Evening star., 1922-11-21
Space Declared Inadequate.

in years to come.
Space Declared Inadequate.
Pointing out that patients in home
for feeble minded are in no sense Grim
inals. the petition calls attention to the
fact that the District purchased $500
acres accommodate prisoners, and that
thirty or even fifty acres seems pitt
able as place for these blameless
ones
Many Of the parents of feeble minded
children would be able to pay in whole
or in part for the protection and care
of their children. the petition states,
developing the fact that such parents
would be deferred from placing their
children in a home where white and
colored of all degrees of mental de-
fectiVeneSS would of necessity be housed
in close proximity.
The petition was placed before the
Monday Evening Club by it's committee
on the home and school for the feeble
minded. of which Arthur D. Call is
chairman.
If Jesus were with US today He
would be an advocate of minimum
wage legislation. would emphasize
health inspection on schools and
stand for more adequate public
health legislation for the care of
infants and mothers, according to
DR.. John O'Grady, speaking before
the club.
Dr. G'Grady was one of three speak
ers who outlined for the members
various aspects of the general sub
ject THE Church and Social Serv-
ice" The other speakers were DR..
Abram Simon and DIR. James f.
Freeman. DIR. O'Grady pointed out
the social message of Jesus. and de-
clarcd that # He were here today
He would emphasize modern social
much a part of the Catholic Church
as preaching the gospel. DR.. o'Grady
said.
Synagogue Is Social Center.
DR.. Simon declared that for 5000
years the Jewish people have re.
garded religion as a conservation of
life. not a salvation Of souls. and
that health and education were a
part of that religion. All life is
under the sanction of the church.
The synagogue, he pointed out. is In
it's very nature a social institution,
a social center.
The term social service is an easy
term" DR.. Simon said. The term
social Justice on the other hand, gets
to the man in the limousine as well as
to the man in the gutter The speaker
warned against dereligionized social
workers.
Pastors Warned.
DIR. Freeman declared he was able to
find in the modern social service pro-
gram of communities ground for unity,
which he confessed he was unable to
find in the churches. ''The church that
fails to recognize it's social obligations
is doomed" DIR. Freeman declared.
Just as soon as we make up our minds.
so soon will the ills of society vanish.
DR. Freeman warned that the clergy
and those associated with them, in deal
ing with questions of capital and labor,
refrain from speaking in an oracular
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real knowledge.
DIR. Larkin w. Glazebrook, as chair
man of the program committee on the
church and social service, presided
after President John Ihlder opened the
meeting. Other members of the COM
mittee were w. S. Abernethy, Clarence
A. Aspinwall, w. L. Darby, DR.. O'Grady,
Louise S. Roberts and DR.. Simon.
Report of Committee.
The report of the committee de-
clared that many religious bodies are
keenly conscious of their social or
community responsibility. and that
they have shown their sense Of re-
spensibility by organizing relief and
nursing work and work for children
needing special care, building hos
pitfalls and establishing recreation
centers manifesting growing tend
ency to support community wide
agencies. and cooperating with COM
mun1ty agencies IN securing better
social legislation.
"On the other hand, there are re-
ligious bodies that apparently have
no sense of community responsibility
and that give their members no stim-
ulus to share in the necessary social
work of the community" declared the
report. "The message and aim of
such religious bodies has been too
individualistic, too exclusively con-
cerned with personal salvation"
The report stated that upquestion-
ably the function of a religious body
is spiritual. and the social work of
it's members must be an expression of
this spiritual quality. 1t was stated
that a QUESTIONABLE was sent last
summer 20 225 churches in Wash
ington on this subject, and only
twenty-seven replies were received.
New Members Admitted.
New members admitted last night
included Mrs. Courtenay Dinwiddie,
Miss Jennie Elizabeth Doolittle, Miss
NJ. Florence Dunlap, Miss Bertha
Dorothy Friedman, Mrs. Mary C. Hob
day, ]. Miller Kenyon, Miss Mary
McNally. Mrs. Henry Marquard, w.
w. MILAN, Frank Norman, Mrs.
Frank Mooman, Mrs. Fannie French
Morse, DIR. Charles P. Neill, Mrs. John
Lowe Newbold, Mrs. L. B. Smoot, Mrs
B. T. Voorhorst. Miss Helen ]. Will
lett, Miss Aileen Webb, Miss Mabel
Wilcox, Mrs. w. L. Darby and Mrs.