Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
FORM CITIZENS COMMITTEE
TO PROMOTE LIFE ADJUSTMENT
Many Well Known Scientists
Head Center, Described as
Outstanding Experiment.
Pictured as Effort to Weld
Religion and Science to Get
Under Surface OF Life.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.


An undenominational committee of
prominent citizens has been organized
to promote the work of the Life Ad-
justment Center OF the Mount Pleas
ant Congregational Church, it was an
nounced today.
1t is headed by DR.. Edwin E. slosson.
noted chemist and author, and includes
such prominent scientists as DR.. Will
liam A. White. superintendent of st.
Elizabeth'S Hospital; DR.. Charles G.
Abbot. secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution; Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, presi-
dent of George Washington University,
and DR.. Henry D. Hubbard. assistant di-
rector of the Bureau of Standards.
The appointment of this non Sectari-
an committee, most Of whose members
have world reputation in their own
fields, is calculated to give a much
wider significance in both the religious
and scientific worlds to a project which
has been described as one of the out
standing experiments in religion in re-
cent times
1t is decribed by the Rev Moses r.
Lowell. pastor of the Mount Pleasant
Church, who will continue as spirit
ual director, as an effort to weld the
resources of religion and science in an
effort to get under the surface of hui
man life to the fundamental realities.
1t was organized last Winter as a local
church activity and its success was re-
markable.
All Must Cooperate.
Rev. Mr.. Lowell worked on the theory
that man Is co-ordinated whole and
that his moral problems, which are
the peculiar province of religion, are
closely correlated with his physical,
mental, social and economic problems.
Therefore, he held. to get at the real
solution of q. case the physician, pSy-
chiatrist. sociologist. economist. lawyer
and clergyman must cooperate. No
one of these. it was held could hope
to understand difficult character or
personality situation and bring about
an adjustment without the expert
knowledge of some of the others.
From the first prominent psychia-
trists OF st. Elizabeth'S Hospital and
local physicians worked without pay be-
cause of their interest in the expert
ment. With the experiment placed on
a larger community basis, the staff will
be enlarged.
The preliminary work last Winter,
Rev. Mr., Lowell said, convinced him
that there is a great underworld in
washington" This underworld he
said, vas invisible and for the most
part known only to the individuals but
was an unacceptable reality. This is the
world OF normal people being driven to
their graves by great burdens of fear
and worry which are known only to
themselves. Generalities, such as they
near from the pulpits, do them little
good, because they cannot apply them
TO their individual circumstances.
Rev. Mr.. Lowell emphasizes that the
Lie Adjustment Center is not a clinic
Tor abnormal cases, but is intended to
solve the problems of normal people
who are now carrying on unaided fights
against fear. ignorant of what to do
ana unwilling to confide in ANYBODY
The center attacks these problems pure
ly on non-Sectarian basis.
Committee Is Large.
Mrs, w. w. Husband wife of the AS
siStant Secretary of Labor, will serve
as vice president of the committee
John A. Massie, local banker, is treas
urer and J. E.. Jones secretary. Other
members OF the committee announced
by the church are:
Miss Hettie Anderson. general secre-
tary OF the Young Women'S Christian
association: Miss Sibyl Baker. director
Oh community centerS; Mrs George F.
BoWerman, president Of the Twentieth
Century Club; Mrs. Will C. Barnes
nrst vice president of the Twentieth
Century Club; William Knowles Cooper
VINO just retired as general secretary
OF the Young Mems Christian AsSocia-
ton; Mrs. Gilbert Fl. Grosyenor.
president of the Bethesda Women's
Club; Mrs. Frederick A. Holton. princi-
pal OF Holton Arms School: Mrs Edna
l.. johnston, vice president of the
League Of Women Voters; Mrs. Mark
Lansburgh, secretary of the Council of
Jewish Women; Claud Livingston, pres
loent OF the William H. Saunders Co;
DR.. George r. Mansfield, United States
Geological Survey; Mrs. George A.
Kicker, civic leader; Percy H. Russell.
president of the Percy II, Russell 60:
Mrs. Philip S. Smith, member of the
Board OF Education: Willard c. Smith.
president Of the Washington Council
OF Social Agencies: A. o. Tingley.
treasurer of the Mount Pleasant Con-
gregational Church, and Mrs. o. L.
vernon, vice president of the Social
Hygiene Society.
Miss TreudIey Is Director.
Miss Helen NJ. Treudley has been en-
ployed as director of the life adjust
ment center for the coming year and
she will give her full time to the work
after September /. Miss Treudley is
psychiatric social worker. who received
college training at Hiram College and
AOnShCio SOllc6c dHu AZ NOiuLuDH- OIll-
versity. She attended the National
School, Young Women's Christian As
ISOLATION. in New York City and the
New York School of Social Work She
has held responsible Young Womens
Christian Association positions in
Cleveland and in Honolulu, and she
spent one year in the Orient. She has
been identified with social service agen-
cies in Cleveland, New York City and
Washington.
Rev. Lowell heads the work of the
center as spiritual adviser. He has
made arrangements for the return of
all members of the staff who assisted
him the past year. They will serve
without compensation They are DR.
w. Sinclair Bowen and DR.. William B.
Johnson, physicians; Dr. Lucille Dooley,
DIR. Amy e. Stannard, DR.. r. w. Hall,
DR.. Edith M. Jackson and DR.. Roscoe
S. Cohen, psychiatristS; Miss Dorothy
G. Sproul, Miss Ella v. Ballard and
Miss Louise M. Kuglar, religious and
social workers.; Mrs. Mary c. Stevens,