeps hitting
at the little one with hammer, and
the child is so busy lodging he has
no chance to get off. There he goes,
limping and sobbing. Well go and
talk to him. Ibid that man hit YOU
with the hammer" | asked. mo,
he bit me with his hand" He has
no right to hit you. Who is he, any
way?" "My father" The big boy is
only one of the many DULLES of
childhood.
Give your attention for one
moment to that athletic looking man
He is one of the city's most success
full men and is known as genius
for work. The secret is that he has
carried the play spirit of his Won
derful childhood into his life work.
Being a trained athlete, he goes
on his lesurely way and makes
every movement count. He played
the game "over there" with the
same spirit that he had played base
ball over here.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

Of the waiA. nost of them are dirty
and unkempt, looking like Sunni Of
an orphan asylum or reformatory.
And yet some Of them are descend
ants Of our alleged best families
people who considered good form"
Of infinitely more value than health,
happiness and wholesome principles.
Now they are world weary critics,
resentful and distrustful Of every
thing and everybody. Others were
cutfed about and underfed and over
worked. Living itself was drudgery
TO them, for they had no motive in
life.
Talk to them and, with very few
exceptions, you will find that those
who were responsible for them al
children did not consider that the
experiences Of we'll supervised play
are, in large way, more valuable
than work and more eGucative than
school.
These benches are, to great ex-
tent, self-perpctuating The chill
dren play around and over them and
absorb the opinions Of these dere-
licts, who are opposed to all organ
lied society. They are sworn at
and driven away because they in
terfere with the comfort and quiet
ude Of the occupants: and the maxi
lngs Of wonderful citizens arc con-
verted into future criminals or, at
the very least, malcontents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
ne tortyFive Neighb0rh00d Houses of New York Unite

nected with the neighborhood houses.
An advisory council, which meets at
regular intervals, is composed of
five members from each house.
drawn from each of three important
groups: the financial supporters.
professional workers and spokesman
for the neighborhood. This gives all
those most interested in the settle
ment a voice in determining the
policies and hand in furthering the
development Of plans for strengthen
ing, not only the federated houses,
but the settlement movement as a
whole. Listed as members Of this
council are names that have made
settlement history in this county.
Among them are Miss Lillian Valid,
headWorker Of the House on
Henry Street,; Mrs. Jacob Riis,
head worker Of the Jacob Riis Set
Element; Frank B. Powell, of the
Music School Settlement, and DR..
John Elliott, of Hudson Guild.
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some one ought to show them what
a real lady is. They do not inherit
that knowledge any more than they
DO the beatitudes.
Did you see that we'll dressed man
deliberately walk into the little boy
who was looking down counting his
steps? The creature walked on and
did not say II beg pardon" or
anything. Look how hurt and in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

takes care of the grass. 1t actually
spends money that it may be cared
for. Oh, no, not by just anybody
who applies for job, but by men
who know soil and season.
But the human growing things in
our square! Let's walk back and
see why that little girl is shaking
the smaller one-they are only play
ing lady. I heard the larger one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

services carried on by the different
houses and the promotion of neigh
5orhood activities in one form or an
other in sections not reached by
settlements already established.
Eventually the neighborhood work
of the city may be so systematized
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

induces the different houses to re-
arrange their work so as to avoid
duplication.
Those interested in the SETTLE
ments hope that from the survey of
neighborhood activities there will
arise the gradual standardization of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

likely to remain untouched by the
forces affecting the country as
whole.
Their success in this work brought
before the neighborhood houses the
responsibility and the opportunity
that was theirs and vitalized the
determination to broaden the scope
of their work and put the informal
city-wide cooperation on a sounder
basis. This determination crystal
lized into the present federation, and
the United Neighborhood Houses
was organized, with Mrs Mary
klngsbury Simkhovitch, of Green
witch House, as first president. Later
the following officers were elected:
Miss Harriet T. RICHTER, president;
Gaylord S. White, first vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. Cyrus Sulzberger, second
vice-president; Mrs. Max Morgen-
than, jr., third vice-president, and
Henry w. Taft, fourth vice-presi-
dent.
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Ask Miss Barr
On Barrow Street

Increased service in many ways
has resulted from the federation. A
central office, established at 27 Bar
row Street, acts as a genuine clear
ing house of information about all
the members Of the organization.
This office is under the direction of
Miss Mary Elizabeth Barr, executive
secretary of the organization, an
enthusiastic young settlement work
err, who manages successfully to keep
the complicated machinery of the
big federation we'll oiled. At the
central office any one seeking the CO.
operation of the settlements may
find exact information as to how this
can be secured. The executive sec
rotary, moreover, conducts investi-
cations for all the settlements, re-
cruits volunteer workers, of whom
there is great need at present; d.
reefs city-wide movements affecting
the work Of all, and, when necessary,
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houses and makes it more vital in
its own community and better un-
derstood by the public.
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What Is Play
And Why?

Ii the superman is ever grown
or discovered he will carry such JOY
Into service that his work will not
be drudgery, and he will be so much
Digger than his environment that
HE around him cannot be tame and
common. Play is the one educator
and developer that cultivates all
these faculties.
Seashore says: "Play is the prin-
clpa instrument Of growth" for
Play is sclf-expression for the
pleasure Of expression"
Forbush says: "The secret of hu-
man power is play. If, as Stanley
Hail tells us, the real fall Of man is
70 90 things without zcst, paradise
fegained is possibility only to men
who know now to play"
Amusements, such as moving
pictures and other forms Of enter
a'nment, cannot take the place Of
soonsaneous play. Shooting craps
or matching cards on a hot sidewalk
gives its thrills but lacks the highest
mental and all moral and physical
value.
Exercise is not play. Swinging
an Indian club ten minutes In h
wen ordered gymnasium with pri-
'ate instructor will "tirc a Teller
YER death" but that same "fcllcr"
can swing baseball bat the whole
afternoon, in the dust and heat, and
honestly, not be at all tired.
|ompulAion destroys the pleasure
Ipi action, hence much Of it's value .
play charms and enticcs the
"a into using every faculty an It
. = pps.
God game, played according to
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a Never will I be able to
efface from my vision two
pleading brown eyes that looked
up into mine as was swept on over
little girl who was being crushed
down to be trampled under the feet
CT the panic-stricken crowd" City
life is just as surely and effectively
crushing out the JOY Of life by
crowding out places where children
may be allowed liberty and the
pursuit of happiness" That crowd
left mangled, lifeless bodies; the
business-mad city leaves dwarfed,
blighted lives.
The New Citizen to a great ex-
tent owes her very existence to
the argument that if women were
given their rights they would intelli-
gently and, in the deepest sense,
religiously attend to the rights and
needs Of the child.
Did we not prove that the mother,
with her inheritance of protection,
plus experience and study, could
raise the standard Of citizenship by
making the world outside the front
gate as safe for the coming genera
hon as the inside, if she were only
given the vote?
America has always meant ad-
venture-free men meeting every
challenge of man or nature. Will
our big city children remain true
to type?
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STUDIES in the development of the
child.
The grass is beautiful-the city
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The Fruits of a
"Playless" Childhood

Observe the men and women oc-
cupying the benches on either side
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say: care you going to tell my
husband any more lies?" If "im-
personation is the whole of morality'