The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-04

that seem to bring some twilight
dream of Southern Italy into the work.
a-day world her father and mother
have adopted in America.
Bettina is very small and dear. r
found her yesterday, with Anita. and
Angelina, and Jake. and Mariana. and
SO more little bows and girls who At
tend kindergarten at Ensley Commun-
ity house, in the big room where the
beautiful red. white ana blue flag is
unfurled with the flag all covered with
service stars. Each one of these serv-
ice stars, Bettina knows, shines for
some father or brother in her neigh
borhood who volunteered to follow The
flag of their adopted United States
during the recent war.
Bettina's country, Columbus and her
father discovered America. and BET.
tina has discovered the Ensley Com.
munity house. Fortunate. isn't n. that
the community house was there to be
discovered, with friends and teachers
like Miss Dorothy Grim and Miss Cara
bell Hollingsworth and Miss Ruth Nc
Ribbon, Just waiting to make strangers
feel that they had moved from an old
to a new home?
PEcJDENr nrpEfvrop
NA-SAoH
II MISS Dorothy Grim, the resident
director, hadn't dreamed of such a
community house, If she hadn't worked
! and sacrificed and lived for it since
l9l3, when she went alone to the
teachers cottage as its first resident,
Bettina, and Joe. and Jake might not
nave mad any honey new world to
discover. but only queer world where
the old had come to dwell as a
stranger.
But Bettina and her playmates are
not strangers. One of their dear
friends IS theit kindergarten teacher,
| MISS Carabel HollinSsworth, who
knows all about children with brown
! or blue eyes. With the assistance of
their beloved Miss Della Dryer and
| Mrs. Irving, Miss Hollingsworth
teaches them patriotic songs and
games about the Fourth OF July and
beautiful words about Thanksgiving
day and rainy days and sunny days,
and about the birthday of the Christ
chlld. mrs =. ". horst is chairman OF
.iic coliniitlee especiaiiy interested IN
| tite W.eilare o. these ou Httie pegih-
lers IN the Shrlstlah Amerlcanlzatloh
pan OF the hhsley community mouse.
But the kindergarten isn't All OF the
e e,' unity interest. ~ reaily IL just
the beginning, TOT i've community
center IS birmingham largest settle-
hent, locateu IN Iorelsn colony'
wh,ch, wt.nout luese Eng iish classes
anu inoehers CLUBS anu training
-
laleu Little lazy III the heart OF d
gig american city.
since most OF US except the inulahs,
were Immigrants at one Tune OF an
other' IL We trace our lineage paek 10
Auain or ehe MaylioWer' or our sreae.
grahan others, ana since one third Oh
me Popuiatioi VI the ohlteu states 70
Jay IS foreign, perhaps isolatlon Is
not me ldeai attltude ior city OF BIT
niiiiS nam siAe, wiioso sroWihs inous
tries contlnually invite a growing
snare or americas 1oreigners. AZ
ieast John IL, commons ooesh tnihk
So when ne declares. "A great nation
iieeu not pc OF one pioou' ~ mus pe
OF one nina. ~ we 'nink together, we
can act toRetner and the organ OF
common thousnt ana action Is common
iahgunoe
MlSSlONAk SOClElIES
The women of the Birmingham city
mission board surely agree with Mr..
Commons, because their membership,
coYaprising the Methodist missionary
auxiliaries of the city. together with
the missionary societies of the Ensley
Baptist church, the First Christian
church and the PRESBYTERIAN Church.
U. S. A.. are maintaining the commun-
ity house with it's thnHc resident work
ers and eight partially paid workers.
who do not live on the settlement
GROUNDS. twenty-five aukiilarles are
REPRESENTED in the city mission board.
The officers recently elected by this
enthusiastic band of women are Mrs
Ralph NJ. Russell president; Mrs. S
p. Marsh, vice president. Mrs h A.
Metcalfe, treasurer: Mrs. 70. I'll. New
some. recording secretary. and Mrs.
FELTON, Wimberly. corresponding sec
rotary, while Mrs. II. T. Brownell was
appointed general chairman of COM
mittees.
Democracy is the keynote OF the set
tlement. whose influence Is reaching
into the home life of 1000 citizens Of
Ensley Such a spirit is manifested
from the supervised Fairgrounds.
where hundreds of children congre-
gate, through the trim little home OF
the resident teachers and into the adj
r.inistrative building.
The hospitality of the building has re-