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the Co mforts of Home for Uncle Sans Girl

buildings, and two of these are
joined together with a lobby. This
is like the Hobbies of girls college
dormitories, alive with groups Of
girls after working hours, and bright
with attractive hangings and fur
nishings Of rose, blue or buff Gre
tonne. Girls may entertain their
friends here and their families when
they come to town to visit them. In
rooms adjoining the Hobbies pro-
visions have been made for card
parties, and many times the girls
make their own fudge or popcorn
balls in the kitchenette downstairs.
On a summer evening, when they
blossom forth in their fine linen or
organdy frocks and dancing pumps,
the place seems a campus indeed.
"Company," too, is likely to be
prevalent on the front steps, just
as it was back home on the stoop
of the city residence. The visiting
friends, however, can remain only
until II o'clock, and the Waterman
makes his round fifteen minutes
before that hour to remind the girls
that closing time approaches. If a
girl is out later than II o'clock she
registers her name with either the
head supervisor, the assistant super
visor or the two desk orderlies as
signed to each building. The watch
men check her name off the list as
she reports back, and never since
the first of the buildings was
opened last December has there
been an ejectment of a girl for con-
tinued disobedience of this rule. 1t
is about the only one set up for
regulation of the hotel guests.
This is one hotel where the girls
may feel safe in going to sleep
without looking under the bed for
burglar. Large white globes of
light are attached to the outside of
the buildings, that the Waterman,
who makes his rounds continuously
throughout the night, may see that
all is we'll.
Hot baths, night or day, are an
other attraction which make the
hotel more like home. The hospital,
opened only a short time ago, has
Won it's way into the hearts of the
girls, who have been tended there
by Johns Hopkins nurses.
Miss Ollie Davis, who was at
Wellesley College for twelve years,
came to aid the housing corporation
in making the project reality, and
she has been assistant manager of
the hotels since they were opened.
A few days ago Miss Harlean James,
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At Work or Plav
Miss Dell Leads

1t is government practice to place
responsibility on the shoulders
which can stand the burden, but
the promotion in authority does not
always carry with it an increase in
salary. To-day Miss Dell receives
$1,000 year for her highly special
ized work. She was originally
placed In the branch handling legal
contracts because she showed an
aptitude for legal matters, and was
advanced as she proved that this
judgment Of her powers was sound.
Her force included only five per
sons before the war was declared.
The personnel grew to thirty-five
during hostilities, there now being
about twentysix girls and men I'M
der her supervision. She declares
that the department would have
fallen down under the strain Of the
contract investigation work had it
not been for the loyalty and esprit
de corps Of her staff. There are no
military titles under Miss Dell, but
she deals with the military cxccu-
tlves largely. There are captains
who want information about con-
tracts they have made for telephone
service at the environments. There
are majors who are delegated to
produce collers at seaport and
must have their Congressional APP
preparations legally assured before
the ships can be built There are
colonies who want blankets in
hurry for shivcring men, and gen
erals who have wondered Why the
supply of roast beef kar tho trans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Keeping Watch on
Details of Contracts

Officially, Miss Dell is principal
clerk Of the contract, examining
and records branch Of the Office Of
the director of finance. Brigadier
General Lord is director of this
Office. To state that she has ham
cled billions Of dollars worth OF
government contracts dealing with
the necessaries Of life for the men
IN khaki would be TO hazard a. con-
servative estimate.
No adding machine in existence
could total the amounts involved
even for the period covered by the
report made up by the director Of
finance for the information Of Con-
gress. The report covered the finan-
cial operations in contracts from
April 8 to May in 1913. It's bulk
In pages appropriated five or six
inches. On these pages were count
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Boys Camp on
Cooperative Basis

