New-York tribune., 1903-06-23
USES OF RED TAPE.
School Of Philanthropy Business
Methods IN CHARITY Discussed.

q believe in red tape observed Philip w Ayres.
director Of the Summer School Of Phianthropic
Work. al its opening session yesterday morning
II you were dealing in coal or iron OF potatoes
you would have 70 make use Of some system. If
the case were that Of eggs perishable fruits you
would have 70 be even more careful. The philan-
thropc worker deals with something infinitely more
precious than any OF these things and should be
much the more exact and careful business
methods are nowhere more important than in Il
-,hilauthropic Office They make human sympathy
60 further and accomplish infinitely greater re
suits What would you think Of doctors & hos
rtal who did not have record cards for their pa
tients and who gave the same medicine twice over
or probed 3 wound three or four times. because
one did not know what the others had done or
could not remember what he had done himself?
Yet this Is exactly what would be doing with
red tape in phianthropic work"
The students were visiting the application bureau
q the Charity Organization Society at this time
and Mrs. T. P Strickland. who is IN charge there.
observed that the applicants did not TO feel
sensitive about the system Of investigation and
registration which is in IN the bureau.
You have my reoord up there they viii say
chee-tuly indicating the direction OF the registrs
non bureau, as though they were rather proud
than otherwise Of being enrolled there.
And what about taking notes in their pres
10 make them retire into their shells?"
take notes about our friends rich or poor and II
any Of them call 70 ask any service OF US. and we
that we intend 10 keep the matter in mind and
aJJeno 70 Il Inc poor are JUST as lnteIngent @ as
The grinding Of life has made them Intelligent and
they VIII he grateful 10 you for taking pains about
Mrs Strickland said that her Office has about
tventy-one thousand calls In year. and that ths-
are of most varied character Everything mas
family may turn UP with four five children and
one may have The measles and the others scarlet
have had e4eTshns in the way e5,S Of disease SaS
have never used disinfectants We trust to good
FEEDING HUNGRY CHILDREN.
what DO You do with hungry children7" IN
CURED one OF the group OF listeners.
I have sent out for bread and milk TO feed
them. But We Try 70 discourage children coming
here and always insist on seeing their parents.
less il is absolutely impossible for the latter to
E very dangerous place for them TO be, because
who takes the records?' was the next Ques-
Jion do women tell their stories 10 women better
My assistants are all women" said Mrs. strick-
and and I and that not only women, but men,
The school vii vii, continue in session for SIX weeks
1o 5e'eS & WI % % ,e g'e1 Dy Tne r JsrtPex
Bracket president Of the National Conference OF
conferenoes On the treatment Of needy families in
tAeT homes epd &Faons other out Of tcwn speak speak
tary OF the Providence Charity Organizduon So
Buffalo Charity Organization Society; Charles F
Weller, general secretary Of the Washington As
retary Of the Philadelphia Charity Organization
Society; Alexander Johnson. superintendent Of the
md. and Mrs Glendower Evans, OF Boston. The
oregon and Nsiae N the North to Georgia IN the
south The majority have alreaqy peen e1gasseo s
IN addition TO the lectures which are considered
the least important part Of the course, the stu
WORKING OF the various philanthropiC agencies Of
the city.