New Britain herald., 1919-12-11
l7l APPLICANTS ARE
 AIDED BY CHARITIES
Miss Cora M. Beale Submits Her
 Monthly Report

''S hIOillllly report O1 MISS oO1tt M Beale agent of the New Britain Charity Organization was made today. The bureau assisted I'll applicants, school children were given shoes, money sent to a numbe of families who needed funds to tide them over a rough period, and Thanksgiving din- $35.S4.
 The report follows: ,t ITO the Directors of the New Britain
 Charity OrganiZatiOn
 TheSe are such busy days that we realize that you can seldom take the time to walk into the office of the Charity Organization in order to sit down and talk things over. We wish you could. That would be the most satisfactory way. As a substitute, we attempt once a month to give you a report of a few helpful things your gifts and interest make possible. We tell you of our efforts to spread out that gift; to use it wisely while en- deavoTinS to make plans which shall call for small expenditures.
 The old style of Lady Bountiful, when placing her generous gift in the hands of a Charity Organization, wished to see a large sum at the foot of the column labeled, Aid to the poor.' She wanted her money to go direct to the needy. You business men of today and all those really in terested in social work understand the ideal for which we reach,-an ever shrinking "relief' column with the administration items at the top of the list, making it possible for eff ficient work to be carried on. We need not remind you that our par ticular business here in New Britain is to try and build up needy families by using every shred of ingenuity we possess, all the expert advice we can get and every facility the city affords so that, if possible, the families will never again need charita ble aid.
 ''Close contact With all the other welfare agencies through the Conf dential Exchange located in our office makes us clearing house, a central hub in the social service wheel
 "Close team work helps us all to accomplish better results in our fam fly welfare work, we find.
 Ut is not always wise for us tC give family histories, nor to go into detail regarding the dark and dis couraging days which follow a smash in the family machinery. Whether ! the break is caused by ;r ,deSertine l husband, an erring daughter the 1 sickness eof| the mother,a or the 4death f#oF fhesI wage carner, it results in ar , abnormal home condition, a condi- : ton which may be acute, but is often one of chronic proportions. The so- ! cial worker aims to help readjus1 ] matters by immediate material aid ii l necessary, then by the far more diff l ficult route of trying to raise the ] family standard, find the reason foa ] the fanily's inability to help itsel1 1 and to work for an end where there 1 will be no moro need.
 ''In spite of the fact. that we re- l peatedly place before d long suffering 1 public our stories of New Britainss l widows and their dependent children and the statement that our work lies ] m ostly with their constant problems we are again confronted at this hol i iday season with the question, 'IS 1 there any call for aid in these pros porous days" Higher wages who's, upward slant is much more gradua
 than the H. C. of l.. and the rent line has not solved all the laboring man
 problems when his family is numer
 ous. With his seven youngsters unde 1 working age to be housed, fed, clothet ] and Shod, life is not all comforts
 even when health prevails. As al
 ways in a large family there is ap
 to be some illness, so when physician
 and medicines are necessary, and i
 takes just all the wages to live or 1 dinarily, someone has to be the goo
 neighbor and hold out a helping hand
 This the Charity Organization does
 quietly, in a confidential way, helpin over the hard place till the road E smooth again.
 Suppose the times are now pros l porous, what shall we do with tha
 sixteen year old girl or rather youn I woman in stature, who will alway
 have the brain of a five year ol
 child? Can a mentality of five year