The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-07-24
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HOUSING PROJECTS
WASHINGTON.-I spent one morn
ing visiting low cost housing prof.
ects in and around Washington.
Some of the people who were moved,
because of the fact that the navy
yard had to be enlarged, are in
trailer camp nearby.
On the whole, the arrangements
are good. I was surprised at how
wonderfully the women manage in
such small quarters. In one trailer
three grown people and three chill
dren were housed, and yet every
thing was as clean and neat as pos
sible. The camp is divided into
two units. Each has utility build
ing where laundry can be done, and
showers and sanitary toilets.
/ did not see any of the new de-
mountable houses which are to
house so many defense workers.
Property owners have in many
cases objected strongly to having
these houses go up in their neigh
borhood for fear of lowering the
values. But since these houses are
demountable and are to be sold at
the end of the emergency and TAX
en- somewhere else, / do not feel the
danger is very great.
The other sites I visited are all
under the direction of the Alley
Dwelling authority. I came away
with great sense of pride in the
effort which people make to i'm
prove their living conditions just as
soon as they have anything with
which to work
JAPANESE IN U. s.
The first Congregational church in
Berkeley, Calf, has taken a great
interest in the American-born Japa-
nese who have had to move further
inland. The following story was
sent to me by them:
Arriving in Tanforan with only
the clothes he wore, Bill Kockiyama,
81, last week received $4,000 in
heritance from a former stage and
screen actress, for whom his father
had worked for the past 20 years.
Kockiyama came from New York
city in 1910 to attend the University
of California. At Tanforan he is
mess hall worker. After deducting
income taxes I purchased $1,000 in
war bonds in order to do my part
in the war effort Kockiyama stat
ed. Eventually he hopes to use the
money invested to continue his edu-
cation"
CHILDREN'S HEARING
In my mail has come a letter
from DR.. Morkovin, who is director
of the hearing clinic of the Univer-
sity of Southern California. He
writes that there are some three
million hard-of-hearing children in
this country, whose loss of hearing
is discovered far too late for COM
plete cure. This is largely due to
the fact that mothers do not realize
that complications which destroy
hearing often arise after measles,
whooping cough, infantile paralysis
and other children's diseases.
Public opinion is Indifferent to the
fact that the hearing handicap may
be great deterrent to the develop
ment of the child. Therefore there
are no state or federal agencies
which care especially for hard-of-
hearing children and they are not
included in the benefits of the Grip
pied Children act. If we know how
much could be done, there would be
weight of public opinion in favor
of watching for any signs of i'm
paired hearing in small children.
THE FORTY PLUS
I find that am not the only per-
son who is concerned about employ
ment of older people. There is an
organization called 1.-THE Forty
Plus" which has branches in many
Of the big cities. It originated, /
think, in Boston. But the most re-
cent letter have had comes to me
from Pittsburgh, Pa.
The president, Mr.. George Sheri-
dan, writes: "The club was origi-
nally formed with the idea OF reliev-
ing situation then thought to have
been brought about by the depres-
sion and with the hope in mind
that as conditions improved, the sit
uation would automatically take
care Of itself and that men with
the ability of our members would
find no difficulty in securing posi-
tons.
''To certain extent this has been
true, and we feel we have had good
success, having placed ST. men
since our organization was formed
in Pittsburgh in July, 1889, to the
present time; but we are still meet
ing with and endeavoring to over
come, a prejudice to hiring men
over 40 years of age. We are try