Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05
POvERTY'S CRY FINDS |
ANSWER IN EXHIBITS
OF CHARITIES TODAY
Society for Organizing Charity
Opens Educational Meet in
Widener Building to Teach
Sane Giving
ACTORS TO AID SCHEME

The cry OF the thousands Of poor in this
city was heard and how Il may be an
swered was demonstrated today when the
educational exhibit under the auspices
of the Society for Organizing Charity
opened its doors at noon in the Nidener
Building.
Last year this society helped in various
ways mor5 than $4,000 persons. The i'm
portance of this work will be emphasized
during the 10 days Of the exhibltlas well
as tho necessity that 1t be done with n
definite social program in view, both as
regards the Individual and society in gen
eral.
1t is the first charity educational ex-
hlbt OF its kind ever held In this city.
II Is expected to awaken the people or
Philadelphia to the further opportunities
for doing good by bringing forcibly before
their eyes the advantage of a greater CO.
operation with the trained social worker.
Hundreds of striking exhibits are ar
ranged, and many of the booths depict
actual scenes taken from blighted homes.
Demonstrations of the work done at the
Wayfarers Lodge will be daily feature
of the exhibit. In these II viii be shown
how II is daily occurrence to pick a
human derellct and. with the aid of n
moral and physical bath as well as a
square meal and soft bed, often send
him out In the morning with a new idea
of life and spark In his eye which may
set him on his feet.
SOCIAL PREPAREDNESS"
One Of the slogans of the exhibit Is $50
cial preparedness for national defense
All the hidden. to most people. evils and
conditions that tend to drag down ma
ton to decay or its poor classes to misery
are being disclosed.
How to deal with these conditions, not
merely from the surface but from the
very closest relationship. will be ex-
planned and demonstrated as a daily fea-
ture of the exhibit. There Is no effort
being made whatsoever to solicit funds.
1t is merely the throwing of n search
light on modern problems of poverty and
II is expected that this public showing
of its hand by the society will go long
way toward explaining to skeptlca peo-
pie Just what organized charity really
means and go n long way toward clear
ing up all the MISUNDERSTANDING ana
misrepresentation that have arisen in the
public mind as to the constructive work
of the modernly equipped institution for
righting human wrongs.
THE personal note Is the one we try to
general secretary, today. I'VE are trying
TO show that the movement of organized
charity is based on sympathy and under
standing, and while the principles are
fixed. the methods are as varied as the
conditions OF life Besides helping indi-
viduals and single families, the movement
aims to furnish n sound basis for social
reconstruction and better customs for SO
Ciety."
Every day during the 10 days of the
exhibit there will be talks by workers
who have made study, by actual con-
tact with them, OF the conditions existing
among the poor. These talks will be at
1880 and at o'clock. Stevens Heck
Eanlzlng Charity, is on. the program to-
day
PLAYS THAT TEACH.
Between times there will be three
act play showing the success of the
society in dealing with typical cases aris-
ing from poverty. The play was written
by Fullerton l.. Waldo and Is entitled
''Where Charity Begins" Mrs. Jasper
Yeates Brinton. Mrs. j. Howard Reber.
Mrs. Writ Henry Tutwiler and Henry
S. Schaefer. Jr., compose the cast. All
are amateur actors of ability. and the
show was received with much enthusiasm
this afternoon
Tomorrow r. NJ. Little, secretary of
the society. will be the speaker and he
will tell just what the society Is and
what 1t aims to do. other speakers later
in the week will be: DR.. John p. CARRIER,
Superintendent of Schools; Director of
Public Safety William II. Wilson, Judge
Charles A. Brown, of the Municipal
Court, and DIR. Wilmer Krusen, Director
of Public Health and Charities.