South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-07
Club 10 Aid Public Against
Many Schemes of Money
Grating.

Or3ftlng.
s service anique i'm its scope and
rea helpfulness is offered By tho
"vigi.antsf OF Indiana. the clearing
house Of the Organization in the
state being az the South Bend Cham
ber Of Commerce. It's work en-
braces the investigation OF all forms
Of solicitation. charity. advertising.
stock selling. promotional work. pro-
grams and ticket selling. donations
and subscriptions. It's purpose -
90 prevent the hundreds OF thous-
ands Of dollars which go out Of
each community each year into pro-
jects OF various kinds that have no
reason 20 exist and which. BY virtue
OF their existence. are sink holes for
The money that goes into them
Frank j. Green. manager Of the
South Bend Chamber Of Commerce.
is chairman OF the Vigi.ants com
mission OF the Indiana Commercial
Secretaries association. which is
affiliated with the Indiana Securi-
ties commission and the Better
Business bureau. in turn affiliated
with the Associated Advertising CLUBS
Of the world
The service OF the Vigilants is
one Of the greatest given the mem
bers OF the Chamber Of Commerce
throughout the state, but fortunate
~ il is not confined 10 them. Any
one in st. Joseph county is invited
20 use this service. and without
compensation We are out TO save
for the people Of South Bend and
vicinity the money they loose each
year through solicitation and in
vestment
The schemes for getting money
from the public come in ali forms
OF dress and disguise. and there is
no way TO identify the "scalper."
Business, charity. church work and
education, are all used as blinds.
Not so long ago some negro
Jubilee singers came to town from
Elkhart. They came recommended
by the Ministerial association and
had a plan whereby they sang in the
churches and then took up a free
will Offering. TO go toward the main
tenance of some church home down
i'm Virginia. They sang-and col
iected their money-and the people
found out too late that there was
no church home i'm Virginia or any
where else
a real estate dealer. coming 70
this city. specialized in prospective
brides and grooms. He agreed. at
a time when building costs were very
high, To put up homes at a price
low enough to be very attractive.
He was in town several months,
made a number of friends, and had
convinced about 60 couples of the
city that he had a good thing. 1t
was a good thing-for him. He was
out Of South Bend, about $1,000 TO
the good before his scheme was dis
covered and ne could be made to
carry out his contracts
I'VE discovered by accident, one
day that two negro women were in
the city collecting funds for some
thing or other. They worked on the
scheme of catching a man when he
was busy and would rather give "A
dime or a quarter than any of his
time They had collected nearly
$50 in less than three hours time
when we found them.
There is a popular system of
students" earning scholarships at
colleges by getting votes through
subscriptions 20 certain magazines.
AS far as we have been able to de-
termine no student has ever been
received into the numbers of colleges
where we have inquired through
this plan.
Zone man sold art calendars for
90 cents. No doubt the calendar
was worth so cents to any one who
wanted H.; but it happened that the