The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-10

tieir old rags to the association for the use of the women in weaving rugs. Ar engagements have been made with Love man, Joseph & Loeb, she said, to take the rugs for sale.
 Mrs Warner Shook is vice president of the auxiliary. Mrs. Crawford Johnson Is treasurer, Mrs. w. s. Lowell Is secretary and Mrs. Ross Smith is chairman of the house committee. These women, says Mrs Smith, feel that something desperate must be done, and they appeal to tne people of Birmingham for aid.
 Statement From Silver
 Ralph R. Silver, the we'll known Age Herald reporter, who has kept in close touot with the work of the Associated Charities and who has personally fnvesti- gated and commented upon a number of the cases handled, last night wrote the following statement regarding the present suuation
 ..Unheralded and without warning Birmingham tonight stands face to face with one of the most serious problems in years It comes as the effect of a long series of causes
 Tt is not bankruptcy of the city treasury. It is not a pestiience among the citizenship. It Is not scourge of flame sweeping up in spa rks and smoke the stores and homes of Birmingham.
 "It is an hundred homeless and hun gry men suddenly threatened with be- ing thrown on the streets with admit tedly no honest means of securing eith- CT bed or bread.
 "The Associated Charities has an- nounced 1t has closed it's dormitory for lack of funds. It's woodward, where un- employed men were worked to pay for their board, also was abandoned. The association makes an appeal for aid from the public ..
 "In discussion with one of the official family of the association today, 1t was admitted that the cause of the lack of funds was due to what was termed poisoned public mind which was an- tagonistic to the institution. The speak CT admitted that this antagonism felt by the public was due to the peculiar personality and temperament of a high official of the Associated Charities and commented upon the utter unjustness thus worked by crippling the activities of what otherwise the public generally admitted was a commendable institu- ton.
 That has been a peculiar wisdom of the prominent men of Birmingham who Associated Charities, who 1t would ap- pear stubbornly and studiously de1ed this public sentiment, at times even seeming rather to enjoy still further infaming public feeling.
 Ignored Increasing Antagonism
 'When the one issue at stake was the absence of popularity of Secretary W. M McGrath, these men came forward with technical arguments on the ethics and science of charity. From the house. tops they preached efficiency and bust ness ability and system, but apparently were so high they failed to see or did not care to see the constantly increas- ing >fagonfsm in the crowds below.
 They charged the 4ntagonism was based on personalities and failed to see that the efficiency they preached the ethics they taught, the science they ex- pounded, were worthless for the pur- pose in hand without being connected with the proper personality.
 They failed to see or refused to see that charity always is public matter and that any public matter, to succeed. must gain and hold popularity.
 They failed to see or refused to sec that the ethics and science they taught were right as far as they won't but