New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1916, Page 5

. NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1916. THE GREATEST []F» f?rz;tfi‘ishiSteamsfihip Had Close Shave When Turkish Shell Exploded Nearby THESE IS CRARITY Organization Had Plenty of Work | to Do During December 1 New held was \ The monthly meeting of the Britain Charity Organization was last evening. The past month one of the most tedious in the year for the officials, occasioned by the hard work that wusually confronts them during the holiday season, but the manner in which it was handled Was particularly gratifying to the di- rectors. An innovation was tried this vear by having a Christmas tree, and it is likely that the experiment will be made an annual event, judging from the success attained this year. The directors feel deeply indebted to the Abbe Hardware company for its as- sistance in making the tree such a pronounced success, and its beautifu! Slectrical trimmings were due to the kindness of the Butler Electric com- pany. Miss Elsie E. Osborn proved to be the “woman of the hour” during the helidays, and her work in terests of the poor of the city a painstaking study of local tions. the howed cond: Miss Osborn’s Report. To the Directors of the Charity ganization: Tiee, but that's a dandy tree,” said more than one small urchin when he walked into our front office, for this year the Charity Organization tried the experiment of having a Christmas tree. It began in this way: Two little children, whose parents we tided over a hard period last summer, came down one stormy day before Chri mas from the outskirts of the city, dragging a little cedar tree to give us for a Christmas present. Tt looked very brown and shabby, though of course we trimmed it for the children’s sake and the more we looked at it the more we wished for a really, truly Christmas tree. So we advertised for one and the advertise- ment disclosed several people ready to give us a tree. The Abbe Co. provided a standard and the Butler Electric Co. furnished the electrically lighted figures which charmed the children. Most of the ornaments did duty on the City Mis- sion and Boys' club tree before com- ing to us. Many people responded to our advertisement by sending or- anges and candy to give to the young- sters: who came to inspect our tree. Half a dozen children helped us to adjust our ornaments and others brought little trinkets which they asked us to put on the tree.’, We took care to have it large and shapely and | well trimmed because in most of the | homes we visit there is little enough of beauty and we wanted to have this tree create a real impression. Some of the “down and out” home- less men apparently derived as much pleasure from it| as the 'children. Mothers came and brought whole families. Big brothers and. sisters brought smaller children ‘not once, but several times, and ‘altogether sev- eral ‘hundred palrs of eyes must have Inspected our tree and several hun- dred pairs of ‘hands squeezed . every ball and pulled every tinsel chain. Although count was kept of our visi- tors for the first few days, later it was given up as hopeles We really kept open house for our friends during the holidays, and the lifé of the tree was lengthened from December 22 to New Year's Day, Twelfth Night, the Russian Christmas when our small Russian friends called, unti] January 11—then we re- luctantly parted with it. The hap- piness and good will it stimulated made it more than worth while and we hope to have another next year. As usual we made confidential com- parisons of Christmas dinner lists of all the churches and societies, not so much to prevent duplication, as to see that no worthy family was neglected. [n some instances it actually seemed to us that the very poor were pro- vided with a far better Christmas than those who are clinging to- the ragged edge of independence and self support. Many times those who brought us the Christmas lists remarked on the | lessened need this winter, due to bet- ter industrial conditions. Many peo- | ple take this to mean that there is pot enough to keep the Charity Agents busy, but this is not true. The lact is that last winter Charity Or- panization societies all over the coun- lry were swamped with requests for | )id that crippled their resources. This | year we find that conditions are very much as they were two or three years 1go, although in our own case there s a steadily increasing demand for pur services that makes this year's | fgures closely approach those of last year and keeps us ‘“snowed under” | Or- Lok e S JUST MISSED HER This interesting photograph receiv- short time ago from the war theater in Turkey, shows a shell from a Turkish battery exploding in the ed a ter just a few feet short of the ish steamship River Clyde. The shell was fired from a concealed Turkish battery. Recently the 'Turlk- ish authorities have made several claims to destrtction of serious dam- age to British warships c®gaged in the Dardanelles operations, from | which the British and French forces lhave now been withdrawn. the new cases for the month came to our attention because of unemploy- ment or insufficient income, this year December not one family ap- plied to us because of slack work. This exactly demonstrates the differ- ence in the situation a vear ago and now. during Everybody Helped. Clubs, Sunday school classes, Camp- fire Girls and many private individ- uals came to the Charity Organization this year for names of.families to whom they could bring Christmas cheer. In serving thus as a charit- able clearing house we came to know of many a kindly, generous act that made for greater hapbpiness. One club of ladies undertook to provide ; gifts appropriate and daintily wrap- ped for fifteen of the children, whom for one reason or another the Char- ity Organization has placed in schools | or institutions throughout the state. Others filled Christmas stockings for little tots to small to be eligible for the Elk’s party. The hearts of sev- eral lonely old people were gladdened by Christmas goodies. The First Congregational church employes. We should like to have those people who have this or that gocial scheme in mind and vet have no need of a full time welfare worker bring their commission to us and let us serve them in the same way. At a meeting of social workers of this state held recently, the subject for discussion was publicity in Char- ity Organization society work. Ob- viously the names and histories of families befriended cannot be made public and yet the public which sup- ports the organization certainly has a right to know what is going on. In this city