Evening star. [volume], November 03, 1939, Page A-15, Image 15

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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Petworth Library
Praised as Agency
To 'Debunk' Isms
Mrs, Collingwood Gives
Talk at Meeting of
P.-T. A. Institute
The Petworth Branch of the Pub
lic Library was praised yesterday
at the 3d annual Parent-Teacher
Institute as an excellent agency for
“debunking isms" of propaganda
and upholding democracy among
the big school population in that
area.
Praise for the library and its
staff came from Mrs. O. H. Colling
wood, representting the Petworth
Parent Teacher Association, as she
told the institute at Oeorge Wash
ington University how a community
movement of about 30 groups had
succeeded in getting the branch
library.
Previoussly it had beqti necessary
for the children in that area to go
either to the Mount Pleasant or Ta
koma Park Branch Libraries, she
■aid. There was a big library de
mand, she said, from the school
population of about 4,000 children
in the Petworth School, Macfarland
Junior High School, Roosevelt High
School, Allison Health School and
Dennison Vocational School.
Mrs. heal Speaks.
Praising the “democratic use” to
which the library had been put in
an area where she said the foreign
born population was large, Mrs. Col
lingwood said that with modern
propaganda what It was, “our very
excellent library staff gives us an
excellent opportunity to debunk
isms that come about and realize
that democracy is the stronghold
of individuality."
Mrs. Edward R. Seal, from Powell
Junior High School association,
after tracing the success her or
ganization had in obtaining a recre
ation area on the north side of
Lamont street at Sixteenth street,
predicted that it was likely that the
remainder of the north side of
Lamont street from the present area
to Hiatt place also might be added
later on. She traced the campaign
conducted since 1934 in the interest
of the recreation area and declared
the success which attended its ef
forts “shows what concerted effort
can do.”
Mrs. Walter Clyde Jones of
Wheatey P.-T. A. reported on the
project at that school, where a
dump was converted into a flower
and vegetable garden.
Mrs. George Hopkins of Janney
(School association explained how
that organization had obtained a
reference library in the school
building, operated by the mothers.
It is open, she said, from 10 am. to
12 noon and from 1 to 3 pm.
Tells of Health Clinic.
Mrs. Philip Dodson of Oyster
School association told the institute
of establishment of the health clinic
at this school, over which a matron
presides. In the clinic, she said is
a card file of parents, and those to
call in case of accidents to the chil
dren.
The importance of love in the
home was stressed by Mrs. Evelyn
Bright Buckley, fifth vice president
of the District of Columbia Congress
of Parents and Teachers, in a discus
sion of the subject: “Directing the
Vital Factors in Parent-Teacher
Child Relationships.”
"Love is the source from which
flows ideal harmony of family life,”
she declared. "Selfless love is the
ideal for which we are all striving,
particularly for the benefit of our
children.” She discussed the rela
tionship of home and community,
and home and the school.
The home, she said, was doing fell
it was prepared to do, but added
that "more needs to be done, and
much more preparation is neces
sary.”
Mrs. C. D. Lowe, president of the
congress, presided.
Van Zandt to Address
Regular Veterans
"Why a National Defense Second
to None” will be the subject of an
address by Representative James E.
Van Zandt of Pennsylvania, at a
dinner scheduled by the Regular
Veterans’ Association tonight in
honor of National ComdrT Carl
Gardner. The dinner will be held
at 8 o’clock in the private dining
room of Burt’s Tavern, 1412 New
York avenue N.W.
Other speakers will include Rep
resentatives John Selinski of Mich
igan and Fred Izac of California,
Rear Admiral George Pettingill,
commandant of the Navy Yard, and
Millard W. Rice, legislative repre
sentative of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
Victor E. Devereaux, national
senior vice commander of the Regu
lar Veterans’ Association, will pre
side.
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