Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1923 — Page 5

THURSDAY, OCT. 25, 1923.

Today!! The Giving Starts

Lets Give Enough Community Fund 207 Chamber of Commerce Building Lincoln 6172

IT IS ONLY once a year that you are asked to contribute to the expense of Indianapolis’ thirty-nine Community Fund charities and philanthropies. Today the army of unpaid workers begins its city-wide visit to homes, factories ahd office buildings of Indianapolis. They come to extend to you the once-a-year opportunity of helping where help is needed. There is less charity solicited in Indianapolis proportionately than in any town you know of, and yet, in spite of the whole-hearted giving expressed in the Community Fund Campaign of last year, there was not enough money to do all the work necessary to relieve and assist those who needed it. But faith in the Community Fund grows as the years go by. Starving people are helped, the city’s sick, destitute and helpless are cared for, contagious disease decreases from year to year, and the children of poverty get a chance of life, happiness and usefulness. Your money does it—the money you give once a year to the Community Fund. All of Indianapolis does it, all classes, all creeds, all colors, rich and poor, have to give and give liberally in proportion to their means. Six hundred sixty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty nine dollars is needed for 1924, and this

$662,889 Needed for These 39 Welfare Organizations

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Alpha Home—Cares for aged colored women. American Settlement—Offers citizenship and recreation to the foreign born. Boys’ Club—Gives under-privileged boys and girls a chance. Boy Scouts—Trains boys for duties of citizenship. Camp Fire Girls —Trains girls for home and civic life. Catholic Community Center—Aids families and shelters homeless babies. Catholic Women's Association—Maintains a boarding home for employed girls. College Settlement Association (Christamore House) —Is a neighborhood social center. Dispensary Aid—Gives friendly care to City Dispensary patients Faith Home—Shelters friendless girls. Family Welfare Society—Builds normal, wholesome family life. Flanner House—Offers employment, health and family service to the colored. Florence Crlttendon Home—Shelters unmarried mothers with their babies. Girl Scouts—Trains girls for home and civic life. Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays—Strengthens the demand for better pictures. Indianapolis Council of Social Agencies—Oils wheels of cooperation among social agencies. Indianapolis Day Nursery—Cares for children of mothers who work. Indianapolis Employment Bureau—Offers free employment to men and women. Indianapolis Flower Mission—Maintains a hospital for the chronic tubercular. Indianapolis Home for Aged Women—Shelters old ladies. Indianapolis Humane Society—Protects dumb animals. Indianapolis Orphans’ Asylum—Provides a home for homeless children. Indianapolis Travelers' Aid—Guides and protects strangers. Jewish Federation of Indianapolis—ls a center for health and good citizenship. Knickerbacker Hall Association —Provides home life for employed girls. Old Folks’ Home—Shelters aged men and women. Public Health Nursing Association—Tends the sick and promotes good health. Red Cross—Aids ex-service men, educates for health, and meets emergencies.

amount cannot be reached unless everybody gives. Be not deceived in thinking that the Community Fund means nothing to you personally but an expense. If this wonderful agency was not operating day and night and doing their work well, you would have a city ravished by disease, misery at large everywhere, and lawlessness. You would have babies dying by the hundreds for lack of proper care before and after birth. Let’s not try to imagine it. The agency that stands between this condition and the Indianapolis of today is an efficient, quiet working and well managed organization and is the best method yet devised for the payment of the city’s social obligations. The money you give to this fund brings more results than under the old plan of constant begging for money. Get that and remember it! Proofs are available if you like. So when a representative of this army of unpaid workers comes to you, remember that you are not only performing a service to your community, but more a duty you owe. Below is a list of the thirty-nine charities that share in the Community Fund. Nearly every kind of relief and preventative work is represented here and the list embraces practically every charity in the city.

Salvation Army—Ministers to those who are “down but never out." Society of the Good Shepherd— Maintains a home for orphan girls. Soclal Service Department, Indianapolis Church Federation—Represents the churches in concerted action to prevent delinquency and build better citizenship. Volunteers of America—Visits the needy and gives temporary shelter to women and children. West Park Social Service House—Has opened a new neighborhood center for young people. Wheeler City Resource Mission—Serves the friendless and destitute. Women’s Improvement Club—Maintains a hospital for the colored tubercular. Young Men’s Christian Association---Builds character among men and boys. Young Men’s Christian Association (Colored Branch)—ls an educational and social center for colored boys and men. Young Women’s Christian Association—Builds character among girls and young women. Young Women’s Christian Association (Phyllis Wheatley Branch) —Is an educational and social center for colored girls and women.

NICHOLAS H. NOYES, Executive Committee- WILLIAM J. MOONEY EDWARD A. KAHN FRED HOKE, President EVANS WOOLLEN, Vice President FREDERIC M. AYRES, Treasurer