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Three Public Affairs Insti
tute Speakers Discuss
Situation.
Be the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Vs.. July 18.
—foie third party movement In the
November election was discussed at the
close of the Tenth Public Affairs In
stitute at the University of Virjftnia
today by three speakers, each of whom
pointed a way he said would lead
from Insecurity and scarcity to pros
neritv and abundance.
Howard Y. Williams ot 8t. Paul,
Minn., national organizer of the
Parmer-Labor Political Federation,
pictured his party on the threshold of
a crusade for an '‘economy of abund
ance.”
He spoke to the tost meeting of the
round table on ‘‘The American Politi
cal Scene for 1936.”
Ben Howe, chairman of the City
Fusion party of New York, expressed
belief in "What the Republicans and
Democrats have been saying about
each other,” and asked what is to be
done about it. He charged that "We
are too cowardly” to let a political
economy “that squares with the facts j
be gorn.”
Alfred Gingham, editor of Com
munacuoc, *au ovw ***»““*
ham. former Senator from Connecti
cut, who spoke last night and was In
the audience this morning, said that
•‘the problem before civilisation today
1* whether or not it can build an
economic system that will work, in
place of the capitalistic aystem that
is breaking down.”
Mistake Toward Youth.
The view of the educator was ex
pressed by Dr. Alexander Meikeljohn.
director of the San Francisco School
of Social Studies, who in addressing
an open forum on "Perennial Educa
tion," charged the conservative busi
ness man and the radical reformer
commonly make the same mistake—
"Both of them wish to use the teach
ing of youth to serve their own im
mediate and temporary interests.”
Williams said that “With evidence
of a close race between the Republi
cans and Democrats in the next Con
gress, the Farmer-Labor parties of
Minnesota and other States are con
centrating on the election of at least
25 third-party Congressmen in the
1936 campaign, and believe the num
ber may run up to 40 or 50.
"This group of Farmer-Labor Con
gressmen with a program of produc
tion for use may actually hold the
balance of power in the next Con
gress and by their votes bargain for
their demands and force the next !
President to the left. This will be the !
most important contribution that can
come out of the 1936 election.
"The profit system is rapidly dis
integrating and only a national
Farmer-Labor party committed to a
people's front, similar to that in Prance
and Spain, can stop war and Fascist
dictatorship for America.”
Howe contended that "we are visibly
approaching a tragedy of the first
magnitude because we talk and talk
and don't say what we are talking
about. We are lost in the labyrinth of
these paradoxical involvements, where
everybody talks and nobody listens.
"Everybody is accusing everybody
else of being criminally anti-social
when everybody else knows few are
criminally anti-social outside of jails.”
Bingham argued that though the
third party vote would not be large, ;
"the question of a third party is the
most important issue of this cam
ttan. moff • * * •TO'int +1-1A +11 + 11VA
-—- —
will see a new political alignment is
certain enough. But whether it will
be an alignment based on real Issues
or false ones, that Is the key to the
third party problem.
"A system of planned plenty, aiming
at the full utilization of our resources,
a co-operative commonwealth of
production for use, is the only real
political issue of the future.”
School for “Salesmanship.”
Dr. Meikeljohn, the last of 200
speakers at the institute, condemned
alike the business man and the radical,
who he said wished to use the school
for "salesmanship” or "propaganda.”
“The perennial view of education
regards it as the activity of intro
ducing a young person into the crafts
manship of the mind,” he said. "In
America this perennial education has
taken the form of training in the free
discussion of human problems. We
are trying to teach to our youth the
art of ‘making up their minds.’
“If a teacher is to do that well it
is not enough that he furnish his
students with information, that he
Inform them about all sides of the
question. The teacher must make up
his own mind and must be an advo
cate of his own conclusions. • * •
"We must have free teachers who
have faith in the freedom of the
mind.”
John Calvin Brown, New York con
sirucuon engineer ana economist, 101a
the final session that if the present
administration is returned to office a
“political dictatorship" or social dis
order may result.
Hasty and ill-considered political
decisions on economic problems, he
said, constitute a great American
fault.
"None of us care whether govern
ment is business or not,” he added.
“What we are concerned about is
whether and how much our welfare .'s
injured if it is in business, and if we
decide that we want government to
stay out of business we must decide
during the next three months which
political party offers the greater threat
in this direction."
The presidential election, he said,
embodies “a war between politics and
democracy.” He attributed present
“troubles" to Government acts and
contended that further interference
with business could be expected should
the administration remain in power.
Methods for Care of Aged.
Frank Bane, executive director of
UK 11BUUUS1 OUVUU KTCVUllb/ ouwu,
outlined three methods from which
he said America must choose for the
care of the aged.
The Nation must decide, he said.
