The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-01-03
1enosha Community Chest Association Makes
First Annual Report on Work
Much is Accomplished.
Wasted EFFORT IS ELIMINATED
eport Shows That Kenosha Has Placed Social Prob
lens on Business and Workable Basis
Through the Fund

with the calendar year, therefore this
will be the first annual report, and the
first of each month hereafter re
port will be published showing the re-
ceipts and disbursements and activi-
ties of this association.
At this time it might be well for the
information of our citizens who are
not contributing to this fund and also
to remind our own contributors of the
purposes for which this association
was organized, to give briefly the OBJ
jects of the association. They are as
follows:
a. To simplify the raising of funds
by providing single agency through
which solicitation and collection may
be made.
b. To have money available when
demands are made upon the commun
ity for charitable, philanthropic and
welfare activities.
c. To eliminate the wasted effort
and expense involved in separate
money-raising campaigns for the in
dividuaI charity organizations.
d. To avoid conflicting. campaigns
between equally worthy organizations.
e. To unite all parts of the COM
munity in reasonable and hearty sup
port of Kenosha's charitable, philan-
thropic and welfare organizations.
Eight Principal Organizations.
There were eight principal welfare
and service organizations which were
selected to receive the support Of the
Community Chest association during
! the first year, as follows:
Kenosha Hospital, st. GATHERINGS
Hospital, Salvation Army, Boy Scouts,
Girl Scouts, Kenosha Service League,
Carmelite Sisters Home for Old Peo-
pie, American Legion Relief Work.
! 1t was deemed wise to confne our
efforts to these eight major activities
during the first year, with the thought
that should other worthy causes de-
velop that they would receive due con-
sideration in the future. There was
no provision made, however, for emer-
gency contributions such as every COM
munity is called upon to meet from
! time to time, such as the Japan dis
aster and the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
| in Italy. Your committee has been
placed in very difficult position sew
eral times during the past eight
months because of these and similar
emergency demands. Your committee
has refused to give their consent to
any canvass for such outside demands
in this community and in order to
/ take care of Kenosha's just obligation
in these matters it has been necessary,
except in the two cases mentioned
above, for individuals to contribute
personally to these outside needs.
We would like every contributor to
| the Community Chest fund to be think
ing about this phase of Kenosha's
duty and be prepared at our annual
meeting of contributors which will be
! held in February, to express them
selves on this subject. Your commit
tee feels that you should decide at
that time whether or not provision
should be made for taking care of
| these outside demands from the Com
munity Chest fund, and if so, what per-
centage of our contributions should
be set aside for such emergencies.
Cannot Prevent All Solicitations.
1t is impossible to prevent all solicit
! tations for funds. Individuals will
come to our city and make these solicit
tations without the knowledge of your
committee, but where these matters
have come to our attention we have re-
4 fused to give our consent to any such
solicitation, and it is your privilege
in all such cases to simply advise the
solicitor that you are contributor to
the Community Chest Association of
Kenosha and refer them to our secre-
tary. You can readily see, therefore,
that if a limited fund is set aside to
care for these contingencies, that your
committee would be N a position to
consider these requests and you could
be assured that your committee would
I endeavor to handle them with the
greatest care and discretion.
/ The campaign last spring was for
! the purpose of raising at least $685.
/ 600 for the first year. This was felt
1 to be the minimum amount necessary
4 to finance the eight activities above
mentioned 1t was hoped that this
amount would be exceeded, for the
reasaG that it was felt that our needs
woss@a e in excess of $4,000 rather
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