HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
HOME AND EDUCATION the home is the real seat of government, and the wise men of ail nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Buffalo: A...
...issued by charity organization society of buffalo...
...Robert S. Bradley of Boston, Mass., and Col...
...thanks) and we resolve that from what store we have, a little more than we can comfortably afford ahall be given to those servants of the poor who seek to cheer forlorn homea, to lift up weary Uvea, to open the path of Opportunity, to remove old evils, and to cure the plague of Poverty at Ita very sourcea...
...To be without enemies is to be unworthy of having friends...
...Daniels went on, or is going on to the subjects of occupations, wages, industrial accidents, labor unions, sanitation, birth- and death-rates, housing, amusements, education, immorality, crimes...
...It is a good plan to protect the meat board during the pounding by means of a piece of paraffin paper...
...It is true of every city in America and its foreign colonies...
...AMEN...
...Goodyear became vice-president of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railway Company, of which his father is president, he decided to find out all be could about the city in which he expected to live, to work and to bring up his family...
...Daniels comes directly from the secretaryship of the Congo Reform Association but he has recently completed a five years study of the negroes of Boston...
...A part of the plan for the survey is a bi-weekly report to the committee having the matter in charge and a bi-weekly article by Mr...
...a city of little homes, a remarkably large number of the people owning houses...
...To whom the bright idea first occurred it seems impossible to find out...
...When on his return from college Mr...
...He has thrown some light on this already...
...Many years ago, in the 70's, I think, or the early 80 s, there was a report current in Buffalo that some of the Poles were overdoing the.matter of thrift, that they were living on poor relief and were sending the money thus saved to their relatives and friends across the water and were telling them to come over to America and do likewise...
...Before audiences which included many of the most eminent men inWashington, the Association on February 23 illustrated with the aid of moving picture films the life history of the fly, which was depicted, very greatly enlarged, in the act of collecting filth and disease germs in its favorite haunts, and then conveying them into the house, depositing them on the sugar and food, scattering them on the baby's milk bottle at which it lunched, and laying the foundation in a dozen ways for sickness and perhaps death...
...Now that was a serious charge, and Mr...
...How much of the money Mr...
...This is the beginning which Buffalo has made toward getting acquainted with itself...
...He has found a man, Joseph Bork, an early polish settler, who built houses for his fellow countrymen and made them buy and not rent them...
...A Crusade Against the Fly BECAUSE the common house fly is so dangerous, and because his presence everywhere and the lack of knowledge concerning his ability to carry disease wherever he goes makes him even more to be feared, the American Civic Association has undertaken to make a country-wide crusade against him...
...John Daniels...
...Daniels in the Sunday edition of the Buffalo Express...
...In the course of his work Mr...
...391, just published by the U. S. Department of Agriculture...
...Is it any wonder that two groups of people who see only one side of each other, and that a side on which the baser qualities are likely to be exhibited, fall oftentimes into profound mutualii misunderstanding...
...Suffice it to say that he has proved that even among the bands of immigrants that came to this country during the years of depression following the panic of 1873, the number of those who became dependent on the community was surprisingly small...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Buffalo: A City Getting Acquainted With Itself by caroline l. hunt PITTSBURG was recently introduced to itself...
...That was Joseph Bork's contribution to the city's life...
...Goodyear found in his own pocket, he does not tell...
...Perhaps the idea of going deeper and having a study made by an expert came from this class...
...Albert Vanderveer of Albany, N. Y., Mrs...
...The American Civic Association has decided to carry on its fly-fighting campaign under the direction of a special fly-fighting committee of which Mr...
...Use all the flour that the meat will take up...
...He wants also to give the Poles a chance to commemorate some of the events of their own tragic national history...
...Fry the steak in butter or drippings, cover with water and cook until tender...
...A Scotch bowl is a good form of kettle to use because the frying as well as the stewing may be done in it, and, owing to its shape, the meat can be covered with a minimum of water.—.From "economical use of meat tn the home," Farmers Bulletin No...
...Buffalo thinks not, and so it has decidedf to know more of its Polish citizens...
...And this la done In the hope and faith that Buffalo win thua become a fairer and better home for all alike, and that virtue, courage, rnd peace will Increase visibly among...
...This year his class expanded to 150, admitted others than students and turned its attention from abstract matters to Buffalo,—to Buffalo as it exists today...
...He seems to think that that is an unimportant matter compared with the fact that the money has been found for the beginning, at least, of a social survey of his city...
...Some say that the credit belongs to Dr...
