The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-12
JEWISH WOMEN
!. HEAR TALK ON
WELFARE
Russell Sage Director Tells
Council How Best to Meet
Needs In D. C..
BY SYLVIA SEDGEWICK.

There are two suggestions I
would make for the administration
policy Of the District welfare man.
agement, one IL to abolish all
boards and agencies. and put all
the work under a Board Of Public
Welfare, under the commissioners,
| and the other would be to appoint
a Public Welfare Commissioner.
whose sole duty 1t would be to
look after the administration Of
the welfare institutions" said VIII.
liam Hodson, director Of the Child
Welfare Section of the Russell
Sage Foundation, in his talk to
the Council Of Jewish Women, on
Public Welfare Needs Of the DIS.
trict Of Columbia" yesterday after
| noon. s.
Mr.. Hodson is here from the mia.
die west, as a consultant to the
Public Welfare Commission. In
this capacity he has made a chart
covering the various types Of ad.
ministration used in the manage.
ment Of many Of the organizat ions.
He said that many Of these types
Of control were wholly unsound.
AS an example, he noted the ap.
| pointing Of a board Of trustees by
the President at the National Train
ing School for Girls.
The council meeting opened with
prayer led by Mrs. Adolph Kahn,
who dictated In the absence Of Mrs.
Alex Wolf. The Juanita X. Nye
Memorial was discussed by tho
members and fitting memorial Of
the southwest welfare center, voted
to be carried on in her name. Mrs.
George Hyman spoke Of the coming
national congress of women in April
and solicited the aid of council
members in caring for the women
visitors.
Mrs. Robert J. Bates, chairman of
the book review section of the
Women's City Club, will preside at
luncheon OF this section Saturday.
DR.. George r. Bowerman will
speak on Some Aspects of Book
Reviewing" and Mrs. Wolfe Smith
| Will speak on Literature in the
Home"
Twenty-seven scenes were enacted
| and read at meeting of the
| dramatic association OF Central
High School yesterday afternoon IN
the auditorium. Those taking part
were: Frances Held. Margaret Maize,
Margaret Quincy, Eveline Dickin-
son, Mary Porter, Franklin Clarke,
Eleanor Chandler. Betty Bracket,
Leslie ellis, Helen Daily, Josephine
Trey, Laura Lee, Mary Gaule, Carol
Carpenter. Louise Lerch. Ruth
Chindblom, Mary Macatee, Elizabeth
Garbee, Gertrude Macatee. Leonard
Mikules, Rebecca Baker. Ducie
Walker, Eleanor Morgan. Inez Leon.
Richard Sokolov, Alan Lutz, Mary
Porter. Genevieve Wright, Eliza
beth Rosstead. Myrtle Crouch, Carol
Carpenter. Carolyn Ball, Harry
Wender, Marguerite Shellenburger,
Watson Monroe. Ruth Schultz,
Frederick Kaskins, Dorothy Wad.
leigh. Benjamin Doehrer, Dorothy
Wadleigh. Mary Brooks, Frank
Barnes, Ieron Bendheim.
Community Centers.
The Washington Society Of Fine
Arts will present dorado Taft in a
lecture on French Renaissance
sculpture" at the Central High Com.
, munity Center tonight.
The Esperanto Club, the Girls
Physical Training Glass. the Woman
and Girls Drill Team. and classes
for adults and children in rhythm
will meet tonight at the Thomson
Center.
The Rhythmic Dancing Class for
Children will meet at the Wilson
Normal Center this afternoon.
French classes for children will
meet at the E. v. Brown Center
this afternoon.
There will be violin classes at the
Park View Center this afternoon.
The Girls Handicraft Club and
the Girls Dressmaking Club will
meet this afternoon at the Lovejoy
Cantor