Whether they are to be cared for
through relief payments, or by month
ly benefit payments based on wages
earned, or by a "flat rate gratuity
without reference to need.”
He pointed out that the social se
curity act provided Federal aid to
the States for assistance to those who
are now in need upon a means-test
basis, and also for a system which
would enable wage earners to ac
quire retirement benefits without
having to show evidence of poverty.
"Shall we maintain such a system," :
he asked, "which has been established
by the provisions of the old-age '
benefits system iff the social security -<
act, or shall we be content with a i
“What the Law Allows”
Pat Patterson had a little clash with the authorities at Des
Moines. The latter finally ruled that phrase "no more than the
law allows” was sufficient to permit her to don her bathing suit
to go shopping during the prolonged hot spell. She is shown
alighting in the business district.—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Honor of Being ‘First Family’
Least of Mrs. London’s Concerns
Wife of Republican Presidential Can
didate Believes Responsibility Out
iveighs Everything Else.
C» me /acaui.Kieu ricoo.
ESTES PARK. Colo.. July 18.—The
responsibility of possibly becoming
“America’s first family” outweighs the
honor, in the opinion of Mrs. Alfred
M. Landon.
“It is that responsibility that I con
stantly think of rather than the honor
—great though it would be." said the
attractive, youthful wife of the Re
publican presidential nominee, Gov,
Alf M. Landon of Kansas.
Mrs. Landon wad packing the new
salmon rose print chiffon and white
crepe dress she will wear July 23 when
Gov. Landon is officially notified he
has been chosen the Republican
standard bearer.
Mrs. Landon. vacationing at a
ranch near Estes Park, will leave
IVLUliUCtj uv outuiiu/uiic wviMu
en train for the ceremony at Topeka,
! Kaos'.
j Mrs. Landon repeatedly has stressed
' that in the present campaign she pre
! fers a “background role of wife and
| mother." That is the part she has
, played the two terms Gov. Landon has
been Kansas' chief executive,
j “But that isn't exactly a do-nothing
role,” laughed Mrs. Landon. “For
! one thing, I have had to keep a large
house running smoothly—and there
i is considerable official entertaining to
do. But. most of all, I try to keep a
harmonious home for the Governor
to come home to."
Almost shyly she added: "I think
that is rather important, if not spec
tacular.”
system which requires that a person
be destitute to receive benefits and
receive them only on a subsistence
basis?”
Felix Morley, editor of the Wash
ington Post, pleaded for the develop
ment of a "critical faculty which shall
be Instinctively hostile to every dog
matic statement, instinctively insistent
on the importance of proof for every
flat assertion, and Instinctively de
termined to subject to severe cross
examination every one who either
holds blindly to the mooring ropes of
the past, or who insist with equal
blindness that those ropes be out
merely because they are moorings.”
Dr. Clyde L. King, former chairman
of the Public Service Commission of
Pennsvlvania, declared that "unhap
pily, facts do not daily flow unbiased
through many of our newspapers.”
Some are printed for profit, he said,
or to bring power or prestige to their
owners. He was confident, however,
that difficulties In the way of democ
racy could be overcome through as
sumption of individual responsibility.
Arthur w. James. Virginia com
missioner of public welfare, spoke be
fore the round-table on local govern
ment m relation to the new welfare
program.
BODY OF YOUTH, 23,
TAKEN FROM RIVER
Eddie Graves, Caught in Under
tow, Drowned at Clements
Shore.
By the Associated Press.
LEONARDTOWN, Md.. July 18.—
Three young people who tried to save
Eddie Oranes, 23, from drowning,
helped recover his body from the Po
tomac River today.
The young man, adopted son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Graves of
LovevUle, drowned last night while
swimming with a party at Clements
Shore.
Miss Audrey Leach, IT of Washing
ton, saw Graves caught In an under
town, sink three times and fail to
come up. She screamed for help.
Lawrence Magrogan. 16 of Newtown
Neck, and Frank AbeU of Chaptico,
dived for Graves but failed to locate
him.
Miss Leach, Magrogan and AbeU
went out in a boat with Deputy Sheriff
J. B. Love today and directed him to
the spot where the youth sank. They
recovered the body with grappling
hooks.
Magistrate and Corona* John
Wathen held an Inquest at which a
verdict of accidental drowning was
returned.
The youth’s body was removed to
the home of his foster parents for
funeral services tomorrow, conducted
by the Rev. Joseph Perrott, S. J., of
St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church,
Morganza. Interment will be in the
church cemetery.
The body was recovered today just
u the conservation patrol boat from
Bretton's Bay arrived to participate
n the search.
