Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-30
PINE BLUFF AND
 ITS CIVIC PRIDE Dr. F.. Frisch Writes From Brooklyn, N. Y., That He Is Proud of Pine Bluffs Accomplishments In
RAILROAD MOVEMENT
Graphic His Best lnfOrmant-Attend> Great PhiIanthrOpic Meeting at
 Buifal0-Cases of Poverty.

recently attended the great meeting
 of the School of Philanthropy in Buf
 falo, where he represented the State
 of Arkansas, being named as dele.
 where he was one of the principal speakers, is now in Chicago, where he
 will take another special course a;
 the University of Chicago. He recent ly visited relatives in Brooklyn, N Y, and made special investigations
 for the School of Philanthropy The
 great philanthropist, Jacob Schiff, Of
 New York. is at the head of the move
 ment and was among the speakers at
 the recent Buffalo meeting In a re
 cent letter from Brooklyn Dr. Frisch
 says:
 from Pine Bluff, 1 feel more or less in
 touch with affairs in the city, as that
 enterprising sheet, the Graphic. the finest paper in the world. excepting the London Times and the New York
 Sun, brings me the screech of the Owls, three hundred strong; the 1 oaths of Sorrells vs Stewart. the choo choo of the Rutherford and Parker railroads and indeed all the news trat's fit to print as the New York Times would say.
 Seriously speaking, if it were not for the splendid city news service of the Graphic, which l read religiously every day, woud feel entirely sever ed from Pine Bluff. As it is, however, feel very much at home, in a literal sense, every morning when get through with the reading of the Gra
 phic. It gets here two days after publication and so this here minis 1 ter isn't so far behind the times-the Pine Bluff times, l mean
 T am really proud of Pine Bluffs achievements this summer in the mat ter Of railroads. To raise fifty thous- and dollars for one road and so soon afterwards, within the space of week, l think, to start another fund of $130,0OO and to rave more than thirl Of that sum raised within two days. is no small trick for city of 25,O0O and, l take it, furnishes a just cause of civic pride. The city will never re sret it. The more delve into the study of human conditions and their amelioration, the more l realize that We can never enjoy vacations, libra- Ties, hospitals, art galleries, operas and dramas, travels and foreign lan- Sua9es, yes, even schools and churches, without first increasing the wealth of our respective localities and ultimately also that of the state anl the nation
 Professor McCrea of Columbus Uni- versity, expressed it we'll when he said that until a century and a half ago the world was living on defi- Cit but only in recent times, since the invention of machinery and the dis covery of new resources. like elec- tflclty. gas, etc, is the world living on surplus. This surplus must N further increased and more equitabiy divided That is the work as we'll as the hope of humanity.
 If you saw some of the poverty that l have met with this summer in the course of my special investiga- tion of twenty-five pensioned fami- lies for the School of Philanthropy, r would make you sick at reart found eight people, sick parents and six children living in two rooms over 2 bakery where it was as hot as hejl is pictured to be- There were two beds in the kitchen. l found a widow with four children, so poor that desplta their pensions. she had to peg away ;t a sewing machine nearly all day, mak- ing fifty cents a week, owing to an af- iiiN'ioil' i1s ah outrage lHS'l she Has to work. l wish I had more time to describe some more cases and even write up some of my eXptriences in the form of short articles for the Graphic. l wanted to write a story every day, a la the Arkansas Travel CT in the Gazette. describing the re- formatories' orphanages. fresh air outing places like Sea Freezes in Coney Island, Ellis Island and other interesting places, but I have been living on sort of chronologica diet all summer, sticking close to the daily | program and finding little leisure for