The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-04-12

moment that all those homes are cheap. Few Of
them And when they they are than
dilap.dated.
had the good fortune, one summer, to count
among my good friends. young woman who
secretary to Florence Kelly, and who had worked
with Miss Lillian Wald. Miss Valid. as everyone
knows has devoted her life to the amelioraton Of
conditions the East Side and is one of the abe5t
and most noted civic workers this country has
produced; Florence Kelly is equally notable; Miss
Kelly's work, at that time, and think at present.
also, confined to The Consumers League, an
organization devoted to the adjustment of differences
between the employer and the employee to minimum
legislation and like efforts. Secretary Baker
was president of the league; Miss Kelly active
chairman. and my young friend her right hand.
The offices were down in the Charities Building.
located, as | remember. on 22nd street, and that
great building a wonderful place to study New
York conditions Later, my young social worker
went to The Peoples Institute in Brooklyn But
while she was working with Miss Kelly. 1 had many
opportunities with her to get brds-eye view of
What New York Is Not Doing For Its Poor
But if the great Babylon seems to turn its back
upon its poor, must not judge too quickly. For,
while it is true that conditions in New York are
hard for the poor, it is also true that there is
city in the world that does much for its poor.
This is the great contradiction that is hard to
derstand, until realizes that the trouble with
OF her trouble; you cannot get rid of weed by
cutting off its head or trying to pant flowers in
the same bed you have to get out the weeds by the
roots.
i New York is getting rid of some of the poisonous
growth by deportation, but if it is true that she
has been breeding BoIshevsm it is equally true that
it is up to her to kill it.
! Mrs. William Vanderbilt is one of the New York
women who has gone at the problem in the right
has hf
and has rented them at a reasonable figure They
are miracles of architectural perfection anu modern
sanitation
cne day, wanting some laundry work done I spoke
to my young social service worker who recommend
ed her own Iaundress Write her a note" she said,
"or, better stl. come with me tomorrow afternoon
and we will ride there and talk to her. She
is an excellent aundress and she in one Of the
Vanderbilt tenements-I should like to have you see
those houses" So we went
The aundress proved to be a husky Irish woman
and one felt certain her work would be well done
Certainly it had for not being So for the
basement was largely given to the equipment
OF modern laundry, and each tenant had her por-
/ ton of space and her tools for work The houses
come perfection along practical lines as any
houses need to come.
| There is another way some New Workers of mod
crate means have solved the renting problem-they
New York from Denver Her husband worked in
Brooklyn. and they lived in crowded part of the
city, paying fifty dollars for apartment. She
longed for home, but her husband felt that it was
impossible TO buy anything worth while, the
salary he getting. One day. things to a
crisis She told him she was going to have a
home she going home to mother. They
bought some lots Long Island. bare your hand
not sprig of grass, not a bush tree. Husband
COMMITTED and wife did her work. That was
less than ten years ago. Today, they have one of
the most valuable properties Long Island worth
ten times what it worth when they bought it
| on time They have the most beautiful flower
garden and the most luxurious vegetable garden,
| live the fat of the land.
| Husband works in the garden before he goes to
work in the office. and when he comes back in the
evening. Wife hustles all the time. And they love
| it. have seen him get down on his knees on his
lawn and trim his flower beds with pair Of scis
sors so that they would be symmetrical. and look
up and smile and say This is the IifeT' words
to that effect. And he is hale and hearty. though
ten years ago everybody thought he dying with
tuberculosis.
| Here two good ways to put stop to Bolshe-
vism in this country. Mrs. Vanderbilt, with her
millions found way. and my young American,
with his independence and hustle. found another.
| C NJ ROBINSON.
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