The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-23
A. E. LaUery Tells H0U
 Combined DriUe Works

cates over and over the work on the part of the solicitors and increases very materially the annoyance which the general public feels if they are frequently urged to give deserving the cause"
 '"The frequently repeated drive also produces handicaps. A manu- facturer approached by. some drive worker and asked for the privilege of going through the factory is more than likely to reply, If I let you then I must let every other and if l do that then I have got someone going through my place every little while | and I can not permit it, On the other hand if we can ask to go through the shpos and the city just once we can expect hearty co-opera- ton from all these people. And that is just what we are going to try and do. We are going to pledge that there will be no further solicitations during the fiscal year for any pur- poses of maintainence or operation. The one drive will cover the needs of all sorts for one fiscal year except in the one particular. There will be included in the estimates no projects for building. Those will have to be considered individually and financed separately"
 What do you mean by a desig- mated drive MT. Lavery?" the Times By designated drive is meant just this, that if you are more in- terested in some particular work than another and you wish your con- tribution to be applied to that work, if you so designate, it will be used for that particular designated pur- pose and for nothing else. Under this method it is possible for a per son to give a sum and specify how it shall be divided among any num- Der of objects" 8s '.But how will you determine what share of the total amount raised each | organization will receive? It is obvious that they do not all require l the same amount and that the sum
 could not be divided equally, :. "The solution of that problem Is very easy. How does a, city divide its budget among it's different depart ments?'
 Through it's Board of Apportion-
 ment."
 Why. certainly, and the same principle will be followed in this s different organizations will receive will be determined by their needs and not by any arbitrary ratio Of dlv1s- ion." the personnel of budget commit tee This committee will be made up of representatives of all the large | elem ente of society interested in this matter; religious, economic, social 1 cOnneTcldl, dllt oCiiCi " 1oS
 It will be a body of men of such 2 character that the public will have absolute confidence in it. To this body each organization participating | in the drive and it's benefits will sub'
 init an outline of it's work and ar
 estimate of it's needs for the comina year. The committee will check LII
 on any overlapping of effort and worl | between the organizations, and if sucf are found, eliminate them, if possi
 ble, and the sum of these requests
 after this is done will be the amoun
 which we will go after and get" That will end drives in Bridgepor
 for a year so far as social agencie
 will be concerned. Each organiza
 ton will then have the funds whicl
 it needs to carry on it's own particu
 lar work in it's own particular way
 The public will have done it's dut! toward these agencies which are en
 titled to it's support and Bridgepor
 will have got in line with progressiv'
 towns by establishing it's charitie9 finance on a modern, practical ant
 scientific basis