Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-21
ASKS EVERYONE
TO BUY STARS
BETHLEHEM INSTITUTION IS
IN NEED OF FUNDS
EVERY DIME WILL AID NOBLE
WORK OF CHARITY
Necessity for Such Organization Is
Great In Los Angeles and 1t
Has Accomplished
Much Here
,rhis Ia Star daY.

This is Star day.
Everybody is invited to join the
Bethlehem Star society-membershlp
limited to 100000; initiation fee AZ
cents. File your application early with
/ any of the Bethlehem representatives
seen on the streets of Los Angeles to-
day-they can't be missed. NO intro
duction or reference is necessary one
persons dime is as good as anothers.
Join early and as OFTEN as you ike.
The Bethlehem star is red; take no
other and see it is inscribed belnle-
hem" You can make no mistake.
Why should one buy Bethle-
hem star? Because by doing so
it will be giving a life to nople
work for humanity. The Bethle-
hem institution, which Will bene-
fit by the sum raised from the SAFE
of these stars, has been engaged IN a
practical, non-sectarian, constructive
work of human helpfulness that aims
to minister to every person neeos'
The Bethlehem idea grew out OF the
recognition of the fact that under our
present Industrial system with its con-
slant fluctuations in the labor market
there are always a large number OF per
sons in every large city who, through
no fault of their own, are likely 10 De
thrown out of work at any time, ana
to these the community owes something
more than a word of sympathy or an
occasional "handout." 10 have shell
fer where men could come and be well
come until a new position offered was
considered to be a vital need and III
the years the undertaking has been
under way the work has justified itsef
over and over
Does Educational Work
This is only one of the things that
! rrxriT1p n
that your dime will help. 1t is doing
great educational work among the for
eign residents who are given free IN
struction at the night schools, and are
being trained in good citizenship. IL
maintains a free dispensary, where
clinics for the poor are held four days
week with two physicians ana a CITY
nurse to minister to their sufterlngs,
where over 1900 patients were treated
during the last six months. A free en-
ployment bureau is maintained, cloth
ing department where those who are
in need can buy a suit of clothes for
< cents If they have II, or for nothing
If they haven't. There is a trouble
office where advice and sympathy are
given to those who need 1t, and many
other branches as we'll that are all con-
Quoted in the spirit of kindly helpful
ness.
This gives a slight idea of the work
your dime spent for a Bethlehem badge
will help. There is a need for your
help or you would not be asked for 1t.
There is a debt on the property at 5lO
/ Vignes street, the mother house, and
salaries are in arrears and hard win
ter is ahead that must be provided
| against.
Mrs. Carrie Eddy Shelter. who will
have a Bethlehem star stand in the
pavilion at the head OF Angels fight,
| is having the place made into bower of
red the shade of the stars The peo-
pie who use her fathers incline road
will not be allowed to get by until Mrs
| Shelter or one of the women she Will
have assisting her sells them stars.
| Mrs. Shelter has organized Sherman
and Sawtelle for Star day and at the
| latter place arranged to have the
school children, who are eager to pile
us some big returns on the per cent
bonus offered to them by the Star day
committee.
BungaIowIand Is Covered
Bungalowland, that favored region
| of the city where artistic and literary
folk dwell in the classic shade of the
Laurel canyon sycamores, has been sat-
| isfactorily covered by Mrs. Charles
Amadon Moody, herself a member of
the colony Mrs. Moody has the third
1
Ross Mahan. organizer for the First
| ward.
Most of the Star day helpers have
been very careful not to infringe on the
school board rules in getting the chill
dren interested, but the temptation to
wade in where their efforts would do
the most good was yielded to by a
/ few of the women. One secured the
support of a silver-tongued lawyer
and they started out in an automobile
to do the schools. At first everything
went swimmingly, the lawyer going
| from room to room, leaving the children
tingllng with joyful expectation of the
fun they would have selling stars on
Star day. But at the second school
there was an obstacle encountered in
the form of a conscientious principal
who informed the lawyer and the ward
organizer that the school rules pro-
hibited the presenting of financial pro-
jects to the pupils in the schools, how
ever worthy the object. The lawyer
telephoned then to DR.. Moore, school
superintendent, and after a few polite
preliminaries told him that was a fool
regulation and ought to be abolished.