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Show INTERESTED IN SOCIAL CENTER WORK Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the president, is tremendously interested inter-ested in the social center movement. She has Joined the Monday Evening club of this city and is taking an active interest in the social settlement work in which that club is engaged. Last' Monday evening the club held its meeting in the public library, and Miss Wilson was In the audience, but not upon the program. They had. under un-der discussion the use of the public school buildings of Washington as the Bocial centers, with United States senators sen-ators and representatives and several other public men on the regular program. pro-gram. Miss Wilson was not included among the regular speakers, but when the chairman announced that the meeting was open to general discussion discus-sion Miss Wilson, who was accompanied accompa-nied to the meeting by Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, frankly expressed her sentiments. senti-ments. She said: "The social center movement in its final analysis is an expression of the spirit of the true democracy. No matter how cultured we are, we cannot get our ideas alone; we have got to get together and get them from each other." Miss Wilson urged' all who have the welfare of the city at heart to unite in the movement. |