The Washington times., 1922-08-29
MRS. HEARST IS
Enthusiastic IN
MILK CAMPAIGN
Tells San Franciscans Of Work
Among Poor Of New
r York City. x,
ny Universal Service.

. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. %
| Several modern psychologists and
| philosophers have suggested that
every one should have a hobby.
Here is one that has not been
overworked. It is feeding milk
to babies and children. 1t be-
longs to Mrs. William Randolph
Hearst, who is in California for
a month to give her own boys a
sacation. -,
at really has become a hobby
with me-" said Mrs. Hearst to-
day at the Palace Hotel. There
are a lot of big important things
to do in the world, but getting
good milk to the babies in New
York who otherwise would 60
without has become my particu-
lar part, and I have adopted it
permanently"
Milk Essential.
The CITY of New York has found
this simple hobby Of feeding the
Door children SO valuable that many
other activities of a social and phil
anthropic nature are following in
"The biggest part of the scheme"
I said Mrs. Hearst, -"is in the five
milk. stations, three in New Yrok
and two in Brooklyn, where the chill.
dren come and get their own milk:
There they get the best milk for
a penny a glass. We have an
ARRANGEMENT by which the children
who have no pennies also get their
milk. It is remarkable what milk
will do for children. Their faces
show a change as they come day
after day. Some that were cross
and irritable and others that were
sickly begin to play happily ike nor
NAL children.
"They learn to clean up and make
themselves tidy for their daily trip
to the milk depot. They look with
new incentive for the APPROVAL OF the
attendant.
"To the children who cannot come
to the station we deliver daily s,ooo
quarts of milk in the homes. Their
names are supplied by the charitable
organizations and are carefully tapu.
lated and checked to make sure that
this supply goes where 1t is most
needed.
Burden on Children.
'"It is difficult in San Francisco to
appreciate the magnitude and i'm
| portance of such an undertaking in
New York. We have foreign popula-
tions there larger than those OF the
European capitals. We have a sum-
mer heat which Is unknown in Cali.
fornia. The burden OF such condi.
tions falls heavily on the little chill
dren.
This summer We undertook to
add to the good results that were
seen in the milk fund by running
weekly steamship excursions for
several thousand children. 1t 10 bis
effort IN the heat Of summer to give
our children one breath Of such fresh
air as every day brings you In San
| Francisco.
THE milk fund requires big re-
sources to carry It through a season.
We had grand opera, a prize fight,
a circus, parade and a tag day and
| In that way raised about 100000.
II requires something Of an office
force to carry on the work and OF
course, in an undertaking that Is per.
manent, 1t requires paid help instead
of volunteers. Yet, we have so man.
aged that the large part of our fliEd
| goes directly into milk rather than
| the machinery of distribution.
| "The work developed from one Of
our old war committees. It was just
as important after the war as 1t had
been during the war, and II has be-
come now, without any official con-
nection, one of the recognized activi.
| ties of the city.
| Mayor Hylan's administration has
done more than almost any other for
| the poor people of New York. He
has closed sections Of streets to Sraf
| fic in some crowded districts to give
the children a place to play in the
| open air. He has had the fire de.
| p8rtment giving them shower baths
with their equipment in the oppres.
sive summer heat.
"One of the recent splendid moves
of the city was the appropriation Of
SIS, 900 for a detention home for girls.
In the past girls detained for any
! reason whatever were sent to jails.
The women interested in girls are
! greatly pleased over this improv.
nrent p. In ifact, one OF the things
that is calling me back from Cali
| fornia Is to let the contracts and
have the building started so that II
may be available at an early date"
| Mrs. Hearst has dropped charity"
and philanthropy" from her vocabu.
larry. She talks Of the milk fund
with the same animation and snthu-
sissm that other devotees discuss
golf, tennins or racing,
MANY minds, are working at our
social problems from, many apglcs."
she said, but. 7 can see nothing with
as much promise IN II as giving the
next generation a good start. One
Of the successful American theories
OF government has been giving all It's
children an education. 1t seems to
me that the most. important thing
left for us to do Is to see that chill
dren have the physical strength and
health to use an education. That
makes tho milk fund more interest.
ing than any one hobby,
When Mrs. Hearst returns to
New York in October, another
problem will attach, itself to her
activities. Close upon the heels Of
summer heat +, comes the cold OF
winter. The milk f1nd. has to be
supplemented with coal tickets.
And the state of New York will
| histrihifte this years OnO n0O In