Arizona republican., 1921-10-09
By Frederic J. Haskin.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y. Oct. 7.-One | progressive sign about this city is that it has done away with tag days for starving foreigners. homeless babies, and the thousand and one other worthy causes that need assis- tance. A man in another city where tag days are a perennial feature told of an interesting experience. He said that he had patronized three chari ties in one week, and on Saturday when he saw girls wearing pink crepe paper caps and carrying trays. he ducked over to the other side of the street, thinking thereby to save a quarter.
 All day long down town he kept out of range of the pretty girls on the corners. But going home, he ran directly into one. She smiled sweet ly and thrust something into his hand. He looked down to discover that he had been given sample of soap.
 Rochester manages to help it's sick and blind babies and 40 other impor- tant philanthropies, and it does it in systematic way. Philanthropy has become an efficient part of the city's machinery. and what is more unusual, the people are coming to know something about the relief and social welfare work of their city.
 The Rochester system is commit nifty chest. You doubtless remember the war chests which about 100 cities had. All the war relief work of these cities was financed by having one big campaign a year and keeping the money in 'chest" to be used when the appeals came.
 After the war relief demands slaclxed, the war chests were mostly closed. But some 20 cities have con tinued the system using it for all their local welfare work. According to Rochester. it is a great idea.
 Rochester has its big campaign in the spring, with Suppose Nobody cared' for the slogan. For one week, the whole city concentrates on raising over a million dollars in pledges and cash.
 an individual should give toward his city's philanthropies, the Community Chest Board made out an estimate. merely as suggestion. According to this, a wage earner might reason ably give one hours earnings week for seven weeks.
 Plan Works Better.
 Some people have been in doubt as to whether as much money can be raised this way as with the old in dividuaI campaigns, where people give according to the emotions of the moment, the amount of change they happen to have, in order to get away. Rochester says 1t is raising more It also has found that instead of the wealthy philanthropists Of the city dropping the burden on to the shoulders of the wage earners. as some people prophesied, the city's best known givers have kept up to their standard. Some have increased their gifts.
 The advantage of the community chest are sung with enthusiasm by the relief workers of the city. First they say, each welfare organization that has a right to the peoples helr gets a fair deal. By the old regime a tag day that came shortly after another one, never did as we'll. re- eardless of the amount of money needed, or the importance of the cause.
 Now the relief organizations know how much money they have to de pend on for the year, and can plar their work better. financial state ment is required of each agency be- fore the spring campaign, and the goal for the campaign is set from these requirements.
 Then the business man benefits by the single campaign system. Form erly, he was bothered at all times by representatives of charities who wanted his support. If he Is ap- preached now. and he rarely is, ht refers the organization direct to th' community chest office. It investi- gates all such agencies that wan public funds and those that ar, | worthy go on the community ches list A welfare agency that seem: | less urgent or that is not organized to do it's work efficiently, or tha duplicates some other organization work, is not given the city's finan cial support. If it wants to exist | it must finance it's work by enter tainments, or something of the sort
 The relief work that Rochester put first is for the sick, helpless and suf ferfng After that comes social bet terment of various kinds. Anon
 the 42 philanthropies partly finance
 by the community chest are organi
 cations that help the blind, the age
 and the orphans, the boy scout,
 social settlements, the "Ys," the Sal
 vation Army, and the Humane Sc | ciety.