New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1916, Page 10

NEW RRITAIN DAI LY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1916. HONTHLY MEETING F OF C. 0. DIRECTORS, ' Interesting Report by Miss Oshorn on Thanksgiving Work The December meeting of the di- rectors of the New Britain Charity Organization was held last evening in | the organization’s rooms on Main street. As usual Miss Osborn’s report was the main event of the evening. The first part of the report ; was devoted to Thanksgiving | dinners that were distributed. The | same routine is being gone over for | the Christmas holidays with the ex- i tra work of assigning the different clubs and providing a |8anta Claus for a number of institu- | tipps. Thus the work goes wmerrily oh from day to day until once more | {tHe holiday season is past and the work returns to its normal state. | Dhring the month of November there | were 324 requests for aid at the or- | ganization which were all taken care of. Following is Miss Osborn's re- mert for the month To the Directors of the Charity ganization: “Why didn't #the city Fomething on Chicken Day, indignant inquiry of one man the day following Thanksgiving Day. e evidently recognized the fact that the Charity Organization serves as a learing house for holiday plans and r:;ume straight to headquarters for in- jformation. He was told that so far fas the Charity Organization was con- the and classes or- give me | was the on | West | | org: | neces cerned, no family with an able-bodied man in it was given place on this year's Thanksgiving lists, and that a person able to negotiate for a mat- ter of over $100 within a few days, would seem able to purchase his own dinner on “Chicken Day.” This year as usual the Cha ganization served by making t dential comparison of the "lists of families to whom churches, societies and individuals were plan- ning to send dinners. We noticed that each list was a bit shorter than it had been in previous years, show- ing that more familles were able to provide their own Thanksgiving cheer. In many instances the name of the family appeared on two, three | or even four lists sent by churches, | societies or welfare workers, and in | all such instances those whose lists | conflicted were notified and asked to consult with each other and declde who should retain the name and who should drop it. Sometimes under these circumstances two organizations decided to make a combination gift, and this method seemed to work suc- cessfully, rity Or- a confi- various Comparison of Lists. The secret comparison of dinner lists by one person in the Charity zation office serves largely to prevent duplication which is so dis- appointing to the donors and un- ary for the recipients. No matter how needy a family may be, two or three baskets of perishable Thanksgiving provisions will not fill the need as adequately as one basket, with the remaining outlay spent for other aid. It is our aim not only to prevent such duplication but to spread the money and effort involved just as far as it will possibly go, so that as far as we know, not one will be neglected while others have more than they need. While these outside lists were slowly coming in for our comparison, we ourselves made up a long list of families Who in our judgment needed a Thanksgiving dinner, and added to it all names suggested by the Board w What is Castoria ASTORIA is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. 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(SUBJE: . e Fiea ligiivery on 4100 Worth @ or Over ' TO CHAN eeee....apound 22c 2 WITH MARKETS) Free Gity Delivery 8AM 1P M "Phone 135 i+ <:%/ BRITAIN, CONN, 184 MAIN STHiuk We Give Ro al Gold Tradine Stamps — Ask for Them HEEREN | anything of the | for ! clubs and classes to provide for, con- | necting ! with people who are willing to play | santa Claus, of Public Charities, which nu.tura,l]Y! does not undertake to expend city funds for holiday extras. Other po- lice officials made further suggestions of names for our list where they‘ themselves had no fund to meet the | need. Then as fast as church and so- ciety lists were presented we crossed off all names duplicated on our own list, which was gradually dwindling. | When all other lists had been looked over ours still remained sizable. Meanwhile clubs and office groups, school children and benevolent peo- | ple were coming to us with Thank giving plans. Some wished the ' names where they might send din- ners, some wanted to carry provisions personally to families, a few wished | to send donations for us to distribute others wanted to give us credit at a | certain store in favor of a family and many more made us a cash gift to be expended in any store we chose and for any family we might select. | So long as the Charity Ornganization receives a discount from many charit- | ably inclined merchants, we could make the money stretch farther than the donors themselves. We were glad to accommodate people as well as we could, which ever method of giving they preferred to take. { Occasionally at the eleventh hour someone would notify us that there | were mnot