The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1914-02-21
Success Assured, Fred White
Tells Promoters and Its
Friends At Get-Together
Conference.
NEED is APPARENT
GENERAL OPINION
Captains Meet at Commercial
Club March l to Begin
Campaign for Raising of
Funds for Home.

"You are going to succeed without
and question. You have great
cause; you are working hard and the
men of the community are behind
YOU
This was the keynote of speech
| with which Fred G.. White. local at
torney, aroused the enthusiasm at a
meeting of the Guest House pro-
moters at the Episcopalian Parish
House last night. The gathering was
an open meeting in charge OF the aux
iliary and was especially designed to
instruct and inspire the soliciting
teams which have charge of the work
of raising funds. Miss Margaret Starr,
president of the board Of directors,
was in the chair.
Mr.. White narrated an experience
of the afternoon in which he discov-
cred a girl who had been morally ru-
ined because she had not had such Op-
pOrtunities and influences as the
Guest House will afford. "Oh, | tell
you. Richmond needs such an organiza-
tion as this. You may call it whatev-
er you want to, but the work you are
going to do must be done.
Advises Methods.
"When you start out to raise the
money. make up your mind that you
are going to raise more than you have
determined upon. When you go after
man, make up your mind that you
are going to get more out of him than
he had determined to give and when
you go after a man who has determ-
ined not to give, make up your mind
that you are going to persuade him to
yivn SfD6U oil and 1pa hnu-
to meet them. You are the messen-
gers Of Richmond's needs. And if
you will but drive home the fact. you
will raise this money for this very urg
emily needed Guest House"
Prof. Allen Hole of Earlham Col
lege, said that while Richmond's need
may not be as urgent as those of some
larger cities, it is urgent enough. And
that the conditions here fully justi-
fy the building of the Guest House.
Eve have discovered" said Miss
Starr, in commenting on his remarks,
that the need in Richmond for this is
far greater than we had expected"
Time Propitious.
"The time has come for Richmond to
do things for it's women and girls"
said Miss Bertha Larsh. "lf we do
not take care of the young women and
girls of today, what is going to be-
come to the homes of tomorrow?
Miss Elizabeth Foulke quoted Mrs.
Deuter, recently engaged in Salvation
Army work in this community. 81
have never found in any city con-
ditions worse than here. Richmond
people are densely ignorant of con-
ditions in parts of this town" Miss
Foulke assured the directors that the
teachers as a whole were in hearty
sympathy with the project.
What are we going to do with the
new applicants. when the Guest House
is filled" asked Mrs. McDivitt. with
in a week after it is open every room
will be taken"
Miss Starr replied that it was the
intention to begin on modest scale
and to build as needs required. eve
feel it is better to make a success
with small building in the start than
to begin too ambitiously and fail"
Other speakers emphasized the fact
that it is impossible at this juncture
to erect Y. w. G. A. That project
has been attempted before, they said,
and has not met with the approval
of the community.
Home For All.
Someone raised the question as TO
whether the Guest House was merely
for factory girls. The directors ex-
planned it was for all the self-support
ing girls and women, whatever may
be the nature of their work. They
said that the main object of the insti
tuition will not be so much to give
girls good board at a reasonable price
but to give them as nearly as possible
the social, moral and spiritual ad-
vantages Of private home.
Mrs. Frank Land described two
such homes in Indianapolis She said
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