Evening star., 1921-12-27
OPPORTUNITY FUND
STILL NEEDS S2,648
Seven Families Not Fully
Provided For-AppeaI
Goes On.

The Opportunity Fund today is
within s2.64S Of the amount needed
s13,1o6. Yesterday the Star acknowl-
edged a total of s9,19I. since which
time S611 has been received by the
Associated Charities. Several of the
remaining seven opportunities, as
noted below, have large sums to their
credit. No 3 needs less than $500
and No. 10 needs S161. Other sums
needed range from a little over $500
to $500
The appeal will be kept open up to
New Year. if necessary. with the
hope that by that time every one of
the original II families. with their
% children and 10 adults. will be
taken care of for the coming year.
Several gifts have been received in
memory of loved ones in whose name
or by whose initials the gifts have
been acknowledged. Already the re-
turns have exceeded the sums re-
ceived for last years fourteen
Christmas opportunities. More peo-
pie have contributed this year than
in any of the eleven previous years
during which the opportunity appeal
has been made. With the fund four
Charities hopes that the remaining
sums needed for opportunities 8. 4.
10, II, II, Is and IA will soon be at
hand.
The Star will continue TO receive
and acknowledge contributions or
they may be sent directly to the As
sociatcd Charities. John Joy Edison,
treasurer. 923 II street NV. Checks
should be made payable to John Joy
Edison, treasurer, Associated Charl-
ties.
The remaining opportunities and
the sum needed for each are as fol-
lows:
Opportunity No. 3 = Saving the
children from their fathers example;
deserted wife and two children.
date. S739.13: still needed. S196.S7.
Opportunity No. 4-Trying to be
both father and mother: deserted wife
and three children. Amount needed.
$1,000: received to date, So95.l2: stu
needed. $70i.SS.
Opportunity No 1O-Helping those
who help themselves: widow and six
children. Amount needed. $3.50: re-
ceived to date, s61S.50; still needed.
s161.50.
Opportunity No. 11-Tuberculosis
took her husband; widow (colored)
six children. Amount needed. $3.50;
received to date, s441.05; still needed.
$33S.95.
Opportunity No. 1:-Tuberculosis
and influenza did it; widow and three
young children. Amount needed.
1886: received to date. s4Sl: still
needed. si55.
Opportunity No. 13-Too good to
be true: invalid father (colored)
woman nearly blind and five children.
Amount asked for, s9SS: received to
date. s513.6o: still needed. s474.35.
Opportunity No. l4-Thanks God
for her blessings; widow and three
children. Amount asked for. S1,352
received to date, S1.OS5.55; still
needed, S316.45.
Contributions Acknowledged.
Previously acknowledged by Asso-
ciated Charities. S9,613: acknowledged
Yesterday by The Star, s1S4. Total.
s9.797
Received by Associated Charities to-
day: A. c. NJ. So; NJ. Z. B.. SO; A. B..
IS; Baltimorean, So; v. B., So: A. w.
c., SIS; A. c. c., s.; L. V. c. $40; W.
a. E., 50; A. w. F., So: j. W. H., S.;
". L. X, So: Mrs. L. L.. 50: w. G.
McM.. 81: F. G. p, So; E. G.. SO; Mrs.
r. H., SIS: Mrs. S. p. T.. $40: T. B. R.,
81: Miss L: R; R., s.: Miss n. T. R.,
SO; c. A. R., $50: c. w. s., SO: H. A.
T.. $50; Miss H. T.. 81: Miss NJ. B. A.
$500; F. A. B.. $40: P. D. P. 50 in mem
ory of B. F. K. So: o. Z. NJ. So; J. s.
p, So; D. p, s5: in memory of Miss
A. f., S, SIS; II. L. w. $40: Miss A