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CHRIST CHILD UNIT AIDS 379 CHILDREN! Idea of Invalid Woman Grows to Great Agency « for Poor. A bed-ridden woman 49 vears ago conceived an idea which today, in Washington, provides medic: and dental care, convalescent facilities, camping trips and play and education for thousands of boys and girls from poverty-stricken homes. Miss Mary Merrick, an invalid since she fell from a window when she was 17, planned and developed the Christ Child Society, which now has spread its work to dozens of cities throughout the United States. She began by making a layette for a poor neighbor. The layette work broadened. Soon she, with her friends, planned a Christmas gift campaign for poor children. The dynamic, blye-eyed invalid soon aroused many women with whom she came in contact to join her in the work. A headquarters was first estab- lished in Georgetown, then in Admiral “Pighting Bob” Evans house on Indi- &na avenue. Now the Christ Child Society has a large building at 608 Massachusetts avenue northeast, which in the Fall will be augmented by a gymnasium. It has a convalescent home at Rock- ville, and runs a Summer camp for colored children in Rockville. Dental Clinic. | Last year 979 children attended the settlement on Massachusetts avenue. where they played games, learned manual arts, were taught sewing, had dances and in other ways were guided | toward better citizenship in their leisure times. The dental clinic served 917 child- ren. Christmas gifts numbered 1,927. The society distributed 189 layettes, layettes so complete that one mother sent hers back with a protest she “did not have twins.” At the head of the settlement work is Miss Mary Keady. Helping her are 170 volunteers, who serve as teach- ers, dressmakers, club leaders, enter- tainers, chaperons, Scout leaders, home visitors, clerical workers, clinic assistants and for sewing infants’ clothing. The society is supported by the Community Chest and sales made by the Opportunity Shop, similar to the Thrift Shop, and individual dona- tions. 1t is governed by a board of direc- tors composed of 39 members of the society who direct the work under- taken and control the policies of the organization and are responsible for its business management. Members of Board. Every committee is composed of members who volunteer their services three hours a week. The women on the board are: . Mrs. Frederick Altemus, Miss Mary E. Barney, Mrs. Robert Cahill, Mrs. | D. J. Callahan, Mrs. A. J. Chappell, Mrs. Aubrey Clarke, Mrs. James A. Emery, Mrs. William C. Eustis, Mrs. John Foote, Mrs. James J. Galvin, Mrs. Borredell Gower, Mrs. George E. | Hamilton, Mrs. James H. Hanley. | Mrs. J. G. Haskell, Miss Mary M. | Kernan, Miss Katherine Keane, Miss | Sareh Maher, Mrs. Camden McAtee, Mrs. William J. McGee, Miss Mary V. Marrick, Miss Mildred C. Merrick, Mrs. James Dudley Morgan, Mrs. Arthur F. Mullen, Mrs. Charles P. Neill, Dr. Margaret M. Nicholson, Mrs. John J. Noonan. Mrs. Virginia O'Hare, Mrs. Louis R. Peake. Mrs. Sarah Pepper. Miss | Agnes Riley, Miss Florence Roach, Mrs. B. F. Saul, Mrs. Charles W.| Semmes, Miss Rose Shea, Mrs. Thomas J. Sheridan, Mrs. D. C. Stapleton, Mrs. Joseph Tumulty, Mrs. Lewis Watkins, Mrs. George Y. Worthington. (This is the sixth of a series of articles on privately-financed social service endeavor in the District of | Columbia. Another will appear here next week.) - = JENNY DOLLY IS WED TO CHICAGO ATTORNEY | Bride Recently Returned From Europe, Where She Had Been I11 Three Years. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 29.—Jenny Dolly of the Dolly Sisters’ dancing team, and Bernard W. Vinissky, Chicago at- torney, were married tonight in the Drake Hotel apartment of her sister, Roszika, the wife of Irving Netcher, Chicago merchant. The wedding was performed by Su- perior Court Judge Harry B. Miller, in the presence of a few friends and | relatives, including the bride’s father, | Julian Dolly, of New York, the Netchers and Gordon Thorne, mil- lionaire traveler. The bride, whose real first name is Yancsi, recently returned from Eu- rope, where she was critically ill for three years after an automobile acci- dent on the French Riviera. Hall to Be Rebuilt. Famous Stationer’s Hall in London | fs to be reconstructed at a cost of $375,000. Beaz;t;fA{r.z Court Keeps $1,800 Ring Causing Arrest Judge Sees It Her Way | When She Testifies Bank Clerk Gavelt. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 29.