Evening star., 1923-04-13
n D. c. WELFARE
| BODIES |ND0RSED
Committee Says
Il sS0rganizations Were Per-
4 sonalIy Investigated.

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sSeventy-four organizations of the
District have received the inderse-
nfent of the Endorsement committee
on welfare organizations made pub
lie today. NJ. A. Leese, chairman of
the Endorsement committee. In a let
ter transmitted yesterday afternoon
To Commissioner Rudolph, explained
that the affairs of each of the sew
epty-four bodies have been investi-
gated thoroughly and requesting that
the public give an attentive ear to the
appeals of these organizations
1.-THE Endorsement committee is COM
pesed of representatives of the pub
lE-at-large and of representatives of
the following organizations: Board of
Trade, Chamber of Commerce, Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
tfon, Rotary Club. City Club, Fedora
tion of Citizens Associations, XII
wAniS Club, WomenS City Club, Twen-
tieth Century Club, Lions Club, Cos
mopolitan Club, Civitan Club and OPP
timists' Club.
More Care Than Ever.
Chairman Leeses letter to Commits
sioner Rudolph follows, in part:
Never before in the history of this
committee or its predecessor, the
charities Endorsement committee, has
more painstaking care been exercised
than in the preparation of this years
report. Members of the committee
have personally investigated each and
every institution appearing on the
Enclosed approved list and have per-
sonally reported the conditions in
detail as found in the various inSti-
tutionS. In addition, each institution
whose name appears on the list has
submitted a detailed financial state
Ipent which has been checked and
approved by a subcommittee of the
Endorsement committee of welfare
organizations. All Of this detail was
carried forward in advance of action
by the committee as whole.
'AS time goes on the older men,
berS of the committee realize the i'm
lsortance TO the community of such an
lHstrumentality as the Endorsement
cammittee, each and all of whom give
OF their time and money unSelfishly
10 this public cause.
The public, too, has come to a live
Her appreciation of the value of the
service rendered by the Endorsement
committee. The facilities Of informa-
tiles is being made available through
the cooperation of the Washington
newspapers, the directory of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
tinue to print, list of the organiza-
tions approved by the Endorsement
committee under the heading Char
liable institutions and Organizations"
Copies for Members.
"Civic and commercial organiza-
tions will transmit copies of this re-
port to their Individual members.
The District Commissioners have
given the committee the support in
the administration of the commit
tees affairs and it certainly behooves
the public to give an attentive ear
to the appeals of the organizations
that have been approved. since in
the opinion of this committee, which
study Of the capabilities and spheres
OF influence OF the various organiza-
lions approved, are collectively well
quallfed to meet the community's
charitable and social service needs.
The list Of approved organizations
follow:
Aid Association for the Blind, 1850
r. street northwest; Associated Char
tiles. 923 H street northwest; Asso-
citation for Prevention of Tuberculo-
street; Baptist Home for Children,
SU4 Newton street northeast; Big Sis
1ers of District Of Columbia, Kresge
building; Boys Club of Washington,
230 street northwest; Boy Scouts OF
america Cd. e., 921 18th street;
west; Camp Good Will, s2s H street
northwest: Camp Pleasant, 923 H
street northwest; Catholic Charities,
Kresge building; Central Dispensary
York avenue; Central Union Mission,
622 Louisiana avenue; Children's Hos
pital of the District of Columbia, 18th
and w streets northwest; Child We'll
fare Society. 2100 G street; Children's
Christ Child Society, s24 Indiana
Rupert Home, Good Hope road. Ana
costa, D: G.; Citizens Relief Asso-
citation, 923 H street; Council of Jew
bia. 1908 Kilbourne street northwest;
Hospital, 7os Massachusetts avenue
n.Eortheast; Episcopal Eye Ear and
northwest; Episcopal Home for Chill
dren. Anacostia. d. G.; Florence Crit
tenden Hope and Help Mission, 217
Sd street; Friendship House Associa-
non, SZf virginia avenue southeast,
Garfield Hospital, 10th and Florida
avenue northwest; Gentlewomen's
League, SOC 18th street northwest;
Georgetown Industrial Center, 1440
Wisconsin avenue northwest; George
Washington University Hospital, 1897
II street northwest; Girls Friendly
Home. 1924 H street; Gospel Mission,
PA John Marshall place northwest;
Hebrew Home for the Aged, 415 N
street; Holy Family Day Nursery. SIS
4th street northwest.
Home of Mercy, KlingIa road and
ing Nurse Society, Star Buildings
Jewish Foster Home. 1913 @ street
northwest: Juvenile Protective Asso-
citation. 203 Eye street northwest;
Masonic and Eastern Star Home, Ia
koma Park. D. c.; Mira Mccoy An
drews Day Nursery Association, Inc,
A72 street southwest; National
Home for Destitute. Colored Women
and Children, 2458 8th street north
west National Homeopathic Hos
pital, I'd and N streets northwest;
National Training School for Women
and Girls. Lincoln Heights, D., c.;
Needlework Guild of America, 1870
wyoming avenue; Neighborhood-
House, 40 N street northwest; Noel
House Association. 1863 Kramer
street northeast; Phyllis Wheatley
Y. w. c. A, 901 Rhode Island avenue;
Prisoners Aid Society, 1911 G street
northwest; Providence HOSPITAL. I'd
d. c., Chapter, 1s Jackson place;
west; sibley Memorial Hospital, l14o
Nnrth Capifo1 sfreet p0ytbwesf. Sook