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FEBRUARY 22, 1920".
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE:
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Community Centers Uplift
-City Social -and Civil Life
Seven Centers Already Organized City Commis
sioner Zimman Surprised at Great Work Being
Done Lectures, Dramatics, Athletics, Music and
Dancing Among Various Activities.
II. B. Z.mman, city commissioMier,
attended a comfhunity center last
Friday night for the first time. He
went to the Lincoln school, Eleventh
and Center streets, and enjoyed the
program presented by talent of the
neighborhood. Mr. Zimman was so
surprised by the fine spirit manifest
ed at this community gathering, that
- he said he would endeavor to start
t community center in his own
neighborhood.
The community center movement
is being developed into an important
iactor of the city's life. It is direct
ed by the board of public recreation
in connection with the city park de
partment. The meetings are held
in the public schools and the idea is
to promote a wider use of the school
plant
Seven Communities Already.
Neighborhood assembly meetings
are held in Central Park, Benson,
Edward Rosewater, Lincoln, Mason
and Monmouth Park public schools,
and in the auditorium of the Ne
braska School for theDeaf. Each
of these seven centers is directed'by
a council of nine which elects its
own officers. The councils are
elected by 'their respective neigh
borhoods. I'Once each month all of
the councils meet in the city council
chamber for an exchange of exper
iences and to solve their problems.
At the assembly meetings mem
bers of the councils wear large butr
tons which read: "We're glad to see.
vou. Community center council."
The scope of 4he programs given
at the assemblies is almost unlimit-
H Hnnrirttinitiits ar Afrrl fnr
the development of local talent and .Li"le Elise Segi, 3-year-old
in some instances vocalists, instru-. gau?nter of Mr.and Mrs. , Ernest
mentahsts, speakers and others have oei apaimng street, wno is
made the circuit of the centers. entertaining people at community
Have Juvenile Orchestra. centers in umana.
At th Lincoln school center this
winter Mildred Bliss, Julia Schegg,
Earl Burnham and Howard Woer
ner have organized a juvenile or
chestra which has roused much com
ment in the southeast part of
Omaha. )
Ed. Thompson has given his cor
net burlesque act in all of the cen
ters. Mrs. P. Drasda wrote a
sketch, "The Dancing Master's First
Pupil," which was presented at the
Lincoln center by ner son, Joseph
Drajda and James Cathroe. Walter
Kaspar, 12-year-old boy of the Lin
coln school district,, is the champion
"bone rattler" of the community
center cricuit. His sister, Vivian,
accompanies him on a piano.
These centers have encouraged
the dancing talent of Eloise Segi,
3 years old, and Loretta Dennison,
S years old. Iris and Audrey Kil
gore, school misses, have displayed
unusual ability, as amateur expon
. ents tf the terpsichorean art.
Have Various Activities.
E. C. Sikes of the First Memorial
Sunday school has drilled a group
of boys who have taken the name
of the "I Can Brigade." These
youngsters have given programs at
, the centers this season. R. A. Kirk-
patrick, former chautauqua lecturer,
has contributed talks on current
topics and also chemical demon
strations. The accordian is being
popularized by frank Damato. Dr,
S. R. Towne has interested the com
munity center attendants in birds.
A Benson lodge recently offered a
suffrage play at their center The
city commissioners occasionally
make short talks on matters of gen
eral or local interest.,
In addition to the ' neighborhood
assemblies, the community i centers
nave athletic and dramatic classes
Athletic classes are held held once
each week at Dundee, Miller Park
and South High schools. At the
other schools various activities are
held as dictated by the inclinations
of the residents of the districts. At
the recent meeting of the women's
athletic class at Mason school cen
ter the ages ranged fr'om 29 to 45.
At a similar class at Central Park
center the ages were from IS to 55.
Those centers are directed by
paid supervisors appointed by the
board of public recreation. Com
missioner Falconer states that he
would like to open centers in other
schools if he could obtain the
services of competent supervisors.
Women Voters to Promote
Equality of Sex in Realm
Of Industrial Activities
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Report of Women in Industry Department of League
Of Women Voters Unanimously Adopted Would
Establish Female Bureau in U. S. Department of
Labor to Improve Working Conditions, Increase
1 Efficiency and Protect Welfare.
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vBy MYRTLE MASON,
Staff Correspondent of Tbe Bee.