The boys perform the work o.
the camp on cooperative basis,
all OF them taking part in the tasks
OF pumping water, caring Tor the
camp grounds, looking after tables
and cleaning the dishes.
Last year 1859 persons obtained
vacations of two weeks each through
the Henry Street Settlement, and
the demand was by no means met.
Miss Lillian Wald, head worker
of the house, who has Just returned
from France, where she represented
the United States government at
the International Conference of the
Red Cross, believes that the oppor-.
tunlty for service is greater tins
year than ever before. Voluntary
workers are needed to aid in the
summer time work at Henry Street
and at the other forty-eight United
Neighborhood Houses in the cityy :,
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touched by Miss Dell's cooperation
and advice.
The social work embraces every
form of recreation for the young
people working in the division, from
weekend trips to nearby points of
historical or scenic interest to
dances staged after the 4 80 o'clock
quitting" hour. There is a special
recreation room where these dances
are held. But here, again, if one
asks Miss Dell anything about her
duties as director of the social
work, she will Immediately cite her
able assistants, who really do it
all, and attempt to give you the
impression that she is merely a fig
urehead in the whole proceedings.
l.. L. r.
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Miss Deli, of Georgia, Makes Good

less items of contracts for clothing
of all kinds, from shoestrings to
hats, and various sorts of equipment,
in figures whose digits rarely how
cred under six places. Single con-
tracts for s50,O00,000 were not
unknown. Those around the $780,
100000 mark were usual enough
to make the $500 contract of the
pre-war days seem a scrap of paper
to the woman who watched out for
Uncle Sans interests in these for
NAL documents.
1t is important that a watchful
eye be kept on the legality of
these contract papers. The Con-
troller of the Treasury can keep a
hatband manufacturer Of Fall
River, Mass, on tenterhooks for
months if some illegal detail creeps
into the contract he has with the
government agent. Unless the con-
tracts are strictly in accord with all
the rules and regulations there
won't be any check forthcoming for
the contractor. The post held by
Miss DELI is one requiring executive
temperament, with an intelligent
grasp Of legal phrasing. She must
have a lawyers knowledge, but
never has to write a brief.
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Jessie Dell
Who grew with her lob Ia the
War Department

