New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1916, Page 5

NEW. RRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1016. 'CHARITY ORGANIZATION TO APPEAL "TO NEW BRITAIN FOLKS FOR $2,500 Institution Is in Need of Money and Will Ask Aid of Friends to Make Up Deficit in Treasury. Within the past year New has responded nobly to appeals for . financial aid from various sources, many of which came from abroad. The New Britain Charity Organiza- tlon now gives the public an oppor- tunity of contributing to cause which is of immediate interest to New Britain—taking carc of those in the city who, through force of | Britain circumstances, are unable to care for | themselves. The board of directors of the organization, at the annual meeting iast evening, decided to wa a campaign for $2,560 and as this is such a moderate amount ther is reason to believe the organization will meet with little difficulty in its task. The world who are honestly on their own feet reasons they must lean on their kind hearted neighbors. Ill health, many mouths to feed out of a single pa envelope, absolute destitution— these are some of the reasons for the existence of such an institution as the New Britain Charity Organiza- tion. Those in charge try to look— and do look—at poverty through practical spectacles. No one | who really deserves assistance is turned away. But money is required and there is no institution in the city more deserving of aid than this. The directors have decided on a personal appeal campaign Envelopes will be distributed by mail asking for a con- tribution of $1 from each person ap- pealed to and there should be a ready response. In addition to discussing this cam- ypaign, the organization re-elected of- ficers for the coming year. They are: President, Willlam C. Hungerford vice president, Judge John H. Kir bham; secretary, Charles F. Chase; treasurer, Frank G. Vibberts. The finance committee was re-elect- ed as follows: Chairman. Hedley P. Carter, J- R. Andrews. W. L. Damon, F. S. Platt, F. G. Vibberts; executive committee, E. F. Neumann, chairman, G L. Damon, A. F. Aichstaedt. W. L. Hatch, C. J. Parker, Mrs. J. H. Rob- inson, L. P. Slade, F. S. Chamberlain and E. J. Skinner were succeeded on the board-of directors by E. C. Con- nelly and George P. Spear and the following were re-elected to member- ship on the board: Charles F. Chase, E. B. Eddy, A- F. Aichstaedt, W. L.‘ ‘Hatch, Mrs. R. Hemenway, W. C.l Hungerford, Rev. L. S. Johnson, J. H. Kirkham, E. L. Newmann, F. G. Vibberts. The report of the treasurer showed receipts for the year of $2,306.51, and expenditures of $2,906.51. is trying to stand but for v teeming with people | arious | WILLIAM C. HUNGERFORD. | of little Pollyanna. | opher and friend,” we must be pre- | pared at any hour for any fate. These | represent a few of the 2971 requests for our services during the past year: Exhaustive Study Required. We have been asked to make ex- haustive studies for state and nation- al boards and committees of inquiry regarding local efforts for immigrants, | tuberculosis patients, alcoholic victims, inquent children, and so on; to ap- pear before legislative committees and plead for state needs; organize new committees to deal with certain phases of the work; deliver addresses before audiences varying from sixteen to six hundred, and join hands with the Chamber of Commerce in ridding the city of charitable imposto We must find suitable work for candidates often handicapped and incompetent, and in- vestigate boarding homes for little children. » Often we are asked to collect wages, arrange insurance, provide hospital care or specialist's treatment, remind carel doctors of their obligations, arrange loans, meet strangers arriv- ing from long journeys, befriend boys and girls released from institutions and procure proper employment for them, and obtain tuition for children in various schools of the state. Many times we are asked to arbitrate in quarrels between husband and wife or parent and child, to locate missing relatives, obtain legal aid and cham- pion wronged individuls. We are called to interpret laws and customs, translate, identify, and write letters. We advise regarding dental, optical or medical treatment, usually. reduced rates, or paying the bills ourselves, and later inspect and pass judgment on the resulting false teeth, eye- glasses, knee braces, or what not. Many Kinds of Requests. Requests come for us to find a new As “guide, philos- During 1915-1916 twenty-five dif- ferent nationalities were among those “who appealed for and received aid from the organization according to the report submitted by Miss Elsie C. Osborn, the agent. Miss Osborn’s Report. The report for the year follow: To the directors of the New Britain Charity organization: “There is only one kind of prepared- ness, whether for peace or for war, and that is intelligent and effective co- operation with others for the benefit all” says Woods Hutchinson. At this time when serious mutiny is going on aboard the “good ship earth,” when we have good reason for profound thankfullness that we are Americans both in geographical location and po- litical ideals, when the one word on everybody’s , lips is ‘preparedness,” and the one guage of efliciency is the ‘degree of