Fred Soith of Washington and MBs
Marion Mattingly of Leonardtown
sere rescued at the same spot early
Ills week after narrow escapes from
frowning. There bib no Ufa guards
it the place. A,
Gets Decree
WIFE ACCUSES WRITER OF
SLAPPING HER.
■ ..
MRS. ELAINE GALLICO,
The daughter of the widely
known author, Adela Rogers
St. John, was granted a di
vorce at Chicago yesterday
from Paul Gallico, sports and
short-story writer. She ac
cused him of slapping her and
twisting her arm. She was
his second wife.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Traffic
(Continued From First Page.)
approaching vehicles such as concrete
mixers and trucks.
George Eades, 48 years oid, was
crushed to death by a backing truck.
He was hauling tile in a wheel barrow
to an elevator when the truck, oper
ated by Henry Lyle Johnson, 25, of
2014 Portner place, struck him.
A coroner's Jury yesterday held
Eades’ death was accidental, but at
the same time declared the construc
tion company negligent in failing to
provive proper safety measures for
employes "working under the hazard
ous conditions that exist in the base
ment of the building.”
nr MarTVinalri nninteri nut that ■
the large number of vehicles and
machines causes so much noise that it!
is extremely difficult for workmen on j
foot to guard against moving vehicles.
The Jury’s verdict automatically I
exonerated Johnson.
Police reported two persons were
injured in traffic mishaps in the Dis
trict last night. They were Joseph
Mallon, 9, of 2900 M street and James
P. Murtaugh, $7, of 1034 Quebec
place, both pedestrians, who were
cut and bruised when struck by au
tomobiles.
The Mallon boy was treated at
Georgetown Hospital. Willard H. Mor
ris, 32, Clarendon, Va., was operating
the car, according to police. He was
booked at the seventh prectyct on a
charge of bad brakes.
Perry Allen of 909 M street was
said to have driven the car that bit
Murtaugh, who waa treated at tod
gen cy. i
BULL RUN ‘BATHE’
SET FOR TUESDAY
Soldiers and Marines Will
Re-enact Conflict on 75th
Anniversary.
BY MARSHALL BAGGETT,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
MANASSAS. Va., July 18— Rolling
back the pages of history, the Blue
and the Gray will fight again the first
major conflict of the war between
the States on Bull Run battlefield
near here Tuesday.
TVia Honru Unnu whirh tow
T. J. Jackson stand “like a stone wall"
to check the first Federal advance
Into Virginia while earning his hon
ored sobriquet, will again echo to the
sounds of guns ahd soldiers’ yells.
Ira rolling hill, over which the
Union and Confederate forces fought
through that long, hot July afternoon
of 75 years ago, will again feel the
weight of rolling caissons, horses'
hoofs and soldiers’ feet, while old
Bull Hun flows on Its way to the
Potomac as peaceful, If not as bloody,
as In 1801.
Marks 75th Anniversary.
Rlckett’s and Griffin’s batteries will
support the Union attack, advance
upon the flat-topped Henry Hill, and
be driven back by Stuart's Cavalry
and the 33d Virginia Regiment. Jack
son will Issue his famous "bayonet"
order, the Federal forces will be
routed—and no one will be hurt.
a sac tmvviv so iwugiiv bqbui *»<
celebration of its seventy-fifth anni
versary and in observance of the
establishment of the area as a na
tional battlefield park.
To the day, the hour and almost
to the minute will the principal fight
ing be reproduced. It will start at
3:30 p.m. and end at 4 p.m.
It was at 3:30 p.m. on July 21,
1861, when Stonewall Jackson re
ported the situation "called for the
use of bayonet" as his regiments and
Stuart's Cavalry pushed forward to
start the Union rout.
1,500 Troops to Participate.
To fight this "third battle of
Manassas" 1.500 troops from Quantico,
Fort Washington. Fort Myer and Aber
deen, Md. one-third the number en
gaged in the original fighting, will be
employed.
S tiV. tiuai lltVDI • -wssavsa
forces, will be dressed In blue. In lieu
of the Confederate gray the Regular
Army and Reserve Officers' Training
Corps units, which will represent the
South, will wear sun-tan khaki.
Heading one branch of the Confed
erate troops will be Maj. Stonewall
Jackson of Fort Washington, collateral
descendant and namesake of the
Southern general, whose role he will
re-enact.
During the sham battle the Confed
erates will lire 103.000 rounds of rifle
ammunition, 300 rounds of pistol shots
in calvary maneuvers and 300 rounds
of artillery shells. The Union forces
will be limited to 65.000 rounds of rifle
fire and 300 rounds of artillery shells
Program Opens at 1:30 P.M.
The “theater” of the battle will be a
300-yard area atop Henry Hill, in
plain view of all spectators.