THY COBB comes from Georgia.
I So do choice peaches and
rattlesnake watermelons. But
these partners in Georgia glory will
now have to make room for the
admission of another member to
the hitherto CLOSE corporation.
This is the person who passed on
the legal details Of all contracts
made by the quartermaster's corps
Of the War Department during the
great war just ended. She happens
to be a woman, Miss Jessie Dell, the
daughter Of the late John Crawford
Dell, Of a little town near Savan-
nah, Ga. Before the war Miss Dell
commuted to Georgia once a wear
during the fifteen years she had
been away, but five years ago the
contract business Of the quarter
masters corps increased 80 greatly
that she hasn't been able to make
the frir sirca
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lucky illiterates to the drafted men
abroad. These books were also
widely used in the environments
here.
"The campaign to stamp out H.
literacy is growing every year." said
Mrs. Stewart during her visit to
Washington. Estates of the South
are appropriating money to reclaim
those men and women who have
been lost to it because of inability
20 read or write. New Mexico
opened it's campaign several years
ago. 1t has recently reported that
$4,000 adults have been taught to
read and write since their moon
light schools opened. North Caro-
Ina, Oklahoma and Alabama have
taken up the crusade. Kentucky has
set aside $4,000 for the work.
Educating Native
Americans
"This work must not be confused
with AUGMENTATION. We work en-
tirely with native-born Americans.
This comes about because there is
practically no foreign-born element
in the South compared with the
great urban populations Of the East.
There have been remarkable
changes from illiteracy to at least
partial literacy. There have been
cases of our moonlight school pupils
advancing to the fifth grade. There
was one instance of such a pupil
going through normal school and
afterward becoming a teacher. |
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trips for those who care to go along
at 81 apiece. There, too, are placed
items about lectures soon to be
held and recreation possibilities
within the hotel for the girls. White
enamelled woodwork in this lobby,
as we'll as throughout the interior
Of the buildings, gives the Colonial
aspect. Windsor chairs and simple
hangings add their bit. Deep
wicker chairs, wide, broad tables and
standing lamps with silken shades
free the scene from the usual
boarding house or hotel atmosphere.
Back Of the main lobby is the main
dining room, where mattresses serve
at small tables. A second dining
room, with negro walters, has re-
Gently been added to accommodate
the full quota Of residents. The
project can be self-sustaining, &C
cording to the housing corporation,
which is conducting the business of
the hotels, and for the first time
made a $4,000 profit in April. Girls
who for some special reason, such
as need for a specialized diet, de-
sire to eat elsewhere are permitted
tc do so and retain their rooms.
There is always a long waiting list
for entrance, and the only refer
ence a girl needs is the word of her
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was converted into a weekend
house, where ten extra girls went
each week.
A friend of the settlement has
again given up her century-ol1
country home at Montclair for the
convalescent babies of Henry Street
and their mothers.
Opportunity for summer recrea-
ton for boys is provided at Camp
Henry, located at Mahopac Falls, IN
Putnam County, a combination Of
lake, woods, athletic fields, orchard,
gardens and sunny open places that
1t would be hard to equal anywhere
within fifty miles of New York.
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$500 children attended the play
grounds weekly last summer.
Every morning at least one anc
often as many as six day parties
composed of twenty-five children OF
mothers, start off for the country
and parks and beaches.
During July and August of last
year 1,459 persons went on these day
cuttings from Henry Street, 1850
from the 10th Street Settlement
and 789 from the Lincoln House OF
Negro Branch.
Friends of the settlements are
planning to throw open their coun-
try estates this summer for week
ly parties of children. At one OF
these homes bathing is the attrac-
ton, at another a model farm, and
at q third large field for base
ball.
The Henry Street Settlement has
six country places, two Of these
farms at Yorktown Heights, 1.-The
Rest" The convalescent home at
Grand View is open the year round
In addition, a farmhouse in Rock
land County is at the special dis
posal Of one of the nurses, and there
she sends many of her small Italian
charges.
The farmhouse in Yorktown
Heights is the Mecca of the smallest
children. Early last month the
little kindergarten tots were taken
there by their teachers.
This month and next parties of
older children in groups Of twenty
six at a time viii go out for vaca-
tons of two weeks.
Weekend Parties
For Girls
On the same grounds is the
House in the Woods" a vacation
home for older girls, where they
learn to swim in a large outdoor
swimming pool and play baseball
and 50 on hikes. The original ca
pacity Of the blouse in the Woods"
to care for twenty-three girls has
been expanded to accommodate
weekend parties, and in addition
the older club members are given
permission to camp Saturdays and
Sundays on the grounds, sleeping
out of doors, bringing their own
food and cooking it themselves.
Rlverholm, at Grand Niew-on-
Hudson, is open in the summer
months for the senior girls. The
house is built by the side of the
river, with wide porches overhang-
ing the water, and there are op-
portunities for boating and bathing.
The house accommodates fourteen
girls, and last summer an old barn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Short Order
Lessons

Mrs. Stewart told of the work of
the commission during the war,
when teachers were sent to meet the
trains Of soldiers who might even
be in town for one day only. A
young lad who had just married and
was on his way to camp happened
to learn OF the opportunity to have
teacher for the fundamentals of
reading and writing when he
reached q certain station. He had
what the teachers call "tho immc-
diacy Of an inccntive," for he
wanted more than anything else
just then to be able to write bacl,
to his bride. He went to tho teacher
at 10 o'clock that morning, and by
dilgent application and stopping
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of dances given by the United
States government for the nearly
two thousand girls living at the
only hotel of its kind in the world
the Station Plaza Hotel, main
tanned at Washington by the United
States Housing Corporation. Here
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Moonlight Schools in the Mountain