enough provisions for all the families they had undertaken to look after and asked us to see to | the remainder. Others would tele- | phone that they had a surplus for us to dispose of. No one could be sure ! till the evening of the day before , Thanksgiving just how things were coming out and naturally we had to be as alert as possible to look after them. It appeared at one time that we would not have enough to go round for our receipts this year were much smaller than usual owing to the gen- eral sentiment that present prosperit does away with most of the need. | But we sent out distress signals that brought us enough to cover ex- penses. Where we ourselves did the order- ing of dinners we had the provisions sent direct to the homes with a card inscribed, “Thanksgiving greetings from a friend.” It may be very gay and exciting to load up a truck or au- tomobile and send a lot of happy follk peddling dinners but its a little hard on the recipients and we prefer to pursue the quieter method if possi- ble, Steward’s of People’s Funds. The Charity Organization agents are stewards of other people’s funds on such occasions and it is their busi- ness on the one hand to spend just as wisely as possible for the families we know, and on the other hand to send receipts and letters of acknowledge- ment to all donors. It is far more interesting to givers to know to whom their @ift has gone than to subscribe to a general holiday fund with only a feeling that somewhere and some- how the gift has been used. We find it is a ticklish business to maintain our obligations to both sides faith- fully and still it is possible for us to give donors some idea of the wuse made of their gifts without disclosing identity of the fam- 1d this we do gladly, mas is coming. Already we are going through this same routine the Christmas dinners, plus the work of assigning families to various local children in institutions looking over the Santa Claus letters that take some other route than the chimney to the zood old saint, arranging with Sunday school classes as to where their gen- eral gift shall go, and a score of oth- er details of Christmas planning which grow very complicated as time goes on. Others may Include the names of able-bodied men on their lists as they did at Thanksgiving time. They undoubtedly had good reasons for so doing. But as far as the Charity Or- ganization is concerned we shall un- dertake to provide or ask others to provide only where the man of the house is in his. grave, or in parts un- known, or where he is in jail or ill in a sanitarium, hospital or at home. We know that there is no excuse for idleness for anyone who can work and there will be plenty for us to do in providing for these scores of oth- ers. The natural tendency is for people to remember the poor generously at holiday times when their hearts are softened, and then to forget them quite tranquilly for the rest of the vear. We are only too glad to act ag stewards in whatever way they wish their gifts made, but we do wish that some holiday gifts would come to us to be used to spread thank- fulness and Christmas happiness throughout the year. Tt is our business in the Charity Organization to round out the holiday giving and fill in any gaps we find. A Charity Organization that does not give such services is not fulfilling one of the main reasons for its exist- ence. Perhaps it is well for us to give in detail, for once our methods for meeting this duty, Do you think this way is the least bit machine like and hard heart- ed? We earnestly hope not. A great deal depends on its secrecy. And a great deal more depends on the spirit of those who do the work. ‘We try to be just as accommodating and pleasant and discreet and sym- pathetic and human about it as we possibly can, ‘We firmly believe that anyone look- ing over our shoulder would agree with us absolutely as to its needs. In these days when labor is so well systematized, when even churches may out their work and plan thelr budgets so carefully, a charity thav went haphazard, loading onto some and totally neglecting other less spec- tacular families would be a burden and waste to the community. HIGH COST OF LIVING REDUCED ALL PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN BUYING AT LOWEST PRICES THE LARGE EXPENSE OF RETAIL BUSINESS IS THE DELIVERY OF GOODS AND CHARGE ACCOUNTS. TO BENEFIT OUR CUSTOMERS WHO PAY CASH AND DO NOT REQUEST US TO DELIVER THEIR GOODS, WE WILL ALLOW ON PURCHASES OF GOODS CONTROLLED UNDER OUR LABELS, AMOUNTING TO $3.00 OR MORE A DISCOUNT OF 10 PER CENT. TO PEOPLE WHO CONSIDER 10 PER CENT. SAVING THIS AR RANGEMENT HAS PROVED MOST INTERESTIN IT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY PATRONIZED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS BY A LARGE NUMBER OF OUT-OF-TOWN PEOPLE WHO VISIT OUR STORE FRE- QUENTLY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SPECIAL DISCOUNT. THE PLAN WILL NOT AFFECT OUR PRESENT METHOD OF DE- LIVERY OR CHARGE ACCOUNT. USE WHICH YOU PREFER. CHRISTMAS WANTS SUPPLIED WE HAVE A MOST COMPLETE ASSORTMENT IN GROCERIES, WINES AND CIGARS, MODERATELY PRICED THAT WILL SATISFY YOUR WANTS IN EVERY LINE. THE LATHROP CO. Hartford, Conn. 308-314 Asylum Street, Importers of Groceries. Specialties, Wine and Cigars, dren—Amount $24.39: number flid\’:(lr:livl 0. Work thereby 14. Total amount aid ex- | temporary 4; transportation pended through Charity Organization Causes of Poverty in New Cases— channels $184.73 Unemployment. 