- Chicago, Feb. 21. (Special.) The
following report was adopted by the
League of Women Vjjters last
"week:
"The 'Women in industry depart-I women,
ment of the National Leaarue of
Women Voters calls, attention, to
the fact that the admission of
women to full citizenship comes at
a time when the problems of indus
trial relationship and the standardi
zation of working conditions can no
longer be ignored it( any country in
the world. Because of this fact, the
department has (riven special
thought to the drafting of its report.
It proposes nothing new or radical.
"The principles and the legislation
which it recommends have been
tested by experience both in the
United States and Europe. The
presence of technically qualified
women on industrial boards and
commissions and in administrative
offices has everywhere been found
necessary for intelligent and sym-
Iiathetic consideration of the prob
ems of working women and the
effective enforcement of legislation
designed for thir protection. The
women in industry department,
therefore, makes the following re
port: Endorse Trade Unions.
"1. We reaffirm our belief in the
right of the workers to bargain col
lectivelythrough trade unions and
regard the organization of working
women as especially important be-
raiie nf the nrrnliar hanrlirani frnm
which they suffer in the labor
Vilest
"2. We call attention to the fact
that it is still necessary for us to
u'ge that wages should be paid on
tliebasis of occupation and not on
sex. . v
"3. We recommend to congress
and the federal government: '
"(a) The establishment in the
United States Department of Labor,
of a permanent women's bureau,
with a woman as chief and an ap
propriation adequate for the investi
gation of all matters pertaining to
wage earning women and the de
termination of standards and poli
cies which will promote their wel
fare, improve their working condi
tions, and increase their efficiency.
' Joint Employment Service v '
1 "(b) - The appointment of women
sn tne mediation and conciliation
benrice of the United States Depart
commission or tribunal which may
hereafter be created.
"(c) Th,e, establishment of a joint
federal and state employment serv
ice with women's departments under
the direction of technically qualified
"(d) The adoption of a constitu
tional amendment giving to con
gress the power to establish
minimum1 labor standards, and the
enactment by congress of a child
labor law extending, the application
of the present federal child labor
tax laws, raising the age minimum
for general employment from 14 to
16 years and the age for employ
ment at night to 18 years.
"(e) Recognizing the importance
of a world-wide standardization of
industry we favor the participation
of the United States in the Interna
tional Labor conference and the ap
pointment of a woman delegate to
the next conference.
To Stop Night Workv
"4. We recommend to the states
legislative provision for the limita
tion of the hours of work for wage
earning women in industrial under
takings to not more than eight hours
in any one day, or4 hours in any
one week, and the granting of one
day rest in seven; the prohibition of
night work for women in industrial
undertakings.
i ne compulsory payment of a
minimum wage to be fixed by a
minimum wage commission at an
amount that will insure to the work
ing woan a proper standard of
health, comfort and , efficiency.
"Adequate appropriations for the
enforcement oQabor laws, the ap
pointment of 'technically qualified
women as factory inspectors and as
heads of women in industry di
visions in the state factory inspec
tion departments.
y .Vocational Education.
"Fifth, we urge upon the foreign
board of vocational education and
upon state and local boards of com
missioners of education, the neces
sity of giving to girls and women
full opportunity for education along
industrial lines and further recom
mend the appointment of women
familiar with problem's of women in
industry as members and agents of
the federal board of vocational edu
cation and of similar state and local
boards. j ,
"Sixth, recognizing that the fed-
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ciai, sialic ana local
Tovernments
are the larrest emnlovtra of lahor in
it eCLabor and on any industrial the United ' States, we urge an
actual merit system of appointment
and promotion based on qualifica
tions for the work to be performed;
these qualifications to be determined
in open competition, free from spe
cial privilege or preference of any
kind and especially from discrimina
tion on the grounds of sex.
Advocate Minimum Wage.
' "A reclassification of the present
federal civil service uoon this basis
.'with a wage or salary scale deter-
minea Dy tne skhi aim iidmiug in
quired for the work to be performed
and not on the basis of sex:
"A minimum wage in federal,
state ana iocai civh service wuitu
shall, not be less than the cost of
living as determined by official in
vestigations; j
"Provisions for an equitable re
tirement system for superannuated
public employes:
"Enlarging of federal and state
civil service commissionsVo as to
include three groups in which men
and women shall be equally repre
sented, pamely, representatives of
the administrative officials of the
employes, and of the general public,
and.