we have solved the probhlem of late by advertisements of our needs; by public addresses on charity work whenever invited by clubs or organizations; by explanatory letters of thanks to all who contribute to the agent's special funds; and by monthly reports given in full to the newspapers each month, accompanied by office statistics and financial state- ments. Naturally the papers cut out much of this as uninteresting to their | readers but we feel that the newspa- ! pers are feeling the public pulse con- tinuously, that their suggestions or requested us to distribute nearly 100 gifts donated by Sunday school chil- dren, and the New Britain Christian | Endeavor Union asked us to give out | their generous Christmas donation of groceries and clothing. | Trimmed Christmas trees for fam- ilies with little children, practical gifts and dinners were provided for ! dozens of families at our suggestion. Altogether the holiday season was one of good will as we have good reason to know. Praise For Elks. The New Britain lodge of Elks' an- nual Christmas party with practical gifts for hundreds of the city’s poorer children is a large factor in the Christmas joy of this city. Careless- ly conducted it would be absolutely | chaotic, but under the wise and cool- headed management of the lodge’s Christmas committee, it becomes a splendid, helpful, joy bringing event and the Charity Organization is only too glad to do its part toward mak- ing the party a success by correcting addresses, throwing out duplicate cards, and watching vigilantly to see that when Johnny Smith is invited, Willie and sister Susie receive invita- tions too. At holiday times many people come to us asking that we spend a certain amount of money in a certain way, or that we carry out a certain charitable ssion for them. We wish that every one would feel welcome to do this all the year round. One of our friends has for a long time given us permission to order shoes fcr any child unable to attend school for lack of proper shoe: He likes to feel that no child is missing education because of that lack. Sometimes we find, of course, that parents are holding off the purchase to see if we won't pro- vide the daily quarts of milk we are ding ‘for little babies about town. ; such commission the Charity Or- ganization will undertake to carry ovt, and of course a careful accounting of our stewardship is always made to the donor. Many lar factories are cngaging ! ¢ e with work all of the time. Whereas last winter twenty-nine of welfare workers nowadays to look af- ter the health and happiness of their Out of HAT IS, something is wrong with baby, but we can’t tell just what it is. All mothers recognize the term by the weakness, loss of appetite, inclination to sleep, vheavy breathing, and lack of interest shown by baby. These lassitude, are the symptoms of sickness. worms, croup, diphtheria, or scarlatina. Give the child Castoria. It will start Phe digestive organs into operation, open the pores of the skin, carry off the foetid matter, and drive away the threatened sickness. . Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of m Sorts It may be fever, congestion, Do not lose a minute. | Meriden ! cities outside the state. | ganization; criticisms are of the utmost value, and that they have a right to know all we do not pass on what they consider of news value. Copying Local Ideas New London has lately copied our plan of advertising but so far as we could judge from the meeting no other societies save Waterbury and give frequent addresses, none make acknowledgements (o donors of special funds. Our adver- tising scheme which had the atten- tion of the Russel Sage Foundation seems to be working out well in other It was grant- ed by all present that charity organi- zation societies should give more tention to placing their work as well as their needs before the public. During the month of December, 1915, there have been 337 appli tions for service of the Charity Or- sixteen from public of- ficials, twenty from private socleties, six from chu es, eighty from inter- ested individuals, two from other ies, and the remainder from zppl cants themselves. There were twen- ty-six new cases during the month and ninetv families dealt with all to- gether. There were 439 calls at the office, 228 from consultants and 211 from applicans. Ninety-nine visits were made on the families we are in- terested in, eight more were made by friendly visitors for us, and there were thewty-seven and one-half hours of volunteer office work donated by var- | ious young women and 434 telephone calls in behalf of the families we are helping. Optical aid was given ‘o two, clothing to twenty-four, and weekly aid throughout the month to eight. Ten families were helped through emergency needs from our own treas- ury. $40.30 was spent in relief from the treasurer’s fund. $16.10 from the agent’s special fund, $8.38 from agent’s special Christmas fund. $18.02 from special shoe fund for eur school chil- dren and a loan of $1.50 was made to one individual. The amount of $271.13 was paid cut by various persons through our sug- gestion although this money did mnot pass into the agent’s or treasurer’s hands, making a total of $355.43 ex- pended through Charity Organization channels for relief during the past month PERSIA NEWS FROM VIENNA, ‘Washington, Jan. 13—Baron Eri Zwiedinek, charge of the Austro- Hungarjian embassy yesterday laid before Secretary Lansing some infor- mation received in a wireless d patch from the Vienna foreign office, which it was said, had indirectly to do with the destruction of the Br ish steamship Persia. It was denied, however, that the information brougnt any progress in the effort to learn the exact cause of the disaster. It was intimated that the charge had told the secretary that he had learned nothing that would lead to the con- clusion that an Austrian submarine had torpedoed the ship. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK. London, Jan, 13.—The British | Margo Nerve Tablets BANDITS ACTIVE IN INNER MCNGOLIA Successful Resisting Chinese Army— Well Supplied With Modern Arms and Ammunition. (Correspondence of Asso. Press.) Peking, Dec. 21—Bandits have become so active in Inner Mongolia re- sisting the Chinese army that the government now refuses to issue pass- ports for Inner Mongolia and for much of China proper lying near ‘the Mongolian border. Many robberies have been committed near Kalgan and Dolon-nor. Kalgan is less than one hundred miles northwest of Peking, while Dolon-nor is about one hundred and fifty miles north of the Chinese capital. 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