El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-26
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To Do CHARITY
New York Distributes -Four
Million a Year to Dis
tribute Charity.

New York, April 26.-That New York
City is spending more than $4,000
OOO a year in salaries for those who
dispense private charities is the reve-
lation made by the New York School
Of Philanthropy in a reno-, ooHool
Just published. al Il"
inns may surpris MANY for -
lccehtly Deen reading heart +oncbin~
aSSotnts OF public and semi-pubIfc in
s,ffiD4on where little children eat in
suIIiclent food off bare tables s1ee,
on the floor with rough bIanEefs SogoPp
iuem' ana work hard at low menisI
taDor mat does not fit them for -
Ihlng better than ~drudgerv 0
social work embraced in the in
vestigation Of the School ~ pbff1an
thropy and the IntercolIeqieto TnI i
OF occupations includes a much 1-iJa-
Sange Of subjects than the - ~
orphans and paupers. e VI
y rs worthy Of note. however tbat
Sf'oUO,UOO a year means so cont. Co.
every man, woman and cbi1d ~ ~
o'oUosOUO population of the greater cit1y
or, - Tor every family, taxing he
customary average Of five persons TO
Counting out the numerous families
who do not need 20 have social wort-
ers laboring over them, the mount ner
actual subject must be much LARGER
thar ~. 1t would be interastfnr 20
Know Just how large the amount ner
actual subject studied, classified. and
ICED IN one manner or other is and
now TINS amount compares with tho
average amount OF money actuaIIv
treatment to the recipient OF cbsrity
treatment to the recipient Of cbsrity
a 1ew social workers receive sal
aries Of $4,000 a wear. which is tbe
largest amount reported. The ~investi-
gators further state that the SHARED
orker in the private phfIantbronieq
OF New York City are as numerous 40
authors editors and reporters or civil
engineers and surveyors. They num-
Der says the report, more tha clergy
men, architects. or dentists. or chem
lists.
New York has recently had some dis 4
astrous fires. in which loss of life
probably would have been prevented !
had alarms been turned in promntIv
commissioner Adamson is therefore
appearing in the movies TO show inst
how a box should be pulled"
TO New Horks foreign millions the
IRE alarm box is a mysterious affair. !
The man from Russia is reminded Of
secret police, ritual trials and vaca- I,
tons in Siberia; the man from italy
has an ingrowing prejudice against
authority which the alarm box arouses. /
New arrivals often give the handle |
OF the box a gentle twist and then
q vi away ~ AUftlEAeE recently ]
pulled a box when he wanted to END
a letter to a relative living abroad. He
had to explain to the firemen, much to
his establishment.
When a fire starts in an Italian
tenement, some one usually discharges
a gun through the window four or
five times to attract the attention Of
the firemen or a policeman. quite re-
CARELESS Of he risk to the neighbour
hood.
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Thieves are refusing to spend their
money in defending themselves in
court, district attorney Swami reports.
More and more. this class Of prison.
ers at the bar pleads poverty and has
free counsel assigned by the court.
Any lawyer ordered to serve in such
4 case must act. even II he does not
a penny out Of it. Lawyers of long
standing and great reputation may be
given distasteful petty criminal cases.
instance, W weeks ago former
district attorney Charles S. Perkins
vas assigned by the court to defend
IN ~1S-year-old boy charged with man
laughter.