Interest in a particular philanthropy, like a particular talent, sometimes follows a family line. The organization or institution becomes the family’s pet philanthropic child. Such is the envialble lot of the Los Angeles Free Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
“You know I am a Warner”, explains Mrs. Rosa Warner Charnas, president of the Milk and Egg League for New York’s Tubercular Poor, affiliate of the Los Angeles Free Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
“It isn’t only that I find the work of the league tremendously interesting, although it’s hard and rather thankless work at times. It comes to me amost as a birthright. My father, Benjmin Warner, is and has been interested in the organization for years. Three years ago he donate a fully-equipped hospital building to the sanatorium. And without my brothers in New York it would be impossible for me to do anything” she modestly claims.
FREQUENT TRIPS TO COAST
Not only family ties make Mrs. Charnas devote most of her time to the Milk and Egg League, although she belongs to numerous other charitable organizations in the city. She enjoys the work, she knows some of the patients intimately, for example, and watches over them tenderly. A few times a year she travels to the sanatorium near Los Angeles.
With pride, she tells of one of the New York girls who was sent to the sanatorium three years ago, took up nursing there, and is now assitsting with the care of the other patients. When, as happened a few days ago, she meets a boy who has just returned from a six months stay at the sanatorioum in the best of health, she finds it a stimulus to keep on working. Today she looks forward to the seventeenth of next month when she leave with four other delegates to help celebrate the tweentieth anniversary of the organization’s existence. The delegates will convene at the sanatorium.
LEAGUE AIDS ALL RACES
For many years eitht women bought milk and eggs for tubercular New Yorkers. Four years ago they founded a New York organization and adopted the name, Milk and Egg League for New York’s Tubercular Poor, at the Los Angeles sanatoium. Today there are three hundred members of this non-sectarian organization. Mrs. Adolph Held, treasurer, and Mrs. Hochstein, chairman of the cultural committee, were among the founders. All are hard-working and optimistic. Although collections are slower this years they expect to meke a good showing at the Feburary convention.
They are planning a theatre party this Sunday evening at the New Amsterdam Theatre. All the talent was obtained by Warner Brothers. Last year’s thetre party was a roaring success. At 1:30 in the morning the curtain went down with seventy acts still waiting to go on. Some of those who will perform Suday evening are Mitzi Green, the Eton Boys, Willie and Eugene Howard, Sophie Tucker, Buddy Rogers, Bill Robinson, Lyda Roberti, Lillian Roth, and Will Osborne.
MILITARIST FEMINISTS
officers of the Milk and Egg League besides Mrs. Charnas are Mrs. Vicent S. Lippe, first vicechairman; Mrs. Murray L. Cohen, second vice-chairman; Mrs. Abner S. Werplin, third vice-chairman; Mrs. Louis L. Goldblatt, financial secretary; Mrs. Maxwell L. Crames, recording secretary; Mrs. Jules N. Craig, social secretary, and Mrs. Adolph Held, treasurer.
There are fifty members of the League. “The men are our silent partner”, asserts Mrs. Charnas.
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