Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-28

done by the organization is outlined
as follows:
/ Visits to and in behalf of appli
eants, 1855; applicants interviewed IN
Ioffice, 1920; persons interested in ap
kplicants interviewed IN office, 1862,
number for which doctors care was
secured, Ill; number for which hos
pital care was secured, 30; number
for which employment was secured
| 1873; number placed in institutions
other than hospitals, Is.
| The number of families under care
during the fiscal year numbered 500
and the total number of individuals
cared for numbered 2156. The social
state of the persons cared for is out
lined as follows:
Married Couples Aided.
Married couples, SOL; widows, Az;
widowers, 8; orphan families, q; resi-
dent single men, los; transient single
men, "a; single women, 16; deserted
families, %.
The nationality of persons cared for
was as follows:
Portuguese, ITO; Hawaiian, 81; Por.
to Rican, Sc; Spanish, SO; Chinese,
IS; American, %; British, 26; Ger.
man, Is; Russian, II; Norwegian, IL;
Filipino, 10; Korean, 10; Swedish, s.;
Irish, 5; Italian, 4; Finn, 4; Scotch,
4; African, 4; Dane, 2; Swiss, q; Mex.
lean, q; Cuban, 2; Austrian, l; Guam
ese, /; Hindu, 1; American Indian, /.
Mr. Brooks supplemented the sta
tistical, report by an oral discussion of
the general situation. He said, in
part:
FtviiI Continue To Grow.
"The work has grown steadily
through the year, and there is every
Indication that it will continue to
grow There is much dependence in
the city that is being ministered to
by private individuals who would feel
safer and wiser to have such work
done by this society if they were as
snred that it would be done by us
kindly, wisely and promptly. We are
.endeayoring all the while to give such
assurance.
I'VE stand with our doors wide open
to receive every application and at
tend to every need that is pointed out
to us. If there is need for immediate
relief, we give it Immediately. Then
we try to find out the cause of the
need and remove 1t. We make the
kindest, most confidential investiga-
tions that are possible, and refuse, as
far as our Intelligence can carry us,
to be made accessory to- peoples will.
ingness to lose their selfrespect.
"A wide-open door to every appeal
must be the policy of every true chas-
ity organization society. Every ap-"
peal must be patiently and courteous
ly listened to. whether the appeal is
answered in the way the applicant is
seeking or not The community must
be sure that there is somebody whose.
business 1t is to hear and judge, and
apply the remedy to every situation of
want $50
Expression of Coincidence.
Charity organization is an expires.
sion of the corporate conscience and
kindness, and, let me add, of the cor.
porate sagacity. of the community. As
long as we solicit money for our work
We. belong to the community and must
work under the direction and correc-I
ton of the community.
1T is a service to the community
and help to us in our work when
citizens make suggestions and re-
quire ofus the largest efficiency which
our means make US capable of.
1T is probable that there are many
individuals in the city giving to peo-
pie who are well known to us. If you
are helping people whom you some
times ieeI you know too little about,
why not ask us? If you have no par.
ticular personal interest in someone
who applies to you for help, why not
ask. us to find out something about the
situation before you give aid?
Zone of our large problems is the
drift of people from the plantations to.
the city. These people constitute a.
large part of our applicants They
are not at all fitted for city life and.
In most cases should never have left
the plantations.
There is no work for them here.
Here their children do not have food
enough to grow properly on, and must
grow up with enfeebled bodies They
must inevitably swell the ranks of
the constantly growing army of UNI
employables. Plantation labprers and
their families feel the lure of the city,
its sights and sounds, its supposed
In most cases 1t presents.
no advantages to them; on the con-
trary, disadvantages. We are con-
stantly trying to persuade such fami-i
lies to return to the plantations, and
often with considerable success
How to stop this drift To the city
is a matter which should receive from
every one all the attention that can
be paid to il. There are some people.
in the city who are not fit for planta-
ton work, who have been sifted out of
plantation life for that reason They.
are not9fit for any kind of life but to
become beggars. They often try the
very last bit of our wits. There are
people who will not work and who
have little children dependent on
them. It is difficult to feed the chill
dren without feeding lazy hulk of a
man. 1t is difficult to prove in court
that he will not work There are
some who have inherited the laziness
of the ages.
1T takes time, and it takes skill
and wisdom and patience of a high
order to do this work, and not hurt de-
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