Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 2, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 June 1920 — Page 1

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'his Is Just one of the many cases of misery which comes to the dally notice and receives relief from the Salvation Army. During May 10 to 20 a committeo of leading citizens of this statr.. headed by Major Arthur IL Robinson, of Indianapolis, will conduct an organized appeal for funds to turn )vcr to the Salvation Army to bo cued In giving relief to Just such caies of distress as are hero portrayed. Editor's Noto.

Conrlu Jod from last week. would bo best for you to lot us help you." Feeble coughing from one of the

occupants of the two bods wo could dimly discern in the next room through the burlap hangings, Inter ruptod the commandant's remarks. Tho man's faco grew whiter and moro haggard. TlAu'i the boy," he said. "lie got sick first. I havo been up night and day with him since Thursday a weok ago when the mother took sick. Defore that she tended him and tho three girls and tho baby. Hut I think It was too much for her. She has nover been very strong." "First the boy had the flu." he continued. "Then It turned Into pneumonia and now It's the mcnsles. None of tho rest of them got sick until he got tho measles and then they all took It. from him. Coldlo, tho neUto the youngest girl Is having a terrible tiino with her ear. The doctor sale tho medlclno he Rave her would stoi tho -pain, but it didn't." Tho commandant Murmured syinpa theikall ami I strained my eari to hear if tho roughing 1 ltd tensed. Sud denly u noise u;;:; J.cim! upstairs und? Mr. A e -:cubed l.Kisclt to ( lco'.c after the three girls vho wert la 'ci u;t'ti: s. 1 'Hin returned ami uft r a few more (! and un assurance of cur lnii-redt aiul help we h ti. Sr,d Coal and Previsions. On our viy do.vn the street v;t stopr-od at the h uae of the neighLci woman who liu! called us on tht plicne that mriT.iri!; to tell Ua about tho A 's tir.i:!. cj. After goUlns her i Tomiov to coi.ie to heidquar ters fc.r a ba.-M c of groceries f( ! them. we rcsu?:icl cur way. halt ing only to onbr h:lf r. ton of coal to bo sent to the distressed family at once. ' True to lier word, the neighbor woman came in that afternoon for the basliet ol provisions. Her eyet sparkled when she saw the canned milk, sugar, rolled oats, coffee, hominy, canned soup, soap and other Btaplea that were going to her friends In trouble. She told us that Mr. A had brokeif down and cried when the driver drove up to the door with the coal. From her wo also learned that tho A 's were thrifty and try hard to get along. They had never before had any help from the outside. Mr. A was earning $25 a week at the Van Carp packing factory. The two eldest girls worked, too, at Van Camps. They aro buying their home. Before she left, the neighbor woman promised to keep us Informed as to the condition of the sick family and to return for more provisions later. We got id touch with the doctor who 'was attending them. He aid they were all about over the danger stage, and that given good 'food and heat enough to be comjfortable and the continued excellent care the father was giving them, they .would all pull through. Thus assured, the commandant .temporarily dismissed tho troubles of tho A r family and busied her elf with other cases of distress. i Helps Family of Murdered Girl. The next day a horriblo murder of a fourteen-year old girl stung the people of the city to fury. Lvery body at Salvation Army headquarters was on the qui vlve to bo of service to prevent the lynching of the murderer, and to assist In an attempt to assuage tho grief of the bereaved parents of the innocent victim. Learning from the papers that promises of clothing for herself and little sisters had prompted the girl to accompany the man to tho lonely spot Lwhcre she h ad been foully murdered.

