Evening star., 1920-03-31
TOTAL OF EASTER
GIFTS INCREASES
Associated Charities Takes
: Pledges Payable Within
I Next Three Months.

Pledges payable in monthly Install
nents or some time during the next
three months will be accepted from
those who desire to contribute to the
fund of $4,000 which the Associated
Charities Is raising this week. 1t
was announced that the sum raised
had today mounted to sans.
The committee of the Associated
Charities which was appointed to act
with Milton f. Allies for the special
Easter appeal announces that 1t is
friends for the work as well as money
that it is seeking to obtain. and
and pledges will be most acceptable.
Two instances of real self-sacri-
flee in giving have come to the atten-
ton of the committee--one a pen
eioner. who. out of his modest allow
snce left him as a beQuest. has con-
tributed the equivalent of several
days income; another. hard-work-
ing laborer. foreigner, who is CIV
ing to the Associated Charities ana
allied agencies $40 each month Yet
tributors seems to think he is doing
anything more than his share.
List Of Contributors.
Contributions may be made payable
TO Howard S. Reeside, treasurer. ana
be sent to the Social Service house.
e23 II street northwest. or to The Star:
Previously Acknowledged in The
Star, s2.OI4: Col. William Eric Fow-
Ter. $500; Miss Elizabeth p. Patterson.
800: Mr.. and Mrs. Alpheus Henry
Snow. $50. second contribution; MI
and Mrs. Frederick A Delano s2o'
SIS. second contribution; a friend. $40;
Miss Sophie C. Anderson. $40; Gustav
Buchholz. $40: Henry c. karr. s10'
Henry S. Mott, SO; James II. STEPHENS,
$40: George w. Mccoy. So: MIS-,
Charles L. Birch. So: Miss Jean ~
Duncan. So: Maj William Heimke. 50;
F. IS. Holbrook. So; Mrs. Paul u. john
son, s5; T. H. Kearney. So: William A
Kinnan. S5: Miss Gertrude Lutz, So;
NJ. C. s.. So: Mrs. NJ J. Sherratt: Va
second contribution; H. n. Byerly.
$3.50: VI. B. Bernstein. 81; F. B.
Prooks. So: Mrs. Evelyn \. Burgess.
So: w. W. Coblentz. So T. r. Coward,
81; Mrs; r, G.; Dean: 81; Sam B.
mander and Mrs. William C owen.
50: Miss Mary ]. Sterrett. 50. second
contribution: Mrs. John A: Converse.
81; Lieut.. Commander E. B.. 81: Miss
Ethel c. Curran, 81: Lieut.. Col. and
Mrs. ". II. H., 81: William Black
man. 81: S. P. s. 81; Theodore Picard,
81: AWHILE Allen. 81; II. H. Pierce, 81.
and NJ. c. Latta. 81
Volunteer Workers Big Part.
Volunteer workers. friendly visit
ors." as they are called. play large
Part IN the WOfk Oh tne ASSOCIATED
Charities.
A friendly visitor is volunteer will
ing to tie UP with the family for bet
ter for worse. in sickness and in
health. without hope of reward, but
for the purpose of acting as good
'neighbor and counselor. To recover
one family to independence, to pro-
vide opportunities for self-advance-
ment to the children of one home. to
stand by in case of sickness. or dis
couragement. or failure, calls for ut
most courage. fidelity and patience.
: Yet in only such ways, can many
family be salvaged or find its way
back to its best estate
Instead of being one associated
charities and one board of managers,
in actual working operations the So
boards. through it's organization of
of its seven neighborhood centers.
These conferences are composed of
volunteer workers who meet weekly
with the district visitor and go over
her work and help in the solution of
her family and neighborhood prob
lens.
individual Family Needs.
In the discussion of individual FAM
ily needs no names are used. but
the circumstances more or less typ
ical of a group of families are de-
scribed and thus a solution is sought
that will commend itself to the COM
mon sense of non-professional char
table workers. Thus each visitors
diagnosis and treatment is tested out