Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1932, Page 6

A—6 WORK HERE GAINS THE' SUNDAY i) STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, JANUARY 24, 1932—PART ONE. || My Most Interesting Case BY MRS. MARTHA A. McADOO, ON TUBERCLLOSIS bitter cold.® A taxi broke the line of ceaseless traffic and stopped at During First Half of Month, , the curb in frof of the Phyllis Secretary Says. | Wheatley Y. W. C. A. The driver | got out, opened the door and helped |2 weak woman and a crying 5-year-old {1ad up the steps of our building. And | then it was that we opened the Y. W. C. A. doors to | 200 Persons Called at Clinic| lr was 6:30 oclock at night and More than 200 perso amination or advice, v dren’s Tuberculosis Clinic, during the first half of this mc cording to a statem by Dr. Viola Ru ing of our 66 wel- fare cases handled during 1931. The mother stumbled into our office, followed by her young son. She could noi_talk for sobbing. The child whimpered and clung to his mother. They were obviously cold and hungry. We brought warm ot iy to clothes for * tne G pitiful couple, an 1s field work | it was over the hot soup furnished he hon f|them that we heard her story. The woman's husband had died a nder | week before, leaving her without any ‘When | Jivelihood to support herself and young So she had gathered their small and set out work. b ociation aid Dr. Ander- in the clinic’s re | Mrs. jee we are able to t £ MecAdoo. erted ten t she asked the ver to bring he where to find food for the youn and he had driven them to the ‘Wheatley Y. W. C A We supplied lodging for & week and be con 11 are to do our in protecting t from the ravages of tuberculosis, which the most interest- | Executive Secretary, Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. cases awaiting transportation back to their homes MEN SHOT BY PISTOLS IN WAR ARE SOUGHT | National Anti-Weapon Association | Wants to Reach Survivors of Group Numbering 242 _ Bomewhere, scattered over the United States, are survivors of a group of 242 Americans who, according to V partment records, were the injured by pistol or revolver ing the World War. There were 2 Americans killed and wounded in t war, according to those records The National Anti-Weapon Associa- tion yesterday sent out a call in an ef fort to locate these gurvivors. A. T Rogers, secretary of t organization, is one of them. He was wounded in the knee by a pistol bullet a few day fore the armistice. Thirteen of th records show, died from the wou The request from the asked all those wounded by fire to get in touch with t; at national headquarters, Building, here OFFICERS OFiDERED HERE Col. W. J. Barden and Lieut. Col W. T. Hannum Reassigned Two all-arms ecretary Investmen Engineer Corps officers, Col William J. Barden and Lieut. Col. War- ren T. Hannum, have been ordered to meals for many Traveiers' Aid Society HISTORIC SILVER - GIVEN RED CROSS Chest Presented 69 Years Ago to H. W. Bellows Dis- played in Museum. | | The chest of silver presented 69 years ago to Henry Whitney Bellows, presi- | dent of the United "States Sanitary | Commission during the Civil War, today | was placed on display in the American | Red Cross museum The chest was given to the museum by Dr. Bel- lows' son, Robert P. Bellows, and his daughter, Mrs. Ellen Bellows Endicott. ift to Dr. Bellows here iit dish and an immense . The majority of the pieces i The pattern The tray bears of the gift as follows Whitney Bellows, president of the United States Sanitary Commis- sion, from friends in San Francisco. A tribute of honor and gratitude for his service to the sick and wounded soldiers f the National Army. June, 1863.” Dr. Bellows was one of the founders| of the Sanitary Commission. Composed | of civillans, the commission obtained y thousands of dollars through ars and other means, using the to provide medical attention, nces and comforts for the sol- | the battlefield. Tt | into action were Geneva, Switze meetings of the founde Cress and many of it incorporated in° the early Red Cross | treaties ples is signally a disease of economic dis- tress.” VARIED CENTER TALKS | ON WEEK'S SCHEDULE| Will Inciude Travel Address by Gideon A. Lyon. s of varied interest will be | es of five discussion nged at various rs this week by the Center Department Travel talks will be given at two of the meetings by Gideon A, Lyon, asso- ciate editor of The Star. Mr. Lyon will address a meeting of the Mid-City Citi- zens' Association wit parent-teacher and Community Center groups at 8 o'clock tomorrow nig in Thomson Center, Twelfth and L streets. On Tuesday night at the same hour he will address a meeting at Columbia Heights Center, Eleventh and Harvard streets. Mrs. Elwood Street, wife of the di- rector of the Community Chest, will speak at a meeting at 3 o'clock Wednes- day afternoon at the Geo: own Center in Gordon Junior High Schoo!, Thirty- fifth and T streets Two meetings at 8 o'clock Friday night will be addressed by Eugene Wood- son, civic leader, at the Thomson Cen- ter, and by speakers at the West Wash- ington Center, in the Francis Junior High School, on the subject of “Beat~ ing the Depression.” MRS. EDITH MIRICK WINS POETRY PRIZE International Third Award Given on Sequence of ‘‘Summer ‘ Hour” Sonnets. Mrs. Edith Mirick, 3314 Newark street northwest, editor of Stardust, Wash- ington poetry publication, was awarded third prize of $15 in the eighteenth in- ternational poetry contest, held under auspices of the American Section of the Poetry Society of Great Britain, it was learned here yesterday. s poems have appeared Evening Star, New York Sun, Home Journal, Ch Churchman several other publications. n which she s a sequence three Y ed “Summer Hour. A native of this city, Mrs. Mirick is a daughter of Prof. Stimson J. Brown, for many years astronomical director of the United States Naval Ob- servatory here, and an internationally known ~astronomer. She attended Priends School and Western High School Sh holds the position of na- y reviewer in the National L merican Pen Women, irt the local chapter of which she is active, Mrs. Mirick is the wife of Carlos B. secured employment during that time o Five Discussion Group Meetings duty here as members of the Board of Engineers on Rivers and Harbors. Col Barden now is in charge of Federal river and harbor works near New York City, while Lieut. Col. Hannum is sta- |tioned at New Orleans in charge of engineering works in the Gulf of Mex- ico division Lieut. Col. Max C. Tyler, former chief engineer of the Federal Power Commission, has been ordered to re- . Telephone National 5000 For immediate delivery of The Star to your home every evening and Sunday morning. The Route Agent will collect at the end of each month. at the rate ents per day and 5 cents for the woman. Today she provides a nice home for the boy and is an active member of our organization Hi case is similar to many others we given assistance to during the year. Most of the welfare cases in- clude young girls who have come to Washington in search of work and have been stranded here without funds, food Y Mirick, a radio engineer at the Naval Laboratory, Bellevue, Md e Beauvel, another Washing- ceived honorable mention in test, poems for which were sub- mici:d last Summer. PRINCIPAL TO ADDRESS GIRL SCOUT LEADERS Miss Bertie Backus of Alice Deal Junior High Will Speak at Banquet Wednesday. al of the will ad- membe! of the Girl Scouts AssC at semi- Y W. C A eets, Wednesday dress Leaders’ d girls d its environs. k of the Girl to attend. Miss subject “Grow- and wife of Gen n of both the mmer cwzposed 1307-15 G St. N.W. 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