Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1921, Page 12

12 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1991, PLEDGES BEST EFFORTS FOR PUBLIC PROGRESS Samuel Gompers Speaks in Behalf of Labor Federation in End- of-Year Editorial. A continuance of its best effort in the cause of progress during the com- ing year is pledged by President Samuel Gompers on behalf of the American Federation of Labor fn his New Year editorial published in_the forthcoming issue of the American Federationist. “The year through which we have Just passed” he says, “has been a year of concerted struggle. Certain ‘em- ployers greeted the year 1921 with the battle cry of destruction. They felt a sense of power without responsi- bility to the social entity. “Two things were clear in_their minds: To reduce wages and to de- stroy the unions. the voluntary or- ganizations of the workers. in order PRAISES ARMY HOSTESS. | \irp AND JEFF—Mutt Certainly Packs a Nasty Wallop at Times. Miss Johnson Commends Humaniz- ing Plaz of Wer Department. Praise for the Army hostess, who has demonstrated the idea of suc- cessfully “humanizing” a department of the government. is given by Helen L. Johnson, of 122 East Capitol street, who Is interested in the welfare of the Regular Army. The idea of “human- izing” a government department is not a new one, she said, and has been successfully demonstrated_when, No- vember 1, 1919, the War Department placed in its military posts and res- ervations Army hostesses, with in- structions to carry on as best they could the work so efliciently conduct- ed by the various welfare organiza- tions during the world war. “She it is who arranges and chap- erones weekly dances,” she says, “se- lecting groups of girls from the near- by towns to act as partners. Under her supervision dancing classes are teld, vaudeville and moving picture shows given, partie and ‘stunt nights’ that wages might be permanently|arranged; in fact, she stands sponsor held down and in order that working conditions might be determined like- wise in arbitrary manner to the detri- ment of the workers. “There is no intent to draw a bill of particulars. The old year has gone. The efforts of reactionary employers, of hostile newspapers. of courts. of legislatures, of Congress. to harass. to undermine and to destroy have been unavailing. And even the presi- dential proposal for judicial tribunals to arbitrarily force labor and all in- dustry under the tyrannical rule of courts will not succeed. “The conclusion, at the end of the year. is that reaction has tried with for all the social activities of the en- listed personnel at her station. She is, without doubt, one of the greatest humanizing factors in the Army to- ““Man was not made to live alone, and large groups of males living apart, without the refining influences of women or the ordinary amuse- ments and occupations which tend to civilize and elevate mankind, some- times produce an abnormal condition with which the Army has often found it difficult to cope. The Army hostess has changed much of this, and has proved to be a great asset to the all diligence, and has failed to shake [ATMY-" the progressive, enlightened, con- o ur peope, - °f the Ereat masses 1917 CHRISTMAS DINNERS. “The conviction is inescapable that - progress is in store. Our people un-| Two hundred and seventeen home- derstand too well the Implications of | less former service men and unem- the Droposals of reaction to be de-ibployed persons were entertained with gelved Reaction cannot win by Jogicia Christmas turkey dinner. with all ecause the logic o e equation islfixings, including cigars,cigarettes and all against it. It cannot win by < threats and force because the mizht | of Gimres me ne” Shopoiiteers of the masses in their determination | pome. to go forward s unconquerable and| . insurmountable. *“‘Lay on MacDuff, we said a full year ago. MacDuff has laid on with vigor, but with the customary blind- ness of those who will not see the tide of human affairs and who will not listen to the burden of the human story as it is spoken from the lips of the masses. at the Stepping Stone Pennsylvania avenue. The ay was provided by mer- chants of Washington, entirely free of charge to the Volunteers. After the meal the men were enter- tained by singing by Mrs. Rita Wil- bourne and others. On Saturday night a special entertainment was given at the club, which was organized by Ur- bain Ledoux. ‘Among the features were Mrs. Bab- cock, in monologues; Mrs. Lila Taylor, dramatist; Miss Leonora Guriach, solos; Mrs. Rita Wilbourne, vocal selections, and Miss Ruth Tark, In sacred songs. Sixty-five men were it is in the keeping of so many.” —_— Mrs. Charlotte Lampanius, a ninety- five-year-old woman of Centralia, ‘Wash., is the mother of a civil war veteran, grandmother of a Spanish|were led in singing by Kenneth Chase, ‘war veteran and great-grandmother |assistant to Mr. Ledoux, who also of five world war veterans. rendered a solo. “Freedom’s cause is safe be\_ause’ Saving Expense or Saving Expensively? Keeping Important documents, contracts, correspondence, in ordinary files that every- one has access to, orthatm:myoga would destray is Saving Expensively. 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