The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-04-01
Miss GabrieIson Comments
on Work of Kenosha
Service League.
FOUND IT EFFICIENT
In First Statement New Supt.
Explains How Organiza-
ton Helps KenOsha.


,ervice league organization is to make
better Americans out Of the persons
with whom it deals and that is exactly
what | have found that the Kenosha
Service League is doing" said Miss
Hattie Gabrielson, the new superin-
tendent of the Kenosha Service League
IN the first statement that she has
made regarding the organization here
since she assumed charge of it several
weeks ago. II have been getting my
bearings in this work." she continued,
land | have found that since the or
ganization Of the Associated Charities
several years ago and through all its
existence, it's work has been directed
towards making Kenoshans assets in
stead Of liabilities"
Miss Gabrielson declared that she
had found the work we'll organized in
Kenosha ard in the statement outlined
how she planned to make the Service
League even of more value to Kenosha
in the near future.
Helps to Americanize.
eve hear a great deal about Ameri-
canization today" said Miss Gabriel
son, land have found that one of the
things that the Kenosha Service
League has always tried to do is to
impress American standards and ideals
upon the people with whom we come
into contact To Americanize means,
I think, to make the person an asset
instead of a liability, whether he was
born far over the seas or in Kenosha
and if he has thus far failed to be able
to fall into the scheme of affairs
around him. He might be a liability
for many reasons but often it is be-
cause of social Embellishments that
can be overcome and it is the part of
the Service League to find this rem
edy"
The new superintendent declared
that after looking over the records of
the organization she had found that
the league here was in excellent shape
to continue this work Of helping un-
fortunates to find their right places
in life. She told of several instances
where the league has been of great
value in this way.
Helps Orphaned Children.
"To help alleviate social evils and
misfortunes is our task" she said,
sand of course, our problems are var
led. Sometimes parents do not under
stand the value of school attendance
and the family comes to the attention
OF the league for this reason. Some
times, it may be medical care, the chill
6ren need where parents do not see
the need of such care and it then be-
comes the duty of the Service League
10 show to them that in America we
do not want any child to grow up han
dicapped by a physical defect. Often
1t takes a great deal of patience to win
our point but in Kenosha the difficult
ties are almost offset by the splendid
cooperation of the doctors and the
hospitals"
"The influenza epidemic left many
children fatherless or motherless and
the Service League has been called
upon many times to arrange care for
the children until the family could
make the necessary readjustment. AS
there are no orphanages or children's
homes in Kenosha, this task has been
more difficult in Kenosha but I find
that despite this the Service League
has been successful in the past in find
ing homes for these children"
Compares to Other Cities.
Miss Gabrielson has had considera-
BILE experience in social work in other
cities and in her statement she COM
pares Kenosha favorably with the stu
alton that she has found elsewhere.
She declared that Kenosha had on
smaller scale the problems which ex-
listed in the large cities and that in
the past, under able direction the Serv-,
ice League had helped greatly in less
ening these problems. She mentioned
especially the troubles of the foreign
element in Kenosha and declared that
the organization had helped to make
all these with whom it came into con-
tact better citizens.
''In my short experience here" Miss
Gabrielson said in conclusion, II have
found all other social agencies most
helpful and courteous. In fact, we
have found everyone we have met i'm
bued with a spirit of cooperation--a
real live desire to help and wherever
that is true, whatever may be the COM
munity's shortcomings, there is bound
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