Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1914 — Solicitor for Lafayette Mission Visited Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Solicitor for Lafayette Mission Visited Rensselaer.

A solicitor for the Lafayette Rescue and Mission Home visited Rensselaer today and received considerable aid by way of 25-cent contributions. This mission doubtless does a very worthy work and probably has considerable trouble in procuring funds for its financing, but solicitors for all such institutions should be asked to present their credentials to some member of the charity board and secure proper endorsement before making a canvass and we are informed that this solicitor was told ut many . places that she should see Mayor Meyers before she canvassed further, but she did not see him, notwithstanding the fact that she was told by several to do so. At The Republican office shfi stated that she had 1 gone to the mayor’s office two or three times, but Mayor Meyers said that he was at his office all day except at the dinner hour. Charity is a noble thing and rescue and mission work is important in organized charity, but sentiment in giving has caused many unworthy per Sons to Impose on the charitable and it is this thing that the charity board hopes to guard against. In this connection, The Republieam wishes to call attention to an important local work of charity, the Monnett-De Peyster School, to which home aid has been given in a.very stinted manner except by a few individuals, and we are of the opinion that a special effort to raise money for this worthy and excellent Institution should be made at this very time. At this home are being educated at a very nominal cost many little girls Whose parents are one or both dead and who are here receiving under the very best influences an education of a high order. To be selfish about it, the institution means a great deal to Rensselaer, for a half dozen teachers and twenty-five pupils are living in our midst and spending their money with dur merchants and its growth will depend somewhat upon the encouragement we give to the splendid women who are managing it. Charity begins at home, they say, and here is a fine opportunity for us to do some of it right within our borders.