Evening star., 1915-11-30
.MR. RUDOLPH HEADS
CHARITY WORKERS
Elected President to Serve
During Thirty-Fifth Year of
Organization.
SPEAKERS CITE Benefit
! OF SYSTEMATIC RELIEF
Playlet Shows Difference Between
Old and New Methods of
Social Service.

2 Under the guidance of q new preSl-
dent former District Commissioner
Cuno H Rudolph. the Associated Chari-
ties entered upon its thirty-ffth year
of active service in the District of CO.
lumbia.
At its annual meeting at Rauscher's
last night Mr.. Rudolph unanimously
was chosen head of the organization.
succeeding Corcoran Thorn. who in turn
was given unanimous vote for vice
president. Other vice presidents elect
ed were Hennen Jennings, Rev. Roland
Cotton Smith, Mgr. William T. Russell
and ]. L. Blout.
Treasurer Edison Reelected.
John Joy Edison was reelected treas
urer, while the following were elected
members of the board of managers for
the year: Ernest P. Bicknen, William
H De Lacy. John Joy Edison. A. Lisner
Miss Helen Nicolay, Mrs. Charies ".
Richardson, Corcoran Thorn. Mrs. Lau-
renee Todd and Rev. John Van Scha1ck
: The meeting at Rauschers. eliminating
thirty-four years of organized charity
work in the District probably was the
largest attended in the history of the or
ga anization In addition to reports OF
officers. interesting features OF the meet
ing were an address by Miss Mary b.
Richmond of the Russell Sage Founda-
ton, and a playlet showing the old and
modern methods of charity work.
In his farewell address former Presl-
dent Thorn reviewed the accomplishments
OF the year, and urged a wider co-ope-a-
zion by the citizens OF Washington IN the
work of the organization.
y The report of Treasurer Ldson showed
total receipts for the year ended Septem-
Der 30 to have been s4S.595.3i. with dis
hursements amounting 70 s47.329.l9. OF
this amount S11, ,27T.5a was spent on the
summer outings caN.0s last summer.
End of an Active Year.
2 That the organization .as just closed
q most active twt,,e months of service
was shown by the sta+tstical report made
public last night. The total number Of
contributors was 2,752. and the total num-
Der of families befrended was 3,467. The
number of persons comprising these
Families was 1S,413. Five hundred and
forty-two volunteers assisted in the work
Of the organization. making 2.70S visits
to or in behalf of families. District work
ers made a total of 1865 visits.
Other forms of service rendered by
the Associated Charities during the
year included the finding of 243 perIna-
nent positions and 276 temporary jobs
for needy persons; the procuring of
correctional or legal aid for 467 per-
sons; the procuring of hospital or in
stitutional care for 513 persons, and
the procuring of medical aid for 5S5
persons. The number of mothers and
children sent to the outing camps for
two weeks or longer was 1927.
At the conclusion of the business ses-
sion, Miss Mary Z. Richmond, director
of the charity organization department
Of the Russell Sage Foundation. spoke
on The Volunteer in Organized Philan-
thropy." declaring that every one who
truly thinks at all thinks socially and
that interest in the welfare of hu-
manity no longer is an eccentricity of
the few. but part of the normal life
of the many.
Change IN Point of View.
1T marks a profound change in our
eountry's point Of view she said,
that whereas during the earlier years
We charity organizationists had almost
to go down upon our knees to persuade
people to enlist in the ranks of volun-
teer social service, that now the vol
unteers begin to realize that, in giving
a share of our busy lives to initiating
them into effective service, we are do
Ing for them a thing not to be esteemed
lightly They begin to realize, too.
that the impoverished. the disadvan-
would serve, can give them quite as
much and more, in deepened insights
and less provincial sympa thies as they
themselves can ever hope to contribute
Ihe nowering time of the social con-
eciencs in America, the boundaries Of
which are marked for US, at the mo-
ment. by the grim realities of two
great Wars-by our own civil war and
by the war now raging across the
seas-has brought to volunteers in the