Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1913 — Ready to Help. [ARTICLE]

Ready to Help.

A. J. Drexel Biddle, the chief of the great chain of Drexel Biddle Bible classes, was condemning in Philadelphia a charity society that spent more of its income in ferreting out fake than in relieving genuine distress. “There’s not much -help in such a charity as that,” s&ld Mr. Drexel Biddle. “It reminds me of the woman at whose door a tramp knocked on a bitter March day. “The tramp was miserably clad, and under the beating of the terrible March winds the poor fellow was blue and shivering with cold. "‘Lady,’ he gasped, ‘l’ve hardly got a rag to my back. Can you help me?* '“Why, certainly! There’s my rag bag behind the door,” he lady an . swered calmly. ‘Help yourself.’“