A program, beginning at 1:30 p.m
and continuing after t'ne anniversary
battle, has been arranged. It Will start
with a concert by the 5th United
States Marine Band and includes In
vocation by Right Rev. Henry St
George Tucker, Episcopal Bishop ol
Virginia, and introductions of honored
guests by Stale Senator John W. Rust.
At 3 pun. Dr. Dougles Southall Free
man, Richmond historian, will narrate
few tha fleet Katfla At
Manssas.
After the battle, exhibition Cavalry
and Artillery drills will be presented by
the 3d United States Cavalry and Bat
tery B, 16th Field Artillery of Fort
Myer. They will be supplemented by
an exhibition combat flight by the
United States Marine Air Force.
The entire program is free.
Troop Commanders Listed.
Directional signs will lead motorists
to the battlefield, located ft miles
from Manassas and 30 miles south
west of Washington on the new Lee
Highway. The highway will be main
tained for exclusive use of motorists
going to and from the scene. A spe
cial squad of State highway patrol
men and 200 Citizens’ Conservation
Corps men will direct traffic.
The celebration is being staged un
der auspices of the State Commission
on Conservation and Development,
which is headed by Wilbur O. Hall,
chairman.
Assisting the commission are Harry
P. Davis of the Manassas Battlefield
Park Association, Branch Spalding,
superintendent of Virginia National
Battlefield Parks, and officials of the
Manassas - Prince William County
Chamber of Commerce.
rtfflobre nhr\ «H1I sAmmanrf nnifa in
the battle are: Col. C. J. Miller, Maj.
Melville Jackson and Capt. John D.
O’Leary, 5th Regiment, U. S. Marines;
Lieut. Col. J. O. Ord and Maj. Stone
wall Jackson, 12th Infantry, U. 8. A.;
Col. Jonathan M. Walnwright, 3d
U. 8. Cavalry, and Capt. John B.
Reybold, Port Myer, commanding
officer of mounted detachments.
LANDON HEADQUARTERS
OPEN IN MONTGOMERY
■rtclal Dispatch to The Star
ROCKVILLE, Md., July 18.—The
London and Le Gore Republican Club,
recently organized with Earl W. Shinn
of Kenwood, president and a large
membership, is arranging to maintain
headquarters in Rockville for the dura
tioh of the campaign.
Rooms at the northeast corner of
Montgomery avenue and Perry street,
near the court house, have been
rented and will be ready for business
within the nrxt week or 10 days.
The headquarters will be a meeting
place for members of the party, cam
paign literature will be distributed
and much other work done there in
behalf of the Republican presidential
and congressional candidates.
$2.45 Cached by Boy
Under Bridge Found
Safe 23 Years Later
f>V the Associated Press.
WHITEHALL, N. Y., July 18.—
David Nicholl of Pulton u a boy
hid $2.45 in a tin can under the
Saunders Street Bridge over the
Champlain Barge Canal just be
fore his family moved away 23
ytastago,.
' Paying s visit her* this week,
Nicholl looked under the bridge.
The money was still there, un
disturbed after nearly a quarter
of a century.
» "
SITE IS SELECTED
FOR 11 HIGH
Prompt Purchase of 29-Acre
Kensington Tract Planned
by Board.
BY JACK ALLEN,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
KENSINGTON. Md.. July 18—A
29-acre tract of land situated near the
local playground haa been chosen by
the Board of Education as the site
for the new Junior high school to be
built in Kensington under a recent
bond authorization of the State Legis
lature.
1/1. CAiWUI TT. UIVWUIC, VUUUI7 BUfICl”
intendent of schools. Informed repre
sentatives of the Chamber of Com
merce that negotiations for the pur
chase will be completed soon and issu
ance of the bonds by the county com
missioners will follow within a rela
tively short time.
The first unit of the building, how
ever, will not be ready for occupancy
until September, 1937. because of the
time that is to be required for drafting
plans and specifications, securing bids
: and other routine steps Incident to
construction of the school.
UUII *1CA AAA
The building will cost $160,000 and
is to consist of 12 rooms. In addition,
two cottages are to be built on the
campus for use of art, domestic science
and other special departments. Dr.
Broome said the arrangement will be
the newest and most advanced set-up
in the school system.
The announcement by Dr. Broome
was made last night before a special
session of the chamber’s Executive and
Advisory Committees, attended by
County Commissioners Paul Coughlan
| and Richard H. Lansdale, Lacy Shaw
| and Richard F. Green of the Mary
land-National Capital Park and Plan
ning Commission and Town Council
man Robert Lewis.
In a brief business session following
the conference with county officials the
two cffinmittees adopted a resolution
commending Ha$ry Martin, a member
of the chamber, for his part in secur
i ing approval of the school project.
Prescott to Sponsor BUI.
