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1 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1923 EAR LECTURE ON "BACK 0" YARDS Miss Mary McDowell Tells Kindergartners of Her Set- tlement Work in City URGES WOMEN'S DUTY Must Use Ballot to Beautify Chicago ~ Miss Mary McDowell, Head Resident of Chicago University Settlement and Commissioner of Public Welfare of the City of Chicago, in speaking before the summer session of the National Kinder- garten and Elementary college this week said, "the only thing I ever took thoroughly was the course in kindergar- ten work in this college under Miss Elizabeth Harrison. I have loved it very much and it has affected my attitude toward life, my method of doing things with people and children, because it is a philosophy that goes beyond little children and one who is to be a kindergartener must see the child never as a little child all alone but as a child who is part of the great social circle. In speaking of her life back of the stock yards Miss McDowell said that she has lived in that district for twenty- eight years because she wanted to get in touch with the laborers, the unskilled workers who get the lowest wages. Ac- cording to Miss McDowell the little children there are not unlike those in other places--some are less spoiled, less bored, more simple--but they have all the possibilities of any child. Right To Beauty "We put the child of the poor in sor- did ugliness where there is no beauty," said Miss McDowell, "and are surprised at the unlovely result. Every child has a right to beauty. You must not be- lieve in this just in your own school-- 'you must spread the gospel." Miss McDowell said that in showing slides of "Beautiful America" to the people of the stock yards she tells them very emphatically that they have a right to beauty, to grass and trees and flow- ers." Will that make them discontent- ed?" she questioned. "Yes! I want them to be discontented with dirt and ugliness. What do we have schools and kinder- gartens for if not to stir up a noble dis- content?" After one such lecture a lit- tle Polish Boy, who lives in a wooden hut below the level of the sidewalk said, "it is true what you said. I no like it here. I go away. I like grass and flow- ers and trees and I like lambs that eats out of your hands like on the farm." Miss McDowell told tersely of one experience in the district "back of the yards." "There were great clay holes filled with rubbish and garbage from all over the city. Mothers came to me about FISHERMEN, ATTENTION! Regularly during the Summer, the Chicago and North Western Ry. will issue Bulletins showing the best catches of Bass, Muskellunge, Pickerel, and Pike in the 7,000 Lakes Region of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan, and other information of interest to every Fisherman. Bulletin No. 1, showing early season catches of Muskies and Pike, has just been issued. Write C. A, Cairns, P. T. M,, C. & N. W. Ry., 226 W. Jackson St., Chicago, saying "Put me on your Fisherman list," and they will come to you regularly free of any charge. Phone H. M. Lieber, Winnetka Ticket Agent, C. & N. W. Ry., Winnetka 13. Are You a Member? CHICAGO MOTOR CLUB Established 1906 J. G. STANTON Winnetka Branch Mgr. North Shore Hotel, Evanston 6400 1-4 Million Cash Returned by auto insurance de- partment in 1922 * NmpeRsinK LopGe GENOA JUNCTION * WISCONSIN B2 Miles from Chicago. 26 Miles West of Kenosha. Good Roads. C.&N.W.R.R. The Resort Complete A place of refinement : oO with all the advantages of a modern country club, having a patron- Fishing age consisting only of gentiles. Our own 18- Bathing hole golf course; spaci- . ous clubhouse. New Tennis hotel; rooms single or suite with tub and Horses shower baths. Cottages T with running water, rap electric lights. Excel- 3 lent meals. Inspection eH ET OR, ed folder. it and I went to the City Hall, thinking that all I had to do was to tell them of the high death rate of babies in families living near these holes, and that they would immediately change it. I kept on going for nineteen years. After about fifteen years one man said that I could never get it changed until I had public opinion on my side. I went abroad and found how such matters were handled there but it was not until women got the vote that anything was done about it here." According to Miss McDowell women's votes are not to be used by any political machine but as a weapon or method for getting something done. "City govern- ment," said Miss McDowell, "is not for political parties--it is for the welfare of the homes, to bring cleanliness, pur- ity and beauty into the lives of the peo- ple. We haven't got it. We have beau- ty in spots but we have far more ugli- ness. It is patriotic to say that Chicago is ugly, and is beautiful only in spots? It is neither patriotic nor unpatriotic-- it is the truth." In conclusion Miss McDowell said that she does not consider her work back of the stock yards as finished--that it cannot be finished until politics stops playing with such things and science starts working on them. "In this coun- try," said Miss McDowell, "we can nev- SOME SHIPMENTS During the first nine weeks of 1923, the Western Electric Company ship- ped three billion eight hundred mil- lion conductor feet of lead-covered telephone cable to the operating com- panies of the Bell System. 15,000,000 POLES--PHONE There are 15,000,000 poles now in use in the Bell Telephone System and additions and replacements call for 750,000 new poles each year. ROOFING over the Old Shingles ESTIMATES FREE ORTH SHOR ROOF CRAFTERS #4 Incorporated N er have a love of beauty until we have 3201 342 a knowledge of ugliness. No neighbor- Emerson St. . Park Ave. hood liveth unto itself. 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