only for luncheon and supper by 10
o'clock that night he was able to
pen a four-line message to his wife.
His train left the next day, but
the 1lliteracy Commission rejoiced
that it had laid the foundation of
the work to be done later at the
cantonment " T~olc Sam in re-
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lunbus statue in front of the Union
Station, has a wide piazza, with
deep rocking chairs, like a summer
hotel.
Activities for the whole hotel are
directed from the lobby of this
building, where above stairs the ex-
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Az music of the jazziest sort
ID foated from the second story
window Of one of the stucco
buildings near the United States
Capitol grounds into the soft air
of June night The neighborhood
was rich with historic associations
dating back to the time of the
harpsichord roundelays. Before the
government bought the Union Sta
ton Plaza ground for a parkway
leading to the great white home of
Congress nothing more blatant
than the strains of "Robert z. Lee"
on a monograph might have re-
sounded through the wide avenues.
Automobiles parked within range
of the brilliantly lighted halls Of
the Station Plaza ground, whence
came the dance notes. Girls with
other girls, folks from home"
army and navy officers-yes, and
even Representatives in Congress,
we're entering the portico and con-
tinuing up the wide stairs Of the en-
trance lobby. Two belated news
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are rooms and refectories for eigh-
teen hundred girls and women-a
gigantic boarding house spread over
twenty-four temporary buildings,
erected at a cost of approximately
100000.
Each girl has her own room, ex-
cept in the case Of corner rooms,
which are large enough for two per-
sons. For the sum of $45 month
she is given her room and two meals
daily, the privileges of a kitchen
cite and the electric iron, and up
to-date hotel service at the desk
downstairs.
In designing the buildings an effort
was made to harmonic them with
the setting Of the Capitol as we'll as
could be done with temporary
structures. With their Colonial COL
umns, their white cupolas and
weathervanes and the small window
panes they suggest the Independ-
ence Square buildings in Philadel-
phia. The chief administration
building, which overlooks the Co.
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moving illiteracy still further from
the bridegroom.
The government sent over about
fifty thousand Of the primers writ
ter by Mrs. Stewart for the Ken
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UNITED STATES without a
/ single adult who cannot read

or write is the dream absorb
ing the life Of Mrs Cora Wilson
Stewart, founder of the Moonlight
Schools Of Kentucky. She has been
carrying her dream before Congress
sional committees recently to get
the Smith-Towner bill creating
Department Of Education passed.
Officially Mrs. Stewart is chairman
Of the llliteracy Commission Of Ken
lucky, the first board of it's kind in
this country. She is also chairman
Of the illiteracy committee of the
National Educational Association
But the title she likes to claim first
of all is that of a mountaineer.
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HOUSE ON HENRY
4 STREET" has gone

s1-HOllUd llAS. u u4y oAlO
August are the playtime months of
the children of the Henry Street
Settlement, and during that time the
house workers do their best to bring
some of the joys Of the country to
the children of the city streets.
The Henry Street Settlement is
one Of the forty-eight community
centres affiliated with the United
Neighborhood Houses. This sum-
mer it has launched a scheme of
work on a more extensive scale than
in any past years.
The roof of the Ncighborhood play
house on Henry Street is the down
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boys, their pockets heavy with the
pennies the mint has to work over
time to make in sufficient quaint
ties, remarked the unusual scene.
"What's the big noise?" one of
them queried.
CAV, it's only Uncle Sam giving
his dormitory girls all the comforts
CT home," replied the other.
On the upper floor tall girl,
with the dark eyes Of the South and
in her prettiest pink evening dress,
was beaming with happiness. She
leaned toward a silver haired cha
peron and whispered:
~ have just danced with a real
Congressman"
The girl in pink was a war worker
who had dreamed perhaps of meet
ing a really truly member Of Con-
gress when she packed her satchel
in answer to the Civil Service tele-
gram to come to Washington. This
was one of her big nights. The oc-
casion was the second in series
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-11
THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY II, 1919

