The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-06-13
Many Odd Societies
Have Their Home in
Old London Town

LONDON, May 5 - ASSOCIATED
Press Mail)-This seat of a ~far-1ung
empire harbors the headquarters of a
greater variety of local, national and
international orders, associations,
missions, alliances, leagues, societies,
unions, funds and bunds than may be
found in any other city of the world.
More than 5000 of them are cata-
logued in the new Post Office Direct
DRY, the who's Who and What's
What of London In a benevolent,
protective or prohibitive way they
pertain to almost every field of hui
man activity, interest or need. An
examination of the list suggests that
nowadays there is nothing from deep
sea fighting to higher thought that
has escaped the attention of organi-
izers.
A more painstaking perusal might
prompt the notion that it would be
perfectly safe for human or beast to
be born in London with or without
parents, reared with or without guard
ians, masters, education or training,
stay out of prison or in-there would
be a. ITS of ar organization of some
sort lting with help or advice at
each urn of life's pathway.
Even at death the individual would
appear to be adequately safeguarded
for in the list is enumerated 1.-The So
ciety For the Prevention of Prema-
ture Burial"
1t would be safe to assume that
each has a definite reason for being,
a specific function to perform, but
while most of the official titles of this
organized miscellany make their aims
obvious, there are others that, to the
uniformed, sound quaint or ambigu-
Gus.
Such organizations, for instance, as
1.-THE Society for Providing the Poor
With Bread and Coal in Winter"
1.-The Coal Smoke Abatement Society
and THE Institute of Journalists
Provident Fund proclaim their OBJ
jects in admitted fields of usefulness"
Some others are The Mothercraft
Training Society, the British Rainfall
Association, The London Fish Friers
Association, The Large Black Pig So.
ciety, The Out and Out Mission, The
Order of the Golden Age, The Ma
tional Baby Week Council and The
Barefoot Mission.
Brewers and Personal Rights asso.
Citations are listed cheek by jowl with
a variety of tariff reform leagues
The Committee to Secure State Pur'
chase and Control of the Liquor
Trade, The Inebriates' Reformation
Association and other organizations
of a reformative or prohibitive char
acter.
The styles of several might war
ran fear that their memberships
have set out on rather difficult mis-
sions. There is for instance The Ma
tional Anti-Sweating League.
Among the diversified and unique
societies for the propagation, promo
ton, advancement, suppression, pro
hibition encouragement Dr. preserva
ton of this or that are found The
Crutch and Kindness League, The
Society for Befriending Young Ser
want Girls, The Guild of Aid for Gen
tie People, The National Adoption
Society, The Decimal Association
The Association for the Providing
Training and Supply of Midwives
The Council of Justice to Animals
The Society for the Prevention OF
Disagreement in Town and Country
The Association of Certified BLIND
Masseurs, The League for Prevention
of Spinal Curvature, The Society fol
the Promotion of Employment of VIC
men and The National Council for the
Unmarried Mother and Her Child.