South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-16
HOSPITAL FUND
NEAR $4,000
Campaign for EpWOrth to Be
Continued Until Friday
South Bend Needs Shock to
Awaken Sense of Need,
Says Campaigner.

The reports Of the committee at the
noon day luncheon Tuesday boosted
the Epworth hospital fund toward the
$1,000 mark, with $4,000 to be Sc
cured before the campaign closes. 1t
tee to continue the campaign until
Friday night to give all a better
chance to secure the required $4,000.
1t was TO have closed Wednesday.
The committee of five appointed to
solicit $500 donations only, has
brought in several large subscriptions
and in the next day a special 500
committee may be appointed. The
large donors since Monday are: E. A.
Saunders, $1,000; Campbell Paper Box
Co., $500; Studebaker Corporation,
$500; Stephenson Underwear Mills,
$500; Wilson Bros, $500; Muessel
Brewing Co., $500; e. G. Shafer, $500;
Indiana is the hardest state in the
union to move for charity" asserted
Miss Anna y. COushaine, in one of
the strongest pleas for money for
Epworth hospital given during the
campaign.
Need Severe Shock.
Miss Coushaine was the principal
gave her address as a final appeal for
funds for the hospital. lit will take
an earthquake like the one that shook
San Francisco to awaken South Bend
TO the need for a place where their
poor and sick can be cared for hu-
namely. During my entire experience
have known that Indiana was hard
state to interest in charity, yet there
is as big a need for it here as else
where"
The expert has brought into play
every means possible for obtaining the
mnoey. She l.as addressed large con-
gregations, talked to the committee
leaders every noon, instructing them
on better methods of securing funds
and laid out the plans for the entire
campaign, which at this time has re-
suited in raising less than half of the
money required to make the $4,000.
But few OF the larger donors which
had been arranged on her list have re-
spOnded, although a large number OF
smaller ones have given. She pointed
out that raising the money was a bis
proposition, and not aims gathering
| She showed that men would be willing
| TO identify themselves with it in a bis
way. if ii was represented to them il
| its true relations.
Need Efficient Service.
Everyone in South Bend must see
| the need OF a more efficient hospita
| service" she added, should there bt
an epidemic at the present time ther,
ar only places in the two hospital.
| for lao patients and in both cases tn,
| beds are nearly all full. Many of tn,
city's poor are dying because a NOR,
| adequate system is not furnished tn,
| city for their service
south Benders are working for tn,
| undertaken, not 10 protect human
! lives" she declared. Touching OF
I crowded conditions. she pointed ou
that last week two patients at Ep-
worth hospital were sitting in chairs
waiting for others 10 get well so that
they could have their beds.
She asserted that the hospital was
not an Institution managed 10 make
money, and showed that the institu-
tiOn hardly made ends meet and thar
il was impossible 10 construct the
needed additions without help. \
room at the institution costs about 81 :
week for the average person. She
showed that the rates of rooms OF or
dinary hotels where no medical at
tentiOn is furnishede Is only a Smar
sum below this amount