—Gertrude Hartigan, 22, whose appearance in Magistrate’s Court “panicked” the at- tendants today, hereafter has all for her own a $1,850 diamond engage- ment ring which Everly M. Davis, jr., 26-year-old bank employe, intended for another girl. Miss Hartigan, whose beauty called for a barrage of “ah’s” and ‘“oh’s” when she marched determinedly into court after a night in jail, was ar- rested on a complaint by Davis who said he loaned the ring to the pretty model in a moment of fun. “After I was introduced to Miss Hartigan by a cousin,” explained Davis to Magistrate Burke, “my cousin bet me that Miss Hartigan would get the ring from me within two days.” “He pleaded with me to take it for & gift,” she testified. “I didnt want to see him any more—I was getting bored with him—but he urged me to take it. He threatened to throw it out of the window in my apartment of I refused it.” Magistrate Burke sxw things her way. | how the Senate even in those long- | Happy Times for Boys and Girls at Christ Child House THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. JUNE 30, 1935—PART ONE. & History of Senate Compiled For Use in Schools of Nation| {James D. Preston, and Senator Hayden, Chairman of Printing Committee, Collaborate. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. | There is a famous French classic, briefly told bit of sentimental history, “The Last Class in Alsace.” Somewhat similar feelings have been aroused in many American breasts— | reverberations of oratorical states- manship—mind-pictures of the stal- warts of an elder day—visualization of the growth of the Nation—research into time-stained Senate records Veteran Librarian, i eign policy, are likely to pass first! under discussion in this body. Stalwart Statesmen. And there were stalwart statesmen in the procession that marched forth from the old chamber 76 years 230 to sit for the first time in the present Senate chamber. There were Sam Houston of Texas, who had been the first President of the Republic of Texas; Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, | in the Thirty-fifth Congress Wwas Senator from Minnesota. Twenty years later he again entered the Sen- ate (for about five weeks) as a Sen- ator from Missouri. David C. Broderick of California was the son of an Irish stonemason, who migrated to this country to work on the United States Capitol Build- ing. It was while the father was en- gaged in this work that the future California Senator was born. Brod- | erick’s services terminated tragically two ears later when he was killed in a duel. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was also a member of that Senate, but absent on that historic occasion due to injuries resulting from en as- sault by Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina. SYNOD VOTES BUDGET CLEVELAND, June 29 (#).—An an~ prompted by the vacating by the ' who had been Secretary of War the | nual average budget of $1,500,000 was Supreme Court of the United States of what was the original Senate cham- | ber in the United States Capitol four years of the Pierce administra- tion, two years later called to the approved by the Missouri Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in presidency of the Southern Confed- | the closing session of its thirty-sixth James D. Preston, veteran Senate |eracy, and Andrew Johnson of Tennes- | triennial convention, for the next | employe, now librarian of the Senate, | and Senator Carl Hayden, chairman | of the Senate Committee on Printing, | have collaborated in having printed a | Senate document for use in schools | throughout the country, containing | | two speeches commemorating the date, | Tuesday, January 4, 1859, on whicl the Senate held its last session in that | | historic chamber, by the then Vice | President, John Cabell Breckinridge, and by Senator John J. Crittenden of | Kentucky, dean of the Senate with 18 years of service, who had previously been Attorney General in the cabinets of Presidents Harrison and Fillmore. 21 States Represented. | It was emphasized that when the Senate first met in that chamber on | December 6, 1819, it was composed of | the Representatives of 21 States, con- | taining nine millions of people; when | the Senate marched forth after more | than 39 years of service there it was | composed of the Representatives of 32 States, containing more than 28 mil- lions of people. | On that occasion, 76 years ago, Vice | President Breckinridge pointed out | ago days had come out of its shell “At the origin of the Government the Senate seemed to be regarded chiefly as an Executive Council. The Presi- dent often visited the chamber and conferred personally with this body; most of its business was transacted with closed doors, and it took com- paratively little part in the legis- lative debates. The rising and vigor- ous intellects of the country sought the arena of the House of Representa- tives as the appropriate theater for the display of their powers. Mr. Madison observed, on some occasion, that being a young man, and desiring to increase his reputation, he could not afford to enter the Senate; and 50 late as 1812 the great debates which preceded the war and turned the country to the assertion of its rights, took place in the other branch of Congress. To such an extent was the idea