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l2 WILME'TTE tiFE , March 8, 1929 :Eight Beneficiaries ·Get Community ·Chest Allotments United F~nd Drive Aids Numerous Big Charity Movements Wilmette residents, who, on Sunbut at the same time they all learn 3 oinething that will make them .better in their daily lives and make them bet- · ter ~nd more self-respecting American citizens. .Another important work at Arden Shore is the winter camp for undernourished working boys sent out by the ChiCago Board of Education. day, March 17, will be invited to make their annual contributions to c'h arity and welfare agencies in the unified campaign conducted by the Wilmette Community Cheo.;t association, will be interested in the accompanying brief outline of the functions of the various Chest beneficiaries, now eight in number, as follows: Salvation Army, Arden Shore Rest Camp, A m e r i c a n Red Cros·.5, Near East Relief, Infant Welfare, Boy Scouts of America (\Vilmette organization), Young Woman's Christian association, and the Wilmette Charities' organization, now familiarly termed Local Charities. Before dr5cussing these agencies individually it will be well to note the. allotment of funds to the beneficiaries. The distribution of the $35,000 budget set for this vear's campaign has been announced by President Hector Dodds of the Cheo.5t association as follows : Local Charities ......... $5,000 Boy Scouts . . 3,750 Arden Shore ... . 7,250 Infant Welfare ...... 7,250 · Near Easr Relief ...... 1,000 INFANT WELFARE About thirteen years ago -there wa·.5 organized in Wilmette an Infant W el·fare center to co-operate with the Infant Welfare society of Chicago in giving a better chance of a happy ,-hildhood to the underprivileged chil dren in the congested areas of Chicago. This group has made drives for money, given many days of per ·onal ·3ervice each month and regularly met to sew. Later there was organized an auxiliary of the younger women in the village which has carried on in a splendid way all of the plans of the senior group. The Infant Welfare society of Chicago is an outgrowth of the Chicago Milk commiS'3ion which was organized in 1903 by a group of public spirited citizens for the purpose of furnishing needy mothers and babies with a supply of pure milk. This work wa·3 carried on for eight years but it was found that pure milk alone would not save the babies so, in 1911, the· Infant Welfare society was born with the objective of reducing the infant death rate and improving the health of the coming generation by caring for the mother before the birth of the baby and by teaching her after its birth how to feed and care for it. 1 Infant Welfare Gives the Babes a Start i'.; a distinct public and CIVIC utility. President Ellis has said: "In the work of our board, we have It benefits the community and deserves the support of all, regardle3s of tried to be absolutely faJir with all creed poLitics or race. In Wilmette case·3 and the question of color, re- there' are ten troops, eight of which ligious belief, or any other creed, ha·5 are sponsored by the various .churches -the Congregatio~ ·.Cathohc, Pre3not entered into the problem. byterian, Episcopal, J~ti.st .. Lutheran "Of course our big aim in Wilmette and Methodist churches-one by the Y. W. C. A. . . . . . . . ......... 1,500 Amenican Red Cross ..... .. 1,500 has been to take care of the children, Wilmette American Legion post and Salvation Army ..... 1,500 and also to try and eHminate poverty one by the Wilmette Optimist club." In addition to these allotments the as much as possible. In order to do ARDEN SHORE Chest association carries a sizeable this, we have tried to impre'ss upon our emergency fund which in the past has people the importance ·of self respect. One of the well known Wilmette made it possible to give prompt assist- The Economy Shop has been a great charities is Arden Shore Camp, near ance in in·3tances of great disasters or aid to us in this work, as our people Lake Bluff. This similar emergency needs which may be can go down there and buy clothing work ha·.; so encountered during the year. Funds and other articles for a very small .;um grown t h a t it utilized to defray the cost of operating and, regardless of the amount, they now requires a the Community Chest plan represent are buying just that much self respect y e a r 1y budget only five percent of the total budget. and can tell their children that they of app·roximateThe ·association retains no paid ·solici- purchased- this, in.;tead of saying, ly $50,()1)(), which tors, this work being entirely voluntary. 'someone gave it to u·.;.' amount is raised "As Wilmette has grown, our job by campaigns in has grown and we have given it very all the n o r t h LOCAL CHARITIES Local charities are making an m- little publicity, as we feel that the work s h ore villages creasing)y large demand upon the we are in i·.; rather a sacred trust and and the annual Community Chest, as i·.; perfectly ob- if publicity were given it, it w<;>Uld be ball in Chicago. vious when one considers Wilmette's detrimental to the cause." For some eight rapid growth in population. The Board or so years, of Local Charities functions under the BOY SCOUTS prior to the indirection · of the municipal government. That the Boy Scouts of \Vilmette ception of the find a logical place C o m m unity "Y" Cirla ADawer Dinaer Bell in the Community Cheo5t plan, WitChest f u n d allot- mette raised its share by means of a NEAR EAST RELIEF ments is best indi- house-to-home canvass which met For the la'3t decade the generosity of cated in this excerpt with an increasingly generous response the American people has made it posf rom a statement from the town. , sible to carry on the greatest philanmade by a local Arden Shore, a camp for mothers thropic enterprise in the history of Scout leader a year and children, is one of the largest the world. This is the work done by ago: fresh air camp3 in the world. It is Near East Relief among the orphan "It requires no ar- located on a high wooded bluff, over- children and refugees of such unfortugument to prove that looking Lake Mic-higan, about thirty- nate countries a·s Armenia, Syria, the Boy Scout troop3 five miles north of Chicago. There (Continued on page 22) of Wilmette are as are some twenty- two c 1o s e 1y connected acres of land with a with the welfare of frontage of 300 feet on this community, and the lake. The property are as necessary to i·3 owned by the Arden its happiness, a·.; are Shore association, an the public schools incorporated body with and the police and a charter from the ·state fire departments. The of Illinois, and is entire~.ingle objective of ly free of debt. Many the Wilmette Scout beautiful buildings have organization is to de- been given to the camp, velop our boys of to- most of them as meday into the good mor.ials. Screened cotcitizens of tomorrow. tages are provided for 1 Happy to Be a Boy Scout It is s i g n i fi c a n t, all campers. therefore, that the .Arden Shore aims to Its president is William H. Ellis, and Adv,i sory Board of the Wilmette Com- do r e a 1 constructive its work is carried on largely through munity Chest has decided to include charity work among Mrs. Lillian D. Northam, Wilmette so- the annual budget of the Scout associ- these needy people. A cial service worker, who devotes all ation in its drive for the Cheo3t funds wonderful time is given her time to this enterprise. Comment- this spring. · to each and every one ing on the work of the local charities "The Scout organization in Wilmette who enters its gates Arden Shore Helps the Whole Family ....... I · I I t I