Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-02-18


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The Money Proxy in Charity.
4 minister one day recently addressed
an audience of St. Louis people who
were more or less interested in benevo-
lent institutions. He made his speech a
protest against desultOry enthusiasm. He
argued that sustained interest is the dy-
mamie of philanthropic work" And he
concluded thus:
''Nou cannot lift your brother up by
proxy Ii he is lower than you, then
you must so down and lift him up to
Your level"
We often complain because money that
Is gwen to charity is not properly used,
hut do We seek the reason? There is
reason, and very good one
That which happens to money intended
10 be used in promotion of philanthropic
work is exactly what would happen to
money put into any business. if such an
Investment Were not watched
Careful men and women do not invest
their funds in enterprises concerning
which they are not well informed but
people who ordinarily are very cautious
about their business investments will
write checks time after time for benevO-
lent institutions without taking the pre-
caution of investigating the work of
these institutions. They think they have
not time for the investigation. They
would rather take chances than take
time" to inform themselves.
This condition makes easy the work of
the CRATER, and the work of the CRATER
makes djiEcult the work of the legitimate
benevolent organization. The effect of
the system is to doubly bind the arms of
real charity workers, first, by curtailing
subscriptions to their work and, second,
and more important, by denying them
the personal assistance which they ought
to have,
How many Of you" asked the pastor
whom we previously quoted, have per-
sonaliy visited the institutions under the
charge Of your association And that.
let it be understood, was a much more
important question than the other one
which has been so often asked, viz:
How much have YOU contributed to
the support of the institutions under the
charge OF your association?'
Money can not be made the proxy of
Tie individual in charitable work Money
may be of assistance in such work,
but only i'll the sense that it is the
motive power. 1t is the enginc-pOWer-
less and useless, perhaps even danger
ouS, without Il competent engineer at the
throttle. Too often"-we quote again
from Inc minister PERSONS Oh very
meager mentality, slight culture and
moderate capacity for intellectual SYM
pathy are thought good enough to be
placed in charge of philanthropic insti-
tuuons," Who, theI., is to be blamed
if these institutions do not prove to be
what their financial hackers expected?
What is needed in work of this sort
is the individual. not the individuals
money. Institutional social service can
never be made successful until this need
is supplied. Sustained enthusiasm" is
possible only when personal interest is
aroused. Money assistance is impersonal
assistance and therefore spiritually val
ueless.-Woman's National Daily.
Prefers Teaching.
Mrs Henry Wise Miller, in a recent
interview in The Tribune relative to her
work in connection with the Barnard
College Alumnae employment bureau, de-
pl0red the fact that nearly all college
girls on receiving their diplomas turn
naturally to the "overcrOwded profess
SION of teaching, rather than to the
ranks of business. In particular, she
spoke of the demand among business and
professional men for college bred women
as secretaries. Such women, Mrs. Miller
intinated would find. if they would
qualify as stenographerS. n large oppor-
tunity for congenial, interesting work,
fairly well paid from the start and ulti-
mately leading to remuneration higher
than that of teacher. Mrs. Miller rec
commended those of the young alumnae
who have found teaching uncongenial to
learn stenography, but there Is another
side Of the question.
In spite OF Mrs. Miler's counsel" said
a Barnard alumna who doesn't like
teaching but who has nevertheless be-
come a teacher. conditions will have to
change materially before the college girl
oh,
erenCa to that of Il teacher. There are
many women in our high schools and our
best private schools who have been sue
ccSsful teachers for years, and yet dis
like every moment OF the day spent IN
side the scnool walls Were the work
itself only to be considered many would
undoubtedly be happier acting as the
stenographer, the mOuthpiece of some
promoter of industry, some captain OF
finance than teaching the young idea
their \ b. C's year after year; but 1t Is
not the only thing to be considered.
Personally, | don't like teaching, and
never will, but in my senior year at col
lege | thought the matter over and de-
clded that inasmuch as | had to earn my
living, teaching was less Objectionable
than anything else. Compared with all
the stenographers l know, my pay IS
good; and it is certain to advance, ac-
cordlng to the rules of the board OF
service, instead of being dependent upon
the caprice of some one man who might
decide after | had been with him sew
erai years that | was getting too old
and fat to run around and hunt up his
papers. | have heard of such employ
fars' Also, after thirty years of service
am sure of a pension sufficient to keep
me from the poorhouse. Thirty years
81 scn0Gi teaching and then a pension
may not be a pleasant outlook, but isn't
II better outlook than thirty years Of
Stenography and no pension?
And then take the question Of hours.
NOW We teachers work hard for our
money When we leave the school at 3
o'clock we are more tired than the bust
ness woman who does not get off until
- or after. Most of us have papers to
correct in the evening too, after our
Gays. work is supposed to be over. Nev-
ertheless, if necessity demands it. we can
Fcurry home, change our frocks, and ar
rive at an afternoon tea, unlike the girl