The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-26

Is, however, time when secrecy ceases to be virtue and our Secretary presents to you herewith confidential list of some score or more indigent families whose plight IS particularly poignant from the fact that the breadwinner in each case is either dead or deserted. We have heard aforetime the definition of pure religion and undefled.' It need not remain alto gether an ideal, when here the opportuni- " IS presented to us, to visit the father- less and widows in their affiiction'
 Organized Charity believes that the proper treatment of the indigent and de- pendent can only proceed from careful systematic study of social organiza Iion and an apprenticeship in the labratory of social conditions. The keynote of the movement is Science and not Sentiment nogey that so-called scientific charity threatens to invade with the cold pro- cesses Of the head what belongs to the warm region of the heart. It has been vel sald that there never was a time nor a place when the cure for a hard heart was soft head. A rose by any, o.her name smells as sweet, and if the term scienti1c' or organized charity offend, pluck 1t out and cast it forth and sneak ot charity as righteousness and the be- slowing of Kindness, for all charity pron- eriy understood is scientific charity. and when our methods cease. to be scientific they VIII cease to be truly charitable.
 No force in any American municipality IS better equipped to deal with the prob lem or non-sectarian, civic, charity than US the department of police. This truth Is evidenced by the current prove. b. which oy the laiety Is taken humorously; but which the officer in blue knows to be g solemn fact. .reIl your troubles to a po- Hceman. To Mr. Harrison and his chief, capt. A. Gerald, this society owes a deep ana lasting debt of gratitude. The poet Gray. in his famous elegy. writes of the short snort and simple annals of the poor They are not short nor simple. They are long and complicated. Every case is a new one. To listen day after day to the story of individual need. to think steadily now to say and do the right thing, this Is extremely hard work It can be done of- ncially and coldly and in business like way without much inward wear. But to ~2I 1t with insight, and in a human, hsarty' enestive way. as 1t Is done in the office of Montgomery's Chief of Police, draws on the forces of life.
 For summary of the various expendi- lures in relief work during the year. the society is referred to the appended state. ment of the Secretary. Details and speci- hc data may be had from him on appli- cation; hls books and accounts are open for inspection at any time. Demands for fuel, food and clothing have been unustI- ally heavy. Poor people can tide over an occasional cold snap. but when the cold Is prolonged and persistent. as 1t has been this winter, 1t takes more fuel. more clothing and more vitality than the aver age poor family possesses. We have nev. CT disregarded a call for coal, since fue is fundamental necessity. From the standpoint of relief 1t Is cheaper than thc care of the sick which must come if peo. pie are not kept warm.
 Our cause will live because 1t Is based on human need. Trouble, need. misfor. tune, sickness. adversity, bereavement pain, anguish. accident. calamity. catas. trophe-our language has a dolorous wealth of words to describe the endless varieties of trial in life. which, after all is said and done. Is born to sorrow as the sparks fly upward The young and the gay, as long as they can, ignore these things from want of thought. the worldly and the selfish ignore them all their lives long, if they can. from the much more heinous want of heart. "A pig may poke it's nose in a trough says a great writer and think of nothing outside 1t: but If We have a mans soul and mans heart inside of us. We cannot be easy making our own bed soft and leaving the rest tG lie upon stones.
 The financial statement prepared by Secretary Gladden. Harrison shows that for the term beginning January 1st and ending October lst, 1908. the society re ceived and expended $S55.S5. From Octo. ber 1st, 1903 to January 1st. 1904, the so. ciety received S74l.24. It had a balance of $409.93 on hand with the beginning of