"The delegating to such commis
sions of full power and responsibili
ty, for the maintenance of an im
perial, nonpolitical, and efficient administration.
If Christ Went to the Movies
I SHOULD rather have boys and"
girls go to the movies than to
sit at home twirling their
thumbs in a corner, imagining dis
cordant, unrulv. abnormal tliniicrhta
and brooding over budding and
"Seventh, Finally the department
recommends that the T
Women Voters'" shall keep in touch
witn tne women s bureau of the
United States Department nf T a
bor, securing information as to the
success or failure of protective legis
lation in this and qther coutnes, as
to standards that are being discussed
and adopted, and as to the re
sults of investigations that are
made."
The report is signed by the com
mittee on resolutions composed of
Miss Grace Abbott, chairman; Miss
Ethel M. Smith, Mrs. Erma J.
Wolfe, Mrs. W. E. Barkley, and
Miss Helen A. Goldsmith.
It was unanimously , adopted
February. 14, by the committee on
protection of women in industry of
the League of Women Voters, of
which' Mrs. Raymond Robins is
chairman.
badly understood sex ideas. The
movies furnish a clarification of
youthful homo-brewed fancies. So
says Drv Percy Stickney Grant, rec
tor of the Church of the Ascension,
Fifth avenue. New York, in speaking
of the problem of amusement of
adolescents, in a verv striking" ar
ticle entitled "If Chris't Went to the
Movies," in the March issue of Pho
toplay magazine.
"There is much that bears closely
upon religion and social uplift in the
Freudian psychoanalytic psychol
ogy. Most people spend much time
in fantasy, day-dreaming, wool
gathering. The coward paints him
self in heroic scenes, the shop girl
pictures herself in a beautiful dress
seated in the parterre of the opera.
This is the stuff that 'dreams are
made of.' Ideas fall into the mind
not regulated by will or checked up
by reality. People not only sit in
dreams, but act in dreams.
"Our motion pictures are of the
sort that the individual craves. First
and foremost, they -possess what
ever reality is to be had in story,
drama or educational film The
movies clear outahe cobwebs of the
mind, putting in carefully prepared
facts. They are a tonic, a regulator,
and clarifier of the inner life, of the
imagination. We must think of the
movies as of that wonderful clean
sweep that is clearing out the un
healthful fantasies of the brain."
"Christ taught his followers by
'pictures. Parables, we call' them.
He used that marvelous pictorial ele
ment which is part and parcel of
human life. What is the parable
of the Prodigal Son but a series of
pictures divinely presented? We must
think of Christ' as an ideal" person
ality having vital, ethical ideas bear
ing on our life today, not as the
vicarious offering perpetuated in the
sacraments of the church. Christ
lived and walked among the men of
his day. He shared in the life of
the common people. He ate at the
Pharisee's house. He took part in
the marriage celebration of Cana at
Galilee. Were the Lord to descend
upon our earth today can we doubt
His approval of this form of educa
tion when we consider His own
method of pictorial teaching?
"If Chris went to the movies
would he not say, 'Let my people
enjoy this thing; let my church em
ploy it. Blessed be that which up
lifts, restores, and refreshes the
weary souls of men.
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ill apccure wctJo cz'eicA "-t6a will
make a. u wao botc "Pros cutcCinus
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Suppose your cellar kad gone hopelessly
dr. Suppose oithadsadl resigtiedour
self to the droiihi and kad worb a,V
Prohibition? nomination -for Conrqss.
Then suppose pur Aunt suddenly
presented you, -with OX cases of priceless
old Rttitieitte! 'VltatoaldLyottdo?