of seclusion carried, that when this chamber was completed, no seats were prepared for accommoda- tion of the public;-and it was not until many years afterward that the semi- circular gallery- was erected, which admits the people to be witnesses. But now, the Senate, besides its peculiar relations to the executive department of the Government, assumes its full share of duty as a co-equal branch of the Legislature; indeed, from the limited number of its members, and | Louisiana, seated directly in front of see, whose seat in the Senate was quite | close to that of Davis, elected Vice President with Abraham Lincoln, and who finished out the term of the mar- | tyred President. }a The national convention of 1860 drew many of the nominees from the Senate membership: Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois was the choice of | the Democratic convention in Balti- more, and as his running mate Sena- tor Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama was nominated, but declined the honor; John Bell of Tennessee headed the Constitutional Union ticket, and Vice President Breckinridge was the nominee of the bolting members of the Democratic convention. Hannibal Hamlin, whose seat was directly in front of Bell, was the Republican choice for Vice President with Lincoln, in the first election, and Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, 14 years later, was elected Vice President, with Gen. Grant, in the 1872 election. Played Important Role. Many of the members played an im- portant part in the struggle two years later; William H. Seward of New York, whose desk was in the last row, be- came Secretary of State in Lincoln's cabinet, while Judah P. Benjamin of Seward, with Robert Toombs of Georgia and Robert M. T. Hunter of Virginia alternated in the office of Secretary of State for the Southern Confederacy. Benjamin also acted as Attorney General and Secretacy of War in the Confederacy. Vice President Breckinridge, after four years as a brigadier general, filled the office of Secretary of War for the Confederacy during the last year of that struggle. - Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania was Secretary of War in the Lincoln cabinet. William Pitt PFessenden of Maine was of the Treasury the last 10 months of the Lincoln administration, while Stephen R. Mallory of Florida, seated just across the aisle from Fessenden, was the Confederacy’s Secretary of the Navy. ‘Two other members of that Senate figured in an historic international episode: John Slidell of Louisiana and James M. Mason of Virginia in their capacity as commissioners of the Southern Confederacy, on & mission to Engl were taken from the British mail ship Trent on the high seas. ‘There was also James Shields, with the unique record of service as United States Senator from three Btates. for other obvious reasons, the most important questiong, especially of for- Prior to 1859, Shields had a short service as Senajge from Illinois and three years. The convention voted to intensify its home missionary work in South- eastern United States; to prepare an elementary catechism, to extend prep- arations of a new hymnal, to erect an historic museum for Lutheran manuscripts and relics in St. Louls, and to create a Radio Committe. COMMUNITY CHEST The Community Chest reports that its afliated organizations aid. in some manner, more than ome.fourth of fhe aid given. Only the mames are I fictitious. ASE workers for the family welfare associations must be versatile. Some situations coming to their attention re- quire both financial help and intensive case work over a period during which some sort of an adjustment is worked out. Others require only skillful and sympathetic treatment. Most problems result from the de- pression. Most of them are being met by the public agency. There are, however, certain cases of what might be called the “new poor” who must look to the private agency to meet their special needs. There are some families, for Instance, Wwho have literally come to the end of their financial resources, yet for whom there is real hope of financial re- habilitation if they can be tided over a short period of time. Frequently in such cases financial failures bring sbout such serious emotional and mental problems as to require the intensive case work that can be sup- plied only by a private agency with a limited case load. Such a case Was that of s family which came to the Catholic Charities about a year ago. This family consisted of a father, mother and three sons, the boys rang- ing from 16 to 20 years. The man was a graduate civil engineer who, before the depression, had earned as high as $10,000 & year in State. About two years ago he lost his position. The first effect of the changed financial conditions entailed the re- moval of the three sons from board- ing school and college. grew worse and the family was com- pelied to sacrifice its home at & great loss. Funds thus obtained were depleted and prospects for work werp dark, The family decided being| There are still some problems, but Story hour at Christ Child Set- tlement House, 608 Massachusetts avenue northeast, with Miss Mar- jon Abrams, director of girls’ work, reading to some of her charges. ~—Star Staff Photo. WOMANISKILLED ONB-W. HIGHWAY D. C. Man Driving Auto Into Which Mrs. Laura Moore Walks to Death. | By a Statt Correspondent of The star. BELTSVILLE, Md.. June 29.