New Britain herald., 1920-02-07

with only q lew QaES lSIC to WInO up the campaign, workers in the city started this morning to raist $25,00o. New Britain's share of the half mil lion dollar fund for the Homo for Crippled Children at NeUington.
 About 80 prominent men of the city were guests of r.. Allen Moore at 0 luncheon given last evening at the Ell<s home on Washington street, and listened to short speeches by Miss Constance Leigh. who Is in charge of the work there and by Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe and Leon A. Sprague, who will actively direct the drive here. Rev John T. Winters. who was to have been present to speak, was un- able to come but through MT. Moore expressed his desire to aid in the cause and his hearty endorsement of the project.
 Before presenting MT. Sutcnffe, MT. Moore impressed upon those present the need of new buildings for the children.
 II know the need of 1t. If you could only go there and sec the excel lent work being done and yet those children have not the proper quarters; they are housed as they ought not to be and We ought to put up first class buildings
 Rev. SutclifTe's Talk.
 We who are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak"
 Thus quoting the Bible, Rev. Sam uel Sutcliffe of St. Marks church opened his talk and added that if the element of human sympathy Is to he kept in the home for the children, the control of the institution ought to be out of state hands. If the element of human sympathy is to he lost sight of. then give the building to the state."
 The crippled children today stand as a rebuke to healthy people who worry over ordinary cares" said MT. Sutcliffe. This thing does not need to be pressed. Crippled children need a good home. for they are deprived of the benefits and unable to get into the game of Life. No human soul can refuse to give
 Homo Non-Sectarian.
 Emphasizing the fact that the home for the children at Newington is non-sect ta rian. Clarence F. Bennett, told of the numerous visits he had made to the home and of the excel lent care that is given the children.
 Whether the children are Protes- tant, Catholic or Jewish in faith. does not matter. They are all treated well.'
 He told of the hearty endorsement, which Rev. Lucyan Bojnowski gave the proposition, and said that people of many faiths were cooperating.
 Emphasizing also the need of new buildings MT. Bennett said that the present ones were the worst fire traps he had ever seen.
 II tell you conditions over there are rotten. There are forty children using one bath tub. two wash bowls and two toilets. We've just begun to learn how to give, and I urge you to give as much as you can to this fund. The American man must learn how to give money in an entirely different way"
 Work at the Home.
 Miss Constance Leigh. supervisor of the home for the crippled chill tlren's department Of the Children s Aid society, described the work being done at the institution. She was plain in her emphasis that living conditions at the home were danger ous for the inmates and should a fire break out it would almost be inn possible to remove the children from the home.
 "There was a time. Miss Leigh said, when people who noticed crip- pied or deformed children remarked that such was the way of the Lord and forgot all about them. Times are changing and the people are realizing that those kidCiies can be helped to become we'll men and women. and assets to their com munitieS.
 "People have been long on sympa- thy and charity. but very deficient when 1t came to giving. Just give us a good place to care for and train those children and we'll send them back to you. grown to be good citi- Zens."
 Mir. Noorc's Appeal. Honorary Chairman F Alien Moore of the committee issued the following appeal today. It comes from n man who is a director of the Home and is most thoroughly acquainted with it's work:
 ''The Home for Crippled, in New inEton, is the only institution of it's kind in the state where the defornled child can be sent for hospital and school work. The present buildings can accommodate comfortably not over so patients, and there are now 106 crowded into those buildings, with waiting list of between 40 and 60.