Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-28

the activities of the past year, brleI talks by Miss Elizabeth M. Culver public health nurse, Philip Johnson director of the recent Red Cross seal campaign. pr. E. J. Brcphy and Ar thur NJ. Brown, the members of the United Workers. gathered in annual meeting Tuesday evening in the town hall, listened with undivided interest to a brilliant address on Our New Horizon. delivered by Dr. Edward !. peyine of New York, considered one of the greatest authorities on sociaI work in America. Dr. Deylne loucAsa the social question from all angles anu in the course of his remarks said the people of this country need to realize that the cure for poverty is not charl- ty. The only cure for poverty, ne said. "is the kind of education that oe- yelops efficiency"
 The meeting was opened at 730 by the president, Mrs. George p Coll, with an attendance of about 200, ana the first part of the evening was oe- voted to the business session.
 Mrs George W. Lane gave com prehensive report of the past year activities. Her report follows: Though the full reports of the varl- ous departments of the United work CTS are not presented at this time, II l is gratifying to note that there has been no loss of activity anywhere but rather an earnest desire for expansion and greater efficiency.
 The work of the association is not unfamiliar to Norwich people, for the i well organized committee ofa district l visitation has made as usual a house 1 to house canvass throughout the city l They report a marked increase in do i nations this year and new names add l ed to our list of contributors. Probably the United Workers House at No Washington street represents i to many people the whole of the United Workers, as it is indeed the headquarters of the society. It was beQueathed to the society by it's for mer occupant and though not orig11 nalIy intended for public. uses it's con- venient N ton has rendered it avail able in many ways.
 The prudent oversight Of the house l committee has kept it in comfortable 1 order at a moderate expense, and the enthusiasm of workers has triumph ] ed over the ineonveniences of steep stairways and narrow passa ges. The regular meetings of the executive committee are held here every month.
 The office of Mir. Northrop, the city v, 4S Cs l morning. His annual report brings 7. out many interesting facts which cam not be mentioned now. He says Tt 1 has been found necessary to give per manent relief in only a few cases | where misfortunes are due to infirmi- ties of age, sickness or widowhood, but these furnish no problems for continuous experimentation year after year. With few exceptions our fami- lies came and go, helped over hard places. thankful, respected and self ! respecting.
 The ladies of the City Mission com
 nittee meet frequently for conference with MT. Nerthrop and take a per- sonal interest in visiting the families assisted by the mission.
 The rooms Of the Employment Bu- reau are also in the United Workers
 House, quite ineonvenient one would say, but v4s = every week in winter
 by some fifty women thankful to carr a little HSoTlesf by their needlework al home
 Their work would be of little value
 except by the careful supervision ot
 the dozen ladies who cut and plan ant
 superintend the sales Some of the work has been for sale some for the
 Red Cross, some for the Rock Nook
 Home, and some was ordered by indi.
 viduals who uniformly express satis faction with the quality and finish O
 the garments.
 The United Workers House is als, , the headquarters of the club worl l through two other such clubs hay,
 been carried pn in the Falls district
 In these juveAile clubs, or classes in
 struction Is given in needIework an, cooking, but of still greater value il : the unconscious influence of the re fined and gentle women who voluntee l. as teachers. If one hundred ant : ninety children enrolled most of then . were born in this country but thei l parentaGe represents at least twelv
 different races, Polish and Hebrev
 being most numerous.
 As the children learn English in tn
 public schools only English is permit ! ted in the clubs. as.as Who can estimate the effect in tn : problem of Americanization of tn personal influence upon such chiIdre
 Of the scores of good women interest , ed in teaching them?
 2 Some improvements in the Unite ' Workers House have been made nee , essary for the increasing importanc
 of the public health nursing depa Tt
 ment. The work of this department a no novelty but merely a revival unde 7 a new name and with renewed activ 2 1ty of the plans adopted more tha i. thirty years ago and clearly stated a . that time by Miss Thomas in term [. that would meet the approval of tn 2 most thoroughly trained nurse of to
 day. 4 wider recognition of it's i'm
 portance has favored the deyelopneE
 of the work here, and modern inven i 1 tions and conveniences have given i'm :, proved facilities in the administra |, tion.
 The department now employs thre e nurses and will soon be obliged to CT n large it's staf
 s The Rock Nook chiidren's clini b held every week at the United Work
 CTS House under the care of Dr. Bro
 phy and the nurses, Repeated exam
 nations have been made of about or q hundred and sixty young children z these are followed up by friendl if practical advice to mothers here an h in their homes the beneficial resur
 have already been seen.
 6 The tuberculosis clinic to which D o Campbell kindly gives his services
 also held here every week. An al
 propriation of $500 from the state ti
 nerculosis commission toward the sa
 aries of the nurses, shows the hfe !. estimation in which the work is hel z The value of both clinics is large 70 dependent upon the visits made by u
 nurses in the homes of the patient >. Tickets for more than 12,0eO pount is of ice, furnished at reduced rates I 's John H. Ford and Kramer & Hende
 son. were given out last summ, . Where the health of yung children ";
 dependent upon supply of swe
 milk
 By the munifcent bequest ef Job