Evening star., 1924-04-09
$4,000 IS SOUGHT
BY CHARITIES BODY
Drive for Budget Opened Concur
rently With Holding Of An
nual Meeting.
OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN
OFFICERS ARE
Bishop Freeman Speaks-Col. Hop
kins Honored.

The fOrty-thlru anniversary heet-
ing of the Associated Charities at
Rauscher's last night brilliantly
opened the Easter campaign of the
organization for 10000 members to
make up the $4,000 needed for the
annual budget
Today the campaign got into full
swing. with 3,453 members already
secured, following the impetus given
at the meeting last niktt. which was
addressed by Commissioner Cuno II.
Rudolph, president. of the Associated
Charities; Rt. Rev. James T.. Free
man, Bishop of Washington: Walter
s. Ufford, secretary of the charities
% body, and Karl de Schweinitz, secre-
tary of the Philadelphia Society for
Organizing Charity.
New Plan Tried.
Twenty three leading professional
and business men Of the city are CO
operating in the campaign, enlisting
the aid of men in their various pro-
fessions and businesses along city
wide lines. This is the initial trial
of this system and much is expected
of it. Appeals are being made by
letter.
Il do not hesitate to say that the
Washington Associated Charities
stand today model for the entire
country" Commissioner Rudolph said
in his address opening the meeting.
Telling of the organiZa ton of the
society here in 1881 and it's incorpo-
ration the next year, Mr.. Rudolph ex-
planned that social work is rnanye
sided. II should be an organic whole
he continued, comparable to the hu-
man body. IF one member suffers, all
suffer with it.
Rudolph Tells of Progress.
Recounting the progress in social
service here, Commissioner Rudolph
told of the. esta blishment of the In
structive Visiting Nurse Society, the
Child Welfare Society Juvenile Court,
Galllnger Hospital and other social
activities, and said that additions still
are needed But we are making
tinued, pointing to the establishment
of the Council of Social Agencies.
The day of individualism in social
work, he said, is thing of the past.
He spoke on the work of public well
fare legisla tion of recent months.
Mentioning the success of the cam
paigns in the interest of the National
Cathedral. George Washington Univer-
sity and the Emergency and Casualty
hospitals, Commissioner Rudolph
said: Il, for one, do not believe these
efforts will curtail the local charity
budgets. 1t must not be. The COM
munity chest may come. But it is
no easy method, remember that.
Where the community chest has fail
ed it was where it was thought to
be a magic method. In the mean
time let us give to all our chari-
ties, to prove that we are in full
sympathy with them. Especially let
us give for the children. Let US make
the District of Columbia renowned
for good will as well as for beauty"
Uford Tells of Work.
Secretary Ufferd gave a brief
port of the work of Associated Char
tiles during the past year, saying that
the first six months of the society's
fiscal year showed 773 families under
care, with relief disbursements total
ing, s21.32o.
Mr.. Ufford noted the loss suffered by
Mary Gwynn and William H. Bald
win. He spoke of the improved
housing. Of the society at the Social
Service House. 1922 11th street. but
said that owing to increased work,
overcrowding is already developing.
There is a distinct need. he said, for
housing the social service exchange,
conducted by the society for the use
of other agencies as well as its own
use, in a fireproof structure. He paid
tribute to the work of the district
visitors of the society.
Honor Archibald Hopkins.
A feature of the evening was pres
- entation of a testimonial vase with
silver stand by the board of mana
gers to the retiring chairman of the
board, Archibald Hopkins. following
eight years service as chairman and
twenty EIGHT as a member of the
board. The testimonial was present
ed by Charles c. Glover, jr., chairman
of a special committee of the board.
Mrs Archibald Hopkins accepted the
tribute in the absence of her husband
: Declaring that he was interested in
any organization that federated hu-
man endeavors, Bishop Freeman said
that the Associated Charities is an
Organization that takes no cogni-
zance of those things that divide"
An integrating movement is going
en- in human society today, DR.. Free
man continued. and those who do not
lend themselves to it will be thrown
into the scrap heap, he said.
~. The down. thrust of impoverished
leases tends to pull all down, Bishop
'Freeman declared. He said it is hard
to be an optimist in these days, but
added, but 1 am profoundly convinced
that, taking society by and large, the
,+rend is always up. There is more
generosity today, more Christlike-
tness. if you please"
poverty is "just trouble plus a more
difficult environment and smaller
financial backing" Social problems
are universal, he pointed out, the
have better environment and more
money to meet them with.
Would Help Wealthy.
Trouble as everybody knows is
no respecter of persons" he said TT
Is not only the poor man who has
domestic difficulties. Wealth is no
guarantee that parents and children
will always understand each other.
There are people with every comfort
that life affords who have not been
able to get along with other people
and who have been unsuccessful in
the management of their personal
affairs Many a difficulty of this kind
could be overcome by the application
of precisely the same skill which the
visitors of the Associated Charities
are using in their work among the
poor"
:. Carl Braatz, well known local
SANTA Claus played santa claus at
the meeting last night making a
contribution to the campaign, al
though none were called for last
night
Omcial Personnel Chosen.
officers elected were: Cuno II.
Rudolph, president; Corcoran Thorn,
vice president, and John Joy Edison,
treasurer.
Members of the board of managers
elected included:
Terms expiring 1925-Miss Mabel
T. Boardman. Mrs. Whitman Cross.
Dwight Clark, Miss Louise Davidson,
c. f. NJ Fadeley, Charles c. Glow
er, jr; ]. Philip Hermann. Dr.. Loren
B. r. Johnson, Newbold Noyes, DR..
William c. Rives, George S. Wilson,
Mrs Charles /. West.
Terms expiring 1926-Mrss Anne
Archbold, Harry K. Boss, Col. Archi-
bald Hopkins, Coleman Jennings, DR..
George NJ. Kober, Cleveland Perkins,
Duncan c. Phillips. Ord Preston,