New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1915, Page 5

CHARITY PROBLEM LESS COMPLICATED Lack of Employment Practically Eliminated as Cause for Aid That charity required throught un- employment is less needed in this city at the present time than in a number of years is attested by the » Teport of Miss Elsle C. Osborne d monthiv WHITTALL RUGS | are Gifts Worth While i They enable you l to express your Chwristmas Greeting in a remembrance of lasting beauty and g recognized quality. Gifts are valued most when practical and useful. livered at the meeting of the direc- | tors of the New Britain Charity Or- ganization last night Miss Osborne besides reviewing the situation In New Britain as it relates to aiding those in need of material help de- votes some space to valuable su gestions along other lines. She be- lieves it would be worth while to have various welfare agencies here | *listed in the city directory with somo ! definite information as to thelr pow- ers and scope. Another suggestion. which would probably work out in the formation of a Girls’ club, is for the beneflt of the girls between 14 and 18 years old who are engaged at work during the day, but in thelr N !'ed for by some church | tion, learn these were mainly due to the fact that may kind hearted people sent dinners to families of their ac- quaintances who were already provid- or organizi- It must have been exceedingly | disappointing to some of these people | to carry a basket of good things to someone, only to find that a lodge or charity representative had been ther before them. Many people now use the charity organization by sending | word that they expect to care for a certain family and in these instanc we always see to it that their pleas- ure in giving is not disturbed by col- | lision with someone else's plans. 1t is a relief to get back to the customed constructive work of this organization,—to begin again to alm at prevention instead of allevia- tion. ac- Social Workers. | Our recently organized monthly con- | ference of social workers is proving very successful. Tts membership con- sists of the visiting nurse, tuberculo- sis nurse, Meaith nurse, school nurse, probation officer, truant officer, su- perintendent public charities, superin- tendent City Mission, and charity or- ganization agents—all paid workers, visiting daily in the homes of the | poor,—a Sunshine society incorpora- tor is also included. The conference is a strong expression of the charity organization get-together spirit. Tt makes for closer relationships all around and aids its members in work- ing shoulder to shoulder for the city's Wy . @y \‘ ST éll) \\\*\5\‘"3'7 "\NW ¥, ” W 7y, S BTN 'Y-_) | Lot Al { o emories that leisure hours need help and direction. | welfare. .For the boys who have little to do | in the vacation season but wander the | streets, it is thought a summer camp would provide a wholesome 'outlet for thelr thoughts and energles. The | day | nursery is also discussed in the re- | Miss Osborne's report in full !s; question of ro-establishing a port. Miss Osborne’s Report. as follows: ¥To the Directors of the Charity Or- | | ganization:— Last winter the resources of Charity Organization were taxed to the uttermost to provide in addition | to our usual work, for the many fa- milies in need because of slack of | work or total lack of employment. The demands were such that this so- tlety, like its prototypes in cities all over the country, was forced to “pro- gress backward” and take on for the time being some of the methods of the old line relief societies, in order to meet the situation adequately. It is oMl very well to say that our principle is to search out the cause of the need in each instance and thcnk t5y to remove the cause; when that ! cause is clearly unemployment, and no work is to be found, the barrier | is great! No Lack of Work. From present indications the prob- lem of unemployment no longer looms large. There is not at present a single family being aided in any way by the Charity Organization, in which need of charitable aid is brought on by lack of work. Con- ditions are apparently quite normal in T the | lold age, 777 WHITTALL ) this city so far as the labor question is, concerned. Poverty is of course never a normal condition, but the Charity Organization will find more than enough work to combat the poverty brought on by widowhood, intemperance, feeble-mind- edness, vice, illness, and accident. Statistics for the month of Novem- ber show 219 applications for ser- vice; eighty-three from public offi- cials, societies, churches and out town organizations, and 136 from ap- plicants themselves. Of the seventy six families we came in contact With‘ during the month, only 23 were now to us. In these twenty-three instances the main causes of need were widow- hood, sickness, old age, and vagrancy. There were 288 calls at our office, 67 visits made, 339 teiephone inter- views in behalf of families and we of | WE GIVE ROYAL GOLD TRADING STAMPS—ASK FOH THEh ——————————— Special Cut Prices for Week of Dec. 6 to Dec 13, Inc. —A&P—— | PEAS ——SULTANA—— CORN Gan l SC 3can325C Why Pay More? 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Twenty-one families received emer- gency ald from our charity organiza- tlon funds,—$385.89 of this coming from the treasurer’s funds and $49.62 from the agent’'s special funds. Ten children were provided with school shoes at an expenditure of $11.61 ow- ing to reduced prices, and aid was or- ganized from outside amounting to $103.40 making a total of $200.52 ex- pended during the month for emer- gency help through the charity or- ganization. Thanksgiving Dinners, As usual the charity organization served many churches and organiza- tions by confidential comparison of their lists of families to whom Thanksgiving dinners were to be sent. any Guplications were avoided in this way. There were 163 names ! on these lists submitted, and the char- ity organization workers knew of fif- ty-five other families being aided by the public charities or charlty organ- need of a dinner. Under the present labor conditions the charity organization felt no compunction in drawing the line; this year we provided no Thanksgiving dinners for any family in which there was an able bodied man. Twenty-seven of the fifty-five names on our own Thanksgiving list were taken by offices, clubs, lodges, Sunday school classes and private in- dividuals who carried fine dinners di- rectly to the families. For the re- maining families on our list we pro- vided dinners out of the money handed to the agent for that purpose, taking care to send an acknowledge- ment to each donor, giving him some idea of the use made of his gift, Some Had Two Dinners. Now that the holiday is past we hear of duplications in Thanksgiving dinner giving, and so far as we can — APPLY SAGE TEA IF HAIR IS GRAY Grandma Used Sage Tea and Sulphur to Darken Her Hair and Nobody Knew. The use of Sage and Sulphur for restoring faded, gray hair to its nat- ural color dates back to grandmoth- er’s time. She used it to keep her hear heautifully dark, glossy and abundant. Whenever her hair fen out or took on that dull, faded or streaked appearance, this simple mix- ture was applied with wonderful ef- fect. But brewing at home is mussy and out-of-date. Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for a 50-cent bottle of ‘Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com- pound,” you will get this famous ola recipe which can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair and is splendid for dan- druff, dry, feverish, itchy scalp and falling hair. A well-known downtown druggist says it 'darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied. You simply dampen & sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hafr, taking onc strand at a tinle. By morning the gray hair disappears, and after an- other application or two it becomes beautifully dark, glossy, soft and abundant. Welfare Agencies, Another piece of charity organiza- tion work long contemplated and re- cently commenced, is the compiling of information concering the city's welfare agencies: Our city has not an overwhelming number of these as we of the charity organization well know, since we are forced to fill in the gaps by making some sort of provision that ingenuity may contrive, for the needs which the Travelers' Aid society | the Lodging House, Shelter for Worm- | en, Day Nursery, Free Employment Bureau, etc., minister to in larger ci- ties. There is, however, considerable confusion in the minds of many con- cerning those agecies which we have and the city directory does not, per- haps, give enough information to set- tle the question. Our idea is to set forth briefly the name and address of every organization formed for the public welfare, giving the names of the paid workers connected with it, the office hours of each one, and teli- ing briefly its aim and scope, so that those needing the services of any or- ganization and not very familiar with its work may know exactly what to ex- pect of it and just how to go about getting it. This sort of a directory has been made of a group of fifty New York organizations and institu- tions and something of the sort may be attempted in Hartford, later on. If this directory would only settle in people’s minds the dlstinction be- tween the New Britaia Roard cf Puh- lic Charities and th» v Pritain | Charity Organization, not to mention any other value, the labor put into it would more than be worth while. It is not surprising that this confusion exists in many minds, especially un- | der the close relationship existing be- | tween the two offices, and vet both the Public Charities and the Charity | Organization could render better vice if the distinction were clearly un- | derstood. ser- | Help Big Sisters. Ther 1s need of more helpful, friendly work being done for the young girls of this city,—girls be- tween fourteen and eighteen years, especially the daughters of immigrant parents. Most of these girls are working, so that their earning powers foster independence, moreover, after recelving a few years’ education in our schools, which are splendidly equipped to meet the needs of foreign | born children, they emerge obviously | knowing so much more of America and its possibilities than their ;ar- ents, who on arrival plunge at once into drudgery to support their families that they brook no parental discipline and forget that mothers’ advice Is worth having on many subjects which are the samc the world over. For these girls we hope to firm some sort of Big Sisters Organization. The girls in our schoo's are taugnt domestic science carefully . nd if we could only make sure that they all went home as valiant little ission- aries to bring their househulds out | of domestic chaos, all would be well. | However, naturally, no mother takes | kindly to patronizing instruction from her voung and she takes more readily to the diplomatic suggestions of a woman her own age who can | explain the differences between OId World and New World housekeeping and the advantages of certaln changes. We know that every pald woman worker visiting in the homes is do- ing just that sort of thing every day. and we question whether it might not be .wise for the Charity Organization bless and burn’ BEAUTIFUL old story retold; an old song made to live again in new loveliness, with a new appeal, by the blended strains of the ’cello, piano and violin. Nevin's “Rosary” will always live and be loved. A begutiful fabric it is, woven of fact and fancy-—warp and woof a poignant grief and a melancholy resignation. Delicately these instruments trace the pattern, and spread the tapestry again be{ore you—a rendition that will “‘still a heart in absence wrung. With remarkable fidelity the recording portrays the thrilling manly appeal of the ’cello and the sweet feminine response of the violin—melody and accompaniment beautifully balanced, and t§c~ livered with a restraint and dignity that proclialm the Revillon Trio a company of sincere artists. With exquisite charm there is given upon the reverse of the same disc, Marshall’s plaintive melody, 7 Hear You Calling Me”—here a “song without words,” another story of darkened ro- mance surcharged with deep emotion. Again we have a delicate harmonization by the same skillful grouping of instruments——piano, *cello and violin—an arrangement that has never before been used in recording either song. 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As for the boys who sometimes re- quire supervision beyond their par- ents’ control if only some charitably inclined people would see fit next summer to provide a few weeks' out | of door life for them under a man | leader whom the boys could admire and respect, we predict that it would | work wonders. Many lads in this | city are excellently provided for dur- ing vacation time by their own fam- ilies and through Y. M. C. A. camps and so on, but the very bovs who show by thelr tendencies the greatest need of this sort of thing are left | unprovided for. Wholesome, out- door life is a fine thing for any boy, | and these boys for whom parental discipline does not suffice, so that a probation officer’s services are needed, would profit especially. ~Without the usual routine (which they dispense with cheerfully) and minus a vaca- tion work certificate, they lead an idle existence during the summer with | no particular outlet for their energy and idleness invariably leads to mis- chief. 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GILLADDING (Just Around the Corner) 4 CHESTNUT SREET | which would render a Day Nursery [ 1ess necessary. : These and many other problems of | a like nature come before us con- | stantly and we hope this winter to be | able to make definite progress toward ! their solution, that is | ery angle before any steps are taken, once proved a fallure must be tiously and modestly and secondly because in a few years the State of Connecticut may under- provide widow's pensions by all the welfare workers cau- | re-attempted How- matter every we turn by believe this need. that the