The Function of a Modern Legal Aid Organization

These constitutional declarations do not enforce themselves. The litigant who seeks justice must surmount certain obstacles among the most important of which are court costs, delay of court procedure and the expense of a lawyer to conduct the case through the intricacies of legal procedure. Let us example a specific problem of the poor man with a just claim in his efforts to secure justice. Two years ago a letter was brought to the Philadelphia Legal Aid Bureau, written with reference to a blind woman. This woman was entitled to the rent of a building as long as she lived. Besides this, she made a dollar or two a week at odd jobs in her home. The building was in the possession of an agent who collected the rents and after deducting a commission and expenses, paid the balance to the old woman. The rent was $18.00 a month and the old woman received $12.00 a month to live on. The agent had notified her that the rent was to be reduced and that brought her appeal for help. Upon investigation it was found that the property should have brought $60.00 a month rent and that the agent was a friend of the tenant and was deliberately taking advantage of the old woman's helpless condition to aid his friend. The old woman was about to call upon a charitable association for aid

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