The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-17
ORGANIZED CHARITIES.
INTERESTING MEETING AT TIE UNIFIED CHURCH LAsTEVESISG.

INTERESTING MEETING AT TIE
 UNIFIED CHURCH LAsTEVESISG. Dean wayiand, s. O. Preston and Rev. Dr.
 wayiand Of Philadelphia Explain the
 Workings of Charity organizations-In-
 discriminate Aims Giving Condemned.
 At the United church last evening. under the auspices Of the Mems Sunday Evening club. the methods and work Of the. Organized Charities association were entertalningiy and instructively explained by Dean Wayland. president of the association. Agent s. o. Preston and Rev. Dr. Wayland of Philadelphia. After brief religious exercises. conduct ed by Rev. Mir. Miles. assistant pastor of the church. Dean Wayland was in- troduced by Rev. pr. T. T. Munger. pastor of the church.
 Dean wayland during the course of his remarks strongly favored systematic benevolence and as earnestly disap- proved of indlscriminate aims giving. He also claimed that misdirected philanthropy was in former years the rule and not the exception and that even to this day such was apt to be the case. He strongly condemned the act of giving aims to persons without investigation. He also related how in consequence of the indiscrimlnate alms-giving of for mer years, frauds and professional pauperism arose and necessitated the formation of such institutions as the Organized Charities.
 At such institutions, he said, work was offered to all as a test of their integrity. He also claimed that no deserving case was ever overlooked or neglected by the organization and that every effort was made to prevent worthy applicants for aid degenerating into professional pauperism, which, he claimed, was the first step in the down. ward career and which eventually al- ways resulted in making professional criminals. He also explained that the first organization of the kind was formed in Buffalo. N. Y.. in 1878, and the second in New Haven few months later.
 At the conclusion of his remarks he introduced Agent s. O. Preston, who gave a lengthy account of the work ings of the local organization. During the course of his remarks he said:
 Superintendent Preston gave brief resume of the history of the society and outlined its aim and method. He then spoke of several very interesting individual cases. His remarks were in part as follows:
 We have now under notice a man, hard-working, temperate and intelli- gent, who has a terrible affliction in two idiotic children. Three other chill dren of the same family are bright, the parents have always been moral, and healthy, and there seems to be no natural reason for this sad visitation. Both are girls, one is twelve, and the other about ten years of age, and they are absolutely incapable of attending to their neutral wants. The mother, slight woman, cared for them until she was on the point, of utterly breaking down, lifting and attending them day and night, was finally obliged to ask for assistance in their treatment. Con- siderable effort was made to get them into the Lake School for Predetermined, but the rooms provided for "custodial cases" are filled, and for the present they are in the almshouse, where they get food and care. but no opportunity for the development of intelligence. The parents feel that there is g. stigma attached to their remaining at Spring side, but their poverty prevents other provision. The love and loyalty of the parents for these unfortunates is most marked and touching. and we hope in some way to assist in their future dis position.
 We are also strongly of the opinion that there should be additional legisla- tion for the protection and restraint of young girls. The County home and h. dustrial school statutes apply only to :. those under the age of sixteen, and there are many girls between that age and twenty, who, by reason of wretched homes and bad training are on the verge of ruin, if not already ruined.
 We who live in clean, comfortable homes, surrounded by good influences. have little idea of the temptations that present themselves to a certain class of female employees. Confined closely to their work, many times in dingy, ill., smelling factories, or rooms, at night they seek recreation, as is natural. At their homes, not infrequently are filth; profanity and intemperance, and the ordinary decencies of life are ig- nored. What wonder that they take to the street. and the cheap theater, with it's light, life and liberty, and consider any womanly sacrifice of small account, so long as 1t brings change from the hateful surroundings of their daily life. That they will reap as they SOW does 7 not usually occur to young people. all that is apparent Is the present pleasure, and so the evil work goes on.
 Another serious danger Is the degrees of liberty allowed by even respectable parents Tn our position we are con- stantly consulted by those whose chil- dren have gone astray largely through their own neglect. The day before a recent holiday. distressed father spent weary hours in New York city search ing for his daughter who had been as-