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The list of books selected as the foundation
of our libraries has been sent to each chapter
librarian and also to alumna? chapters in close
proximity to the active groups. Alumna; are
being asked to familiarize themselves with the
list and to help the actives fill the shelves with in arousing the interest of his fellow-Tekes in
a volume or two whenever possible.
To meet the problem of financing its l i -
brary, one chapter has set up a "book batik,"
which is a tin safety box with a small opening
in the lid. Each Monday night when the
actives and pledges gather f o r their respec-
tive meetings everyone present drops a nickle
into the "book bank" and at stated intervals
during the year the chapter librarian will use
the total deposit at that date for purchasing
Well stocked are the shelves in the library of the Alpha Delta Phi
Comfortable chairs and soft reading lights are part of the necessary
chapter house library.
Former Art Editor of St.
Nicholas Magazine Dies
-+- MRS. FRANCES WORSTELL M A R S H A L L ( N ) ,
former art editor and Associate Editor of
"St. Nicholas Magazine" and widow of Clifton
G. Marshall, a pianist, died Tuesday night in
the St. Luke's Hospital, Amsterdam Avenue
and 113th Street. Her home was at 105 Cam-
bridge Place, Brooklyn.
Mrs. Marshall was born in New York, a
daughter of the late John P. and Abbie Doane
Worstell, and was a graduate of Mt. Holyoke
College, South Hadley, Mass. She was con-
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books. Other chapters, doubtless, will k
equally ingenious at devising ways and means6
Leland F. Leland. the able national librarian
of Tau Kappa Epsilon who has done so much
chapter libraries, once pertinently observed*
" I t takes a book and an inclination to make j!
reader." Since all of our AOLT groups a r e
starting f r o m practically the same level with
regard to library, progress will be made only
according to the enthusiasm aroused in each
chapter by the new undertaking. But if the
books are on the chapter shelves perhaps the
inclination will follow inevitably on the part
of the individual members to accept "this be-
quest of wings" and soar to the far horizons
house at Dinartmeovuetrhyy. ministration reaches out into the remotest
equipment
nected f o r many years with the Century
Company, 353 Fourth Avenue, and had charge
of illustrations f o r the Century Dictionary.
The company later named her art editor and
associate editor of the "St. Nicholas Maga-
zine," which was a Century publication at the
time. During the years that Mrs. Marshall
was connected with the publishing firm, she
studied law at New York University and was
admitted to the bar. She was an occasional
contributor to high-class magazines—essays,
tales, articles on art and poems.
Surviving are two sisters, the Misses Mary
V. and Jessie D. Worstell.—New York Herald
Tribune.
U U A R V , 1934
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I Says JOANNA COLCORD, Gamma
Director, Charity Organisation Department, Russell Sage Foundation
4- W E A R E A L L getting our minds stretched
{ these days o n economic problems; we are
seeing how large-scale economic and industrial
policies reach down and touch the daily life
of our people. No more cozy little corners
where we can carry on our small-scale con-
cerns u n p e r t u r b e d by these larger aspects!
And so* though we may have been thinking
of Alpha O's national work as a delightful,
remote, self-contained effort to help an iso-
lated community, 1 want to point out that it
has taken on national ramifications and aspects
as well.
1. The new Federal Emergency Relief A d -
community in the land. Bland Morrow, our
social worker with the Frontier Nursing Serv-
pce, has been called upon to do an important
work in her region in distributing aid f r o m
Federal sources. Within the present month
(November, 1933) the Federal Administration,
disgusted with the delays and invasions of the
'Kentucky Legislature in appropriating funds
^tp carry its share o f the relief burden, has
. .taken over" the relief job i n that State. The
Governor's appointees o n the State Relief
j-'Ommission have resigned, and been replaced
t$y persons designated by the Federal Admin-
istration, which will be directly responsible
hereafter f o r standards of relief and admin-
* . . ! ' 's t r a Kentucky. This means that local enterprises, drawing in population from all the
on n neighboring regions. But this community is
Politics and local niggardliness will no longer
Ipve a chance to operate; and that relief will
| p equalized in the poorest communities and
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those better off. You can see what this will
mean to Bland and to the Nursing Service.
2. I n November, 1933, a new and sweeping
policy was d e t e r m i n e d at Washington, of
transferring at once all able-bodied unem-
ployed from home relief to "civil works"—
public work projects, where they will work
and be paid cash wages according to N R A
standards. Mrs. Breckinridge, who has long
been besieging the forestry services of Ken-
tucky and the nation f o r an adequate refor-
estation program in the Kentucky hills, will
seize the opportunity this affords, we may be
very sure. She may shortly see realized her
dream of labor colonies of forest workers
and their families, scattered throughout the
forested area, drawn off their marginal farms
and out of their miserable cabins, and living
under sanitary supervised conditions, earning
real wages, doing the work they understand,
and increasing the national resources of wealth
and beauty. She may see broad highways
through the region, making its remoter spots
more accessible and turning it to its appro-
priate uses as a hunter's and fisherman's para-
dise—a national asset f o r healthful recreation.
3. Not far from Wendover, in the Tennes-
see Valley, the United States is embarking on
a most stupendous project f o r developing the
dormant power resources of Muscle Shoals.
A new community will spring up about these
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