Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-09-21

bettNring the conditions Of the needy
and SO advancing the interests Of the
community, attended the annual meet.
Ing Of the Associated Charities In the
directors room Of the Bank of Hawai-,
yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
When Charity holds council IN a
bank 1t is safe to say that sound bus.
mess methods have something to dc
to make more effective the efforts of
the compassionate.
U. s. Judge s. B. Dole presided. Mrs.
j. M. Whitney was secretary. Among
those preSent were: Governor Carter,
Bishop Restarick, Father James, Judge
Whitney. Mrs. E. +. Berger, Father
Ulrich, Clarence Cooke, Captain Bray
j. Eckhardt, III. G. Brown, Mr.. Turner,
Mrs. Jordan, Mr.. Rath, w. o. Atwater,
Rev. Macintosh, Rev. Doremus Scud.
der
Great interest was manifested and
all appeared eager to get closer to
gether in an endeavor to do the mos,
good with money given to charity.
Judge Dole made a most interesting
address. which appears in full in an,
other column, and Manager Mrs. Ed.
18th f. Berger read a report full of val.
liable and important information; this
also appears in full elsewhere.
Clarence Cooke read the Treasur
sr's report, showing receipts for the
year ending June 80 to be $4,554.7O;
disbursements, s3,753.O5; balance,
SSOl.65.
Secretary Mrs. j. NJ. whitney, In her
report, told Of her attendance at the
National Conference Of Charities and
Correction. held at the Portland Expo
sition. The report was deeply inter.
esting and held the uninterrupted at
tention Of all present. Mrs. Whitney
ably discussed some of the topics
which occupied the convention.
II was the sense of all at the meet
Ing that the up.to-date business man
agement of charities was all impor
tant and that the Associated Charities
as a clearing house, should embrace
all charitable organizations.
Judge Dole called upon Governor
Carter to address the gathering. Tho
Governor said, In part:
Business men will admit that dis
pensing charities through buslnesslike
management, which would cost 10 per
tent. of the amount so disposed Of, is
good thing. It prevents overlapping
| r. nd mt hn oh rit ~ xvh
belongs. Under such system 80 cents
of dollar goes further than a dollar
Unfortunately given away,
mo man will have any objection ia
seeing that ten per cent. is paid Out
for managing the distribution of 500
for charity out Of every hundred.
AT the time the Associated Chari
ties was organized 1t was feared that
the various charitable societies would
drop off or become absorbed by 9th
ers, or that there might be loss of in
terest in the sub.organizations, but
do not believe this has taken place.
81 hope people will take as much
interest in the various charitable so
cieties which have affiliated with the
Associated Charities as before.
"As to the loss of government sup
port, the argument was made by leg
islators that the maintenance of cen
trail office for the distribution OF help
stood in the way Of an appropriation
and this argument seemed to prevail
THE Associated Charities ought no
to die. 1t ought to be kept alive b!
oil means. The charitable societies
should give liberal percentage o
their receipts to the maintenance O
the central bureau, for each one i
benefited. The Associated Charitie
Is the clearing house for these socie
ties. It ought not to detract from tn
special field of work of any charitable
organization"
while at Lake Tahoe | met Mis-
Ashe She has taken a special train
ed nurse course In San Francisco +
be able to devote her time to goin
among poor families SO that mother
might be shown the way to atten
their children. Miss Ashe asked m
, II such work was not carried on In tn
Honolulu schools, and II not 1t ough
to be. She thought nurse should g
into each school at least once week
"She said that the Governor ough
to see to It and told her she ough
to come down here and see what tn
Governor has to do and then sh
might change her mind"
1 Judge Dole remarked that Govern0
( Carter was the first treasurer OF tn
CHARITIES and had done much to estal
!. lish sound financial policy.
Answering question put by tn
Governor, Mrs, Berger said there wer
Is charities associated with the organ
ization; the Catholic Benevolent VI
ion would make the nineteenth. Onl
> two had become defunct, the Anti.S,
loon League and the Hawaiian Won
ans Club. Japanese societies affilia
7 ed, but they never asked help, Away
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