The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08

come up during the past two months.
Fuel has been unattainable In many
| families except by gathering it along
! the railroads or taking it from the
cars. Adults found it difficult to
secure their fuel by these methods,
while children were often aided In
throwing some from the cars. All
this is having a very bad effect on
the morals Of the community and IS
training the thriftless in ways not
strictly upright and honest. There
| is need for more preventive and con-
structive work along social lines II
we as city are to do our full duty
by the rising generation.
Many Ask Services.
| During the period covered by this
report there were four hundred TWEEN.
ty-three applications for services of
the United Charities. One hundred
fifty-nine came from the applicants
themselves and seven from their rela-
itives. Business firms reported TWEEN
ty-f1ve families and men who came to
Ius. We are sure there were many
more advised to come who did not
larriye School teachers and ofhc1als
reported thirty; church societies and
loficers, fourteen; private individuals,
ltwenty-seven; Visiting Nurse associa-
ton, ten; city and county officials,
two; Y. NJ. C. A., four. There were
sixty-three applicants for work who
asked for nothing else. Twenty-Five
inquiries were made by out of town
societies and individuals.
There were three hundred ninety
one individuals coming under our
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eleven were fourteen years of age or
over and one hundred eighty under
Zone hundred twenty-six families, Of
whom eleven were colored).
Material assistance was secured one
hundred eight times and had an ap-
proximate value Of three hundred fif-
! teen dollars The material relief in
February amounted to one hundred
Twenty-Five dollars sixty-three cents;
March. eighty three dollars fifty
cents: April, one hundred one dollars
seventy-seven cents. Work, the best
| antidote for aims, does not make as
| large a showing as we would like as
| there were but eleven temporary jobs
secured and seventeen persons assist
ed in securing positions which should
| be permanent.
l Me0tCai AiO SfNCHs
| Physicians and medicine were Sc
cured in several instances where
necessary and in one home where the
husband had become exhausted with
being up all night waiting on his sick
wife and working all day trying to
keep the wolf from the door, We were
able through the cooperation of the
visiting nurse and the Salvation Army
to give the husband some little re-
spite. The visiting nurse looked
after the woman during the day and
| the Salvation Army supplied the
woman for the night care.
! Four families consisting Of nine
persons were given transportation to
other cities where their conditions
would be materially improved.
The general secretary made six
hundred one calls to or in behalf Of
the needy, wrote ninety-two letters
and answered the telephone four
hundred ninety-nine times, aside from
doing other routine Office work.
House cleaning time is here and
there are many good housewives
needing help in getting through this
ordeal as soon as possible. There are
also a number of men and women
who would be glad to get just this
scat of work if they only knew where
10 find it. The United Charities is
receiving requests from both sides
and will be glad to help the house
wife and the one seeking employme nt
providing they will make their needs
known.
It will be much more satisfactory
for all if the United Charities Is
given two days in which to find either
the Job or the help. Telephone your
needs to the United Charities 740,
between eight and nine-thirty in the
morning or one-thirty and two in the
afternoon.
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