Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-03
.DPKINS MAKES DENIAL
0F WALLACE'S CHARGE
CHARITIES WASTE FUNDS

Expense: Time of agent. two davs
" a day. 81; food. 81.
has the Associated Charities here
spent 81 to give away 81. Hasn't it
sven 10 that family in the trained
eiIlclency OF its paid worker a ser
wee worth untold money? 1t has
eleNated the family from want and
misery to a position OF freedom and
SeI support and that. without pau
pSrl@!hg IT, The man did not know
Where to 60 for work; how to go
apout getting his wife into a hospital.
what Institution would take care of
MS paralyzed child: where to 90 to
got clothes, food or schoolbookH He
was utterly discouraged, down. ont.
ready TO quit. Was that exuenditrrre
OF - worth OF time and 81 worth of
Iooo peter or worse than giving the
man IS bill, all Of which he would
PROBABLY have spent for food and al
th~ END OF Its consumption, in a day
or two been just as bad of as
over Wmch would be the wiser
way to handle that case?
Nhen sick man goes to a doctor
no mas 10 spend about ten times as
vice as he does on the drug store for
the actual medicine prescribed An
applicant for charity is sick-sicly
IN the worst possible wav-and the
bllnd and needless administration of
money alone to his needs is usually
as disastrous as the blind admins
ratlon of any kind of medicine with
out Ine advice of a physician. to a
man desperately i'll.
MT Wallace is quoted as saving:
me money given by Atlantans TO
relieve the suffering of the poor goes
10 swell handsome salaries of nu-
merous officials
Salaries Really Too Low,
so far as the handsome salaries,
are concerned, we doubt if there is a
minister in Atlanta of Mr.. Logsn's
ability, energy, eagerness and influ-
ence who is as poorly paid as he is.
Inc women agents are not paid as
hiuch as business women of their
ABILITY who are stenOgraphers, book
keepers and school teachers. There is
not PAID agent in the office who is
not overWOrked and underpaid: and
In addition there are three volunteers
on the office force who are paid moth
ing, and about rs other volunteers do
ing work on committees and specific
cases who receive nothing.
The Associated Charities is saving
the city of Atlanta 100000 a year,
with total expenditure Of less than
100000; and if any reasonable man
who doubts this statement will spend
with me two hours at the office of the
society, in an open minded effort to
get at the facts, l will convince him
Of 1t so absolutely and unqualifiedly
he will wonder he ever entertained
such a doubt
Mr.. Wallace is also quoted as say
ing: Persons in dire need of distress
are allowed to almost starve to death
while the Associated Charities busies
itself in investigating them This
statement is so ridiCulously absurd
as to make 1t almost unbelievable that
Mr.. Wallace is quoted correctly. l
give him the benefit of the doubt in
my mind and assume that he did not
make this statement as quoted. |
have been closely connected with the
association since its organization eight
years ago. If out Of the thousands of
cases which have passes through the
office there has been a single one
which has ever been allowed to suf-
fer in the slightest while an investi-
cation was being made, it has not
been brought to my attention. That
such could have occurred without my
self or some member of the executive
board knowing II, I do not believe
to be true.
Quick Relief Always Given.
"'Persons in dire need are never
allowed to suffer pending an investi-
cation Whatever is necessary to be
done to relieve immediate suffering
is done at once; but with the ma
chinery at hand and the methods we
use, very frequently a thorough inves-
tigation can be made with remarkable
CELEBRITY.
The executive committee Consid-
cred Mr.. Wallace's remarkable attack
on the Associated Charities and our
first decision was that it did not merit
a reply But on second thoughts we
are of the opinion that if we let 1t
pass, some unthinking ones might
believe it justified. 1t is for that
reason I have ventured to make the
above statement"