thecomman(I&nt was ready at onca to send a supply of garments to the striche family. Upon visiting the bereave 1 home sho found .it practically bare of furniture and carpet. The children and parents possessed the clothes . they had on. and that was all tho clothing they owned. A week sped by and the commandant was so busy trying to help out his family in their desperate need that it was impossible fo us to make a second trip to the A household. But the doctor still assured us that things were going smoothly there. At the end of the week we again went out to the house on Patterson street. A pleasant girl of about twenty admitted us and ushered us In to the living room where we occupied the two rockers. The little boy who hatf been so badly sick when we were there before was now playing marbles on the floor, apparently fully recovered. Th sunny haired baby of the family, Elizabeth, aged three, was still botherod with a slight cough, but otherwise all right. On Road to Recovery. - Tho father had returned to work, the eldest daughter told us. The other sister who had be n sick upstairs, was about well. Ooldle was still having trouble with hor ear and was in bod. The mother had gotten up two days ago, but had had to go back to bod. Sho had worried over Goldie and tried to get up to help her and only made herself worse. But the doctor promised absolute recovery for all of thorn In a few days. "Send tho ladles In hore bofore they go," came tho volco of Mrs. A In bed In the front room, Just as we wore about to go. We both stepped Into tho 'front room, which we found bare of any kind of furniture, excopt a gras rug on tho floor and the bods in which Mrs. A and Goldlo woro lying. Goldle was asleep so Mrs. Crosby talked softly. "We want to pay you people for the coal and groceries," sho said. "Oh, no," Interposed Commandant Denton, "we do not tako pay for what we do for people, that havo had trouble and sickness.' ' "But we want to pay for everything we get," returned tho sick woman. "You can take the money and uso It to pass on to some one elso, the good you havo dono here. Mr. A Is back at work now, and he will be getting somo money again this week. He will be around to pay you as soon as wo can." The commandant was ready to protost again when the burlap curtains parted and little Elizabeth, tho sunny haired baby, ran in, hearing our voices and, quick to note tho tones of argument her mother was using sho rushed to hor mother's bedside. There standing on her tiptoes she kissed and caressed her mother's face with her tiny hands. Then she put her arms around hor mother's neck and looked over at us with all tho defiance, her three years could muster. At the sight of the tableau before her, further words of protest about taking pay for tho help we had given the A 's in their crisis, froze on tho commandant's Hps. Silently sho turned about and left the room. I noticed her eyes wcro moist as the door closed behind us.

This is Just one of tho many cases of misery which comes to the daily notice and iGfcelve s relief from, the Salvation Army. During May 10 to 20 a committee leSdlng citizens of this state, headed by Major Arthur R. Robinson, of Indianapolis, will conduct an organized appeal for funds to turn over to the Salvation Army to be used in giving relief to Just such cases of distress as aro here portrayed Editor's Note.

CHAPTER IV. The Blind Boy. "Wo will go to see the Henson's

!this morning. They are a family wo

helped before, last year, and a neighbor reports they are badly off again," taid the commandant the next morning when I reached the headquarters. Wo found the Henson's house with

out any trouble on a little sido street off of Garfield Park, a oni story ,framo building dignified bya neat j cement walk in front and leading up to the tiny front porch. This time we did not go around to the back door, but stepped on the porch and rapped lightly. i Mrs. Henson. a bent old woman, In neat calico, admitted us gladly. "Come In, come in," she exclaimed, her face lighting up. l just said to pa I knew you would come again when we needed jou." One step from tho porch put us almost Into thu center of the room, it seemed. As In the Crosby house, the last place we had visited, the place

was in semi-darkness. When our eyes became accustomed to the half light, we noticed an old man sitting on a rocker as near to the stove as he could get, muffled In an overcoat and a scarf around his neck, his feet in heavy goloshes and a cap with ear flaps pulled down well qn hit head. "What la the matter with Mr. Henson," asked the commandant?

"Oh, I've been sick. I've been, awful

sick. Got the asthma," came In feeble tones from the depth of the

old man's muffler. It seemed.

"Are you cold?" I asked, because

there was a pleasant fire In the stove and the room was not cold.

