Evening star., 1949-11-20
Help From Community Makes
industrial Home Annex LNobIe

, Navy group has collected the
money to provide playground
equipment.
The groups give time and serv-
ice as well as things. The Cir
Scouts, for instance, are drapine
orange crates to give the children
some place to put their personal
belongings. Besides that, the
Scouts collect washcloths. tooth
brushes and combs to supply the
youngsters, make bibs for the
babies, supervise the youngsters al
outdoor playtimes, come over on a
regular schedule to - bathe the
babies and make themselves gen.
orally useful. -.
Four groups at the All Souls
Unitarian Church and numerous
individuals are helping. They
take the children for bicycle trips
gave them a Halloween party and
will give the Christmas party
They arranged for q member OF
their congregation, landscape
artist, to draw the landscaping
plans which the Macarthur
Boulevard Citizens Association
has approved as project. A col
lege group sends volunteers every
week to help the children with
remedial reading and girl study.
ing to be a professional singer
directs the choral group at ths
annex.
| The Franciscan Brothers gave
the chapel a collapsible altar
B'nai Birth gives a monthly
birthday party complete with ice
|cream and entertainment ano
special gifts for the children
whose birthdays fall in that
month. The Links Club donated
q radio-victrola to use in the an
mex school. The mothers class OF
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church
comes every Monday with weeks
supply of homemade cookies fol
the younger children. The Variety
Club and st. Vincent de Paul So
ciety both provide movies.
| Windows Finger-Painted.
/ Working along with the COM
munity are the children them
selves. Boys from the Industrial
Home School did the painting and
younger boys sanded the floors
To make the chapel look more
like one, the children are finger
painting the windows to simulate
stained glass. The crafts class il
sewing chair backs of gay cottons
for the rooms. The boys are max
ing end tables for the reception
hall, to go with the donated chairs
In the school rooms, the legs. o1
normal-size tables and chairs
were cut down for the youngsters
When q batch Of furniture /.
donated, the children go through
it to pick out the pieces they wan
to decorate their rooms. One room
for instance. now has a vanit!
table made out of a mirror from
a broken down bureau perchet
atop a donated end table.
Staff members have dug intt
their own pockets to pay for thing.
they think would help. One ol
them bought a little aquarium ane
stocked it with turtles so the chill.
dren could have pets. Anothe,
bought a fixture Of logs with re.
volving lights under them to pu1
in a barren fireplace. g.
Typical of the making some.
thing out ut-of-nothing" routine wa.
the bathing suit incident. Wher
the heat reached its hottest las
summer. it was arranged for ths
children to go swimming. but non.
Of them had suits. Then Mis-.
Thompson recalled a cast-off sup.
/ ply of bloomers made by the WPA
years ago and stored at the In.
dustrial Home School. The boy.
pulled the boomers as high a.
they could go and let the materia
fall to give the illusion of shorts
The girls donned T-shirts ane
bloomers and everybody wen
swimming.
Because Of the overcrowdina
that became so serious the anne,
had to be closed to additiona
children last May and two floor.
Of the Lincoln Building now art
being used to take care of part o,
the annex population of $50 chill
dren. This building is the ONT
previously condemned as unsafe
but Miss Thompson said the fire
marshal had approved its use or
condition fire exits were KEEP!
open.
Now that building is being re-
furbished, too, most of the gap.
ing holes in the plaster have beer
filled and most Of the walls have
been painted. Soon, the bars vii
come out Of those windows as they
have out of other buildings.
"Of course . said Miss Thomp-
son, there's still a lot to be done
We have no infirmary and there
ought to be q kitchen in the nurs-
cry so we wouldn't have to carry
food to the babies from q bthe,