—Mrs. Laura G. Moore, 54 years old, was |almost instantly killed tonight when |she walked from a local store and | |into the side of a machine driven by Oliver L. Davidson of the 500 block {of Tuckerman street, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Moore, wife of a laborer at the Department of Agriculture’s ex- perimental farm, had purchased some | | ice cream for dinner at Collins’ store and started across the Baltimore- | | Washington Boulevard when the mis- | hap occured. | She was rushed to the office of Dr. | R. A. Bennett, in Riverdale, by the| Bladensburg Rescue Squad, but was | | pronounced dead upon arrival. Her body was removed to Gasch's funeral ?!mme in Hyattsville. Corp. C. W. Cubbage of the Mary- land State Police took Davidson be- fore Justice of the Peace George S. | Phillips, who released the motorist| | under $500 bond pending an inquest | to be conducted by Justice Phillips |at Berwyn on Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock. In addition to her husband, Albert S. Moore, she is survived by four | daughters and four sons. i i | l PENNSYLVANIAV.F. W. | ENCAMPMENT CLOSES| By the Associated Press. ! PITTSBURGH, June 20.—A color- | ful military ball tonight brought the | | 1935 convention of the Pennsylvania | Veterans of Foreign Wars to a close. During the last day delegates elected | officers, selected Shamokin for their 1936 meeting and heard an assertion {by Gov. Earle that he believes the | United States “will never become em- | broiled in any other than a defensive | | war.” | The Governor received a huge ova- | | tion as he and his party arrived at | suburban Wilkinsburg. | Two candidates for department commander withdrew from the elec- tion fight and left Dr. R. E. Con- way of York as automatic choice for the post. He was installed by Col. Robert G. Woodside, past national commander in chief. DOLLARS IN ACTION to come to Washington with the ex- pectation that the man could secure employment in his profession on one of the new governmental projects. The man really had definite hope of a place. But there were repeated de- lays. The family took up residence in a moderately priced apartment, but after several months was compelled to move. Husband and wife were desperate when they first came to the attention of the Catholic Charities. All five members of the family were crowded into one small room, for which they could no longer pay. The man, how- ever, refused to apply for public relief, and pointedly resented all efforts to render material assistance. Another change was taking place in the family. Under the financial strain and the pressure of close living quarters, domestic discord was de- veloping, and the seeds were being sown for complete family disintegra- tion. The Catholic Charities worker managed to induce the family to ac- cept some relief and worked hersell into the confidence of both husband and wife to a point from which she could proceed to arrange for more adequate living quarters. Later, through an executive in one of the governmental departments, she was able to help the man secure a position as engineer on a Federal project, where he is receiving a salary in excess of $3,000 a year. ‘Employment, however, by no means solved all the problems. With the first month’s salary came an avalanche of creditors. Arrangements had to be made to hold them off. Help had to be given in working out a plan for expenditures, There are still traces of the marital discord developed dur- ing the long period of stress. Regard- less of everything else, each member of the family has confidence in the worker, and through this confidence she has been able to aid them in every emergency that has so far arisen. the future is growing brighter for this Xunfly., = Closed All Day July 4th—Thursday Sis! Boom! That’s Fireworks— But there’s more than the “fizz” back of these specials. There’s substantial quality—engaging design and special prices—that make the celebration genuine and real. Special No. 1 Maple Bedroom Suites, $1 10 Yes, indeed, you can buy a maple suite for much less. We can sell you one right here—but when you see the soft mellow finish, the select quality of maple and the wonderfully expert workmanship that comprises the materials and craftsmanship in these suites you’ll see what a big difference a few dollars makes. 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