Martin was the author of the origi
nal resolution proposing the school be
built here and served as chairman of
the committee that vigorously advo
cated official approval of the project.
It was announced that Slate Sena
tor Stedman Prescott, sponsor of the
school construction bond act, has
agreed to introduce a Kensington park
area bill at the 1937 session of the
Maryland Assembly.
The bill would permit the Park
Commission to develop park areas in
| this section of the county when a ma
jority of adjoining property owners
petitioned and agreed to pay for such
improvements on a front foot benefit
assessment plan.
Favor Return of Roads.
A similar measure affecting the
j county as a whole was advocated last
session, but legislators disapproved the
proposal and the bill was not intro
duced.
It was decided to support the Mont
gomery County Commissioners' plan
; to urge the return of secondary road
' maintenance from the State Roads
| Commission to the counties and to
confer with officials of the latter
agency In an effort to expedite con
struction of the local railroad grade
crossing elimination.
Veterans
* e . a •
(Continued From First Page )
which history records at the turning
point In the World War. The blow
waa struck a few miles southwest of
Soissons by the 1st and 2d American
Divisions, with the famous French
Moroccan Division with its black
Senegalese, and the immortal Foreign
Legion between them. Today is the
eighteenth anniversary of that clear
hot July day, when the 2d Division
drove the enemy six miles, capturing
3,000 prisoners. 11 batteries of artillery,
and thousands of machine guns."
Familiar strains of best-know.t
music of the Army. Navy and Marine
Corps were played by the two bands.
Then, after a benediction, from four
guns of the 16th Field Artillery on the
ellipse behind the memorial boomed
out a 21-gun salute to the dead, rever
berating through the entire downtown
section.
| From a Marine Corps bugle came
J that last call, "Taps," and (he rere
monies closed with a silrrin- rendition
I of the National Anthem by the Army
Band.
Other Officers fer Year.
In addition to Gen. Matthews, the
other officers of the division for th’
year are, first vice president. Capt.
John West. Cincinnati; second vice
president, Arthur J. Murphy, Chicago:
secretary, Maj. D. J. Coughlin. District
of Columbia; treasurer, George Gor
don. Chicago; chaplain, Dr. John H.
Clifford, New York City: publicity,
; J. L. Sykes. Pittsburgh, and sergeant
at arms, Tom Mason, District of Co
lumbia.
The association in business session
adopted resolutions on the death Fri
day of Maj. Gen. Logan Feland, U. S.
Marine Corps, retired, "a very dis
tinguished and much loved officer.”
The resolution read by Gen. Harbord,
paid tribute to his service, and de
clared "no individual played a more
useful and distinguished part in that
record of which this association is so
Justly proud.”
The association also adopted a reso
lution on the death of the late Maj.
Lucien Van Doren of this city, former
president of the association, who died
several months ago.
Regret was expressed at illness of
Gen. Bundy.
The association authorized Maj. Gen.
Preston Brown, tr. S. Army, retired, to
proceed with publication and distri
bution of the division history, the
writing of whieh he has supervised.
Col. G. A; Herbst, national secretary
of the association, and Arthur Counl
han, assistant secretary, headed the
general Committee on Arrangements
for the reunion, co-operating with
other officials
JOHN B. GRAY IS 83
“Nestor of Prince Frederick Bar”
la Honored.
St eelal Dispatch to Tho Star.
PRINCE FREDERICK, Md., July
18.—John B. Gray, known as the "Nee
tor of the Prince Frederick Bar,” cele
brated his 8gd birthday anniversary
last night.
His daughters Mrs. Charles O.
Clemaon of Westminster, and 1 rimes
Sadie and Ma*gubme Gray of Prince
Frederick, gave a reception for him.
which was attended by s number
of frleabs.
Friendship House Is Good
Neighbor to Its Community
Chrises Injunction to Minister as
Though to Himself Is Borne Out in
Historic Home Built in 1800.
the social, the professional and the
political world of Its day.
Friendship House is not Just a job
or a profession with Miss Burklin but
the entire absorption of her life, the
sum and substance of her existence,
hence one's feeling that its work has
no particular hours but is a continu
ing force day and night.
Little Poem Guided Life.
When I asked her what forces had
been the determining ones in causing
her to devote her life to the motiva.
tion of the ideals of Friendship Hou-r,
she paused for several moments before
she replied, "I believe it must hare
been a little verse which I learned as
a very tiny girl at my grandmother's
knee which is to this effect.
"When e’re I take my walk abroad,
how many poor I see.
What shall I render to my God for all
his gifts to me?
While I am clothed from head to foot.
othefrs beg from door to door.
What shall I render to my God for all
his gifts to me?"