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Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
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Come Early While Selection Is Large
Regular Cut
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Cut Glau 8-inch B.rrt Bowl, Poppy Design $4.00 $2.00
Cut Glass 10-inch Fruit Bowl on Stand, Beveled
Edge S ,...$8.50 84.25
Cut Glass 8-inch Oval Shape" Orsnge Bowl, Mar- ' -
guerite Dosign ...t, $4.00 $2.00
Cut Glass 10-inch 3-footed Grapo Fruit Bowl, Mar-
guerite Design $8.00 $1.00
Cut Glass 10-inch Square Vase, Lady Astor Design.$4.S0 $2.25 '
Cut Glass 10-inch Celery Tray, Marguerite Design. $4.00 $2.00
Cut Glass Sugar and Creamer, Poppy Design. .. .$4.00 $2.00
Cut Class 10-inch Salad Bowl, Poppy Design $4.00 $2.15
Cut Glass Candy Jar, Largo Clover Leaf Design. .$4.00 $2.00
Cut Glass Square End Celery. Tray, Marguerite
Design $4.75 $2.38
Cut Glass Square End Spoon Tray, '"Marguerite
Design , $2.00 $1.00
Here Is What
One Dollar
- will buy on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Cut Glass Water Tumblers, Set of 6 , $1.00
Cut Glass Oil Bottle, Colonial Cut. $1.00
Cut Glass Candy Jar : .$1.00
Cut Glass Flower Basket $1.00
Cut Glass Bud Vase $1.00
Cut Glass Sugar and Creamer , ..$1.00
Cut Glass Combination Sugar and Creamer. $1.00
Cut Glass Mayonnaise Bowl . .$1.00
Cut Glass 6-inch Nappy with Handle .. $1.00
Cut Glass Spoon Tray, Poppy Design... ..l.$1.00
Cut Glass Salt and Pepper. .$1.00
Cut Glass Candle Sticks, one pair $1.00
Cut Glass MusUrd Jar, Silver Top $1.00
Cut Glass Horse Radish Jar, Sheffield Silver Holder. ... .81.00
Cut Glass Marmalade Jar, Silver Top............ $1.00
Cut Glass Bud Vase, Silver Foot 81.00 '
Cut Glass Spoon Tray, Bpat Shape. .$1.00
Cut Glass Tooth Pick Holder. ..-81.00
Many Other Extraordinary Values on '
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EXTRA SPECIAL FOR MONDAY
Cut Glass Water Set
Water Pitcher Six Tumblers
14-inch Beveled Edge Mirror Plateau T .
v Only 14 Sets in Stock V
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At the Sign
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ARMY GOODS FOR SAL
RAINCOATS
Ws have many styles of Raincoats
in Leatherettes. Moleskins, Reversible!.
Black Rubber Slip-on Raincoats, water-
at?!!. T.r. $6.50
Officers' Leatherette Coats; very, styl
ish garments ; made of rubberized mole
skin, belted with, bellows pockets, at
onir..V.ri"..' $19.50
Officers' High-Grade Moleskin Water
proof Coat; worth double tlO CA
tha price, at O.OU
Raincoats; heavy ventilated, double
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special price pi.W
SHOES '
Army Russet Dress Shoes, calfskin up
per, oak soles, S0 QQ
at. only 0.0
Army Infantry Shoe, QQ.
Munson last. ...r W.S0
Army Trench Shoes; a won- QQ
derlul work shoe O.WO
Chocolate. Heavy Grain Leather Shoes.
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Horns Guard Munson Last
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HOB-NAILED SHOES.
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COATS AND MACKINAWS
Three-fourths sheepskin lined, mole-
$5.98
$1.23
"skin back. Special, $1469
$26.50
$15.95
..$6.78
$3.49
".'$5.23
Ulster Sheepskin Coat,
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Officers' O. D. Mackinaws,
all wool, belted back
Cotton Plaid Mackinaws,
heavy
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VESTS
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with leather sleeves ; our spe- Q AQ
cial pries J7.t7
SOCKS
Cashmere Socks, brand new,
per -pair. S9c: per dozen...
U. S. Army Gray Wool Socks, CQ
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Socks, heavy, at JOC
Cotton Socks in array or black, (1 ce
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BARB WIRE
Extra heavy 4-polnt Barb Wire, In
reels weighing approximately 60 lbs.,
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tents"'"
U. 8. Army Regulation Tents, lxl,
S-foot wsll, pyramid shspe; extra
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the government up to f 12E. Our sne-J
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$4.50
only.
...$6.50
..$5.88
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Karo Syrup, 10-Ib. cans, special. ..S5 'I
Matcses. 6 boxes to the package, per"1
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urackers, special, 4 boxes for...,. Zsc
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special, at $3.75-
Pork and Beans in tomato ssuee, large T
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We 'also carry' better grades of harness '
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Hslters, 1 14 -Inch," heavy, all-leather,
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GLOVES -.
Heavy, Brown Jersey Gloves, S0
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