The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-04
IS NOT DISORGANIzED
MRS. HOBBS TALKS OF SELMA
 UNITED CHARITIES.
The City Infrmary and the Colored Hospital Still Open and Will Probably Remain So for
 Some Time.
Advertiser Bureau,

Advertiser Bureau, Selma, July s.
 Mrs. E. H. Hobbs, one of the best known and most active workers in the Association of United Charities. today stated that the position of the society had been misinterpreted by the public press and several errors had been made. Mrs. Hobbs said that the stories pub lished by the newspapers indicated-and. in some instances, stated-that the United Charities was now doing no charitable work and that the society would attempt to carry on it's labors no further. This, she said. was glaring misstatement. The city infirmary and the colored hos pital are now open under the auspices of the society and will probably remain open for some time, at least.
 The aims house had been closed be- cause the United Charities had no funds with which to buy supplies and in fact already owed grocery bills for two months. It had become impossible to longer operate the aims house without more support than was being accorded the society. The society had previously announced that it would be able to carry on its work in regard to the giving of aims for only little while longer dend. said Mrs. Hobbs. when appeals for help were not answered there remained but the one thing to be done.
 
 informing Mayor V. B. Atkins of the in- tention of the society to close the aims house, said the society had sent him the information as soon as it could. Physi- clans of the city who had been asked to assume charge or proprietorship of Nhe infrmary, Mrs. Hobbs stated, had kept the society waiting several days and when the physicians finally declined to accept the proposition made by the Uni ted Charities, a note was sent to Mayor Atkins informing him of the action of the society, and that this note was de- layed in transmission was in no manner the fault of the society. | To one statement in particular Mrs. Hobbs offered objection. This was that the society was "disorganized" and "ap- parently useless Mrs. Hobbs showed that the statements were in error and that the society, though it no longer maintained the aims house and was forced to curtail some of its charitable work. yet had kept the infirmary and col- ored hospital open and was now support ing a number of incurables and other in- valids
 The statements in regard to the alleged Reorganization and apparent uselessness of the society were made because of the general reports that the aims house had been closed and the infiNnary would soon be closed. With these discontinuances of charitable work 1t would have seemed that the society was indeed existing with out purpose; but Mrs. Hobbs's state- ments this morning explain the matter and show that the words apparently useless were wrongly used. So. too. the published statement that the society was disorganized; Mrs. Hobbs said today that the society was not disorganized but that each of its officials and committees was working as usual
 The fior, yiuMA h., Mw1 TYat,Ae is of interest and of value. It clears away doubts of those who had thought the United Charities was a thing of the past.