The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-11

Scotch, 5; Swedish. 4; Austrian, :; Portuguese, 5; English, 4; Belgian, 2, and Czechosloyak, 2.
 '1t' is significant that 575 cases came to us directly with their trou- b]es, 307 from other agencies, 102 were sent by friends. 4s by churches, 28 by employees and 12 by relatives. 7,17S Office Interviews "Our workers made 2,06O visits to homes, 334 calls for information in regard to cases, sent 718 letters or telegrams and had 7,175 office inter- views. Only a rare sense of duty to the people who are in need of their services could have enabled our vis- itors to accomplish so much in one year. wish to take this opportun- ity of thanking Mrs Mary D. Camp, our senior visitor. Miss Elizabeth Gustafson, Miss Rose Pope and Miss Jennie Jesilavich, for their untiring service in the daily routine of duty, for their splendid service in connec- tion with the baskets at Thanksgiv- Ing and at Christmas, and their will hngness to carry the extra load oc- casioned by my absence with the relief committeee f.&4..
 The food bill during the year amounted to$3,02O.38. Through the cooperation of the Leavenworth Rent and Fuel fund and other sources $3,- 136.50 was spent for rent and $1,- 027.06 for coal. ThesRotary club has continued through the generosity of It's members to maintain the Eugene Kerner Milk fund. However. other organizations In response to the needs of the community have as- sumed q share in the fund this year. They are the TWomen's club of Wa terbury, the Waterbury Junior league and the Business and Professional Women'sGclub. The sum of $99 was also contributed to this fund through the efforts of the musical clubs of Crosby and Wilby high schools un- der the leadership of Floyd c. Evans. In all $2,655.26 has been available through this organization for milk for undernourished children
 Through special arrangements with hospitals, medical care has been given to our families at cost of SLIGO. Other expenditures for the year include $921.22 for cash allow ance and $1.019.75 for spectacles. The largest item of relief as in for mer years is for clothing. Thousands of dollars worth of shoes, warm un- dergarments, rubbers, arctics, sweat CTS and other forms of clothing have been made available for our families through the efforts of the Waterbury branch of the Needlework Guild of America of which Mrs John P. FL ton is president.
 "One of the most significant items to me in the treasurer's report is that of $9,521.08 collected from friends and relatives on our case work relief. This is an unusually large percentage of the total expen- allure for relief considering the ex- perience of other organizations in this respect. I attribute 1t largely to the work of the Italian aid commit tee, which reimbursed Lincoln House for all relief given to Italian people during the first II months of the December will also be covered by them later. It will be seen that this organization has at last realized it's ambition of carrying the entire bur- den of relief given to Italian people.
 II hesitate to mention any partic- ular organization to which we should bc grateful for it's cooperation. An attached report shows 133 different groups and hundreds of individuals They include manufacturers, church. es civic and private organizations newspapers and individual contrib utors.
 "As we look into the coming year 1t seems to me that this organization has tremendous opportunity. Many people must clear themselves from debts. which to many of us seem appalling. before they will have any free buying power. We shall be asked to advise in the consolidation of their debts. We shall have to consider the small income of many individuals and point out to them the maximum standard of Wing avail our privilege 10 be their guide in that most insistent of all factors of their environment, the economic in- come.
 WILLIAM M. HARRIS,
 ses Executive Secretary"