Continuing, Mrs. Burklin added,
‘‘my father was a Government em
ploye struggling with a limited in
come which had to suffice for a large
household, so we frequently had to
live in neighborhoods which were r.ot
exactly those to which my mother
had been accustomed. We were, of
necessity, very intimately aware of
the cost of running our home and the
reason for having every penny do its
full duty, yet grandmother, who was
one of the mast wisely visioned women
that I have ever known, somehow
always managed to convey to us that
we must look UDon ourselves as a.
fortunate group, possessed of ble.'S
ings to share with others. Even now
I can hear her say, 'A joy always
doubles itself, and a shared sorrow
loses its sting.’ Perhaps that has been
the motto that has carried us o\er
some of the roughest sledding at
Friendship House when we were hal
ing desperate struggles to have ore
dollar do the work of not two. but
three or four, and wondering where
wc were going to get it at that.”
Agency of Chest,
Today Friendship House Is an
agency of the Community Chest, ar.d
when I asked my last question of an
I old colored man in the neighborhood
i as to whether I were still headed in
the right direction, his reply was,
! "You can’t miss the big red heart in
the yard of that big old house, which
! Is the onliest one dat still looks as If
dequility wuz around heah."
As I was tearing myself away from
my self-imposed visit, the historical
background of the famous past of this
i old house passed in sequence before
me. Somehow one better visualized
Dr. Frederick May. the physician ari
abl- citizen, who has left his indelib>
imprint upon our city by the Medical
Society which he founded. One saw
. ciearjv, too, Mayor Smallwood of
Washington, man of many busings
affairs, who yet found time to sere
his community with vision and ability.
Of him it is said “his erudition lay not
I in books in cases, but in his knowl
! edge of their contents which he so
i well kept in his head.” A letter of the
British Minister. Sir Stratford Can
ning. written to a kinsman across
; the Atlantic in 1821, challenges the
! judgment of Mayor Smallwood, which
. he quotes, concerning the future de
velopment of the Capital City, yet tim:
has proven the mayor's contention.
1 The last act of Mayor Smallwood's
life, we find, was the framing of a
: resoluti^p, afterward signed by Presi
dent Monroe, providing that “suitable
arrangements be forthwith made for
the erection of a city hall in Judiciary
Square.” i
In his old home at 324 Virginia ave
nue southeast there still survives un
touched in the “Lafayette room” the
1 noble proportions, fine old mantels,
arched doorways and windows and
fan-shaped doorway of that addition
to his home which the mayor built
especially in honor of the French gen
; eral's visit to Washington during hie
! term of office, that he might more
i suitable receive the distinguished
i visitor. Alas, for his plans, the j
1 mayor's home was visited hv small.
pox and the room was never used for
i the noble visitor's reception. At the
present time, upon walls where once
hung, “fine in frames," the mayor'!
copies of the Declaration of In
dependence and the portrait of Gen.
i Washington, there is an exhibition of
! paintings sponsored by the National
Federation of Women’s Cluhs.
The Lafayette room is now the
general meeting place of the com
munity groups that meet in Friendship
House from time to time. Who shall
say that it has not after all fulfilled
the intent of that Mayor Smallwood,
who planned It for a reception to the
people of Washington so many years
ago? For Friendship House is not a
charity, but an exemplification of
what community friendship can do in
sharing the joys and sorrows that are
common to it. Thereby has it proved
itself an effective agency in the up
building of that type of good cltlaen
ship which makes for a better
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BY JESSIE FANT EVANS.
IF THK lure of old bouses Is one of
your special weaknesses, often the
sight of a line old home, left like
a sentinel of former greatness in
a neighborhood from which other evi
dences of past grandeur have long
since departed, gives you a profound
sense of sadness. Such is happily not
the case with 324 Virginia avenue
southeast. Here, today, under the name
of Friendship House, it extends the
hand of good fellowship and of neigh
VtAelti IrlnWnAM U frnm
munlty and far beyond its midst.
Its history goes back to the year
1800, when it was built upon an emi
nence overlooking the Potomac, across
what were then intervening fields, by
Dr. Frederick May, newly come by way
of Dartmouth and Harvard to the Cap
ital City, which was then in the mak
ing. In this home Dr. May was destined
to become one of Washington’s leading
physicians and the founder of its
medical society.
In 1818 it came into the posses
sion of Mayor Samuel Smallwood, mer
chant prince of his day In this vicinity,
the first mayor of Washington to be
elected by popular vote, as he was the
first out of 20 city fathers to die during
his term of office.
Could See Busy Wharf.
From this, his residence. Mayor
Smallwood could plainly see the wharf
___ —. *- Ua. _ Vtla noma
located between Third and Fourth
streets. There could be seen, too, the
tall masts of two, three and four
masted sailing vessels, riding at anchor
while their cargoes, chiefly of lumber
and coal, were unloaded by singing
crews of colored stevedores and drawn
away by strings of horse, mule and
oxen drawn carts.