The old man nodded, and before he

could speak, for his heavy breathing, the old woman broke in:

"Now pa. don't you talk, you'll Just

get a coughing spell." Then turning to us. she continued:

"Ho is real weak from the asthma.

and I try to keep him warm, so he won't get any worse. He had to give up hie work in February because he

got such chills when he went out and

he couldn't got warm all day.

"Where did he work?" asked the

commandant.

"I ran an elevator Interposed the

old man bofore his wife could answer

for him. "But I had to give It up because I got so cold all the time. Same way last year. I had to give up work until summer came, and then I went back and they took mo on again." "Do you have a doctor come In?" asked tho commandant. "No I wouldn't have a doctor. They take p. 11 your money and don't do you any good. Leastways, tho last ono I had didn't do anything and he chargod mo threo dollars to come out here. And my daughter-in-law, she works In the Van Camp factory and she got a bell on her finger and bhe had tho doctor and he charged hor four dollars to come out and lance It. There she had to pay all that monoy to tho doctor and stay home from work too to bo there when ho camo. No, I wouldn't have any doctor." "Now pa, you shouldn't talk like that," admonished tho old woman. "Some doctori aro " all rlffUL" te Tfte old man relapsed Into 'silence. Worries Because He Cannot Work. "You see, he Is getting old now," said tho old woman, turning to us. "He Is sbventy-three. We have had a lot of trouble. He worries becauso he can't wor'c now. Of coureo, wo mlas his $14 a week, but I always say that we don't want what the Lord isn't willing for us to have. And if tho Lord Isn't willing for us to have that money, we don't want it." "That is right," agreed the commandant. "How many are there of you here?" I asked, noticing an array of post card photographs on the faded yellow oak dresser, that was the principal artlclo of furniture in the room. "Well, my son is with us now, and his two children. He is forty-three. His wife died a year ago, and the children were having a bad time, so he asked me to let hira come and live' with us. I am getting old to take care of children, I'm seventytwo myself, but it seems as if there wasn't any other way. The one little girl goes to school now, and I have a lot of trouble getting her ready. "A teacher from .the kindergarten came the other day and told mo I ought to send the little boy to kindergarten, but I told her I am too old to be getting both of them ready to go out on the same day. I didn't want to toll her we only had clothes enough for one to wear outside. I would like them to have the companionship of other children, that the teacher talked about, but It Is all I can do to get Ruth ready for school of a morning. I told h?r that poor people's children can't do like rich people." "What is it that you need for them?" asked Miss Denton. Need Warm Clothes. "Stockings, mostly, and underwear," answered the woman. "Seems if I can't get enough stockings for them. Ruth has two pairs now, and I wash them out and mend them every day, but it is all I can do to do that. Seems as if they make stockings nowdays from paper. They get holes in them as soon as they put them on." "What Is your son doing?" was the commandant's next question. "He works at the factory and gets $1& a week," answered the voluble old woman. You see when the old man was bringing $14 a week and my son his $18, we were getting along fine. But now the $1S my son makes is all we have to live on, and tho rent alone Is $10 a month. We saved as much as we could then, because we knew the old man would soon have to quit." At that I gazed around for signs

J of prosperity from the time whoa

the income for the three adults and two children had been $32 a week. The room was neat and clean, but furnished only with the" dresser, a stand and four chairs, and a thin 'red carpet on the floor. In the room beyond I could see a bed with a white

.coverlet, unusual in the homes of

those who pay $10 a month for rent. Mrs. Henson was wearing a neat calico apron over a calico wrapper. Asks to See Children. "I would like to see the children," the commandant's voice broke my reverie. "Are they here?" "The two children that live here aren't," answered the woman, "but Edgar, my other son's little boy. Is back there. Iii call him, Jimmy, my son's boy that lives wth me, -borrowed Edgar's coat to go out and play a little." In response to the call Edgar appeared in the doorway. I thought him the most beautiful child I had ever seen. About six years old, I Judged him. His face bore the spiritual look of the cherubims of some of tho early Italian painters. His hair was brown and curly, his complexion clear, with exquisite features and coloring, and he was beautifully straight. "Come here, Edgar," said his grandma. Here I am." I looked at her sharply, questionIngly, then back at the handsome child. And then for tho first tlrao 1 noticed that he stretched out his hands and clutched the furniture as

