Evening star., 1941-03-02
P.>T.A. Student Aid Requests
Clothing for Older Children
Particular Need Is for Trousers,
Shirts, Socks, Dresses and
Underwear, Say Workers
BY MRS. C. ID. LOWE,
President d G Congress Of Parents and Tea

1t has been about two months
since the community Christmas
effort was made a reality by the
generous response to appeals, made
through newspapers, radio and mo-
ton pictures for assistance for the
needy. The work of our Student
Aid Committee has been appreci-
ably Ightened during these inter-
vening two months, because every
needy child, so far as it was possible
to ascertain, was cared for with
both clothing and toys.
But, for the most part, the
clothing that was supplied to these
youngsters had already had a first
wearing and much of the wearing
quality had been diSsipated. And
when given a second hard wearing
by active youngsters, it will last a
much shorter length of time than if
the garments were new.
Now the members of the Student
Aid Committee are reporting an
increasing demand for clothing,
particularly for older boys and girls.
To the casual observer who visits
the student aid rooms in the Gales
School, it would appear that there
is an almost unlimited amount of
clothing hanging on the racks about
the room. And there are many
dresses and suitS-but all for small
children; children from kinder
garten through the fourth or fifth
grades. But when one looks for
clothing suitable and large enough
for junior and senior high school
children, one finds a woeful lack.
There is particular need at the
present time for big boys trousers
knickers and long pants, for big
boys shirts and socks and under
wear; for larger girls dresses and
underwear. There is still cold
weather ahead, and big boys and
girls sweaters, windbreakers, coats
and raincoats would all be welcome.
Pieces of material-from half a
yard on up-would be gratefully re-
ceived, for the women in the stu
dent aid rooms pride themselves on
the kind and style of garments they
can make from these short lengths
of material.
Our Student Aid Committee is
concerned only with keeping the
child in school, in so far as proper
clothing is the contributing factor.
We do not-and cannot-supply
direct relief of any other type. Our
association is an entirely voluntary
one. and the work done by the
women of our Student Aid Com
mittee, while not classified as direct
relief work, is the kind for which it
would be impossible to pay in dollars
and cents.
If you have wearable and clean
clothing for which you have no
further use, and will telephone the
student aid room any Wednesday
at Republic 4493, your bundles will
be called for. Better still, if you
can deliver them yourself, you will
be amply repaid for your trouble
by visiting the room, seeing the work
actually in progress, and meeting
the pleasant, friendly women who
are carrying on this program OF
concrete effort translated into gen.
uine, worthwhile results.
An instruction class for presidents
and chairmen of delegates will be
held Thursday at 10 am. in the N.
E. A. Building.
Registration will be from 9:45 to
10 am. At 10 am. Mrs. Russell E.
Clickner, state historian, will give
instructions concerning the correct
way to fill out the local unit reports.
At II am. Mrs. Bertha Eldred,
chairman of registration for the
state convention, will instruct in the
correct filling out of the delegates
cards and how to handle the cards
if the delegate is unable to attend
and must be replaced by an alter
nate. Mrs. Howard R. Jones, state
treasurer, and Mrs. Paul Gottwals,
state chairman of delegates, will
answer questions.
The fifth annual get-together
dinner of the 9Th division will be
held Tuesday at Gas pm. at the
Y. VIC. A. Guests of honor include
Mrs. Florence Rogers, supervising
principal of the 9th division; Mrs.
c. D. Lowe, president, District of
Columbia Congress of Parents and
Teachers, and Mrs. C. Costenbader,
9Th division representative. Greet
ings will be given by Mrs. Walter c.
Jones, general chairman, and each
of the guests. Mrs. Burdell Read,
president, Edmonds-Maury PIT. A,
will read the invocation in tribute
to its author, the late Mrs. j. N.
Saunders. past president of the Dis
trict of Columbia Congress of Par
entS and Teachers.
Mrs. Rogers will introduce the
principals, who will present the
PIT. A. presidents of each school,