The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-28
NEXT LUNCHEON IN
 CHARITY CAMPAIGN !. ID BE HELD MONDAY
Total Proceeds Yesterday $S7S-Ramsay's Team
 Wins Both Prizes.
 MT. Willows Here


 to report at the daily luncheon yester- day, when the total proceeds for the day was ss7S. Of the teams reporting, only one was at it's normal strength, and Chair man Milner emphasized the need of strong team work. Pressure of business, absence | from the city and sickness were the ex- planation of absences. A big rally will be held at the next luncheon to be held Monday at l D. m.
 Erslline Ramsay's team, with four men, captured both the daily trophies, scarf pin donated by the Somner Tailoring com pany and a box of cigars given by John l.. Parker. They had secured s432 from 40 subscribers Ensley's report was $1S2.
 The teams led by B. M. Allen and George c. Oliver were at work after the 1 luncheon. w. C. Hlll reported that a special committee for Morris avenue would be at work today. with MT. Fantaz and Mr. Bell in charge.
 | Maurice Willows d contribution of Bir- mingham social workers to the National | Charity Organization society, whose head | quarters are in New York, was present and spoke strongly of the advances made by Birmingham in effective work along these lines. He paid q hearty tribute to the executive strength of the three socie- ties cooperating in the present campaign,
 and entrusted with the situation here
 that at Scranton Pa, where the old fashioned relief method, adopted in 1862
 had been left unchanged until the whol, city was pauperized, applicants for reliei during the past decade having multiplied
 30 per cent. while the population had | increased only per cent. On the other | hand the speaker instanced the progress
 in Memphis. where the whole relief and
 work of the county and city had been unified under the Associated Charities, | with fl district nurses paid by the city, and an income of s29,000 assured to the organization.
 | MT. Willows referred with appreciation to the growing interest of all the people | in thoroughly careful community work l for dependent families. It was illustrated in such work as is being done in Blrming-
 ham by the tri-charities committed, and still more strilSingly in New York, where the Kennedy lecture, delivered this year | by Miss Grace Richmond, on Case Work | Treatment of Dependent Families" a | technical and expert study of the causes | and cure of breakdown fin self support. 1 was attended by such large numbers of people that each lecture had to be re- peated trice each week. Referring to the
 criticism of salaries paid to workers. MT. Willows said that he has on file many
 urgent applications for equipped men at | salaries from $2500 to 5000, one of them be- | ing the comparatively small city of Au-
 gusta Ga.
 1 The secretary of the Anti-Tuberculosis | association is in receipt of an anonymous | donation of g with the names and ad- l go +,xs1 aIl f.a
 tuberculosis, one in this city and one in Morgan county. He has also received the | following appreciation from James Bow ron, member of the board of public well l fare:
 | 'I want to say to you that after visit | ing and inspecting the Ant-Tuberculosis | camp on Red mountain in company with other members of the board of public
 welfare, I was greatly surprised to see how much your association had been able ! to accomplish with such very limited | funds at your disposal. The economy in | administration of the work and construc- l ton of the buildings is very evident, and ! I can heartily recommend anyone to con tribute toward it with the assurance that | full value will be received for every dol | lar expended. I was sorry to find that | the nursing facilities were not reason | ably adequate for the number of bed | ridden patients and that the full use of your recent improvements is delayed until | you have money enough to put in youi plumbing.
 q feel that the task of suppressing | tuberculosis should be assumed by the public health authorities. either state or i county, just as much as the suppression of yellow fever. smallpox. cholera. etc. and for the same reasons. I think that en | frightened public sentiment will bring this about in due time, but pending that I | feel that your association Is entitled to a
 larger measure of support than 1t has yet received. and trust this will be rec | ognized in the present campaign for l funds.
 Yours very truly,
 | JAMES BOWRON." The following were present at the lunch con: J. w. Finder, R. D. Thompson, Maurice Willows. H. K. Milner, Hal J. Copeland. J. l.. Yancey. Victor s. Gage W. M. McGrath, P. G. Shook. w. E. Chen | oweth Dr. George Eaves Erskine Ram say. J. B. Adams, J. H. Donnelly.