Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-07-11
|HARITIES NEED
 MONEY TO PROVIDE |FOR POOR 0F CITY
kare1essness of Certain Con- kributors Puts Organiza- tion in Predicament.

The Associated Charities yesterday
 sued the following statement:
 The board of directors of the As
 bciated Charities wishes to thank the
 astors and members of some of the
 bcal churches who recently respond
 to the appeal for special offer
 g to help relieve the indebtedness
 the Associated Charities, and to
 lake to the public a brief state ment
 regard 10 the present financial
 ondition of the organization.
 The trouble with us is not that the
 ssociated Charities is so much in
 ebt, but that so many of our con
 Fibutors are in debt to us. Up to
 uly l, outstanding pledges tna;
 ould not be collected amounted to
 153S4. Pledges for the month of
 uly to the amount of $S2.50 are
 till to be collected and about $50 of
 hat amount is due from people who Ire delinquent with back pledges, so
 hat we face a possible loss of about
 2OO in pledges, unless those who
 igned up for them will make
 pecial effort to pay. This big loss of Hedges, which in some instances is
 ue to business failure and upset
 financial conditions in the town, was,
 f course, utterly unforseen by us Fhen estimating a budget for this tear-as the loss last year on lapsed pledges amounted to only $6. 1t hits
 Is hard after the heavy drain on fin tnces of this unprecedented winter, when the poverty and suffering here fnade such great demands upon our resources
 If any of those who owe ds money Ian, by slight sacrifice manage to- pay bs it will mean a great deal 10 the poor on our lists.
 It has been our idea all along not 10 call on those who have already given and~we have issued no appeal 10 them, but we know that many of Dur contributors did give again by means of the recent special church collection so kindly planned for us by me ministers and we wish especially 10 thank them.
 Seyenty-nine dollars has sc far peen turned over by the churches and more is hoped for. This amount, Tlth the first July collections, re- auce dthe indebtedness of $1S6.e5 (in- curred previous to July) to $61.15, ana enabled us to pay off some of the DIS Of longest standing. Adding to ms deficit, however, bills due July there will still be, if all pledges TOT July are which we can lot nope for-an approximate deficit '1 Sl25 to handicap us through august and September, the two re- naming months of the fiscal year, Snlch are, moreover, not sufficiently provided for by pledges.
 we wish to say also that the public must not suppose the work is so !. ack in the Summer months that mere is little need for money. At a 'oard meeting on last "Wednesday the eporf of the secretary showed that II June new case each day was the verage, or 30 new cases to the month in addition to about 60 old nes on hand-(a "case", by the way nay nay De large family of people)- l.at there was great deal of sick ess among the applicants and extra aaoney needed iEr medicine and diet; nat l29 people had been in the office ,pp'ylng for aid during the month. ne a great majority of them local and "al work was increasing instead of d as the summer progress rms, In brief, is the present situa- .'n With the Associated Charities. It O., iooR organization, kept up by ou: doing the work you know to be ss for the poor of your town. h; heielore' we ask you to consider HIS statement of it's problem seri-