Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
READS LIKE FICTION

~HE author of the annual report
of the Associated Aid Societies
Il has not only penned PAM
phlet fully setting forth the OBJ
iects and accomplishments of the
organization, but has put an ordl-
narily dry topic into interesting, il
not entertaining, language. Some OF
it reads like extracts from an old
time family story book. For example
this extract:
Smith drank pretty much all
the time except when he was
earning enough money 10 jrs
him through his next spree. MRS;
smith died of a broken heart, ana
il devolved upon the eldest
daughter, Mary, to keep up the
home. Although Mary was 10.
she knew little ap0uI is ePife' wife's
death sobered Smith, ana Ior
Guite a while he did his part by
his family. But he grew
under the girls management I aIo
when the visitor from lhS vas
appeared on the scene ne ne M9S Nffn
a.bput 10 go back to his old ne,
IaIievino. that he could spend tne
money about as foollshly as sn0
girl, on the first VISIT our W. mof
sized up the trouble, anu begin
LIN unt 'r a lesson in window clean
Lessons in cooking, sweep
ne and tidying up followed, Win
;ncreasine good results. Sihlth
saw that his daughter was was ba3 tm
hard, and ne yos apPLGiI doing. Before
Ing good, kind neighbor was
Ind who kept on with the les
sons which helped to avert What
might have been family Tragedy
Sounds almost too good to be true
doesn't it? But it's all q part o
the days work at the Aids office
And il that isn't to your liking con
slider this:
Tho traveller who goes into a
1;ttIa hotel in a northern county
one of the old-fashloneu supsIan
tiaI hostelries of which there are
still o few. and run by pleain3I
aeo an attractive little girl of
some sixteen summers, blue-eyed
and fair-haired, and perfectly con-
tented. 1t is some three years or
more since she came TO llNs theie,
and except for the fact that she
s@ometimes som wonders about her
brothers and sisters. she doesn't
xvant TO go back. For the less
said about them the better. AZ
the Aid Societies nothing good Is
recorded, while Marjorie's record
since she has been placed has
been Al. A visitor goes to see her
every two or three months, and
She looks forward to the visit.
'This is the sort of thing secretar,
McCandless and his coworkers ar
doing day by day and week by week
with little or no encouragement
from the mass of us who go abou
our own business, knowing tina
somebody must look after the poor
the needy and distressed, but to-
careless or too busy to do it our
selves. The stress of war has plac
ed additional burdens on the Aids
and the many demands for none
for war work have robbed the or
panization of funds it ordinaril
would have received. Last year tn
number of different families unde
the Societies attention was COS, tn
number of visits made, 6.543; tn
number of official interviews, 3,587
children under the care of the or
ganization at the end of the veal
26O-these are only a few of tn
items Set forth by the report. Th
work is growing. 1t must not las
1. must be adequately financed an
Harrisburg must do it. 1t is nc
apart from our war sacrifices
but part of them, and our contribu
tions must not be neglected or di
minished because of other demand
upon our generosity. 1t is as true 10
day as ever thatS"the poor we hav
always with us" and charity be
gins at home"
! If YOU can't go TO war you may b