The Washington times., 1922-12-17
NAvf.YARD GUNNERS
. TO FEED CHILDREN
Association Votes to Provide
Merry Christmas for Fifty
Destitute Riddles.
GOOD FELLOWS ARE ACTIVE
Some important Assignments
StiII Open for Folks Of
/ Charitable Mind.
GOOD FELLOWS ARE ACTIVE

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Christmas dinners for fifty chill
dren. followed by q big Christmas
party, with a tree and all the toys
and candy which 90 to make up
. real Christmas. have been Of
fered by the Seamen Gupf ers' Ath-
letic Association at the Washing.
ton navy yard.
Another feature for the Good
Fellow movement is the enroll
ment OF . new Government EN-.
ployes' Good Fellow Club. The
new club Ii made up Of twenty-five
to thirty members Of the files d.
vision Of the income tax unit, To-
Gated in the Interior Department
building.
REAL GOOD FELLOWS,
While the members OF the Sea-
men Gunners' school are not any
too well fixed for funds, living as
they do on the pay Of regular sea-
men. they are real Good Fellows.
Several Christmas propositions
were brought UP, including a
smoker and dinner for the assOcia-
ton, an entertainment, and the din
ner for the poor children Of the
city.
The members Immediately voted
to take care Of the children and
let the other affairs drop. Discus.
sion Of the plan reused more ana
moro enthusiasm among the men.
The number Of children which were
to be accommodated was boosted
voluntarily several times until the
limit Of fifty was reached.
WILL SUPPLY AUTOS.
The Chr stmas party idea was de-
veloped and began growing. Then
Il was suggeted that the association
send automobiles to pick up the
children from all parts Of the city.
take them to the Navy Yard. give
them the biggest meal they had
eaten in months. treat them to
real Christmas party, and take them
home again in the evening.
II was decided to call on the
Good Fellow editor Of The Times
and secure the names of the child
rem in the families which had bean
represented in the appeals for Aid.
Chief Yeoman II. E. Folkersna
was appointed to secure the names
/, and to make the arrangements for
gathering the children up on Christ
mas morning.
The navy yard cars will make the
rounds of the homes selected on
| Christmas morning and will deliver
all the children at the navy yard
for dinner between II and l o'clock
Christmas day.
IN MERS HALL
The kiddies will be taken into the
set aside for them and where they
win be given everything they
! should eat and then more.
When Il becomes impossible for
the children to swallow any more
they will be taken to the Christmas
| tree and the afternoons festivities
will begin. As II grows dark the
children will be loaded into the
automobiles and returned home,
| full Of the memories Of what, for
most Of them. will have been the
biggest day OF their young lives.
Consider Families.
The youngest Of the Good Fellow
Clubs in the government depart
| ments, the Income Tax Files Div
ision Good Fellows Club has taken
the names Of six destitute families
for consideration. From this lis'
win Be selected enc or two Of the
most deserving and the club viii
see to II that all the wants Of the
are taken care OF. Norman r. VII
kerson 10 handling the list Of
| names.
The enrolment OF Good Fellows
10 picking up rapidly n the holiday
season approached.
| While there is still opportunity
for q large number OF Good Fellows
to do good work this Christmas, Il
is becoming daily more certain that
none OF the needy families regis
tered 90 far are going to Be left
unprovided for on Christmas Day.
One Of the biggest factors in
speeding up the work Of getting
the needy families assigned Is the
large enrolment OF Good Fellow
clubs and Of organisations. which
are able to take over large mum
bsrs OF families. OF these the
Loans and Currency Good Fellowl
Club and the American Legion
have each taken over practically
~ ~ tno ln" >" Nv" o'r
Of the city.
LEGION 10 HELP.
The District department u the
American Legion. Watson b
Miller, department commander, haa
taken over all but q few Of the
families In the Northeast section
Of the city.
The Loans and Currency Good
Fellows Club has taken care Of
the southwest section, 90 that now
there are only one or two newly
registsred families left In each of
these sections.
] The Rreatest number Of families
l registered live In the northwsst
section of the city, but ~ this SEQ
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