The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-01-20
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ii sIly More Cases This Year
Than at Any Time
b Recently
WORK WELL DONE HERE
fhe Public Will Be Asked
This Week to
Help.

For the last three years about MY
interested epople in the city OF Fair
/ mont have ketp the Associated Chart-
ties on jts feet. These men and wom-
I. iefl have been glad to do all they posst-
i,Iy could, but in the meantime, ex-
4 Srenses. including costs Of caring for
many needy wamilies, have gone up
aIid besides the usual number OF help
less individuals which every city has
Thrust upon It, there has arisen IN the
last six or eight weeks labor condi-
ton which 1t is expected will grow
81 itfse instead OF better and which VIII
iiaie employment for the laboring
1iSss hard to procure, in some lines
q work.
The Associated Charities have help
's "a &c least 200 families OF various
classes the past year. These families
afe not as rule paupers; only to be
helped time after time with no appar.
eiit progress one way or the other: !:
( hut instead are worthy persons who
through sickness or sudden calamity
have deem rendered destitute In vary
I'm degrees. Added to this number
Siiice the cost Of living has scared TO
sd6 cI0Uds are many more this vim
fSr tli3ii ever before, because not In
eqefv line Of work has the salary IN
ciease ed shoulder to shoulder with the
6f8 ldSliy Increased cost OF rent. food
4 .an i Ni6fiieB one must add to this, the
IaeS Sitabi6 large eiamily the many In
4 noaent babies who follow close, one
upon tie other. 1t Is not hard then
8 tonude deTstand those who have but one
or two children and who work hard
( az III and day ont to care for them,
with perhaps the gift OF a slightly bet.
& ter Intelligence to help US out how
almost certain it is that sooner or la
( ter the wage Garner OF the family will
face sickness or lose his job and be.
come dependent m charity, For these
people never have an opportunity to
sisye money.
lli face trouble some time or other
& ana have had to pc helped out.by those
near: usually by q relative or q good
friend. There are many people though
Who have grown almost desperate
FOR want OF q friend in time Of need.
Look back over your life either here
81 "a another city and think what It
would have meant to you, when sick
ness Gfept{ {unex ectedly in and robbed
YOU Ut the means OF a livelihood, had
yba known Just where to send for
help which would not have robbed
bn 6t self respect,
Tie work Of the Associated Chari-
ties ilnthis city is one scarcely under
sl6od by many. Charity sounds un-
loTely One shudders and says, "Oh.
sFill ever have to accetp charity!.
There are different kinds Of charity
SOME which comes loudly with blare
of drum and horn, some which comes
dgietty but with an unavoidable pub
IicitS neyerth heless, and there is anoth-
- charity which works almost in the
darkness with a gentleness OF spirit
and hiding from the right hand what
the 1ett hand is doing. This is the
sort s0f work which falls largely to the
Associated Charities in Fairmont, a
N6fk requiring SO little mentioning OF
names for the sake Of the unfortunate
Who needs help; that few people know
anything about 1t. Il
For the last two years the Associat-
ed Charities have made no request for
money! because Of the unusual amount
oE var work, absorbing all activity.
Outside sof the appeal to schools at
1hahkggtving tine for groceries and
outSr0Wn clothes which appeal was
met generously by every school in the
city there has been little in the way
pi material aid to help IN, this work.
Nogiahately there was plenty Of en-
1IpSRsnt AT Christmas time fund
collected by The Times met the i'm
,siedt6te needs of destitute families
> md little children, furnishing clothes