The Washington herald., 1920-11-10
RED CROSS AID
GOTHAM PLAN
Demonstration Health Cen
ter in East Harlem Be-
ing Arranged.
BY RAYMOND G. CARROLL.

NEW YORK, Nov. Sat last the
American Red Cross has discovered
America. 1t is most pleasing to
chronicle that the New York County
branch of the widely known Help
Europe. Asia and Africa" organiza-
tion has elected to open a demon
stration health center in East ,Har-
lem, the eighty-seyen blocks
crowded with aliens between Fourth
avenue and the East River. Ninety
ninth street and the Harlem River.
Two buildings of the Characteristic
four-story bro~nstone fronts have
been leased to contain clinics for
tuberculosis. dental work, pre-school
welfare work, hygiene and other re-
Quirements of a well rounded health
program.
New York also has a lower East
Side, lower West Side, the Browns
willie district in Brooklyn and any
number of foreign settlements in
the Bronx. At the headquarters Of
the Inter-Racial Council. at 2SS
Broadway. the certainty of a change
in the direction of the Department
OF Labor in Washington, has caused
hopes to rise high for an early i'm
provement Of conditions among the
foreign colonies within our great
cities. There are many thousands of
aliens in America who, while they
nave physically passed the Statue of
Liberty, mentally are still in the land
from which they emigrated. Here
TOfOTa the fa1Ilf has
Sam exercised no control over them
in their distribution after they have
left Ellis Island. Those who know
say the Federal government should
funnel them out of the industrial
centers where they segregate and
breed anarchy. Thrust out among
real Americans, their American
ideals would soon crystalline. The
proper re-distribution of our aliens
is one of the great opportunities of
the Harding administration.
Stranger Ia Impressed.
Well. what do you think of us
asks the New York clubman, flick
ing the ash from his ball bat cigar.
ana leaning patroniZingly toward
ms guest from foreign shore.
Wonderful city" replies the
AoAScu lDlO lnG eTnDloN-
ment OF towering adjectives by rea-
son of the expcctant attitude Of his
most and adding. marvellous extra
ordinary" But deep down in his
soul the travelled stranger finds
much that is all wrong in New York.
/ herewith give the frank criticism
OF talented visitor. who begged me
not to use his name because he
hopes to come back again,
You have nos shade trees. no
oaoies nor grandmothers," he said
Trees largely make the charm OF
LONDON, Paris and Vienna. New
York is practically treeless. Cooing
lnfants and dignifieS old ladies can
De plentifully found in any world
city out New York. Your old ladies
weaV wigs paint and powder and
oress like debutantes. Your babies
become grown ups and talk back to
cradles"
Charles NJ schwab had an old
friend from Pittsburgh pay him n
Visit several days ago. The Penn
sylvanian. a steel puddIer, came in
leather boots. flannel shirt and =
broad brtmmed felt hat. Mr.. Schwab
personally escorted him ali through
MS marble palace. at Fifty-third
street and Riverside Drive, with
dlsnined pauses before the paintings
and various works of art with which
the interior is studded. He even
mad his private organist finger of a
special Program on the great organ
IN honor of the visitor Incidentally,
Mr. Schwab's favorite musical COM
position is The Rosary"
Calls II Swell Dump.
What do you think of my placer"
asked the steel king, when every
thing had been seen.
Replied the visitor: 'I tell you,
Charley. 1t is one swell dump"
There has been lot of talk go
ing the rounds of what Joseph p.
Tumuity. secretary to President
Wilson, will do after the coming
March 4. He has been put into
every sort OF business from a bank
to an industrial corporatfon. 1 have