Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-12
.S|XTY-sEvEN SAW WOOD
At ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
Preference Given to Those with
Families Dependent on Them
for Food.
SINGLE MEN GO ELSEWHERE
DR.. Buchanan BENDING All Energies
to Keeping Families Together I'm
til Better Times Come and They
Become Self-Supporting Again.

Three big loads of wood were brought
into the central office Of the Associ-
ated Charities yesterday. and sixty
seven men. all of them heads OF fam
llies. were put to work. The number
was no more wood for them to saw
and split, and the earnestness with
which they went to work betokened
these men were willing enough to la
Dor Dor IL they could find something for
1 nne LANDS bands to do Single men are
work only for their food and lodging.
which Is given them in the central
p sqa to @en di fam sHg.s mem
who have wives and children and
something's SOM parents dependent upon
idea Is to keep the family intact. ,be-
lieving that greater beneft will com
from preserving the family ties than
away in search of work in other fields
and leaving his loyed ones dependent
upon I cha charity So long as the family
though Ii be only saving and split
ting wood. he has hope. and he Is en-
fS Suraged by the thought that after
back into his regular employment
STRIVING TO KEEP
FAMILIES TOGETHER
visitor suggested yesterday that
States ARMY as way out Of tbs
what the Associated Charities is ut
of men was accepted. their wages as
soldiers would not suffice to support
their families an lies and t the fami!y tic
mended again, and scores Of women
and children would be thrown upon
G Che ii for ' support and sastenan vs
The problem with the single men Is
not so difficult to meet. Food and
lodging will suffice them during the
temporary luil i'm business, and for
many work may be found or the out
side in other places. Where.er there
from Richmond, 1t is given TO the
single men. and the married ones are
kept at home, so that later they may
be able to support their families as
they have done before.
ALL LINES OF EMPLOYMENT
ARE AFFECTED
The stress has touched not alone
carpenter. the painter and the day
laborer. Men who have lived in a
passing attiuence have been affected.
ties will show. Means of livelihood
other than the manual trades have been
affected by the general scarcity Of
work, and men who have never before
felt the pinch of poverty or ever
dreamed that one day they would face
starvation, have been among the appli-
cants for help. Cases in point could
be given were ii not for the subse-
quent embarrassment TO those who
had to knock on charity's door. One
man was sent back yesterday to his
home in Canada. Another who had ex
pected to find employment In Richmond
and who had exhausted all his means
In a futile effort to find work when the
position he had expected was not given
him, helped Dr.. Buchanan In his office
work until ne had accumulated enough
to pay his way back back to New Jersey;
children await him.
YOUNG WOMAN AND CHILDREN
SENT TO THEIR HOME
For n week the Associated Charities
has cared for young woman who had
been All agent here for n company
manufacturing cosmetics. 1t seems
that there is not so largo demand
now for paint and powder and when
she was discharged. Her savings were
soon exhausted. and two small chill
dren We're dependent np3n her Friends
have promised to help her. and the AS
sociated Charities will pay the travel
Ing expenses of the young woman and
and cold creams had been their sup
port. but there is a pinch even In
haps. is as good an Indication of the
present need of economy as any other.
Applicants for work and help come
now In increasing numbers, and it takea
not long to exhaust even the large sup
ply of provisions which the Associated
Charities keeps daily on hand for those
Is a problem not only Of labor, but OF
bread and butter for hundreds Of
women and children. They must have
help or starve., and when help comes
not to those who are hungry there Is
he final necessity which the first law
of nature imposes. A crust OF bread
may stay the Appetite and keep the
feet Of the utterly poor in, the strait
and narrow way. And little work
now and then may help In preventing
hands forced to idleness from reaching
out for another's own. SO the ascot
ated Charities Is bending It's efforts in
a double direction. 1t feeds and clothes
the hungry and naked. and it keeps
them, from straying into paths which
lead to punishment and remorse.
In response to the appeal being made
through The Times Dispatch. funds are
being sent from. places out of town.
by people who have at least a little
who have nothing at, all. Donations
were received yesterday from r. O.
Dunn. of Ellerson, and e. D. Edwards.
of Surry.