preparedness to meet what- ever crisis may arise, it may be well to measure up charity organization efforts by the same standard. The charter of the charity organi- zation expressly states that this ciety shall be flexible and alert, pre- pared at all times “to promote the systematic co-operation of all chari- -table agencies and to be a center of intercommunication between them'— a sort of hub in the charity wheel. About twenty-five years ago, this was exactly the reason for the formation of the first charity organization socie- ties—a new charity had to be because s0 many were alread istence—charities splendidly conduct- ed, but entirely without relation to each othery and constantly duplicat- ing each others efforts. Surely, with the fine spirit of teamwork that is growing among the welfare agencies of this city through the charity or- ganization, we have a right to con- sider ourselves properly prepared in this direction. Promote Welfare of the Poor. The charter goes on to state that the charity organization *shall promote the weifare of the poor by social and sanitary reforms, encourage thrift and industry, and see that all cases of des- titution are promptly and properly relieved”’—giving temporary aid from 'its own emergency funds until the care of some other society organized to provide such relief, is assured. Pro- motion, you see, is the keyword, not merely amelioration or prevention We must be prepared to serve in any crisis that may come to our city, to promote social justice in place of a sentimental patronage of the poor, to _instil American ideals in the families of our newer citizens, and effect the closets possible co-operation in chari- table work—in short, we must be ready to undertake any service of any sort that will improve the condition of our city's less fortunate people. In the opinion of Frederick Almy | of Buffalo, a charity organization worker needs the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job, and the riches of Croesus. He might aiso add the need for a castiron invulnerable physique, like Achilles before Paris took aim, emd spirits as unquenchable as those rent, secure a stove or baby carriage, and receive and dispense serviceable garments by the hundreds. We are asked to arrange funerals; we act as emissaries of death bed messages. We are consulted about setting up men in such business as selling horse radish, peddling matches or soap, or buying street vending machines; we are asked to conduct raffles on watches, violins, bed quilts or chick- ens. We fasten on buttons, supply cooking recipes, take people to den- tist or hospital, tie up sore fingers, manicure nails, and help bathe a baby, or banish vermin with equal alacrity. Our advice is sometimes sought in love affairs, and in the past have been asked to serve as brides- maid and to suggest life partners. Flattering requests come for us to exchange letters and photographs with homeless men we have helped. No hour of the day no day of the week is free from these requests by mail, by telephone, or in person, and sometimes when we end a bewilder- ing day with a tired headache, we are tempted to credit it to compulsory brain expansion, Whenever flood, fire or devastates a city, usually upon the charity organization with its facilities for organizing to take the lead in relief work. The National Red Cross arranged some itme ago to avail itself of the services of the most expert charity organization workers 111 over the country, in uch crises. We hope and pray that such lamity may never come upon our city, but if any lesser disaster occurs, we must be ready. At the time the Mexican situation developed, our local Red Cross branch was without quarters. A prompt and cordial in- vitation extended to. make use of the charity organization rooms as head- quarters and distributing center was immediately accepted, and as long as the need of such activities lasted, the Red Cross flag waved from our windows—what better banner could we work under than this symbol of broadminded charity and service. Justice and Right Before Alms. Likewise, when on the very day our local companies left for Niantic en route to the Mexican border, reports commenced to come in to Chamber of Commerce, Board of Public Chari- ties, Red Cross, and Charity Organiza- tion society, regarding familles left dependent by the breadwinner’s de- parture with the militia, it devolved | upon the Charity organization society to cali at once a conference of the heads of each of these organizations at the the Chamber of Commerce rooms, to devise methods of aiding these familles without the stigma of charity. That a most efficient com- mon council committee was soon after appointed, which has handled this matter in the wisest possible way, should be a matter of pride to New Britain citizens. Its methods have been more prompt and adequate than those of almost any other city. All necessary assistance for such families ‘has been given from city funds, to b earthquake it devolves | ' e reimbursed by the state, and With- | their citizens at home, others a.ssertl'he mother who brought her baby test recourse to charity. s proud to have had some arrangement;—like any other sensible charity organization, we earnestly advocate Jjustice and right before alms. Social