Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1923, Page 12

HUMAN INTEREST - - STORIES UNFOLDED Juvenile Protective Associa- tion Claims Daily Contac_t With Tragedies of Life. OUTLINE OF ITS WORK Organization Makes Plea for Help in the Task of Child Saving. In rooms on the fourth floor of the Juvenile Court wuilding in this city daily stories of high human in- 1erest are unfolding, but the desire of those in charge of this modest lLeadquarters place, unlike that of many writers, is to prevent, the slories from having a tragic ending. ‘The rooms are the headquarters of the Juvenile Protective Association. Most persons know little apparently about the work of this, the youngest of Washington's beneficent organiza- tions. Necessarily the nature of the work prevents that kind of publicity which is presumed to be the most telling, that which deals with trag- edies of life with the names of the actors included. The human material association de and it is rstand: why appe: with the name attached of a who may need saving” cannot bo made public. Publicity in such a case would uct against the good of the ohild’s future. Oft-Repeated Query Answered. 1e the question is the Juvenile Pro- n?” ~ When the 1 & answered the askers take The effort of the Washing- Protective Assocl 4|mn lu\ll~" nother way and 4 little the work consists in di- rected endeavor to prevent children who show signs of waywardness from reaching that stage when necessarily they must appear in court as offend- ers against the law. The Juvenile Protestive ia- tian needs help in its work of child- saving. It has to offer a field of work in which the appeal to human dra- matic interest alw volunteers who work of being “big brothers, sisters” to children in nee ance quickly while Pope of mankind written t of guid- seem to discover that, he proper study it most T childhood takes mnder its ildren who are reported of becom- from supervision « 1o it as b ing deling parents, fr and from different kinds. Immediately the sciation begins a course of *f *the child of who wk to mormal living inking and ve lire“and useful citiz gormal it for a useful Y the Woman' story of th establishment of the juvenile court Chicago was prepa known writer. The most through ehildren. to the Ju tion for t} rgo W. Cook: U\e Miss Louise ¥. King Charles P. Ligh retary is ¥ the field work Allen. There is 4 b on which is representa st | of Washington man and woman cit-| izenship. Volunteer Workers ‘olunteer «m.r(l;ny the tre xecutive Needed. workers ct as big | ed. and, 1 has been said Washington s »es not know much of the work o ssoc ty some | rect personally worl | must be kept from the field of spe- | cific publ because childhood | must be guarded in reputatton as in | all_else. | The work of the organization ex- tends Into other flelds than those of the immediate environment of the | children; what the mothers are do- ing in industry, oportunities for proper recreation, chiid labor, and other matters which may have a| direct relation to delinquency ade brought under stud In_brief, the officers of the Juven- fle Protective Association’s request to the people of the DI t is “Help us to help the children Supervisory Work Detafled. During the year ending last Sep- tember, the association had under its supervision 717 children. With sup- | port that was not altogether ade- quate, but with the hearty help of Yolunteers, the protectors of child- hood succeeded in making such ad- justments in these cases that only 3 per cent of the children under su- pervision found their way into court. Officers of the organization say that colleges. { represent the views of thes |it gets it FRATERNITY RITES FATAL TO ALABAMA UNIVERSITY YOUTH TUSCALOQOSA, Ala., January 29.—i Glenn Kersh, aged sixteen, son of M: G. Kersh, city clerk of Tuscaloosa, died yesterday from paychic effects of excitement following an initiation at the Sigma Nu Fraternity house upon the campus of the University of Alabama here, according to a verdict of a coroner’s jury. A number of witnesses said there was nothing done that could have caused death from bodily injuries. The medical examination made of Kersh's body showed no signs of violence, the physicians testified. Dr. George H. Denny, president of the university, expressed profound regret on behalf of the university over the young man’s death and stated that the initiation was car- ried on in the same manner as in all He said that an investi- gation showed that there was no physical injury inflicted, nor any ap- pliances, electrical or otherwise, used in the ceremony. DENIES MINE PLAN HAS UNION BACKING Editor Says “Greenwich Vil- lage Parlor Coal Miners” Drafted Scheme. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 29.— The United Mine Workers of America have proposed no definite plan for nationalization of the coal industry, and the sgheme recently put forward by a comittee of the union should not be considered the adopted plan of the organization, EMis Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers Journal, declared in a statement yesterday. Greenwich village “parlor coal miners” helped frame the program that the union committee recently launched In thig city for nationaliza- tion,”.said Mr. Searles, and the “pub- lic should not accept it as the pro- posal of the United Mine Workers of America unless and until it has been officially affirmed and adopted conventlon, which The committes's program, ho sald, ad been informed, in part. pared by some well known New York radicals, who have no connecion’} whatever with the coal mining indus- t 1 Text of Searles’ Statement. Mr. Searles’ statement.follows: Apparently, there is a general| understanding that the plan is: 'n{ the pla of the United Mine | Workers of Amer This is not cor- | rect. The plan et forth at the| meeting by a committe of the min 3 n o of the membe ymittee. The report of th has not been yet presente ention of the, United Mine \\Ork(r of America lur’ ‘hat action the con- | may take ‘on | bject is unknown | fortunately the plan nrnpn:ed by | mittee was prematurely made | at au radical meeting in New ind this fact has caused the pub- | lie to believe that the United Mine | Workers of America is committed lvv] the particular plan set out in the re port. | Only Tentative Plan. “The fact is the outline submitted | by the committee was merely a lenm-l tive proposition and the committee has not claimed that it is & definite declara- ! tion by the union. We. are informed | that it wa n part, prepared for the ! committee some well known New ! York radicals who have no connection } whatever with the coal mining in-} d public report perhaps, Greenwich Village parlor coal min the upblic hould not accept it as the proposal { f the United Mine Workers of Amer- unless and until it has been official- ly affirmed and adopted by the national onvention, which will be held next v /hile the may, of differences over policy with ]rowdcnt John L. Lewis of the iolden, president of dl:«»! nomic standpoint and ignoring en- tirely the question n‘ sentiment and; duly. the Washington community, by such preventive work, is saved -not nly increased expenditures, but re- tains for If that greater asset found in good citizenship. The volunteer workers of the Juve- | Assoclation study each | , its environment and view to finding © of delinquency or of threat- | elinquency. If the child needs | directing sympathetic companionship in the person of a big brother or a big sister. If it is found that the delinquency or the possible coming delinquency s the result of something which a kindred organi- zation best can look after, the child is turned over to the care of the So- ciety which makes a specialty of certain classes of cases. its t MUTT AND JEFF—Day By Day, In Every Way, Mutt’s Just the Same. A H TP USE AUTOSUGGESTION ON MUTT'S UNCONSCIOVS MIND AND MAKe Him QUIT SOAKING ME IN THe €Ye Every Dav; trict 9 of ‘the -union, embracing the Pennsylvania anthracite flelds, - an- nounced tonight his resignation as a member of the committe which drew up the report that Mr. Searles criti- cized. TEN BODIES RECOVERED FROM WRECKED TANKER By the Associated Press. ® TAMPICO, Mex., January 29.—Ten bodies have been Tecovered from the wreckage of the Mexican Eagle Ol Company's tank steamer San Leon- nardp, which was almost destroyed re after an explosion at the company’s dock in the lower Panuco river Thursday night. 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