Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-05
LIFE GROWING BETTER
IN AMERICA, He SAYS
Frederic Almy Addresses District
Associated Charities at
Annual Meeting.

I'VE are winning our fight 1lliteracy
| the native born. tuberculosis is on the
run. and everywhere the death rate has
fallen Both personal and political
ethics have improved. The devil must
| be getting discouraged. Disease Is dying
| crime is being arrested; ignorance can
| soon be ignored. and poverty is being
starved for lack of matter on which II
| feeds"
In these words Frederic Almy Of Buff
falo, president of the national conference
early dawn of new day Of freedom, in
an address last night before the thirty
nth annual meeting of the Associated
! Charities Of the District at Rauschers.
citizenship. Saving your own soul is
selfish business" he declared. land
| anything which makes effective citizen
ship is good charity. Philanthropy is
citizenship, and both, in a sense, are
religion"
Better Day Is Coming.
A better day is coming. Mr.. Almy
asserted. because social religion and
social medicine have been added to in
dividual religion and individual medi-
| cine. Health leaped forward" he con-
tfnued. when. besides curing 1ndivid-
ual patients. we fought for pure air,
pure food and pure milk and lessened
the causes of disease.
Religion is leaping forward because,
In addition to the geography of Pal
estlne, the dogmas of theology and the
| invaluable saving of single souls, it is
now attacking the great causes of sin
and misery. Both the Catholic and
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living wage and a shorter working
day, and the church is now active in
the social crusade"
other speakers were Cuno H. Ru-
the work done during the past year,
and Walter S. Ufford, general secre-
tary, who submitted report showing
that 1850 families had been given
money relief and 1856 mothers cared
for at two summer camps and the baby
hospital camp.
Our records will show" said Mr.
Rudolph. that We are not making
those we help more dependent, but that
we are helping the poor out of their
Of the people who comes to US are new,
taking the place of another half who
have ceased to need our services"
Mending Broken Families.
The speaker also told of the effort of
the Associated Charities to deal wisely
and effectively with the problem of
"mending broken families" In this
field. he pointed out. the Associated
Charities is the general practitioner
and, as such, works with the other
specialists in the field-the nurse, the
infant welfare stations. the Corpora
tive Society, the Juvenile Court, the
board Of childrens guardians and the
board of charities, the church and the
ST. Vincent de Paul Society.
Mr.. Rudolph was reelected president
of the Associated Charities. and the fol-
lowing honorary vice presidents were
reelected: Hennen Jennings, Rev.
Roland Cotton Smith, Mgr. William T..
Russell and Corcoran Thorn. Rev. DIR.
Abram Simon was elected to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of l. l..
Blout. John Joy Edison was again Sc
lected to the post of treasurer. Elected
to the board of managers were the fol-
lowing: Miss Mabel T. Boardman,
Charles C. Glover. jr.. J. Phillip Herr
mann. Newbold Noyes, DR.. Loren B. T.
Johnson, DR.. William C. Rives. DR.. Will
lard S. Small, George S. Wilson. Mrs.
Harriet Blaine Beale. Miss Marion
Leutze and Miss Mary Gwynn..