The San Francisco call., 1906-06-18
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES PLAN
To ASSUME Relief WORK.
DELEGATES RETURNING FROM BIENNIAL
Honor List Of Creators Of Baby Clothes Is Sent
to the California Clubs Committee
BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS.
DELEGATES RETURNING Fl
BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS.

"A
charge of relief work-and they rep
resent the hearts and brains of the
century, the Sorosis, the Laurel Hall.
the Women's Press Association, the
California, the Forum-are sitting up
to take notice of seemingly occult
hocus-pocus passing of the present re-
lief work over to the Associated Char
tiles.
Just when such merger will take
place is of course not made plain by
the handwriting upon the wall But
this much is certain--it is the project
of the leaders of the Associated Char
titles, and they are bending their efforts
toward this end.
Osgood Putnam, present chief of dis
trict 4, Hamilton School, is the presi-
dent of the Associated Charities, and
an important factor in shaping the
policies of the relief work in the up
per Office"
Through his influence $4,000 was
voted last week by the Red Cross
finance committee for the Associated
Charities for expenses TO the end of
July. And the proposition OF granting
that body S2500 month for a year
was taken under advisement-the
money to come, it would seem, from
the emergency funds.
And the whole proposition rests upon
the assumption upon the part of some
people that emergency work has
passed-that the relief work should
now simmer down to cold charity
work and become the legitimate oc-
eupation of the Associated Charities
And here's where the rub comes.
Until the workshops, stores and fac
tories open for business and trade once
more falls into its stride. charity" is
not being dispensed to the worthy suf-
ferer; it is help. And being help, 1t
should be dispensed by relief workers
of authorized power or under the Red
Cross, and not by the Associated Char
ities-at least not for six months or
| longer.
San Francisco must not be pauper-
ized-to quote their own statement
and the Associated Charlues. worthy
body that it is in normal times. is not
the body to stand by the side of the
city'S needy. AT least not now, say the
clubwomen, who know
Competent heads and hands are now
engaged in relief work-a different
species of thing from charity work
| and they should be encouraged to con-
! ttnue at their posts, because they are
in the work for the most part because
they want to be, and if the "requi-
| sition' system could but be improved
upon in some quarters good results
| would follow.
! But the ambition of the Associated
| Charities should at this time be
thwarted--so / say the cIubwemen who
| take disinterested view of the situa-
/ tion, and who are competent to pass
! judgment by right of their unselfsh
service in behalf of the sufferers
! And any who say to you that the
\ emergency has passed just put them
down as obtaining information from
! interested sources. Your own investi-
cation at the relief stations, where del
| icate women and old folk stand in line
| for hours-not to mention the thou
sands of secreted suffering-will prove
1 to you that the emergency conditions
are with us and will of necessity be
with US for some time to come.
| The California Club relief committee
at 305 Buchanan street has been having
a beautiful time with its baby clothes
and it would seem that every new baby
| that came to town was clad from the
/ bundles of wee things sent from the
! farthermost ends of the State. But
Miss Lucille Eaves of the Red Cross
sewing rooms at Hearst School de-
clares that she, too, was of similar be-
! lief-all of which is promising infor-
1 nation in these times of depopulation.
| Be that as it may, the demand for a
substitute wardrobe for the little San
| Franciscans has been dazzling in its
persistency, and lol the demands keep
growing and ever growing.
Even the Bachelor from Alameda
who brought the materials for 10e lay
| cites last week hasn't materially re-
! lieved the pressure.
/ The following clubs and individuals
| have sent to the California Club reliei
| committee beautiful little bundles soft
as thistledown and warm as kittens
fur to be given TO the fretful mothers
who saw the flames lick up the little
things so lovingly laid by in the bureau
| drawers:
Tomales Relief Society. Girls Clul
of San Mateo, Sanger Relief Society
Petaluma Relief Society, Redding Relic
Society, Fort Bragg Relief Society, Ha
waiian Relief Society, Red Cross o.
walnut Creek, Denver Relief Society
Salt Lake Relief Society, Bakersfield
Relief Society, women of Kern Count,
| Relief Society, donations from Mrs
Harmon Bell and Mrs. j. w. Ball O.
Piedmont, Mrs F. e. Bramhall of Oak
land. Mrs. Hayward and Mrs. e. j. Ben
edict of San Francisco, Mrs. W II
Kelly of Mendocino, Mrs. F. Amark o
san Francisco, Mrs. Bernstein, Mis-
Neuman of San Francisco. Badga
House of stockton, Relief Society o
Placerville, FL Dorado County, and Mil
pitas Relief Society.
Mrs. J. W. Orr is expected to return
In a day or two from the biennial a
st. Paul, bringing with her lot O.
news And no doubt there will be man.
tales to tell about the discussion upol
the aid to be extended to wounded
California and how it all ended.
Bulletins from st. Paul tell of ,
charming scheme of entertainment an,
a lot of good Fellowship, in which Cali
fornia's president, Mrs Robert Potte
Hill, was a central figure-and deserv
edly.
The convention was largely a do
mestic conference lin contrast to tn,
| Amazonic meeting recently held in Chi
cago), and the following interesting
screedsv were promulgated:
WE BELIEVE
| That home making should be regard
ed as profession.
| That health is more the business o1
the individual than of the physician.
/ That the spending of the money is a.
important as the earning of the money
That the upbringing of children de.
mands more study than the raising oi
That on the home foundation is built
all that is good in state or individual
That the home maker should be AZ