Evening star., 1940-06-25

story brick headquarters of the or
ganization each afternoon at 4:30
o'clock.
"See." she said, bringing out a
ledger, I'VE write down all the
names and the number Of times
they come"
She pointed to the roll for the
month of April. There were 9l
names listed and all 81 were re-
ported present every day.
That's remarkable record" the
reporter commented. Are you sure
they all came every time?"
We'll, we asked them how often
they came and they said every
day and so we wrote it down"
so Children in Dining Room.
The reporter called at 4:40 pm.
one day last week and found about
so children seated in the basement
floor dining room. Mrs. Vawters
and cook were serving potato
salad, a cold, sliced sausage mixture,
skinned milk and bread. The
bread and milk, she said, were do
mated by local bakeries and diaries.
Our grocery bill averages more
than SIS day." explained Mrs.
Vawters. That figure, she said, in
cludes food served the Vawters fam
lily and employees of the corpora
ton.
The w. P. A. furnishes teachers
for the art and music classes, for
which more than 100 children are
enrolled. This fact was not men
toned on any of. the promotional
literature displayed.
Benefactors Card Indexed.
Clothing collected by Mr.. r. E.
Vawters, president of the corpora
ton, and others is kept IN first
floor storeroom between a front
chapel and the Office. Contributions
are solicited by one full time and
one pert time telephone workers,
Mrs. vawters SAID. The solicitors
are paid rs to 80 per cent of the
amounts obtained and the collec-
tors are allowed 10 per cent. A
carefully kept card index OF pre-
vious benefactors is used regularly
by the solicitors.
In April, 1910, collections totaled
$492.66, while expenses were $4e6. 81,
not including salaries, according to
Mrs. Vawters. The bookkeeping
method does not itemize the totals.
The Vawters family is supposed to
draw out $35 week, Mrs. Vawters
declared, but size added that they
seldom get this much. They occupy
an apartment on the top floor.
Mr.. VaWters has always been in
terested in charity, his wife de-
clared, and he got the idea for the
children's mission about two years
ago while operating a secondhand
store.
He has, on several occasions,
identified himself as a former police
officer, and a check on this revealed
he was on the Columbus, Ohio, police
force from January, 1915, to Mo-
vember, 1917, when he was asked to
resign for absence without leave.
Reinstated in 1920, he was again
asked to resign within a few months;
that time the charge being disrespect
for superior officers.
Advisory Board of Nine.
Childrens Aid, Inc, has no board
of directors, but its letterhead lists
an advisory board of nine persons,
including a physician and a chiro-
practor. Telephone calls to these
two revealed that they had never
attended a meeting Of the board.
Last summer Childrer's Aid Inc,
operated summer camp near Sterl-
ing, Va. Children in groups of 8
and 10 were accommodated for two
week periods in July and August,
Mrs. Vawters stated. The site for
this summers camp will be some
as yet unsolicited place in Virginia,
she added.
"We'd like to expand our work"
Mrs. Vawters explained, "and we
would have been able, too, except
for the encroachment Of another
agency in the Southwest. It has
done everything possible to hinder
and embarrass us. Why one time