Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
INVESTIGATORS. ARE
NOT ENDORSED

it maintains itself mainly by mixing in
police controversies and capitalizing
such matters: also by keeping in the
held such men as Mr.. White who by
giving talks to small suburban church.
es upon morbid subjects and subse-
quently passing the plate" live upon
the donations from simple well mean
ing people.
In Cleveland and elsewhere the
methods of the Union are highly sem
Sational and no investigation has
demonstrated that it was a religious
institution of any great moral value.
Several years ago a CHIEF of police
in Cleveland was removed because of
his personal immortality. The body
which Mr.. White represents claims
that 1t was more or less responsible
for this chiefs removal. No one of
standing in Cleveland has been found
who Will attribute the chiefs removal
TO the American Civic Reform Union,
although Mr.. White goes about col
1ecting money and capitalizing this
episode.
The fact that Mr.. Whites outfit is
not highly thought of in it's home city
shows what credence should be given
Its abuse of Harrisburg.
Prominent Names Without Consent
Some time ago it was discovered
that Mr.. White was soliciting funds
in Harrisburg by handing out folders
with the names of several prominent
Harrisburg men printed on them with
the implication that they endorsed the
body Mr.. White represents. On in
terviewing the Harrisburg men whose
names were on the folders they in
dignantly denied they endorsed Mr..
White or his organization and that
their names were used without their
consent One of the men said he had
given White money merely to get rid
SaF H. fK1a
sumed he had used his name because
of his prominence in Harrisburg.
Reason For the Morbid Talks
All Investigations of Mr.. White and
his organizations indicate the prin-
cipal reason Mr.. White gives his NOR
bid talks to small churches and gives
out wildly exaggerated press state |
ments defaming the good name of
Harrisburg Is to stimulate the cOIlec- |
ton of money with which to support
himself. He probably means we'll to
q certain extent but the continued ef-
forts to solicit money from business
men and the collections taken up at
small churches that are not able to
pay their own expenses shows the
commercial side of Mr.. Whites or
ganiZation is a leading feature. 1t ,
looks like commercialiZed muck rak- |
Ing of cities.
The record of Mr.. White and his |
OTBdnlLduOn III OIneT ClIleS SHOWS Inat !
muck raking police departments and |
defiling the good name of a city to |
swell the size of his collections from |
we'll meaning people is a strong mo-
tive for his work.
The foregoing facts are CLEANED
from letters on file from the Rookie
feller Institute and the Organized
Charities of Cleveland, o. Copies of
these letters can be seen at the Tele-
graph office.
The Telegraph has no quarrel with
anyone, honestly desiring to better
moral conditions in Harrisburg, and
lays these facts before its readers
merely for their information.
Whites Statements
Mr.. Whites statement of to-day is
as follows:
The Investigations made by the |
American Civic Reform Union in Har-
risburg have been in accord with those
conducted of late in nearly all the |
cities of the nation and the treatment /