Evening star., 1921-03-08
|NSTALLMENT PLAN
ADOPTED BY MANY
Responses to the Easter Ap-
peal of the Associated
Charities Number 2,456.

Tide Of responses to the Easter ap-
peal of the Associated Charities for
10000 contributing members moved
forward today, with 2,456 members
registered at noon, leaving 1854 need
ed to complete the desired number.
Are you going to be one of the
1874 to join the 2,456 already help
ing Washington's helpless?
Many contributors are taking ad-
vantage of the plan to make their do
nations on the installment plan.
Three contributors asked to be en-
rolled as capital members, inclosing
$25 each as the first quarterly payments
on pledges Of 500.
Clergymen of the city are being ask
ed to bring the Easter appeal to the
attention of their congregations next
Sunday. AS an indication of the in
terest in the appeal shown by church
organizations, the Winona Bible class
of the Kellar Memorial Lutheran Sun
day school sent a contribution of $25
today.
Miss B0ardman Interested.
Miss Mabel T. Boardman, former Com
missioner of the District Of Columbia
said today she was deeply interested in
the success Of the appeal Of the Asso-
ciated Charities for more members and
contributors. Miss Boardman said:
While l was Commissioner of the
District of Columbia ] made many ad-
dresses before citizens associations and
other bodies. in which have strongly
urged the cultivation of a community
spirit. A real test Of this community
spirit is sympathetic interest in those
Of our fellow citizens who are less for
government provides institutional care
for the INDECENT sick, the insane, the
tuberculous and those incapacitated by
old age. 1t is left to private charity to
meet the emergent needs of those who,
as residents of Washington. suffer mis-
fortune beyond their own means to
meet.
I'm meeting this need the Associated
Charities holds an important place, as
it is the one big general non-sectarian
and non-racial family welfare organiza
ton of the city. ! have been member
of the board Of managers for many
years. and, therefore. although / now
speak as Commissioner, can do SO from
a personal first-hand knowledge of it's
work. AS an illustration of what the
Associated Charities does. I recall an
experience OF some years ago when a
mother came to me in great distress
asking that would find employment for
her twelve -year-old boy. 1 was busy at
the time with Red Cross matters and
asked the Associated Charities to see
what could be done to meet the situa-
ton without putting the twelve-year-
old boy to work. At my suggestion the
mother called on the society and later I
received a report of the exact facts and
what had been done to meet the situa-
ton.
Old Affection Awakened.
1T transpired that the husband
had been i'll for over a year in one
of our hospital Meantime the pay
ments on the house which they were
buying had lapsed. and they were
likely to lose the equity in the prop
erty by a forced sale. The visitor
of the Associated Charities, to whom
was intrusted the solution of the
family difficulties, found that there
were relatives on the mothers side
who would be quite able to come to
the rescue, but that they had been
estranged because they considered
that the woman, who had been a
school teacher. had married out of
her class by wedding a mechanic
The man had proved a good husband.
but no reconciliation with the wife's
relatives had ever been effected. The