The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-16
time HAS COME
TO ACT TOGETHER
Entire Cooperation Is Needed
to Make Christmas Day
One To Be JOyfUlly Remem-
bered by the Poor.
THERE is STRENGTH IN UNION
Lodges, Charitable Organiza-
tons, Clubs and individuals
Rally to the Standard of the
Confidential Exchange.
THERE is STRENGTH IN UNION
VINO is Santa CLAUSE


What question: Ask the young
sters and their folks who were not
forgotten Thanksgiving day. Hun
0redS of great big baskets. filled with
variety of edibles that brought more
cheer into those homes than the oc-
cupants believed it was their lot ever
to feel were sent out by big hearted
Topekans on that day. Those holiday
feaStS came from no single individual
or organizat ton. The donors received
no glory themselves nor was their
kindly remembrances of the folks that
We're down used in connection with an
advertising scheme to exploit before
the public any institution. The spirit
of those cooperating agencies-that
is Santa Claus.
Who are they? Oh. that's easy to
answer. In general they are the So
cieties and individuals who give be-
cause they want to help somebody
Specifically they are the Provident as
ISOLATION with Louis Floyd and the
ether officers connected with the so
ciety: The Salvation Army. with En-
sign W. G. Houser and staff: the AL
pha Charity club of which Mrs. Jones
IS president; Golden Rule club, Mrs.
g D. Spear. president; the Home
Finding society. d. F. Shirk. superin-
tendent; juvenile court. Hugh Mac
Farland. Judge: Mizpah class of the
First Presbyterian church. Mrs.
Grafton of Colored Clubs. Mrs. A. R.
Jackson. president.
Other Workers.
They are Elks, the Moose and other
lodges; the Commercial club, ]. Will
Kelley, secretary, and Charles Elliott.
president the Y. w. c. A, Miss Mar
gueritc Dice, secretary; the Social
Service club, Mrs. Dick Porter, pres
ldent; tuberculosis clinic, Miss Maud
Rolt, in charge: the L and 1 club. Mrs.
Charles Mitchell, president; the Spald-
ing Reading Circle, Mrs. ]. L. Vincent,
president; Topeka Industrial Council,
c O. Tressner. president; Commits
siOner w L. Porter and assistants;
County Poor Commissioner c. n. Ba-
con and co-workers; Mrs. Lillian
Moore, county welfare worker.
And they are the n. n. s. of which
Mrs. D. y. McGrath. city welfare
worker; Mrs. Kate E. Pierson. one of
the most active charity workers in the
city; Mrs. Charles Thomas. who is de-
voting. all of her time to work of this
type: the Public Health Nursing as
ISOLATION. Miss Edith Lacy in charge;
Kedden mission. John Fazel in charge;
the Central Congregational church, of
which the Rev. Charles NJ Sheldon
and the Rev. Willis Goldsmith are
representatives; the w. c. T. u. and
The Euclid Avenue Methodist church
Many Individuals Help.
But why name more? These are
the few Hundreds and hundreds of
individuals are cooperating along
with these regularly established socie-
ties. Together-they are Santa Claus
But it is Impossible for this hetero-
geneous group of agencies to make
their work effective unless they can
get together and direct all their ener-
SIes toward the same goal Doing that
they approach ideal charity work
For the purpose of securing this