the Egyptian government, the French to feed them.
 The Egyptian authorities refused to take any more of them, however. and when it became apparent last year that more of them would have to be taken the British army on August 1 took over the camp and the British taxpayer is now paying the camps deficit They are to be repatriated as soon as their coun- try is ready to receive them, and the British investment in them may some day be repaid. But what will happen to the camp and to the refugees them- selves is on the knees of the gods.
 The industrial division of the camp, operated under American Red Cross su- pervision. is doing good deal of work for the British Egyptian expeditionary force. Army khaki, already cut, is being sewn into army shirts at the rate of 800 a day by 13e of the women at the camp eThey are using Singer sewing machines in the most tumble-down mud hut any where in this near east you will find a Singer sewing machine) The camp bakery is turning out about 250,000 buns. 25o000 loaves of white bread. 2000 loaves of brown bread 20.O00 gingerbread cakes and 500,oc0 rock cakes every month for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-11
REPORT OF SIGNAL CORRESPONDS VAST
 WORK DURING WAR
Had Installed 96,OOO Miles of Seml-Permanent Wire in France When the Armi-
 stice Was Signed

washington, May 10.-Official reports on signal corps equipment for the war, made public today, show that one spe- cal form of telephone wire, unknown to commercialtuse before the war, was be- Ing turned out at the rate of 10000 miles a month at a cost of nearly s6,o0O 600 when the armistice was signed.
 The American telegraph and telephone system in France totaled e6,oO0 miles when the fighting ended, this being the semi permanent installations. When hghting was at it's peak the corps was approximating the use of 6S 900 miles of outpost wire a month in addition, one development of the war being the me- cessity for two wire circuits for front line operations to prevent the enemy from listening" in on the old style sim gle wire equipment. Wire wastage was enormous as it had to be abandoned whenever an advance was made.
 There had been set up in France last November 282 American telephone ex- changes with 14,956 lines reaching to s95s stations. Even the telephone in- st1uments used were of special design, combining beth telephonic and telegraph ic communication, and the production of these in the quantity needed was a prob lem in itself
 At the close of hostilities the United states had 115 fully equipped telegraph
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-11

stations ir France, which were handling a daily average of 43,s45 messages of 10 worjs each during the last, days of the fighting, or within about 5000 of the peak load
 An instance of the enormous demand that developed for field glasses, lenses for which before the war largely were obtained from Germany, lies in the work of the Bapsch & Lomb company or Rochester, N. Y, which beginning with capacity of 1900 pairs of field glasses a year in 1914 had reached an output Of 550J Iairs week in November, 1918, and was aiming toward an output of $500 pairs week by January, 1919. Similar ex- passions of facilities were necessary in many other plants. The requirement. of the forces in France for the six-power artillery glass alone was approximately 10j, ,0c0 pairs and 106.0o0 pairs were ship ped from the United States.
 The leLorr devotes considerable space tc discussion Of the progress made in motion Iicture photography during the war. By ttese means, it is pointed out, the signal corps has created "a new kind of History of the war, history written entirely in pictures for future generations to scan"
 Carrier pigeons, never before employ ed extensively in the American army, were widely usd in France. More than 1l0Oo wre purchased and trained for lEat service and the report adds that 'In actual use on the field the pigeons delivered more than 95 per cent of the messages entrusted to them flying safe ly through tke heaviest shell and gas barrages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-11

is nlsking its greatest contribution to- ward the future of the American people, For the cid men and women of the camp. who have survived the wilder ness marches, there is little that cas be done, when once they have been re- stored to physical health. They in stiuct;y ely brood over the past. The 3oo0 Armenian children who attend the schools at the camp have all their future before them. They are being schooled in their own language, and the priests of the Armenian church, who have charge of the camps social and religious life, are keeping alive in them all their national feeling What the future hS.~s for them and for the Armenian nation nobc,ly knows and many of the British wno come into closest contact with them and who lack the appalling optimism of the American Red Cross-shrink fro-S con1ect turing.
 At present they are in exile from the green mountains of Asia Minor on whose slopes they were reared. At present you may hear them at night lifting the strains of their national song. Our Country, up toward the cold. cracking stars or a desert sky.
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