The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-06

 ORGANIZED
CONCERTED MOVEMENT TO RAISE FUNDS AND TAKE CARE OF
 WORTHY POOR OF CITY.
Board of Governors Named With Au- thority to Employ General Seere- tary to investigate All Cases.
 of Need.

Organized charities made part Of it's permanent organization last night when before 8 mass meeting in the council chambers of the city hall, small in numbers but truly represen tative of the instltutions most devoted to charity work, board of governors was authorized to carry out the work that will end in a permanent organi- zatio1.
 The board of governors IS composed of Major Hallock who Is medical di. rector of the Hot Springs reservation Mayor " " Waters of the city oi Hot Springs; W. C. Maurice, bath house proprietor; French w. Thomp son, pastor of the First Presbytcr. ian church; T. J. O'Neai, one ot the retired merchants of the city; and Rabbi Rhine. of the Temple Beth Fl, the latter being one of the en thusiastic promoters of the move ment.
 This board is authorized to employ a general secretary, whose work il shall be to maintain permanent quart CTS, and where the general business Of the organized charities will be carried on. and who will investigate all cases to ascertain whether tnes are worthy before they receive aid. Mayor Waters called the meeting 1 together and stated the objects. He thought nothing so laudable as a | work or charity, and from his officia. position he realized more and more
 the necessity of an organized charity
 here He believed there were ple.1ts willing to give if they thought the money would go through the proper
 channels. He assured the people present not only his co operation as a citizen. but as the chief executive
 of the city, and in later speech
 suggested that the city be asked to
 make donation through tals source. iastead of giving indiscriminately as
 it had done in the past.
 Rabbi Rhine related how benefi- cial organization was in the matter of charity undertakings, and as ali
 object citeN that one organization represented here. the B'Nai Birth, haG received $S0,0OO within two months for the erection of the hospitn
 proposed He believed in the theory that every man was his brothers keeper, and cited many instances of the good that could be done here if there was an organization. He paid high tribute to the physicians, who he said were ever ready to give their professional services to the charity organizations.
 Rev. French Thompson endorsed the general plan and stated that if fo! no other reason, the associated char ities should appeal to the public from a selfish viewpoint, in that it could at least rid the public of the impost- CTS, who the busy but charitably in. clined man did not have time to Aa- yestigate, and who generally suffered himself to be imposed on rather than to turn down a worthy case.
 Rev. Forney Hutchinson, of the Central Methodist church, endorsed
 the general plan He stated that
 the charity cases within his cnurch he wanted reserved for his church. l but that of the great number of char 1 ty objects not identified with any
 institution. there must be provided | just such an organization as this. He ! believed te small indiscrimlnate do-
 nations made on the streets helped
 to make paupers rather than to help
 the panper out of the pauper class.
 Mr. w c. Maurice read list of SuDScftplioHS Ht hdu Feceifeu "ith-
 out solicitation, which amounted al-
 ready to sS55. and which showed what could be d, e with proper
 effort in an organization in which
 the public had full confidence. He
 suggested system of detail which
 the board would work out that would
 prove test fer the worthy and un-
 worthy candidates for charity
 J. R. Hayden, editor of the Crystal
 Magazine. spoke of the local situa- tica. the great throng of charitable
 objects that come here every year
 as shown in the undisputed reports from the free bath house and how