Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
SOCIETY AIDS MANY
NEEDY SUFFERERS
FURNISHES FAMILIES FOOD
AND CLOTHING
Associated Charities Now Must Have
Financial Help In Order to Garry
on Its Work--Poor Bless
Officers

What sort OF work is being done at
Los Angeles by the Associated Chari-
ties is illustrated by two incidents, told
by one of the officers OF that organiza-
ton yesterday.
I'VE have no end of good stories in
these files of ours" said the officer, 'and
we have new ones every day or so.
1T would be interesting to follow up
q days work sometime and have the
various cases published, just as they
come to us. The first, perhaps, is an
old man who is to be sent to the poor
farm, waiting for us as soon as we come
to the court house building. Then a
baby is to be taken care Of and next
a permit must be gained to bury the
body of some person whose remains
would be placed in the paupers' resting
place unless otherwise provided for by
this society.
''Then a sick mother is to be cared
for, and next bunch of children must
be looked after; while after them comes
the man who has looked for work until
he is discouraged, hungry and worn
out and yet-plucky. How plucky
many of them are!
And SO on, through the day, until at
closing time we have from ten to a
dozen waiting for us to Investigate their
cases-and 1t is right there that our
money goes. We cannot let them go
hungry If their case, Is worthy. So to
avoid letting any innocent ones suffer,
we give each and all of them means to
get food and shelter for the night
Then next day we commence with in
yestigating those cases first.
1.-TWO particularly striking cases have
come to the attention of the Associated
Charities lately.
Woman Needs Aid
Zone old woman of good Spanish
family had sought for work every
where Her small sum OF money was
gone, she was almost overcome with
dread, and when she applied at our
Office and learned that we were going
to provide for her. her impulslve action
was worthy of a Dumas pen. 1t seems
she had a room provided for her by
some kind hearted person. But food.
and clothing were unobtainable. She
suddenly found her despair turned to
Joy when she heard us telling her she
could obtain both of these regularly in
the future.
ssThat instant she turned to two of
us officers, and kissed our hands with
all the fervor and grace of that Eu-
ropean race of grandees. 1t was so un-
expected--yet so true an action on her
part
ssThe other case is that of an old man
which to support his wife, who has con-
tracted tuberculosis. The couple have
two small children.
"He, too, came to us literally discour-
aged. When we found he had a horse
and was Industrious and honest, we ar
ranged to have Mayor Harper issue
him a free permit to work as peddier;;
And when the poor old man learned
what we were going to do-literally
pension him with means to provide food
and clothing and shelter, as well as OBJ,
tain his peddlers license-he gaspeo
NV Godl' And I thought he was go
ing to faint. He said 1t not profanely,
but in untold surprise of heart.
"Now it is just this kind of work
which will be stopped right away, un-
less we receive immediate financial as
sistance from our friends of Los An
geles. All winter we have been help
Ing other societies, like churches, and
So on, with their cases, and we nave
not enough money to carry on the work
further