The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-05-18
ASSOCIATED
CHARITIES
Annual Meeting Held
Yesterday.
PAPER READ BY S, B, DOLE
lndiscriminate Aims Makes Beggars,
Says President - Manager
Berger's Report,

President Dole read paper yester
day at the annual meeting of the Asso
ciated Charities in the Young Men;
Christian Association building. Tn,
meeting was well attended and an ex
ecutive committee was selected for the
ensuing year representing all the so
cieties of Honolulu whose objects are
eleemosynary.
Reports were read by Mrs. Berger
the manager of the Associated Chart.
ties and by j. r. Gait for George II
Carter the treasurer. Mrs. Bergers re-
port was as follows
Managers Report.
Since the office of the Associated Char
tiles was opened last August there have
been 1876 applications for assistance and
% recurrent cases, making "a total of ISL.
of these IS were single men, II Were sim
gle women and A We're families. Alto
gether 800 persons We're represented. Inn
mediate relief has been given to 10 per-
sens and situations have been found for
so. Sixty persons have been clothed and
$50 meals have been furnished. There
have been more than 200 office inter-
regular visits.
The Associated Charities has dispensed
for immediate relief, $109S0, and for the
Strangers Friend Society, $764.50; for the
American Relief Fund, 1866, and private
donations to the amount of 1874, making
a total of $1,273.30.
The membership to date is 100, and
the number of societies atiiliating II.
OF the "A families that have applied for
relief ~ are now self-supporting, We're
found not needy, or unworthy and the
hers regularly purpI for nv the
rious societies.
Nine Months Work.
II is now nine months since the office
of the Associated Charities of Hawaii
was opened, and yet the question, What
is the work of the Associated Charities?"
is still frequently asked. An answer to
this question will not be out of place
here and now.
The prime objects of this society are
to concentrate the charity work of the
city; to have a bureau of information, or
clearing house, where necessary Informal
ton can be gained; and to relieve the
charitably disposed people of this city of
the constant opportunities of persons
duplicate alms-giving, discourage pauper-
ism and to so organize the charity work
of the city that each society shall, as far
as possible. care for those who would nat
objects we have tried to accomplish.
We have recorded the names of 1856
persons who have applied for assistance,
yet the affiliating societies have heard of
few of them. What be-
came of them? Immediate relief from
the relief fund provided by the Associat-
peared to demand it, and an investigation
was made. If the case proved to be a |
really needy and worthy one. 1t was rec
to the care of some society, |
sent to the hospital. or given such other |
relief as was required. If the applicant |
was single man and able to work, he |
was wa, not referred to any society but EN-
He then had his choice of working or
starving.
No More Begging.
The old way of begging clothing from
Ter plan. The clothing is now left at the
central office and distributed from there.
In this way sixty worthy persons have
were supplied from this office after the
great fire in January. Begging from
house to house Is no longer common, and
should be stopped altogether for, so far
IS our investigation goes no beggar has
been found worthy. Our system of reg
stration has put an end to duplicate
We found one man regular
Y earning competence and receiving
weekly aid from two different societies.
\ thriving trade was carried on in cloth
ng begged from private houses. We think
hat is stopped. In fact, all along the line
IN effort has been made to have the
worthy poor receive the benefit of the
ity's charity, according to the new way
,auperism is a necessity. The new
harty rejects this idea; it says that pow
rty and distress are due to certain causes
which usually have their roots In the
ress, and we believe this to be true.
therefore its great aim Is to influence {
he character It wants to help. Let me /
lite a case to illustrate this I
A family was reported to the Office of
he Associated Charities as being in des-
tute circumstances, with the father sick.
;as found in actual distress; but the {
ather did not appear to be sick. On the ]
ontrary, he seemed to be well and in |
heerful spirits, expecting aid, and not
mount of 1t, and ready to become I
auper. IN
'as unfit to work. After much persua- :
on he agreed to try to work, If he could 1
nd a job, or, rather If work offered. c
hat was promised. G
Employment Needed. i
Now the "old charity" impulse was t
rong to provide that mother and those :
hildren with the necessaries of life and =
1me of the comforts, too. But a good
,an was found, instead, who said he ,
ould give the father employment. In
,rviews We're arranged for, which the
lther failed to keep, and several days
iSSed he COuiu ne
y to do something for the support of y
Is family. Finally everything was ar t
inged and he began work. That was c
onths ago. Twice since he has fallen b
Y the wayside, but is always reminded h
the fact that In this community a well a
AN can and must find work and sup +
2rt his family. b
That case cost no one a dollar, but s
Iere was much work done In connection
18th II. For the new charity will not Il
We dollar for aims II II can possibly h
void 1t, but will give time and effort, p
I'd, If need be, money, freely. TO put the il
cans of self-support within the reach of
'ery needy man, woman and child. %
1.-THE old charity" was simply the I'M ii
hecting expression of the emotion of "
ty: the new charity directs this emo II
on along definite economic lines. The N
d charity satisfied the feelings of the "
yer by aims; the new charity educates Il
q receiver to do without aims. The old Il