Evening journal., 1919-11-13
HOPE TO CGSTINUE.
.COMMUNITl EEViCE.
Financing Plan for Next
Year is Approved by Will
mington Society
MUCH ACCOMPLISHED
IN CITY UPLlFT

plans for financing the Wilmington
Community Service for the year 1920
re discussed at meeting Of the gen
ID committee OF the service in the
-oard of Education rooms at the Public
uilding yesterday afternoon. 10 was
'cided that q budget committee should
.a selected which should plan a budget
nd also the manner In which the
necessary finances could be raised.
This decision was reached after Har-
old Keats. executive officer for the SER
vice had made-a- report of what had
been accomplished In thc past TWO
months an expression had been OBJ
fained from various civic bodies rela-
time 10 their opinion as 10 The benefit
The service had been 90 the community
letters from The Service Citizens,
Central Labor Union. y. NJ. c. A. Y.
". c. A.. Consumers League Of Della
ware. Y. NJ. II. A. Knights of Columbus
Mayor Taylor, Dr. Leo Naccar8 cham
her Of Commerce Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio railroads and many
others. including a dozen colored or
ganizalions were read. All of the let
ters expressed ihe appreciation of these
bodies for The work done by the SER
Vice and expressed The hope that IL
would be continued.
Mr. Keats presented recommends
tion from The executive committee Ia
the general committee which In effect
was that a request be- made 'Of thf
National Community Service 10 finance
the local work until February 1, dur
ing which time the local organization
would endeayor io find some way OF
financing the program for another year
John c. Saylor's motion That bud
get committee De named, was unanl-
mously passed and John p. Nields, who
presided at the meeting i'm the absenct
of George B. Miller, chairman, said that
he would announce the committee
later
nr. Charles r. Stmson, who made
such a splendid address on the opening
OF the United War Work campaign here
addressed the committee, Mr.. Stimson
being a field representative Of the Ma
tional Community service. he COM
plimoniod the local committeeman on
the excellent opinion that the civic
bodies had OF The work Of the service,
and said hc had never heard any better
or $50 general commentator Of com
munity work in any city.
ile entered into an explanation Of
what community work properly con-
slrUcd means Illustrations Of how
Bridgeport and. Waterbury, Conn, were
proceeding with community work were
given. Dr. Stlmsoa stating that an
riasses OF society were Interested in
me- work i'm those cities. lie said that
from what he had observed here in the
rasl two days that Wilmington was in
excellent condition TO continue tho
work. ud that 10 would be a pity for
such a start Go be wasted.
When the national body decided to
establish community work in tfty cities
year aeO. 10 was the idea That nothing
should Doe started that would become
an obligation on the community. Dur
ing ihe year, however IL has been
learned that many such units have de-
Nei0ped work that is so valuable that
10 stop now would be a loss to the
c0mmuniiy This same fact was true
hafe. ng Siimson said While there are
some activities that the service has in
auguraled here which have been taken
over by local agencies yet there are
many others OF much Importance for