Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-12
S w ELL THE F U N D
Grown People Should Contribute Generously
to the Evening Star Santa CLAUS Club.
The Little Ones Are Doing Their
share-Many Thousand Badges Dis
tributed I'm the Schools.

The success of The Evening Star Santa
Claus Club in the public schools is an as
sured fact Not only have the orig1naI
thousands of badges been disposed OF by
the supervising principals among the school
children, but orders are now coming In
hourly for more, hundreds at a time. This
means a great shower Of dimes into the
strong box Of Santa Claus much good work
to be done by the little missionaries In the
field and q great deal Of relief from suffer-
ing.
But there are other people than the school
children who should be at work swelling
the fund. There are doubtless many folks
in Washington who have charitable hearts,
and whose purses are just enough longer
than their needs to enable them to give to
the poor But they may hesitate to nay
their dollars down in the fear that they Will
go to unworthy people; that they will not
There Is no need for such a hesitation now.
For two years past The Star has organized
a great machine for good, and, utilizing the
ranks Of the public school children, IT mas
periodically sought out the most worthy
cases of need and as regularly relieved
them. -.-x.
Aims and Methods.
To the older ones, who would oily
give of their plenty If they were sure that
the money would not be wasted, brief ex-
PLANTATION of the aims and methods OF The
Evening Star Santa Claus Club is repeated
today The fund raised by the sale OF
badges and the contributions OF all who
feel disposed to give is put in bank and
kept securely as a fund for the RELIEF OF the
Door The wearers of the blue and silver
are asked to go among the poor quarters
and seek for genuine cases or poverty ana
distress. No surer way of getting noiu OF
the pulse of the under world is at manu-;
~. obi
ranks of life. In many cases they are ,hem-
selves brought face to face with grim pow
erty. They tell these cases to their teacn-
ers, who investigate them as far as trey
are able and then give to the supervising
principals of each division the most worthy
Instances of suffering and need THESE men
work now with the experience OF TWO years
and are enabled to sift and sort the cases
until only the most worthy are left. when
| the division of the clubs funds among the
supervising principals Is made, at ChriSt-
mas time, they relieve the needs OF Ihese
| poor people as far as the money Will go,
sending them fuel, food, and, in as many
cases as possible, clothing Every dollar
| thus is spent to a useful purpose. In the
mast seasons hundreds of poor families
| have been greatly helped by this means.
| Remember, all you good Samaritans' VINO
| hold aloof for fear OF imposition, the
greatest care is exercised that no unworthy
person shall be helped. Yet it is better to
| incl;de a few such cases in the whole list
rather than to miss one real sufferer
Dollars are ten times bigger than dimes.
Therefore a dollar given to The Star Santa
Claus Club will do ten times as much good
| as a ten-cent piece paid in by some small
child, eager for the privilege of wearing
| the IL sigma of charity and of working In
| the rar ks of the searchers. 1t Is not nee
essary for you to have a badge in order to
| be a giver to help some poor widow, whose
CRATE will perhaps be chill and whose
board will be empty on the glad day OF re-
| joicing Does not the thought of such suf-
| fering as must necessarily exist among the
poor stir the heart? Will 1t not open the
purse strings of many mon and women to
give each a little? The list Of the givers
| to this fund ought to reach over two col
umns. Give freely. In the knowledge that
not a penny will be wasted, not dollar
| diverted from it's object. The only fear
| will be that there will not be enough
| money to go around among the hundreds
of worthy people who will be found by the
children. Remember, there are upward OF
| % 900 workers with the badges on their
| breasts, trying to find out the dwellings of
| the needy poor. If they all succeed there
| will be a vast army of hungry ones eager
| for bread. The fund cannot be too large.
| If there should be surplus-think of 1t,
| a surplus in a charity fund!-it will be
| saved for another year.
| Here are the starters of the fund this