he walked. The beautiful boy was blind. "Grandma, grandma," said tho child eagerly, In a sweet, clear voice, reaching out beforo him and walking toward tho spot where he had placed her voice; "Ain't that awful," said tho old woman In an. aside, to us. "Ho haa been that way ßlnco ho was four years old, when ho "had aplnsl meningitis. The doctor E7cd hla lifo for him, but that wao cily , . . "CLr'andmargTandmatvent on the eager voice of the child, "what do you think, some people say they would rather bo dead than blind. Would you, grandma? Wiiat do you think of It grandma? Would you rather be dead?" "Now hush, you musn't talk like that, Edgar?" answered his grandma, and the commandant broke in hotly. Tells of School for Blind. "No, Indeed, people ought not to say such things. There is a lovely school where little boys can go when they can't see, and they have swings there to play on, and they teach the little boys how to read with their fingers, and how to make beautiful music on different instruments. As Soon as you get a little older we will take you qyer there to live, perhaps." "Do they have a kindergarten

there? 1 want to go to kindergarten.

A lady told me that a little blind boy can have a lot of fun at kindergarten, and learn things," said Edgar, walking around, touching eagerly everything within his reach "Yes, indeed, they have" a kindergartem and you are going to be able to learn everything you want to know about," said the commandant. The lump in my throat was getting bigger all the time, and I was too preoccupied with the thought of the little blind boy to hear the rest Of the commandant's conversation with Mrs. Henson. Mechanically J fastened my coat and rose as I saw her move over to say a parting word of encouragement to the old man. "Will you give me your word of honor that you will see that that boy gets a chance at an education in the

I state institution for the blind?" I 1 asked the commandant, the minute I tho door closed behind us. "Because j if you don't do it I am going to see j about It myself, if I have to go through fire and water to accomplish it." ' The commandant smiled enigmatlcally and nodded her head. "It is my

nie vj i xv iu occ uiai uic uuuj auu sick and distressed are ten care of," she answered simply." Could it have been by accident or design, that her hand in its simple cotton glove

traveled to her roat where was i fastened a modest white enamel pin

emblazoned with the single word: "Others"?

! Nick Lenlne Is sighing because his ' part of the world will not remain conquered. The allies are getting ready to give Turkey a severe reprimand for the latest massacres.

William Farnum an Ideal Lover.

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WILLIAM TOK ...PROIPUCTIOK

Here is shown the famous Fox star, William Farnum making love to Louise Love'y in "The Joyous Troublcmakers'his latest production which has just been

completed on the West Coast.

faiG3 Lovely makes a beautilul

foil for Mr. Farnum, drcssel as she is in a becoming riding hat it; although an other occasions during the picture she is seen in the quaint-old fashioned hoopskiit, in which she is equally charming and beautiful. We'll say Mri Famum is a lucky doff.

Beail White Qn Her "Way Home.

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PEARL WHITE - DIRECTION WILLIAM FOX

Afte a brief relaxation from

work in makincr her first bir '

po3uctionsfor Wilh'am Fox Pearl; Gib!' r. Miss White has already

White :s on her way home from

EuroDP. where she has spent Ihp;

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past month- he will go direct

to Pineville Ky , where exteriors

for her next picture will be made

undei the direction of Charlra

made two pictures for Fox, 'Thp

White 11," and 'Tiger's Cab" neither of wh:ch has ytt been released.

Since the long dry spell began It Is noticeable there aro fewer men who

think they can sing.

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II REPARED BY THE Ben Ed Meb Printormm Jasper, Iiuliana,