Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1926 — Page 19

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BROTHERLY LOVE [HOLDS SWAY MID f 1926 PROSPERITY Organized Charities Make I Big Progress During Past Year. By Homer Borst, Indianapolis Community Fund Executive Secretary More and more the reciprocal responsibility ot citizenship is being assumed by the public toward the less fortunate members of a community, a responsibility that does not care to flaunt a Lord I3ountiful attitude, but which creates through its social workers’ contact equal opportunities of development, health, education, happiness, citizenship and independence for everyone. It is this responsibility which is creating backbone, self-uplift and civic purposo in those families of under-privileged parents and which Avill make a better coming generation possible. It Is this sense of civic responsibility which has bade 1926 a year of steady growth and advancement In social work and has paved the way for a greater year in 1927. Increased facilities for more constructive work with men, women and Ifeiildren are the. result of the branching out of established organizations to cover a wider field of service which took place during 1026. Five new branches for service of a high order were opened in 1926, the Boys’ Club branch. South Side Young Women’s Christian Association, Indianapolis Day Nursery, Kirschbaum Community Center, and Christamore Settlement House. New camp sites were opened during the year for Camp Fire Girls and Girl Scouts. The 1927 Community Fund, which totals $665,583, is $5,121 higher higher than last year’s total. But this amount is more than consumed in the operating expenses of these five new branches. Many Plans Held Over Some of the plans for 1927 have had to be pigeon-holed for another year because the Community Fund •quota of $683,000 was not reached. However, on the whole, it Is indicative of the progressive spirit of Indianapolis, that each year since the Community Fund was organized, its work In the expansion of the social service field has enlarged and improved owing to the constantly growing interest and assistance of the

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Not only their time, but substantial Increases over their last year's gifts to the seventh annual Community Fund last fall, were contributed by more than 2,500 men and women workers. Their spirit of cooperation communicated itself to the persons whom they solicited for funds and made the Increase possible. Two of the most outstanding accomplishments of the year in furthering constructive social work were the Boys’ Club branch at English Ave. and Laurel St., and the South Side branch of the Young Women's Christian Association, 717 S. Alabama St. Formal opening of the new Y. W. C. A. branch was held Oct. 3 to 9, although it was in operation as early as September. The branching out of the organization is amply justified in the need of the community. The new branch is small enough to maintain the home-like atmosphere of informal cheer and good will which distinguishes it, and large enough to shelter in its living quarters thirtyfive girls, bps.' s being the meeting placo for c' -ograms and gatherings for rt . .. ,h and social enjoyment. Finest Center in Country During the summer the new branch of the Boys’ Club has grown steadily from Its foundations until now it is ready to open as one of the finest community centers of its kind in this part of the country. Formal opening will not be held until after the middle of January, but the club has been in use by the boys since before the holidays. It will accommodate almost three times as many boys and girls and their families as the main branch of the club at W. Market and Greeley Sts. for clubs, games, classes, gymnasium and athletic contests. The girls will

not have the privileges of the club for a few months yet, owing to the fact that not enough funds were appropriated for their particular classes and clubs. Three hundred boys and girls were guests at the Boys’ Club camp near Noblesvllle last summer. The new center wing of Christamore Settlement House was finished last summer and dedicated in the fall. More than 1,000 young people are enrolled there In clubs, classes and gymnasium work. The settlement has a large field of usefulness to Its community, representing a social center of beauty, simplicity and complete in almost every detail of work. largest Single Gift Probably the largest single gift to a Community Fund agency during 1926 was made when Miss Dorothy Dell, who will be graduated from Wheaton College next June, presented the Girl Scouts witli 141 acres of camp site about three miles beyond the Speedway, between Wall St. pike and Crawfordsville Rd. The site is worth approximately $35,000. It was opened in July and 151 girls enjoyed its pleasantness during the few remaining •weeks of summer. Miss Dell was a Girl Scout for six years. She became captain of Troop 22 and It is understood that she will take over her troop again next fall. Eagle Creek separates the camp property from the road, and the Gyro Club last summer built a splended suspension bridge across the water for the convenience of the girls. About twenty-five new tents have been provided by E. J. Baker. The new home of the Indianapolis Day Nursery at Liberty and Lockerbie Sts. was made ready for occupancy soon after Thanksgiving and the association, babies and all,

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moved in about a week and a half before. Christmas. Formal opening of the new quarters was to be made during the holidays. The new home, roomy, airy and light, and in better surroundings of every kind, is only two doors from the oki home of James Whitcomb Riley. Between forty and sixty day children can be accommodated, thir-ty-live of whom are in the kindergarten, and a maximum of ten little “refcmers.” Nurse Aids Cripples Through the Indianapolis Foundation, a public health nurse has been detailed to the Public Health Nursing Association to work with crippled adults and supplement the work for crippled children already begun. A nurse also has been appointed at the county infirmary to help make these old folks more comfortable. Physical examinations of children in the summer camps was put into effect this year through findings of the Council of Social Agencies, which is constantly seeking to better social conditions of every sort through study of the situations and the methods of improvement. Study of the cost and volume of social work through the summer on the part of a council committee has resulted in the inauguration of a monthly service report from each organization affiliated with the Community Fund which is complete in all details and which will help decide the fields of social work which need the most development for the common good. Negroes Are Studied A study of the hospital situation as it effects the Negro was begun In 1926 by “the council's Snter-raclal committee. Some plan whereby the colored physicians may serve on a hospital staff and have the privilege of treating their own patients in the hospital is being considered. Training of colored nurses is also under consideration. At Kirschbaum Community Center this fall and winter an unusually brilliant course of lectures was held with prominent authors and lecturers from all over the country- The public had access to these lectures as well .as members of the Jewish Community Center Association. This new community center, alteration and remodeling of which were begun in 1925, was completed during the summer and was formally opened in October. Many years of social work have gone into the foundations of the whole social service movement in Indianapolis, hut now at last, it Is possible to build higher with the foundations firmly laid, cemented with friendship and cooperation be- , tween the public and the service agencies.

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