0, widowhood 1, Treatment—Families receiving pen- | ness or accident drunkenness sions 2 months or over 2, Families | physical or mental handicap 4, In receiving: temporary aid 8, emergency | sufficient income 3, old age 0, Shifes aid 20, clothing 56, institutional care | le s8 1, vagrancy 9 M llaneoud 3, given legal aid 0, given medical ald | 4, immorality or crime 4, desertion of 3, given dental aid 1, given optical | non-support 4. Total 33 from interested individuals, and 178 ! aid during month from applicant themselves. Of the! 108 families with whom we came in contact, thirty-three were new appli- cants during the month, exactly ten | more than applied in November, 1915, | 423 people called at our office; of | these 178 were applicants for aid or service, and 245 were friends who wished to consult us regarding some family. The agents made 123 calls and there were 464 telephone inter- views in behalf of families in whom we are interested. We were aided by volunteer office assistants who gave us thirty-five hours of thelr time. The thirty-three new cases represent- ed many nationalities as usual. In ten instances shiftlessness or va- grancy seemed to be at the root of the trouble, in four non-support was the cause, whereupon we cheerfully collaborated with the police, four more were due to physical handicap, several were due to illness and others mainly to widowhood, immorality or intemperance. A number landed in the shoals when circumstances caused their income to ebb at the same time that living expenses advanced. No need was caused by lack of em- ployment. There is work for every- one who can and will,work these days and our chief business lies in help- ing families where the wage earner is incapacitated or dead. Twenty-eight families received aid during the month, eight for tempor- ary troubles and twenty for special emergencies. Clothing was given to fifty-six. $63.79 was expended for ald from the treasurer's fund, $60.; from the agent’s special funds, $24.39 was spent from the special shoe fund for fourteen Dairs of school children’s shoes and outside aid was 'secured to the extent of $36.00, making a total spent for relief through the Charity Organization during No- A great deal more aid than s secured Which could not be accurately reckoned in dollars and cents when someone else was doing the payving, but these sums stand up- on our books. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) amount or aid from treasury fund §63.79, amount of aid from special fund $60.55. Total amount of aild from Charity Organi- zation $124.34. Number for whom aid was organized from churches, in- dividuals, societfes, etc, 20; amount organized $36; loans, times 0, amount 0, refunded 0. Special Shoe Fund for School Chil- secured: permanent 1 Much of Holiday Happiness Depends on—Sugar! Do you realize Ao& much? Think a moment —dainty dishes for dinner; delicious pastries and cakes, pies and puddings for the “parties”; taste-tempt- ing candies for in-between-meals. And for all of these sugar is the most essential thing. You can understand why it will be well worth while to ask always for Domino Granulated Sugar by name. It is much more than a clean, dry, high-grade cane sugar—it is a whole- some, nourishing, energizing food — good alike for old and young. With Domino Granulated Sugar you can make most delightful holiday con- fections : charity in 2 and 51b. cartons packed at the refinery ELSIE C. OSBORN, Agent, Prune Souffle Floating Island Candied Stuffed Dates Fruit Cake Frozen Custard Lemon Meringue Brown Betty Pound Cake Statistical Statement. Applications for Service—From public officlals 16, private societies 20, churches 6, interested individuals 102, other cities 3, schools 7, applicants themselves 178; for, advice 19, aid 44, clothing 33, loans 0, friendly service 69, transportation 2, work 11. Total 324, Applicants—Total number dealt with during month 108, con- tinued cases new cases 33; in- cluding: fam 23, transients 9, ap- plications for work only 1, Domino Powdered Sugar and Domino Con- fectioners Sugar may be purchased in one pound packages—for making superfine dessert cases B confections. ““Sweeten it with Domino’’ 324 Requests During November, During the month of November, 1916, there have been 324 requests for our services ,sixteen from public offictals, twelve from private so- cleties, seven from schools, six from churches, three from cther cities, 102 Personal Service—Calls at office 423, consultants 245, applicants 178, visits by agents to or In behalf of families 123, calls by friendly visitors 5, busi- ness calls 7, telephone calls 464, vol- unteer office work (hours) 35, Materfal Relief—Number receiving Soldin 5, 10, 25 and 50 Ib. cotton bags Granulated, Tablet, Powdered, Confectioners