justice, we think, should | supplant, whenever possible, the kind | | of brotherhood which is typified in | almsgiving. It is our duty as charity | { agents to recognize this, and use every | particle of influence and persuasive power we possess, even enlisting ex- pert assistance if necessary, in order to obtain for our applicants the right | and Jjustice that is their due, rather | than complacently dole out coal fl,ndI groceries to fill the gaps, and smile | comfortably over a more generous | showing for relief expendiiure: i The principles of charity organiza- | tion work is the banding together Ofi all the charitably inclined, so as to | make their efforts more effective. “Coal shute charity” was never effec- | tlve. According to Hans Christian | Anderson it either fostered resent- ment in the recipients or bred a gen- eration that seemed born under the sign of the wheelbarrow,—they had to be pushed all the time. The old method of giving charity was all heart. The newer method threatened to become all head charity, and “a human being in misery is not a bug to be stuck upon a pin for learned investigation.” But now we find that it must be a combination of head and heart—yes, and hand, too, the three Hs, as Jacob Rits would say. Heavy Demands. Abraham Lincoln, the finest exam- ple of American life of a great soul triumphant over poverty, said, “God must have loved the poor,—Ie made so many of them.” In spite of present prosperity our statistics show nearly as heavy demand as that of a year ago when the employment situation was so trying. We can only explain this by the constantly enlarging scope of our work. We find there are such things as starving hearts and starving minds as well as starving bodies. Whether times are good or ill there are certain types of families con- stantly enlisting our services. Among these are the familles in which the wage earners are ill in sanitarium or hospital or incapacitated through ac- cident or mental handicap. We must meet the challenge of the man who says: “Very well if I go to the hos- pital at your advice will you support my family?” There are also those families so large that the wages of the uskilled laboring father are not always sufficient to make ends meet. Ten or twelve dollars may be all and more than a certain man is worth, but it does not go so far in these days, especially in times of ill- ness. Some are in need because old age prevents them from working. Drunk- enness, which does not depend on the times, takes its customary toll. Im- morality plays a significant part in creating poverty. There are neglect- ed children to safeguard, and un- married mothers to protect and cham- pion. Many stranded men and wom- en drift into the city and are re- ferred to us. Usually they have some mental or physical handicap that makes it harder to anchor them. Some of those sent to us are tramps who seem to think the world owas them a living which they are bound to collect with as litlle effort as pos- sible. In these instances we incline to agree that “there is no tramp prob- lem which hard labor behind iron bars would not solve.” Families Suffer for Offender, Constantly we have to look after families of men sent to jail. Un- der the present system a jailed man is simply laid on the shelf for a time, so far as his moral improvement or his family’s welfare is concerned. Tt often seems that the family suffers more than he, for while the man ex- periences a well merited loss of 1lib- erty, after all other methods have been exhausted, he has shelter and food, whereas with the enforced de- parted of the bread-winner all the household machinery is topped. Credit at the store ceases, rent is due, milk is needed for the baby, and clothing for the school children. Thus, when John Smith is sentenced to jail, Mrs. John Smith loses no time in transit from the court room to the Public Charities or Charity Organization to secure support during that period. This demonstrates the fact that sn- ciety at large, for the privilege of punishing an offender must, through charity, support his famil Thus an endless chain is formed in which charity is forced to supply the con- necting link. We all look forward to the time when at least a part of a man’s earnings in jail will go to the support of his family at home. In many other instances a sudden crisis arlses In a family entailing | much extra expense or a curtailing of income. Sometimes collecting wages or arranging with creditors helps ou:, but usually some secret ald is nec- essary until the family is independ- ent again. These cases and those involving widows with many littls children (sometimes five, six, or even seven under fourteen years) are usu- ally the most satisfactory and hopeful ones we have to deal with, Preservation of the Home. We earnestly beliove in the preser- vation of the home, which is the pivot of all things. Svery child is entitled to a pair of mother's arms around it, and so far as we know no widow’s home in this city is ever broken up on account of poverty un- less immorality and incompetence go with it. Our Creator set us down up- on this earth In famiiles and we can- not get away from the family basis, We have created the pattern of a no mal family as a guide in our work— that of a man who Is steady and