The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-14
K|WAN|S CLUB To
CONDUCT UNITED
CHARITIES DRIVE
kIwanlans TO Go After 1000 New
Members Of Charities oroanIxa-
tlon; Special Committee 10
Appointed by Club.
SELECT JUNE 20 AS
DATE FOR CAMPAIGN
Every Member OF Civic Club Ex.
peoted to Get at Least $40; Mrs.
Dwyer Tells Of Work, Being
Done Here.

After passing resolution com.
mendlng the organization for It's
work here and urging support from
local people. the Kwanls club In
session today voted TO take charge
of the membership drive soon to be
conducted by the Chickasha United
Charities. June 20 was the date sc.
lected for the drive.
The club appointed special com.
mittee. composed of A. l.. Thornton.
chairman: Gerald Il. Gowdy and A.
Is. Cochran, TO organize the Kiwanis
forces for the drive. An endeavor
will be made TO enlist 1000 new
members In the organization and
every Kiwanian will be expected TO
procure at least 40 members. The
membership fee is si.OO per year.
The club voted to assume the re.
sponsibilities OF the drive after an
interesting talk by Mrs. T. II. Dwyer,
head OF the Chickasha United Chari-
ties and one OF the women who have
been devoting much of their time TO
charity work here. Mrs. Dwyer told
of the activities of the organization
the financial crisis II Is facing. and
the desire of the organization to
continue its work here.
Mrs. Dwyer declared In her talk
to the club that the funds of the
United Charities are almost ex
hausted and unless the treasury is
replenished, the organization cannot
continue to render the service II has
rendered here for many years past.
She referred to the report for the
year of 1921 which showed that the
organization expended $l.420.06 to
help the city's poor that year.
Organization Is Praised.
The Kiwanis club, in session Tues
day, adopted the report of special
committee appointed to investigate
the character and volume of work
done by the United Charities organl-
zation and the manner In which the
work was carried on. The report of
this committee praises the organlza-
tion and recommends the support of
same. Following is the verbatim re-
port:
I'VE, your committee to whom the
matter of investigating the eharac-
ter and volume of the work done by
the United Charities Association of
this city, was referred, beg to sub
nit the following statement:
"First: We had conference
with officers and directors of the
United Charities and learned from
them that they have a total mem
bership of less than fifty.
Second: THAT they have now
fifteen different individuals or fami-
lies that require permanent assist
ance beside many emergency cases
both local and transient.
Third THAT the funds of this as
sociation are very much depleted
and unless their treasury is replen
ished from some source they will
not be able to continue this much
needed work.
Fourth We learned that they are
contemplating a membership drive
with dues of one dollar per MEM
ber. We believe that these good
women are doing very necessary
work. They take their turn during
the week attending the office in the
city hall without any expense to the
association.
"Fifth:-We learned that their as
sociation has had some financial aid
from both the city and county but
at the present time there are no
funds available from this source.
"Sixth:-We believe from the
character of this organization and
the work it is doing that it is en-
titled to one hundred per cent mem
bership of the citizens of this city
when they start their membership
drive, and that such representation
will put available funds in their
treasury to aid them in furthering
this much needed service and will
show some appreciation for their un-
firing efforts. Therefore, we, your
committee recommend that this club
go on record as favoring the pro-
posed membership drive and tender
it's service to them assisting them in
every way possible in making the
drive success.
FINALLY: We recommend that
such publicity be given by the mem
bers of this club and the press that
will be most helpful to the United
Charities association in successfully
putting over their drive"