Over a century later Miss Lydia A.
Burklin. head worker at Friendship
House, and her corps of assistants are
quietly doing a piece of civic work in
this same old home which includes
ministrations that even the Great Phy
sician Himself might approve, if we
bear in mind His injunction, ‘‘In so
much as you have done it unto the least
of these, so have you also done it unto
Me.”
Nor Is the hospitable spirit of its
older day and time missing. For.
when after several times losing my
Mmtr In a# SUIa V%lei/\nl a
i house, I chanced in just at luncheon
time, the children who fill to over
flowing its nobly proportioned rooms,
none too spacious for its present needs,
with a sort of grave courtesy said:
‘‘We'll And Miss Burklin: we imagine
she will want you to stay to lunch.”
Considerably to my embarrassment,
Miss Burklin did. with that rare
courtesy which makes the unexpected
guest one of a family, be it large or
small without apology or flustration.
i The littlest one at Friendship House
as we passed several smaller rooms
en route to the one where the older
group have their noonday meal, called
out, to this stranger in their midst,
‘‘If you don't like greens. ju*t you see
me eat mine,” and with gusto he pro
ceeded to consume his spinach in a
way that would have been an incen
1 tive to the least ‘‘green-’ minded per
1 son I can imagine.
Wholesome Luncheon Served,
What a wholesome one that lunch
eon was. too. Tall glasses of milk,
generous servings (seconds if you so
elected and most folks did) of baked
macaroni combined with ground meat,
spinach salad served with lemon
juice and oil, and extremely good at
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iliat, uitou, uuvwt, --—*
1 and fresh fruit for every one. Their
merry conversation, the refreshing
gusto of their appetites and the nicety
of their table manners, as well as
their courtesy in making me their
guest feel at home in their environ
ment, was indeed a delightful txperl
! ence that for a considerable time
i overlapped my interest in the long
ago time of which the old house had
once been such an intimate part.
Today. 326 Virginia avenue south
east, which is the house next door to
the May-Smallwood House and the
exact replica of it, is also the prop
erty of the Friendship House group.
Together they constitute the head
quarters of a motivating Influence
which, like the radian spirit of a
good neighbor, reaches out toward
helpfulness with life's responsibilities
and the sharing of joys and sorrows.
Senator McKinley of Illinois not only
gave the first $1,000 toward this ex
pension, but made possible its final
acquisition by lending the money to
finance its purchase.
I Here, 35 children, whose employed
mothers are in most cases, the sole
support of whole families, are cared
! for during their mothers’ working
1 hours, given t. non-day meal and pro
j sided with the proper periods of rest
and play. The rate of pay for this
I project varies according to the moth
i er’s circumstances, and ranges from
I . mn» mnre than a full cost to a tiny
sum that will preserve self-respect
Mate Mary Moore Miller, a graduate
of Swarthmore, Is in charge of the
Day Home, as this service which
Friendship House renders its neigh
borhood is called. Mrs. Bernice An
derson Kendall assists In thW phase
of the work and with the recreational
facilities.
Based upon a list of names fur
nished by the neighborhood schools,
from 30 to 35 Summer school days of
Instruct!cm are given pupiW in the
first and second grades whose early
laming stages are in need of bolster
ing. Miss Vlzannah Carrier and Miss
Anne Marie Anderson are in charge
of the Summer School work and of
the nursery school which is an all
around-thc-year feature at Friend
ship House.
Music and Art Classes.
Then there are classes in music and
art with group, and such individual
instruction, as talent and IntereA
may require. Miss Doris Hilton is
the art instructor and Miss Jessie
Owen guides the music lovers along
their way to adequate expression. The
wading pool to save the precious play
ground space, which is illuminated
upon occasion. “Is the playground
used at night?” you inquire. ‘'Yes,"
comes the emphatic answer. “Play In
the early evenings upon a supervised,
illuminated playground is a very real
asstt for Keeping oider children out'
of the activities and Interests that
make for crime development." How
fitting that there should be this re
action in the home of that mayor who
conspicuously during his term of office
strove to improve penal conditions in
the District.
During my visit, it was interesting
to <fee the classes in sewing and dress
making in operation, one of the girls
busily intent upon the finishing
touches that had to do with as a smart
and well-fitting a little gingham coat
suit as I have seen this season.
Boys Faint Play House.
Several older boys under the direc
tion of Mr. Dean Longfellow was
painting a play house which a carpen
try squad had made one Easter holi
day. The boys’ recreation or game
room is a fascinating place. It is lo
cated in what must have been the
great kitchen of the old home in the
heyday of its glory, for a mammoth
fireplace runs across Us front, in
whose cavernous depths can still be
seen the original cranes and kettles
. _a_ __1
ui an cm "*«•»* “““ --•/
were unknown marvels lor the cook
ing of our daily food.
