The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-20
SUGGESTS ACTION Be :
TAKEN TO RELIEVE
SUFFERING IN CITY
MAYOR GODFREY CALLS ON
PASTORS TO APPOINT
COMMITTEEMAN
A / d N E e d E D
Suggested General Committee Be
Named to Look After Deserv-
ing Cases.
. 1 D N E E d E d

Acting upon a suggestion from
Gen. M. L. Bonham, Mayor ). IL. God
frey has called upon the pastors OF
the churches in the city and the
Chamber of Commerce to appoint
representatives for the formation OF
q general relief committee. whose
duty II shall be to adopt and put into
execution measures looking toward
the relief of suffering in the city of
Anderson brought about by the gen
eral business devression existing all
over the country. .
AS soon as Mayor Godfrey has been
informed. Of the appointments he will
call a meeting Of the committee, in
order that measures to BIO followed
may be taken up at the earliest date
possible. AS to what plans the COM
mittee will adopt, nothing is known
az yet. Several schemes have been
suggested. but which one OF these
Will be chosen will not be known
until the committee has held q meet
ing.
The letter from General Bonham
which has prompted aiayor Godfrey
TO call for the appointment of these
committeeman is as follows:
Il was sorry / could not attend the
meeting last night, at the Chamber of
Commerce because l am much inter-
ested In the organization Of a relief
committee to look after the cases OF
restitution and want in our city and
cases which are almost certain to
arise during the hard winter which
d weather prophets predict. 1t
seems to me that we ought to have a
large relief committee consisting OF
those appointed by the Chamber OF
Commerce, by the churches and by
you as mayor. This committee could
divide the city into districts and look
out for the cases Of deserving people
who would not themselves seek char
ffty. In order that this committee may
do effective work it must have a fund.
I presume the city would make a do
nation to that end and the churches
would take up collections and private
individuals would contribute, but you
need more than that and Y suggest
that the c~haritably inclined should
set to work to re.se these funds in
the ways known to the earnest and
Jealous women CT the community and
the broad minded charitable men.
Bob King would get up a minstrel
show that would rival al Fields and
all>yould go and pay double prices In
the name OF charity and get our mon
ey's worth In laughter. I simply sug-
gest these ways OF reaching an end
which we all have very much at heart.
AS / said n a former communication,
have known the people OF Ander-
son for 90 years and q more generous.
charitable people never lived and I
do LOT doubt that the response OF the
people to your appeal would be q lib
eral one. ] suggest that you ask the
pastors OF the different churches TO
t'.:e action in this matter by naming
the representatives Of their churches
to act on this committee and asking
for contributions to this fund. This
general committee az I have suggest
ed, ought to meet and organize i'm
meaiately. It ts q condition and not
theory that confronts us and we have
got TO act quickly IL we would save
suffering and want"