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...when the Chronicle inaugurated Mrs. O'Connor's bureau, every bigwig from Mayor Angelo J. Rossi down had a good word for her as she tackled her first day's work: Advised a jobless old woman how to find a home, helped a mother control a wayward son, offered suggestions to aid a man with a brother in San Quentin, rescued the residents of a trailer camp from ousting by health officials. Starting the other half of her job, Columnist O'Connor wrote...
Just about a year ago, according to the testimony she last week swore to in a Newark court, a wayward New Jersey girl named Anna Bartholomeo found herself pregnant and speedily learned about " 'Dr.' Harley's place." This was an eleven-room house in a respectable Newark neighborhood where one George E. Harley, a genteel little malpractitioner, conducted an anti-birth insurance business. For $2 a month, paid in advance, "Dr." Harley guaranteed that no cus tomer need have a baby. For contracep tive he dispensed a "Magic Oil." In case of pregnancy he stood ready...
Perhaps one Emily Boothe Radway, who writes in your issue of June 8 that Mrs. Roosevelt's party for wayward Negro girls was ''revolting to any woman, but to a Southerner, unthinkable" would be interested to know that the writer, who is superintendent of the National Training School for Girls (the institution for white and colored girls which was so signally honored by Mrs. Roosevelt), is also a Southern woman, a Georgian, descended from slave-owning ancestry...
Your account (TIME, May 25) of Mrs. Roosevelt's party for wayward girls is revolting to any woman, but to a Southerner, unthinkable. Surely attention could have been brought to the plight of these young women (I don't call 20-year-olds children!) in a less public manner. A visit to the White House should be preserved as a reward for more worthy groups of young people...
...inmates, he took occasional shots for two years. The result, a 65-minute production called Cloistered, was on view last week in Manhattan. Critics agreed that it would interest Catholics, clear up for non-Catholics many a misapprehension about life in a nunnery. Devoted specifically to redeeming wayward girls, the Good Shepherd sisters have some 300 houses throughout the world. They differ from most other sisterhoods pictorially (flowing white robes instead of the usual black) and in organization. As postulants maidens of 21 or over may enter the order of their free will, become novices after six months' probation...