Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-12

hapes ten million cases of illndss a year, of which two and a half mill lion cases last four weeks or over and cause serious economic distress for as many families.
 Proper organization of medical aid is. perhaps as important a meas ure as the granting of financial as- s;stance. Statistics indicate that per- kaps 40 per cent of illness among wage workers remains without medi- cal aid at present and a good deal of the aid furnished is insufficient in quantity or inefficient in quality. It should be the object of compulsory health insurance. as aeitated for in this country, to bring within the reach of the working class, the latest achievements of medical science and art. Only in this way can the health conserving effect of insurance be realized.
 .That the health insurance move ment is rapidly growing in this country is evidenced by thte intro duction of bills in New York and Massachusetts and by the existence of social insurance commission in California and the employment of a social insurance investigating com mittee in the United States congress.
 Explains Work of State Board.
 Miss Amy F. Acton, of Boston, a lawyer and representative of a new department of the Massachusetts state board of charity speaking on state chartering of incorporated charities, said that everything done in the name of charity is not de- fensible She started out with the theme that a private charity is a public trust.
 statutes of Massachusetts as an eX ample of the shortcomings of all of her sister states, Miss Acton. said: that under those statutes trustees of charitable institutions escape per- sonal liability for debts incurred by the corporation; the organizations gain perpetual existence; its real and personal property are exempt from taxation and cannot be at tached in damage suits, and funds are forever impressed with the trust, unless the purpose of the trust is changed under authority of the courts.
 "Through failure to realize that the ! community is the real party in inter- est, that private charity is a public trust, the private charities in most states occupy a practically unchart- ed country where any adventurer may stake a claim," Miss Acton said in conclusion.
 That social agencies. like a certain well-known make of automobile, might be run through standardizing process and be turned out guaranteed 100 per cent efficient, was implied in an address by Charles M. Hubbard, secretary of the St. Louis, (Mo) Prevalent association in paper on standardization of social agencies.
 Too Many Agencies.
 "In St. Louis," he said, arrange ment has been made by the Business Mems league for six weeks exami- nation of all the social agencies by a national expert The rapid multipli- cation of agencies made it necessary to sort them out and grade them ac- cording to efficiency"
 Frank J. Bu.no. general secretary of the Associated Charities of Min neapolis, said in discussing charity records that the enormous quantities of records kept by caritable agencies regarding their wards are likely to| become dustladen and forgotten under the pressure at which these societies work. He made plea for more thoroughness in cffice work.
 Carol Aronovici. Ph. D., director, Burear for Social Research. Phlla- ~@,,oo10A hn ci1V0r lininU fO the old rhyme:
 Organized charity, squint and iced
 In the name of heartless. statis- tical Christ
 Speaking for an audience Of specl- alists who control hundreds Of thou- sands of detailed records of the poor and near poor in the large cities. he showed, that the antidote for criticisms for keeping tab on these classes ls' more and better records. This IS the only scientific way that we shall get at our fundamental social problem.
 War On John Barleycorn.
 In A paper on "Mobilizing Against Alcohol" Mrs. Elizabeth D. Tilton. chairman of the Poster Campaign against alcohol Boston. Mass. said among other things:
 "What makes men stop drinking?| If you study the large declines In various drink-consumptlon tables, you find that they usually work back to two things-education and forms or prohibition, making liquor harder to get. This is true in Sweden, Norway and of the United States.
 "There is no one thing you can do that will help the world so much as fighting alcohol and the way IS to| generate the state of mind that brings down drink consumption. Get the facts. the cost to the people. Get the thinkers back into the cause; teach them. Form an alcohol educa-