faithful, handing over his earnings for the support of his family; a wife who is a good mother and homemaker, and boys and girls growing up to be like the one or the other. And yet with this simple standard we are bound to admit that we deal largely in broken families and that therein lles just the trouble. Although some experts declare that after the war KEuropean nations will | out the s Our society | share in th i sidered dublously, adopt stringent measures to keep that the end of the war will mark the beginning of a tremendous tide of immigration that will swamp the labor market and create a period of depression. However, that may be, it behooves us to be prepared. Pub- lic interest in immigration in the past has been negative—a matter of head tax, deportation and exclusion. We need also a positive policy of protec tion and assimilation. The arrival of large numbers of immigrants from ANy one country has always been con- and each group as it has become established has looked with suspicion on the next comers. { The confusion of being unable to un- derstand the language, customs and institutions of our country adds to the immigrant’s woes and leaves him rud- derless in uncharted seas. The huge ratio of foreign born to native born in our city demonstrates how neces- sary it is for us to help in the Amer- nization process. Ninety-eight per cent. of all our applicants are re- cruited from these ranks and we find there are a hundred different ways in which we can guide and help them. Gracious Acts Pay Large Dividends. Because there is no less we rejoice with our friends as well as mourn with them, we have come to emphasize more and more the gracious side—the giving of flow- ers, jelly and fruit and little treats for the children such as postals, toys, story books and flags on the Fourth of July, and a glorious Christmas tree for several weeks last winter during which time we kept open house. That Christmas tree provided untold pleas- ure for scores of visitors both young and old! We have found that these gracious acts pay large dividends in the more serious matters at hand. And how do we meet all these prob- lems that arise? By coaxing everybody to work shoulder to shoulder with us so that we may use their facilities and they may use ours. Each of us has his specialty and united we serve a com- mon cause. By most friendly relations with the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Public Charities, with whom we are constantly in touch. There is a con- tinual . interchange of Information with the public charities which has saved both offices hours of unneces- sary labor, By equally friendly relations with court official and police, from whom we receive unfailing courtesy and as- sistance. This come about the more naturally since the charity organiza- tion agent is the part time woman probation officer, »B.v constant intercourse with prin- cipals and teachers of our publle schools—contact that is mutually helpful. i By close friendship with priests and pastors of all the churches, whose devoted service we have witnessed again and again. They realize that the charity organization stands for humanity alone with absolute freedom from religious bias or racial prejudice, It is always our policy to strengthev; natural religious inclinations and ce- ment broken church relatons, : By recourse to legal advice or the judgement of family physicians, Whose advice is most helpful. . ) By conducting a much used confi- .dem)sl bureau from which we give information very cautiously and only to those who have a right to know. ’T.h)_g is especially helpful at Thanks: 81lving and Christmas. By constant interchange of corre- spondence with other charity organ. ization societies all over the Vni‘ted States on subjects of mutual Intere;t By membership in a state confor. ence of social workers which results in comparison of our work with that of o_ther citles and demonstrates our particular place in the scheme of things. By weekly meetings of our splendid woman’s advisory committee. Such a &roup Is a strong factor in the char- ity organization work. By organizing a social workers monthly conference composed of all the welfare workers of this city to which the churches are invited to send representatives. This results in better acquaintanceship and closer working relations all rcund. By assembling an enthusiastic study class of young women who have learned of a new side of their city’s life. By conducting dozens of little pi srimages to various public buildings and welfare agencies of the city. These changing groups of interested women have gained much from closer acquaintanceship with the methods of our public servants. By maintaining a charitable clear- ing house, serving as a medium be- tween giver and recipient and making the closest possible 'connection. Many come to us for families to help during the holidays, children to aid in one way or another, huseholds to send furniture to, shut-ins to remember with dainties, and so on. Such aid does not stand on our books of course, even if reckoned in dollars and cents, for if the bills come to us at all they are to be sent on to the donor. During the year we can account absolutely for $1,246.46 thus organized and at least as much more was given which we could not be sure