The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-10

list. A welfare agency that SEQ
less urgent or that is nor rrgsni--'9
10 DO its work efficiently ~ -.
duplicates some other orsa, t',a-
tion's work. is not given tbe 10
financial support II il wants -
ist, it must finance its work NV - "a
tertainments, or something n .t
sort. 'ae
The relief work that Rocbss,.-
puts first is for the sick b aInIss
and suffering After that comes s'e ~
cial- betterment of various kj-I,
Among the AZ philanthropies mart.
financed by the community cbos,
are organizations that helm ~
blind, the aged and tie orphans ~
Boy Scouts, social settlements -. .Ls
Us" the Salvation Army. and -. -HS
Humane society. '''s
Less Time Wasted.
An outstanding advantage 10 ,b.
organizations themselves fs ,S tus
they do not have to stage their ~
financial campaigns, so thew bsya
more time for their work SOM
people, too, are being drawn into
the social work of the city WIN "a.
fused before, because they disliks5
the begging end of relief work
A point that Rocheste-. considers
of special importance is that The
people are beginning to understand
the purpose of the city's philan.
thropies. The fac; that one nor
son in 10 needs help at some time in
life does not ordinarily impress pen-
pie. with its personal Significance
If they have enough money to nav
their bills they see no reason IN
imagine themselves as possibly he
coming one of the Citys problems
But sickness, unemployment. death
fire, or any other catas-
trophe does put many people in A
position where they need help. sem-
porarily perhaps That emergency
may never come, but to think for 4
minute what it would mean is
enough to show the citizens of any
why they should SIM
port its philanthrophic work
The community chest manager
shows the city what its relief and
social welfare work consists Of by
steady publicity.
Before We started the chest"
said one worker at the headQuar-
.ers, about all the newspapers ever
printed about philanthropic agen-
cies was the fact that a certain or
sanizatiOn had a meeting, followed
by list of those present, or maybe
)y tabulated financial statement
And of course, nobody read it. and
hey knew very little about the
and settlements, and
ZONES
But now we keep in touch with
he work of the agencies and hunt
'ut the human interest and print
stories about the institutions. All
trough the year we don't give the
people a chance to forget about the
work. that their money is doing"
Instead of people losing their en-
husiasm for the one campaign q
ear in place of so a year. Rochester
S adding new interests to its com
nunity chest burden and getting
he money to support them.
Last year, one new project which
he city agreed to finance was
arrying so crippled children to
chool. Most of these children were
isabled by flu and infanule par
lysis, and their parents had no
way of getting them to a publi-
choOl and back each day. A guild
ow takes them in an automobile to
school especially for them ana
ees that they get lunch.
This is a sample of the way in
Which cities are branching out Ii
heir philanthropic work There
re endless possibilities. To take
wo examples: Toronto has a
treet car which is reserved fcs
who want to go to the pub
c bathing beach 1t runs through
tenement district and gathers the
up free. No one else is
flowed on it.
An entirely different need is &c.
1 Washington by a health cline
Or working girls who aren't poor
nOugh to be eligible for charity,
ut at the same time cannot AFFORD
he expense of X-rays, light baths,
nd sanatOrium treatments They
an get them at this clinic, for
hat they can afford TO pay.