Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-03-15 | Page 4 | Right at Home

uu RIGHT AT HOME. "Hunger, and sickness and cold hurt just as much in New York as anywhere any-where else in the world." says a large advertisement published in New York newspapers by the New York association associa-tion for improving the condition of the poor. "There are over 1700 families asking help of us today help they cannot give themselves. They are sick or cold or hungry, or threatened with being be-ing without a roof. It hurls just as much as it did in Belgium or France or Serbia, possibly more, for there is none of the spirit of war sacrifice In It, often little hope ahead." That advertisement calls attention to a condition that prevails in nearly every community. There are many persons who can weep over the suffering suf-fering of persons in Borneo who cannot can-not sec the misery in the house next door or in the next block-Recently block-Recently a fraternal organization in Ogdcn received a letter from an organization or-ganization calling for relict for orphans or-phans in Europe. One lodge member Killed attention to tho fact that the charity fund of the order was taxed to meet the demands right here without with-out sending money to Europe. Noooay has any objections to the re-lief re-lief of distress in Europe., No doubt there are conditions there crying out for relief and American givers can do good work. But there Is no sense in sending money to Europe while similar sim-ilar or worse conditions prevail right at home. Almost any Ogden charity worker jean tell stories of suffering among i families to which they have carried relief and this suffering is comparable compar-able to the suffering of the destitute in Europe. The destitute of Europe, however, have good press agents to lot the world know of their condition while the poor mother and child a few doors away suffer in silence until some representative rep-resentative of a kind organization seeks them out and gives relief.