of computing because we did not see the actual bills, all this aside from our own re- lief funds. Limited in Examples to Cite. Human interest is always a telling feature and yet we are nec v lim- ited in the examples we can cite without hurting anyone’s feelings. That is the reason our reports threat- en to become dry reiterations of meth- ods and principles when in reality we are constantly touching human nature its very heart. We could narrate the story of the man who applied for work saving that be had no relatives, hut whom we soon found to have not only relatives but a good sized legacy as well waiting him; of runaway youngsters whose carfare we sometimes advance so as to get them back home again; of the young man for whom we secured better work, who sent postals and anpounced that he was going to give himself the pleasure of calllng some evening: of the young girl who could not ‘‘make good” here, who is doing splendidly in a little town many miles away; of influence un- from the middle west, following false clue, so that we had her back home again. We would like to tell you in detail about the former citizen who has started in with a clean slate in anoth- or city through our arrangements; of the old people whose relatives rallied to their support when they learned the real need; of the man arriving at our office penniless for us to carry through an illness, who proved to have the doubtful distinction of run- ning through $30,000 in half a dozen years because of alcoholism; or the man for whom we made a loan and found employment at which he worked a long time in this city, who proved to be a college man, highly connected, a drug flend who was di- vorced, re-married and again divorced from the same long suffering wife, who is now a social worker. Block Marriage of Child. Space will not permit us to tell in detail of the child marriage of an or- phan girl of thirteen which we pre- vented from taking place, entertaining the child for the day by beguiling her with picture books; or of the old man who deserved increase in pension far more than alms and on receiving the increase through our efforts became independent of our aid; of the old lady living in this city whose relatives in other places, responding to our diplo- matic request, now relieve us of the duty of caring for her by sending a weekly pension direct to her; of the voung man who feared his fiancee in another city wos not faithful to him and left it for us to determine by en- listing help from the charity organi- zation worker of that city, so that the engagement cculd be re-cemented; of the attractive gentlewoman whom we found to be a fugitive from justice; or the gypsies with whom we had thrilling experiences. Probably we could tell twenty or thirty stories which would each be alive with human interest to us who know the people, but would all sound about like this to you:—‘John Blank was ill for weeks with rheumatism, while his thrifty wife did her best to make their.small savings last, and the doctor and landlord patiently withheld their bills. But there were four small children to be fed and cared for, and finally pride gave way to motherly solicitude and Mrs. Blank came to ug for help. Fuel, clothing, and food were provided and later after the charity organization agent had called in sympathetic conference with pastor ang relatives, a plan was de- vised and the family pulled through the crisis secretly until Mr. Blank was able to return to work. The Blank children now often stop to visit us or bring us a flower from their garden.” Efforts Outside of City. We could give you dozens of stories like these showing that our efforts often go beyond the city’s boundaries: —A much embarrassed country lad of pineteen, lonesome, penniless, told us diffidently of quarreling with his fath- er, and of a dramatic leave-taking with the noble resolve of returning home some day in great affluence to make his father retract such unjust criti- cism. Successive hard luck experi- ences due to his ignorance had great- ly changed his viewpoint, so that now he was humbly asking for work. This would have been easy to provide, but as he told of his good mother who begged him not to go, and to whom he sent many postals to assure her of his well-being, and the factory boss who promised to take him back at any time, it seemed wiser to send him back home at once before hearty meals and regular employment should overcome his homesickness. After as- certaining the truth of his statements we gave him a hurried fitting and cquipped him in a suit recently do- pated, with hat and shoes and so forth to match, and after providing him with an old suitcase well night empty (simply because pride forbade him to return empty handed) he was rushea off to the railroad station, a sandwich in hand, just in the nick of time for a train for his home, pant- ing out his thanks to the agent as they ran along the street together. Hungry, penniless and crippled, a bright young Polish lad appealed to us to send him back to his family in Brooklyn. He had answered an ad- vertisement for canvassers in a New York paper and was brought to this city to work on a commission basis. When he failed to ‘“make good” in taking orders for crayon portraits he was turned adrift without food or