Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-21
THE STORY 0F { MONTHS WORK IN
 BEHALF OF POOR
Aid Extended to Nearly l. GOO People, $2,001 Being
 Disbursed at Cost of $649.

"The Story of Six Months is the heading of a brief narrative covering the activities of the Associated Chari- ties from October ], 1914, to March 31, 1915, just issued for the Charities without cost to that organization. The review is being mailed to Pine Bluff people, thought to be interested in extending assistance to their less fortunate brethren.
 The Story of Six Months.
 The narrative, prepared by officials of the Charities, reads as follows:
 Eight hundred and eighty-one peo- pie applying for aid-770 of them new to this organization: 40 fami- lies. previously rendered self-sup- porting by the Charities thrust back on us because of the hard times :; 4S3 applications for employment; 33o grocery orders given out; bills for fuel, drugs, ,lothing and other relief running up, even with the most rigid economy, to $S35.S2; and, day and night, work, work, work to supply the widespread and crying need these are, with, us, the outstanding features of the past six months. The Winter.
 Hunger, sickness, and the terror of unemployment have, in tru:.i stalked the streets of Pine Bluff this winter. All of you have felt the strain of the unusual conditions, but the poor of this town have been all but crushed by them. Had it not been for your generosity in main taining the Associated Charities tc care for them, the suffering would have. been much greater. We have done our utmost, handicapped by an insufficient office force, by the prac- tical impossibility of finding perma' nent employment, and by the unpre- cedented volume of work. Remember 1 this, when criticising us for lapses ] and omissions.
 1 Finances.
 \ Here is one thing we do want you to know: Your every dollar has bought a hundred cents worth of re lief. Not a penny has gone to u:i- necessary. love erhead" expense. Takf the figures for proof
 Receipts-October 1, 1914 to Marcf 31. 1915, $2,o36.77.
 Expenditures. Material relief { $1,1S3S6. 2. Administrative expenses, sala ries, $515.00.
 *Office expenses, printing annua report, office supplies, telephone 1 telegraph, postage, etc., $134.S3. 1 8. Miscellaneous-Rep loan | discount on scrip, etc., $16S.1O.
 Total expenditures, s2,001.79.
 Balance on hand, April 1, 1915 l $34.9S.
 /. *Note-Free office rent. heat ianitor service, typewriter and fur nishings.
 The Truth About Salaries.
 The general public is not the onl. i contributor to the Associated CnaT ities. The two paid workers hay also contributed this winter by ac cepting salaries whose sum is $S5 sl5 less than the minimum amour usually paid one trained secretar, of such an organization. In orde to correct the often repeated state ment of some people who do no | lknow the facts that the Associated Charities secretaries draw larg' salaries, it might be we'll to stat that the general secretary in orde To la0nCn the Woik, olieieu to SoiN
 for $35 per month for the first yea and renewed the offer this year be cause of anticipating the heavy drai1
 on finances, She is enabled to d this because of holding another posi- ) tion, totally unconnected with til Associated Charities, which claim part time The assistant secretar : receives $50 per month and gives full : time, doing clerical and stenographi
 as well as relief work. .