Evening star., 1922-05-28
OVER 5000 GUILDS
L|STED|NLONDON
City Has More Associations,
Leagues and Alliances Than
Any Other City.
By the Associated Press

! Ds Tue [issoclateu fress.
LONDON, May 15.-This seat of a
far-fiung empire harbors the head
| quarters of greater variety OF local.
national and international orders, as
sociations, missions, alliances, leagues
| societies. unions. funds and bunds than
may be found in any other city of the
world
More than 5000 of them are cata-
logued in the new post Office direc-
tory, the Who's Who and What's
What" of London. In a benevolent.
protective or prohibitive way they
pertain to almost every field of hu-
man activity. interest or need. An
examination of the list suggests that
nowadays there is nothing from deep
sea fighting to higher thought that
has escaped the attention of organ
iZers.
Meet All Conditions.
A more painstak!ng perusaI might
prompt the notion that it would be
perfectly safe for human or beast TO
be born in London with or without
parents, reared with or without
guardians, masters. education or
training, stay out of prison or in
there would be agents of an organ
| ization of some sort waiting with
heip or ADVICE at each turn of lfe's
pathway.
Even at death the individual would
appear to be adequately safeguarded
for in the list is enumerated The
Society for the Prevention of Prema-
ture Burial
1t would be safe to assume shat
each has a definite reason for being,
a specific function to perform, but
while most of the official titles of
this organized miscellany make their
aims obvious, there are others that,
to the uninformed, sound quaint or
ambiguous.
Such organiza tions, for instance. as
the Society for Providing the Poor With
Bread and Coal in Winter, the Coal
Smoke Abatement Society and the In
stitute of Journalists Provident Fund
proclaim their objects in admitted fields
of usefulness.
Others Under Other Names.
Some others are the 'Mothercraft
Training Society, the British Rainfall
ssociation, the London Fish Friers
Association, the Large Black Pig So
ciety, the Out and Out Mission, the
Order of the Golden Age, the National
Baby Week Council and the Barefoot
Mission.
Brewers and personal rights asso-
Citations are listed cheek by jowl with
a variety of tariff reform leagues, the
Committee to Secure state Purchase
ana S0ntrpl OIL Ine IlQuor lTdOe, IIf
Inebriates' Reformation Association
and other organizations of a reforma-
tive or prohibitive character.
The styles of several might warrant
fear that their memberships have set
out on rather difficult missions. There
is for instance the National Anti
Sweating League.
Diversified and Unique.
Among the diversified and unique
societies for the propagation, promo
ton, advancement. suppression. pro-
hibition encouragement or preserva-
tion of this or that are found the
Crutch and Kindness League, the So
cicty for Befriending Young Servant
Girls, the Guild of Aid for Gentle
People, the National Adoption So
ciety, the Decimal Association. the
Association for the Providing. Train
ing and Supply of Midwives, the
Council of Justice to Animals, the
Society for the Prevention of Dis
figurement in Town and Country, the
Association of Certified Blind Mas
seurs. the League for Prevention OF
Spinal Curvature, the Society for the
Promotion of Employment OF Women
and the National Council for the Un-
married Mother and Her Child.
announced today.