South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-12
Good VIII Week
Why It. Needed
Helping Hand is Lent Needy
of City by Associated
Charities.

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there is a hurtful kind of benevolence
as well as a helpful kind
Anything which prevents self-help
where self-help is possible is not help
full but hurtful Anything which
makes it profitable and pleasant for
person able TO work TO abstain from
working is not helpful but hurtful.
The only real help is the help that
helps people help themselves. our
customary handouts" TO beggars
and hobos are not helpful but the re-
verse of helpful Do you see that
such handouts" encourage beggary
and hoboism p
What is the right way to help? To
provide us with the answer to this
question is the purpose of the Asso-
ciated Charities. The prime object Of
the Associated Charities is not to give
money or food or clothes or fuel to
needy people. The prime object is to
illuminate the minds of those who are
in need and also the minds Of those
who are able and willing to relieve
the need. The object is to teach the
right way Of doing things and to eau
ton against the wrong way. Is not
this a worthy object and a necessary
one2
The lines of work are essentially
educational and include: The inyesti-
cation of family. and community con-
ditiOns and needs; the registration of
the facts learned in investigation. and
of the services rendered; education
informing the public Of the things
learned in investigation and chron-
icled in the records; the enlisting and
training volunteer personal service:
the securing of cooperation of all
agencies and individuals caring for the
poor; and the South Bend prOVident
fund
Getting at facts and then after get
ting at the facts bringing home those
facts TO the public: Imparting,
through personal service, higher ideas
and ideals to those who, from lack of
such ideas and ideals, are down in the
depths; intoxicating through the Provi-
dent fund. habits of thrift This prov
ident fund is doing much for the gen.
Grafton that is now having its school
days. Leaving aside all higher moral
considerations, who can estimate the
money value alone of that which has
been impaired when habits of thrift
have been impaired.
Many public meetings have been
held. Do you realize what these pub
lie meetings mean? Perhaps you do
not. Perhaps you are one of the
1000 peOple-more or less-liVing in
South Bend who never pay any atten-
ton TO these public meetings, who
are never present at these meetings
and never stop to give them as much
as thought. You are missing some
thing of great value.
These public meetings are necessary
IN order to create public opinion. Pub,
lie opinion is necessary in order 70
have the law enactment and law en-
/ forcement, not to mention the moral
outlook nan6a6 in hnf I,
| Dor and bad housing and bad school
ing and bad factory conditions and
bad government and bad dieting and
/ bad sanitation might be abolished and
the other bad things which are the
cause of ignorance, poverty and crime
The treasurer's report gives only a
scant Idea of the disbursements OF
the Associated Charities. The enor-
nous gains which the future will reap
| II we properly enHghten the public
opinion or today on something that
the treasurer's report can not take
/ into account. Not 1900 but 5000
100000 dollars is the~ amount dis
bursed to the extent that the public
opinion which the Associated Chart
ties seeks 10 foster can be brought to
maturity and effectiveness.
The council meetings. to which
everyone is welcome. have a similar
( ANeNNACAA1A R0A pOAA 1DtfN are a KIND
/ or social clinic. There are presented
in the council meetings actual cases
1 requiring assistance. That is where
/ one learns from demonstration how
given cases Of need should be relieved
Much good can be acquired by attend
ing a council session.
! The extension courses approach the
| same questions in a large, abstra ct
| and scientific way, somewhat in the
| manner or sociology classes at college.
/ III every citizen Of South Bend be-
! longed TO the extension course. the
day when poverty and degradation
will be at an end would be brought
/ many generations nearer The trou
bic with us is our ignorance and dark
ness in social matters. Join an ex-
tension course and acquire knowledge
and light.
AS already stated the Associated
Charities exists primarily to furnish
sympathetic and constructive helm
The relief furnished by the ASSOCIATED
/ Charities is only a temporary expedi-
ent TO assuage the pang of suffering
while the needy person is being got
ten ready to help himself or is wait
ing for action by one OF the allied or
CARNATIONS that does have the func.
ton OF prOvidin-~ relief
a partial list has been published Of
those who have availed themselve:
OF the advice that the Associated
Charities can give Why not add
yourself TO this list? And why no.
enroll yourself in the company OF &C.
tive personal service volunteers? one
word of counsel and sympathy offer
does more good than whole purses OF
coin.
Last year comparatively few IN
South Bend contributed TO the FEEDER.
alton for Social Service. Of which the
Associated Charities Is a part. There
ought 10 be in South Bend a total 81
10000 people contributing this wear
DO not refrain from giving because
YOU cannot give much. II every one
IN South Bend who does not give nj
all were 10 give only Csc, the funo
would be increased enormously. Be.
sides this the giving is itself a dis.
lclpine and education for the giver
II brings YOU into touch with what 1.
doing. IL will enable those 10 get hold