carfare. As soon as it was ascertained that his friends in Brooklyn would harbor him again he was given food and sent to his home. A letter came next day announcing his safe arrival and expressing sincere thanks for our assistance. Help for Cavalryman: A reticent, young ex--cavalryman, en route to another city by walking the railroad ties. told us in halting terms of his need for work. His right hand, injured some time before, was so badly infected that it appeared impossible to save it. Work was out of the question. He was sent to a surgeon who gave dressings for sev- eral days and in the meantime we ar- ranged for board and lodging. When the hand was better he quietly slip- ped away to the farm of an old em- ployer with touching gratitude for a saved hand. A man in Arizona wrote to us ask- ing us to befriend his young brother who was ill and adrift in a Michigan ity. He was sure we could do some- thing about it and we did. We ex- plained affairs to the charity organ- ization in that city and subsequently learned that a man who makes it his business to do that sort of thing, visited the sick lad not once but many times and promised to stand to send by him as a friend in a big, lonesome city. A letter from the far west told us of the serious illness of a husband whose wife was forced to ask for food for her children. There were sis- ters in a nearby town who might help. We visited these relatives promtply and found them not only anxious to help but willing to pay carfare and receive the sick man and his famil into their household. The good news was sent on at once and we were later informed just when to expect the family and by what route. The faithful sisters were on hand to greet a8 | sider | spent, for the man has now recovered vided. When we remember few cents for carfare and pos vere our only expenditure, we the outlay remarkably con well nd is now supporting his family in comfortable home in a neighbor- horing village. All these cfforts of dollars fr were mainly costing hundreds or that source, ssful {hrough co- operation. People of all creeds and all nationalities, without in the least losing sight of their own sturdy con- victions can and do unite on this common basis-service to humanity. Such unity and good teamwork man- ifest through one channel, at least the very spirit of hearty co-oper: tion which guarantees true prepared- ness for any time of future stress. Office S number of families, 490; office calls, 38,381; calls from appli- cants, 1,829; calls from consultants, 1,562; telephone interviews, 8,751; new cases, 299: applications for ser- vice, 2,971; visits by agents, 1,103 out of town inquiries, 55; national- ities represented, 25; employment se- cured, permanent for, 55; temporary for, 57; public addresses by agent, 15; volunteer office work in hours, 290. Immediate Causes of Need in New Cases. Unemployment, 3; sickness or accident, 31; intemper- ance, 15; mental or physical handi- cap, 24; desertion or non-support, 18; insufficient income, 5 old age, 5; shiftlessness, 5; vagrancy, 71; immor- ality, 28; miscellaneous, 31; total, 298 Nationalities Represented—25. American, white, American, colored, Canadian, French, Canadian, Irish, English, Scotch, Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish, Italian, Ttalian, Sicilian, Ger- man, Austrian, Irish, Polish, Rouman- ian,. Hungarian, Jewish, Russian, Jewish, Austrian. Ruthenian, Galli- cian, Asiatic Greek, Armenian, Syrian, Russian, Lithuanian, Persian--As rian. Volunteer Office Assistants. Miss Alice Hart, Miss Margaret Eddy, Miss Edith White, Miss eanor Martin, Miss Ruth Bristol, Miss Agnes | Vance, Miss Mabel Crawford. Woman’s Advisory Committee, Mrs. Martin K. Pasca, secretary; Mrs. A. H. Andrews, Mrs. B. B. Bas- | sette, Mrs. W. F. Brooks, Mrs. H. B. Carter, Mrs. C. F. Chase, Mrs. J. E. Cooper, Mrs. H. B. Humason, Mrs. 1. E. Hicks, Mrs. R. N. Hemenway, Mrs. A. G. Kimball, Mrs, J. H. Kirk- ics. Total widowhood, 17; | hena ham, Mrs. J. E. Martin, Mrs. Mrs. A. C. McKinnie, Mrs. Lawrence Mouat, : WatchY other annoying ills. PO Made of wheat and a bit of wholesome molosses, this famous pure food-drin other harmful element. delicious drink—instantly. path of the future. the travelers and tender care was pro- Many people fail to realize that habit of coffee drinking may, sooner or later, handi- cap ability and hinder progress. 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C| nolly, vice chairman; Miss In, Osborn, secretary, Members representing churches active workers In: Board of pul charities, probation officers, visit] Nurses' association, milk stati Charity Organization, City truant officer, school nurse, T, | nurse, health nurse, Sunshine sock Treasurer's Report. Statement of receipts and dishu: ments of the New Britain Charity { ganization for the year ending S tember 30, 1916: : Received by treasurer from memberships, contribu- tions, loans, returned, etc. $1,876 Received by treasurer in- come from invested funds . Received by tresurer from money borrowed teceived by special cases 300 by by Disbursed Disbursed treasurer agent In addition to the above, relief bj contracted and approved by the agi were pald by various individuals the amount of §1,246.46. FRANK G. 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