Evening star., 1933-11-05
Travellers Aid Never Sleeps
Work Goes on Forever ii, Giving d Guiding Hand
Day and Night to Dtsressed-Cases Related
Show Every Human Touch.

town with oply enough gas to bring
them to the Union Station and the
Travellers Aid booth. The children
had had nothing to eat since early
yesterday. The had no established res
idence but had lived in Washington
for a period of two years prior to
last Winter. when they had gone South
with money that he had received as
bonus, for he was a World War vet
erdn. He had gone into business in
the South, but had been unsuccessful
and lost all of his money excepting
enough to bring him back to WASH
ington. The family was referred to
the Emergency Relief. but when 1 con-
the Travellers, Aid give them tempo
rary aid until such time that Peter
would be able to file an application
with the Emergency Relief. The
money for such proposes to be used
by the Travellers Aid is appropriated
to them by the Community Chest
1T was lunch time, so I hastily
grabbed bit to eat and hastened back
to my desk. There 1 found a money
order on my desk for the stranded COL
ored family. It was only 10 minutes
until their train time, so I took them
to their train ard heaved a sigh of
train there is not another until late
tomorrow morning.
In the interim the dear little old
lady OF 90 had arrived, so I told her
to wait on bench % until her train
would arrive.
Other Interesting Cases.
For the next three hours I was
very busy and waited upon people too
numerous to mention. but I will cite
some of the most interesting ones. A
colored woman of so came up to the
desk weeping She showed me a letter
from her son in Cleveland He was
out of work. discouraged, and wanted
TO come home. After a short inter-
view learned that the family had al
ways lived in the District I called
the Central Application Bureau of the
Community Chest and learned that the
fainily was known to several agencies
tiles and learned that they were aiding
tnC COlOred woman al that time, 50 |
suggested to the woman that she go to
One of my. visitors of the day was
a man who has been to see me on
several occasions. He handed me a
postal caro- and asked me to address
it to Miss Ardella johnson. He then
asked that I write the following mes
sage, I am feeling fine and working
every day. I was able to put $40 in
the bank last month and hope that
you will be able to come to Washing
ton soon so that We can get married.
Yours truly, John Tillman' About
three weeks ago I wrote another let
ter to Miss Ardella Johnson in which
John had proposed to her.
Shortly before the end of my day
a young man of II came to the desk
He wore no hat and his clothes were
soiled and travel worn. He told me
that his parents were dead and he had
been living with an older brother. But
for the last year he had been unable
to find work and his brother was very
antagonistic towards his remaining in
the home without paying his share Of
the expenees. It was the boys great
ambition to go to school and learn
vation Army, another one Of the agen-
cies of the Community Chest. I ar
ranged for his lodging for the night
and for food. I referred him to the
boys division of the Travellers Aid and
they are communicating with an agency
in his native city to enable him to re-
turn there and 60 to school part time
and work part time.
Work Never Ends.
My Cay is done but the evening
worker now comes on. Her day is even
more busy than mine for the Travellers
Aid booth serves two purposes at night.
l. does the regular work of assisting
travellers and then also acts as an
emergency application bureau for agen-
cies OF the Community Chest after
their bureau closes Is Office ct 5
o'clock"
The Travellers Aid IS but one of the
50 agencies supported by the Ccrnmun-
| ity Chest As varied and as far reach
ing as is its work as told by Miss
Beatty Of just one days activities, thus
must SO other agencies carry on their
work. There is no class, creed or race
oistinsuishment Of those that are aided
by the different agencies Of the Com
munity Chest; and its'swork goes on
"a hours day.