...Daniels has so interested the Poles themselves that he has arranged a joint exhibition with them in the spring...
...FOR our comfortable living, for our fair surroundings, for our bread without the salt of charity, far our many blessings which the poor moat lack, we give heart...
...joubert...
...Daniels began his work in Buffalo on November 19 He has a plan of work which he outlined tod me...
...So far as I can judge, knowing little of how cities go about to get acquainted with themselves, it is a well-laid plan...
...In connection with the exhibit, a series of meetings will be held, at which the most important phases of the situation and the remedies at hand will be discussed by speakers of national prominence...
...Edward Hatch, Jr., of New York, who has made a special study of the subject, is chairman...
...This great body of people is coming in contact with the rest of Buffalo at one point only, the point where buyer meets seller...
...But the little homes are perilously near together and perilously crowded, which shows that the city failed to make its contribution in the form of wise building laws...
...The other members are Dr...
...If he did not originate the idea of a survey of Buffalo by Buffalo, he at least found the money for it and that is an important point, for a city cannot get acquainted with itself without funds for the purpose...
...Woods Hutchinson of New York, Dr...
...And what does it mean...
...They see each other buying and selling, buying and selling labor chiefly, for they usually meet only when one set of men wants help and another set of men wants jobs...
...During the first month he studied the history of the Poles in Buffalo and I am inclinecl to think that in the very beginning he made a discovery that is going to remove lots of misunderstanding...
...D. D. Jackson of New York whose researches into the life history of the fly have won him the commendation of scientists, Mr...
...Buffalo is at present introducing itself to itself, Pittsburg was surveyed by outsiders...
...We have been fortunate enough," said Richard B. Watrous, secretary of the American Civic Association, "to enlist in this campaign, a great many active and enthusiastic men and women, professional and otherwise, and we would like to get in touch with persons everywhere who are in sympathy with this warfare on one of the most dangerous pests there is...
...This exhibit, which will mark the end of the Survey, will be held May 14-21...
...HAVING finished the history, Mr...
...Here he wants to have shown not only his own charts and statistics but also something of much more human interest—the handiwork of the peasants of Poland, the cherished treasures of the Polish colony...
...Buffalo is surveying itself...
...A. C. Goodyear, a young man of wealth, and a recent graduate of Yale...
...Daniels thought it ought to be investigated...
...By the time he has finished he hopes to be able to show two important things: what the Poles have done for Buffalo and what buffalo has done for the Poles...
...Some people, however, give the credit chiefly to Mr...
...A New Way to Cook Round Steak POUND flour into both sides of a round steak, using for the purpose a meat pounder or the edge of a heavy plate...
...This class is trying to find out, in an unprofessional way necessarily, how Buffalo is fed, housed, kept clean, protected from disease, educated, amused...
...Harlan P. Kelsey of Salem, Mass., Mrs Caroline Bartlett Crane of Kalamazoo, Mich., Dr...
...He had a seminary in his church last winter whose membership of 25 was made up of students of economics...
...He has proved also that as soon as the Poles got an industrial foothold they ceased to ask for aid...
...For this purpose the committee of men having the survey in charge has secured the services of Mr...
...So he went directly to the books of the overseer of the poor...
...This may be bought at the rate of 24 large sheets for 5 cents...
...Perhaps that is because the person is too modest to tell about it...
...John Y. Culyer of New York City...
...NOT having funds enough on hand to get acquainted with all of itself at one time, Buffalo has begun with that part of itself about which it knows least, a strange, almost unknown colony, a city within a city, 70,000 Poles living by themselves, speaking their own language, editing their own papers, conducting their own shops, carrying on their own benevolences, going to their own churches...
...It means that the two groups of people see one side of each other only...
...I cannot give his figures here, for space forbids...
...S. V. Holmes of Westminster Church, who has for years been encouraging his people to turn their thoughts, or part of them at least, from the world to come to the world that now is, and to see if they are doing their part toward making it a good place to live in...
...Joseph Bork made Polish Buffalo A BUFFALO PRAYER...
...Anyone who will write to us at our address, 914 Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C, will be given all the data we have regarding the filth-loving habits and disease carrying propensities of the fly, but we have so many applications on file for the moving picture films that I am not sure we shall be able to comply with them all...
...That is not peculiar to Buffalo and its Polish citizens...
...us and bless our city amonas all cities, forevermere...
...They never see each other playing with their little children, nursing their sick neighbors, caring for their aged parents, denying themselves comforts in order to educate their sons and daughters...
Vol. 2 • April 1910 • No. 14
