Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1918 — REFUSE TO ACCEPT CHARITY [ARTICLE]

REFUSE TO ACCEPT CHARITY

Japanese and Chinese Are Hardest People to Induce to Take Public Aid. Pasadena, Cal. When fire destroyed half of the Chinatown of this city the Pasadena welfare bureau discovered that Chinese and Japanese are the hardest people in the world to get to accept public aid. The bureau tried for a week to give away a good suit of men’s clothes. The suit was offered to at least a dozen worthy Orientals who had lost everything they possessed. Each refused to accept It gratia, but several offered to buy It.