Need for Aid Is
Urgent. . . An Appeal to All to Assist in Care and Education of Helpless in 20
Orphanages in State
Raleigh—The Publicity Committee of the North Carolina Orphan
Association has issued a letter setting forth the urgent need of contributions
from citizens of the state in aid of its orphanages. This is the usual Thanksgiving
offering. The letter of the committee follows:
“The management of our charitable institutions are making
patriotic efforts to adjust their work to the demands of changed conditions which
have added materially to and made more essential most of the normal demands
upon their resources. Some of the orphan homes are finding difficulty in continuing
their splendid work, even on the same or a reduced scale, with applications for
admission accumulating that must, of necessity, be denied for lack of
facilities to warrant reasonable expansion.
“It is no small task even in normal times to secure
sufficient funds for the maintenance of the orphanage work, and important
departments in a number of orphan homes have been handicapped on account of
this state of affairs. The talk about the needs of these institutions may
become tiresome to some, but if the people are to sustain them they must know
something of existing conditions. During the present abnormal times, with
increasing demands of every sort which the war has made on philanthropy, it
becomes necessary to keep our orphanage work before the people. Hitherto the
editors of the state cheerfully co-operated with the committee in bringing to
the attention of our charitably inclined people the imperative needs of our
homes for dependent children. We again, and most respectfully, ask this favor.
“The suggestion of one day’s income is reasonable. Not one
person in a hundred is unable to contribute of their income to that extent—and ALL
can assist in bringing the matter to the attention of the people.
“The Publicity Committee therefore makes its appeal—
--To the prince of business to give out of his abundance the
actual or estimated income of a day.
--To the landlord and money-lender to give one day’s rent of
his houses and lands, or one day’s interest on his money.
--To the professional man to give one day’s earnings,
specifically the day or taking the average day.
--To the salaried worker to give his or her salary for a
day.
--To the laborers, with only pick-up jobs, to devote some
special day to this cause.
--To the good housewife, with her ingenuity and devotion, to
set apart the expenses of a day.
--To the boys and girls, with no regular income, to find
work after school hours, or on some Saturday, and give the proceeds to the
orphans.
--To everybody, old and young, rich and poor, learned and
unlearned, we appeal to join heartily in this holy movement to assist the fatherless
in their adversity.
Each of the 20 child-caring institutions in this state is
worthy of all the encouragement a generous hearted people may feel disposed to
offer, and we will ot realize the future delights of service to humanity until
we provide adequate protection for those bereft of parents and denied the
comforts of happy homes. It was the master who said, “Suffer little children to
come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
M.L. Shipman
J.R. Young
W.F. Evans
J.D. Berry
R.F. Beasley
Dr. Livingston Johnson
Miss Daisy Denson
Publicity Committee, North Carolina Orphan Association
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