Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-07
CHARTTY'S REAL END
CLEARLY INDICATED in
EDUCATIONAL DISPLAY
Exhibition in Widener Building
a Practical Demonstration of
How to Help the Needy
to Help Themselves
DIFFICULT PROBLEM MET
"Motionless Movies" and Three-act
Drama Garry Their Lesson
to Spectators

An additional squad of demonstrators
had to be added today to the staff eN-
planning the displays at the Educational
Exhibit i'm the Widener Building, under
the auspices of the Society for Organizing
charity More than 5000 persons have al
ready visited the exhibition, and those
In charge have been so swamped with
niesiions from the Interested ones that
n hurry call" for more aides was sent
ont u is morning by Stevens Heckscher,
president Of the society.
Tho purpose of the exhibit is to demon
strato in the most tangible way, by the
means Of booths. "mOtioness movies,
and a three-aCt drama, the real inside OF
the daily problems the society faces In
its efforts to set the poor and distressed
on their feet again. II is also intended to
demonstrate Just how these problems are
solved and what the society does with Its
funds.
EXPERT EFFICIENCY AIDS
80 far tho most vigorous objection TO
tho work of the society" said Il, NJ. Lit
tie today. has been that it spends more
money Oh the salaries OF its workers
than It does In material goods for the
poor. While I do not say that this is
strictly true, I would not be alarmed If
IL were the case. For IL is principally by
the efficiency of our workers that we are
able TO accomplish as much as we do.
we seek to put our fingers on the very
vital spot of a famly's distress IL takes
n sympathetic expert TO do TINS. rood
and clothes are generally only the very
surface of the needs of family In dis
tress Pouring out money I'm ceaseless
stream would be just like pouring water
into n cask with the stop-cock open at
the bottom. 1t passes rght through, and
when II is gone the need is still there,
our aim is to help the family help them
selves"
The best booth of the society to illus
trate the work II does is that in which
there Is a telephone exchange, with
streamers branching out fin every dircc-
tion, connecting courts. churches. schools,
hospitals, charities and aid societies of
every kind. BY this means duplicating
the work of other charities that may be
working on the same case Is avoided.
Every bit of available data on the case
can he obtained, thus enabling the society
to render intelligent aid at once.
There Is a huge wheel which registers
every cry for help received by the society
during the days of the exhibit. Nearly
800 have been received so FAR.
HIGH SCHOOL VISITORS.
Among the visitors to the exhibit yes
terday afternoon was n class of about 30
young ladies' from the West Philadelphia
High School. 1t was a class in "Phlla-
dclphia Government"
The speakers today at the exhibit will
be John story jerks, director of the
Society for Organizing Charity. and r. NJ,
Little. secretary, They will speak on
the Homeless Man" This afternoon
there will be a discussion on "Co-opera-
tion with the Churches" The speakers
will he Franklin Spencer Edmonds and
the Revs. William Gray Jones, II T.
Joseph n. carp, Edwin Eeyl
Delk, Louis C. Washburn. ID. H.. william
Quay Rosselle. ID. D., William "A. O'Don-
nell John b. Laird and Edgar II. Appen-
zeller
The play, Where Charity Begins" will
also be given.