Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-03

Expense: Time Of agent two davs
" day. 81; food. 81.
Has the Associated Charities bere
spent 81 to give away 81 Hasn't il
given TO that family in The trained
e!lclency of its paid worker a SER
wee worth untold money II has
eleVated the family from want and
misery TO a position of freedom and
ser support and that, without nan
PSIlZIhs II. The man did not know
Where to go for work: how tn 90
ABOUT getting his wife into a hospitai.
what institution would take care Of
ms paralyzed child; where 10 On m
get clothes. food or schoolbooks He
was utterly discouraged. down ont
reedy to quit. Was that expenditure
OF = worth Of time and 81 worth of
tood better or worse than giving the
man a - bill, all OF which he would
prooao!y have spent for food and al
Ine END or It's consumption, in a day
OF Two been just as bad Off as
when would be the wiser
way to handle that case?
When a sick man goes to a doctor
ne has to spend about ten times as
much for his doctors advice ana rar1
vice as he does on the drug store for
tne actual medicine prescribed. An
appncaht for charity is sick-sicl,
IN IHe worst possible way-and the
pIIhu ana needless administration Of
money alone to his needs is uSuaIIv
as disastrous as the blind admins
tration of any kind of medicine Win
out the advice of a physician ia a
man desperately i'll.
MI wallace is quoted as saving.
Inc money given by Atlantans fo
relieve the suffering of the poor goes
10 swell handsome salaries of nu-
merous officials
Salaries Really Too Low.
80 Tar as the handsome salaries
are concerned, We doubt if there is a
minister in Atlanta of Mr.. Logan's
aolIlty, energy eagerness and influ
ence who is as poorly paid as he is
Inc women agents are not paid as
much as business women of their
aplllty who are stenOgraphers, book
keepers and school teachers. There is
not a paid agent in the office who is
not oVerWorked and underpaid; and
IN addltlon there are three volunteers
on the office force who are paid moth
ing, and about 20 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 a total expenditure of less than
$2O,OOO; 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, | will convince him
of it so absolutely and unqualifedIy
he Will wonder ne ever entertained
such a doubt
Mr.. Wallace is also quoted as say
ing: Persons in dire need Of distress
are allowed to almost stdTve to death
while the Associated Charities bushes
itself in investigating them. This
statement is so ridiCulously absurd
as to make it almost unbelievable that
Mr.. Wallace is quoted correctly. I
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
sell OF some iiltlllbtl bl TIE executive
board knowing it, ! do not believe
to be true.
Quick Relief Always Given.
Persons in dire need are never
allowed to suffer pending an invesi-
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 tina. it did not merit
a reply. But on second thoughts we
are of the opinion that if We let It
pass. some unthinking ones might
believe it justified. 1t is for that
reason I have ventured to make the
above statement"