Evening star., 1924-04-20
ASSOCIATED CHARITY
FUND STILL SHORT
$16,410 Needed to Complete
$4,000 Budget for Welfare
Bodies Programs.
1876 HAVE CONTRIBUTED
Incident of Relief to Stricken Fam
lily Is Given.

The annual Easter campaign of the
Associated Charities and Citizens Re
lief Association closes officially with
returns mailed yesterday and today
to Ord Preston, treasurer, 1922 18th
street northwest. The campaign,
which opened on Wednesday, April 2,
had brought in up to last night, I,239
contributions, which added TO those
recorded earlier in the fiscal year.
bring the total up to 1876. The goal
has been 10000 members.
| The balance still needed to com
plete the s55.oo0 budget OF these fam
| lily welfare agencies is si6,4IO44 1t
will be necessary, therefore, for the
committee in charge of the campaign
| TO continue it's efforts TO raise this
amount within the next few weeks
and before the Associated Charities
| begins its summer outings work, for
/ which it must appeal lat Tne two
outing camps are scheduled to open
| as follows: Camp Pleasant at Blue
Plains, d. c., on Tuesday, July !, and
| Camp Good Will in Rock Creek Park,
! on Wednesday, July =. The summer
outing committee will meet soon To
perfect plans for the season.
! One who has evidently seen the
nections with its Christmas Oppor-
tunity fund. writes: 1T is with great
/ pleasure that / can send my mite to
| this great work. The blessing, COM
! fort, self-respect and renewed faith
/ that have come TO the little family Of
| three Zone of the society's fourteen
/ CHRISTMAS Opportunities), is evidence
enough of the worth and blessing il
is TO our community"
An Easter Incident.
Easter eggs are going to hospital
wards this morning for a mother and
five little children who have been
befriended in their hour Of need by
! the Associated Charities. A District
visitor of this society is rendering
| this service at the request of the
mothers close relatives. The chill
| dren, all under eight years, are sepa-
| rated for the moment by various con-
! tagious diseases, which have stricken
them as well as the mother, so as to
! necessitate their quarantine. The
story of this family is 4 chapter OF
quite unexpected misfortunes rapid
! ly following one another, such mis-
| fortunes as may come even to our
folks but which are more pathetic
| in their consequences when met by
! those with few resources to combat
them. These are the facts, briefly
told
| Deserted BY Husband.
! The mother recently deserted by
her husband, leaving her to face
threatened eviction and without food
for her little ones. She is a teacher
by profession and was referred by
| friends to the visitor of the Asso
ciated Charities, to whom she told
her sad plight. This deserted motFe=
had no knowledge of her husbands s
! whereabouts, but in any case he had
| not been away long enough to make
| possible court action against him as
| was really penniiess, and food was
provided at once, also money for the
payment of rent. Meantime the
mother was urged to write 10 her
own kin. With natural pride, she
| hesitated to tell them of her circum-
stances. but finally consented TO do
SO. This was fortunate. for her reIa-
| tives promptly rallied to her support,
but not moment too soon. The
baby developed pneumonia, possibly
from previous exposure during the
mothers trouble: the mother and two
of the children contracted scarlet
fever, and other children the chicken
poX
| by the visitor for the hospital care of
| this stricken family the relatives were
| informed of what had happened, and
| they provided the money and sent word
10 nave Easter eggs ana candles Tor the
| children obtained and an Easter hat for
| the mother. The hat will have TO wait
until the mother is out of quarantine.
! but the Easter goodies are going to the
| children today.
Home Found for All.
| When the members of this family re-
cover from their illness and leave the
! hospital there will be a home waiting
| for them in the country provided by
| their own relatives, through the media
| ton of the District visitor.
Efforts will be made to apprehend the
deserving husband and to compel him. if
possible, to do his duty by his wife and
children. Before going to the hospital
this mother placed all her affairs in the
hands of the Associated Charities work
er. including the money which her fam
lily had sent her to tide oyer the emer-
gency In grateful appreciation of what
had been done for her. she insisted that
she did not know what would have hap
pened in a strange city without friends
except for the assistance Of the Asso-
ciated Charities.
1t is work like this fer which the
Associated Charities and Citizens Re
lief Association are inviting the partner
ship of 10000 Washingtonians. Those
who have notNyet given may still en-
roll by sending a contribution to Ord
Preston, treasurer, 1922 1lth street
northwest.
The IrnnkanuaI Baptist Church choir,