The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-01
SOCIETY WOMEN
TO HELP NEEDY
Meet in Home of Mrs.
Olmsted and Plan to
Give Aid at Home
and Abroad
PROJECT TOHAVE
A BROAD SCOPE
Intention Is to Raise Funds by Contri-
buttons to Be Used to Employ Ear
risburgers to Make Clothes for For
eign War Sufferers

The society women and charity work
ers of Harrisburg are enthusiastically
at work upon plan which will help
both the needy of this city and those
of war-strieken Europe. The plan they
intend to adopt is TO use cash eontri-
buttons for paying local people to make
the wearing apparel that will be sent to
the war sufferers abroad. In this man
ner profitable employment will be given
TO persons who need it in Harrisburg,
and good, warm clothing to those who
need it in Europe.
The Emergency Aid committee of
Harrisburg, which is working out this
plan, was organized yesterday Mt the
home of Mrs. Marlin E. olmsted, los
North Front street. The committee is
modelled after an organization of tine
same nature in Philadelphia. The work
and method of procedure was outlined
by Miss Henrietta Ely, chairman of the
American Red Cross Aid committee of
Philadelphia. Miss Ely said hundreds
of women in New York and Philadel-
phia are DENYING themselves luxuries
so as to be able to send money to tho
war sufferers.
K is the aim of the committee to
draw together all societies and individ-
uals interested in giving assistance to
The needy. The local committee an
uounces that it is neutral, bipartisan,
non-sectarian and founded to give re-
lief at home and abroad to persons di-
rectly or Indirectly affected by the war
in Europe.
So as to be able to do better and
more efficient work the committee has
been divided into four divisions. name
ly, the American Red Cross Division,
the General Supply Division, the Home
Relief Division and the Committee for
Immediate Aid.
The American Red Cross Division
follows the work of the Red Cross So
eiety throughout the world, collecting
funds 10 send surgical and medical aid
to the eombatants and the hospitals,
and organizing branches for the manu-
faeture of the supplies so desperately
needed.
The work of the General Supply Di.
vision will be in cooperation with the
Red Cross, organizing sowing, clothing
and knitting circles, and taking orders
1Ni HNchAtAi
war sufferers and for those in need at
home and abroad. The division will de-
vote all funds received by it TO the pur-
chase of materials at special prices, and
through the agency of the Home Relief
division viii give employment here for
the work ON these materials.
Home Relief Work
The Home Relief Division will de-
vote its energies and its fund5 to the
giving of employment TO as many per
sons as its circumstances will allow:
will receive and distribute clothing and
supplies to those in need, and will work
to this end through the agency of the
established charitable organizations.
The Committee for Immediate Aid
Will govern itself according to the ur-
gent needs that present themselves for
instant disposition.
Another meeting will be held next
week at the home of Mrs. Olmsted.
While the present organization is but
temporary, the committee as an estab-
hshed charity source is permanent.