In tl^play yard one of the most
sturdy Jungle Jims I have ever seen
anywhere Is the handiwork of a needy
father who was helped to a new start
In life by being employed to con
struct It.
Presently such wholesale face and
hand washings and teeth brushing
operations as I had never before seen
became the vogue, with Miss Burklln’s
various assistants taking most partic
ular pains to see that each one was
using his own particular parapher
nalia, taken from separate rompart
ments carefully marked with their
owner's names. “And why the gen
eral brush-up?" was my query.
“Wouldn't you like to wander about
for yourself and see?" was Miss Burk
lin's reply. I would and did.
Evidently every one was getting
ready for the rest nour. me oicer
children did not have to take naps
but could quietly read, either to each
other in little groups, or on their own
in the downstairs nooks of their
; choosing.
Off to Slumber Land.
Upstairs in bedchambers, where
- there are still the original mantels
: over the fireplaces that are in every
room, small cot-beds, carefully spread
with homemade little blue-edged cot
ton spreads, invited rest and repose.
Then off came the bedspreads, the
outer garments, underclothes, shoes
and stockings, with each being taken
care of according to a ritual that
fairly rejoiced one's soul with the
order and system of it all. and the
lesson in neatness that it uncon
sciously taught. Presently each little
youngster was in her own sleeping
garment, fashioned by the older girls’
sewing club, and almost before you
[ could realize it southern breezes from
! windows that look toward the Potomac
; as in days of yore were lulling these
children of Friendship House off to
; quiet health-giving slumber.
How every woman’s soul would have
■ sympathized with the righteous wrath
i oi a uay conscienuuus uiuc sum ot
| her Bohemian neighbor, a newcomer
t to the group, who had sprawled across
j her bed without having taken off her
J bedspread and folded it up before she
hopped in.
And how did this adventure in faith
and friendship, that has so valiantly
struggled against a lean budget and
tremendous odds, come to be?
Back in 1904 two Associated Charity
aides, Miss Adelaide Rochefort and
Miss Ida Green, in their little office
at 319 Pennsylvania avenue south
east, felt the need of establishing a
center where cultural and recreational
guidance might be established for
those who were unable to pay a great
deal for the privilege, yet who would
spurn assistance from a so-called
charitable organization. In pursuance
of this idea, they rented a room in a
‘ house at Tenth and M streets, near
the river, at what Is now Tenth and
Potomac avenue. During the first
four years of its existence the center's
workers were all volunteer ones.
Friendship House Founded.
Undeterred by difficulties that would
have downed others than those who
were the devoted adherents of an un
faltering purpose, the motivators of
the idea pressed on until in 1906 they
took over the May-Smallwood house
at 324 Virginia avenue, then falling
into rack and ruin. They said, we
will call it "Friendship House." be
cause "Friendship is not only a noble
and beautiful thing for an individual
but the realisation of it is the ideal for
LHC AMllC.
Twenty-seven years ago this past
April. Miss Lydia A. Bur kiln, a native
Washingtonian, whose higher educa
tion has been a rich one acquired in
the university of life, came to Friend
ship House as its head worker. Be
cause of the devoted service of Miss
Burklin and those who have been asso
ciated with her as co-workers. Friend
ship House under the leadership of
its president. Henry P. Blair, and
such board members as Mrs. James H.
Baden. Mrs. John Barber, Mrs. Wil
liam Lee Corbin, Mrs. Wright Clark,
Mrs. C. L Christie. Mrs Thomas J.
Hurney, Mrs. Milton King. Miss Flora
Johnson, Mrs. Howard G. Nichols,
Miss Emily Storer, Mrs. Albert Sta
bler, Mrs. Bernard Walls, and many
others—is fulfilling the dream of its
founders as an agent for community
service. The old house is a gracious,
serene place, too, despite its myriad
activities and wide varieties of service
to others with a dignity that some
how seems to have carried over from
the days when it was the mccca for
club rooms iot ine giris >na ooys ana -
their mothers have pianos in them, > .
and display Interesting original art
exhibits in an exhibition of work on
display at the Phillips Art Gallery as
recently as July S, the work of a Day
Home Friendship boy, directed by
Misd Bernice Cross, an assistant to
Miss Hilton, has received much favor- Wfi
able comment.
All of the many and varied recrea- 9
tlonal activities are under the Juris- ■
diction of Miss Alice Leigh Byars, who 9
Is in her tenth year of service for this 9
community. Of Interest Is an out- 9
of-door stage for dramatic perform- 9
anced that fits over the top of the fl
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