Evening star., 1922-04-18
LARGER ACREAGE
FOR HOME NEEDED
Monday Evening Clubs sug.
gestion Regarding Institu-
ton for FeebIeminded.

Any site now available at Blue
ments of home and training school
for the feebleminded of the Dis
trict. according to resolutions adopt
ed by the Monday Evening Club.
which met last night in the audi
torium of the Cosmos Club.
''If the conferees of the Senate and
House feel that in the interest of
economy favorable action looking to
the establishment of a home and
school for the feebleminued lnis
year is dependent upon placing the
institution at Blue Plains, we re-
postpone the location of the instftu-
tion until larger site can be OBJ
tained," the resolutions continued.
Ask for Hearing.
The resolutions further urged that
before the conferees of Senate and
House who have under considera
ton the District appropriation bill
take any action to place. the colony
at Blue Plains a hearing be granted
those who have been advocating the
establishment of such an Institution,
portunity to present their arguments
in support of a much larger site
than will be possible if the institu-
ton is called upon to share the
acreage at Blue Plains now owned
by the government and occupied
jointly by the Home for the Aged and
Infirm and the Industrial Home
School for Colored Children"
Summary Of Arguments.
The resolutions summarized the
arguments which are desired to be
presented at the proposed hearing
as follows:
An institution to adequately care
for the feebleminded of the District
fication of the patients committed
thereto, including different degrees
of feeble-mindedness. such as the
teachable and unteachable. separation
of the sexes, and separation of white
from colored.
upon to give custodial care to many
Of it's patients during their lifetime.
In order to make the life of the
patient happy and contented every
possible provision for outdoor exer-
else and work should be furnished.
This work will take very largely
the form of cultivation OF the land.
The institution should. through
the development Of truck gardening
and live stock raising, supply the
larger portion of it's own food ma
terials and thus be largely self sup
porting.
Put Minimum at 500 Acres.
'In order to meet the needs of such
an institution, both in the way of
classification of patients as suggested
above and in the effort to make the
institution self-supporting, as well as
to provide for the future needs over a
long term of years, an acreage as
recommended in the previous hear
in bills which have been before Con-
gress in various times, of not less
than 500 acres as a minimum, should
be obtained.
We have reason to believe that an
acreage considerably exceeding this
minimum and within reasonable dis
tance of Washington can now be pur-
chased at a price well within the
$4,000 approved by the Senate and
incorporated in the District appro-
priation bill as 1t went to the con-
ferees."
Social Work ms Profession.
Red Cross presided during the spe-
cial discussion of The Profession of
Social Work" the speaker on the
subject being Graham r. Taylor. gen.
eral secretary. American Association
of Social Workers.
Mr.. Taylor declared that social work
as profession is in formative
stage. He outlined the history of the
national conference of social work
telling how it had grappled with the
problems of the work rather than
with the professional aspects or the
qualifications of the workers. Social
work. therefore, he said, finds itself
inc oh nf
ess, compared with some of the other
professions. which built up standards
first. and later took the public into
their confidence.