Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17
ITS WORK OUTLINED
MISS IDA GREEN DISCUSSES A.
socIATED cHAR1T1Es

Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth opened bep
mousse at 1901 Massachusetts avenue yea,
.eicay at II am. for q meeting in the In.
.eIests OF the Associated Charities. Tho
iAFtauons stated that stories of charity
"orh IN washington will be told by one
WHO mas been doing the work" A larrs
company OF men and women were present
| Gnu 'ne AUDITORS took an active part in tina
oiscussitn which followed the address M,sa
| 'aa a. 1reen, general agent of the Asao.
.i''eo CHARITIES, gave q number of tvn,,.,
| instances OF families whose problem. 80
oeen studied and solved by the agent. ~
the association. Incidentally she suo.as,aa
..A' the aschts arc anxious to have a wis,
lung housekeeper" employed. to give troin-
IN The 40 h eous hg end household management
t Is working to upbuild. Special in.
terest IN this new plan was Expressed h,.
sofne OF the reople present. ~
Associations Principles.
Inc -FOUR principle upon which orsaniz.a
charity are carried on were explained Tbav
are STATED to be investigation, registration
co-opefauon and upbuilding, and all wera
Illustrated by experiences of the vork.r.
An one case thorough Investigation lad
10 the finding of a home for a colored man
s VINO was totally crippled and unable to care
| ~ linb nome mad NOT
found for HIM he would have been a cera
on the community for probably a long tims
In another instance the experienced inyasr
gator from the Associated Charities was
ape 10 80 accurately determine the meets
OF woman who had been helped ha
ardly by d number of people that a pension
was organized for her and she was assjst,,d
regularly MICS Green said that investiga-
lions are rot made for the purpose of en-
losing fraud but to get an Understanding ~
the situation and clues to the way out OF II.
MISS Green gave many instances where
not only cooperation with such societies in
TINS city as the instructive visiting nurses
st. Vincent De Paul Society," the Co-opera-
tive Sewing Society and such individuals as
the police. clergymen, school teachers etc
had resulted In the upbuiding of the fant-
lies, but plso the cooperation with other
charitable societies in New York, Phladel-
phla and Baltimore had resulted in the re-
tern of wanderers to their homes.
In upbTildinS needy families Miss Green
said the Associated Charities not only
struggles with the individual families
which are brought to its attention, but also
strives through its knowledge OF the indi-
viduai families to change the conditions
which lead to poverty and sin. AS an ex-
ample of this she said that the Associated
Charities had been one of the influential
factors in securing the enactment of the
compulsory education. law. knowledge Of
the unframed and undisciplined boys and
girls of the city had Influenced the associa-
ton to work for this law. Miss Green also
sroke OF the non-support law which the
Associated Charities WAS instrumental in
getting through Congress.
Work Accomplished.
Among the di, ect movements which the
Associated Charities has brought in the
community To-. the upbuilding of the fami-
lies Mss Green mentioned the crusade
against consumption. the movement for the
Improvement of housing conditions, the
starting of the Fairgrounds and the stamp
savings system which is sill In the hands
of the Associated Charities.
The talk was closed by a number of III
stances of the work with individual fami-
lies, notably that of drunkards family
which was brought to a condition OF self
respect through the influence of the friends
who was procured for the family by the
Associated Charities. Such friends the As
ISOLATED Charities are always seeking, and
there is great work in waiting for them.