The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-15
BISMARCK SEEKS TO
RAISE $11,9O0 FOR
Community CHEST
Sponsors Plan to Explain How
Money Is Spent in Series
Of Stories

Bismarck will seek to raise Sill 900
| for community development work in
The annual Community Chest cam
| paign to begin next Monday.
This figure is $478 less than the
amount actually expended during the
last fiscal year and also represents
re-allocation of funds to meet the
existing stringent conditions.
The Community Chest directors
have outlined a budget which in
cludes every activity financed by the
chest in the past but they included
one reservation. This was the pro-
viso that, in the event the campaign
fails to raise the desired amount,
those agencies which minister to the
actual physical needs of impover-
ished people will be taken care Of
first.
Before the drive actually gets un-
der way next Monday, complete ex-
PLANTATION Of every activity financed
by the chest will have been made in
The Tribune. Articles will be pre-
pared by persons connected with the
various activities in order to acquaint
the public with what they do and
how they spend the money allotted
to them.
In the past some protest has been
heard against sending money out of
the community to such institutions
as the orphanages and homes for
hayward girls at Fargo. The answer
to this. according to Community
Chest leaders, is that these institu-
lions render services to Bismarck at
far less cost than would otherwise be
the case. For example, according to
Supreme Court Justice A. M. Chris
Hanson, chest chairman, Is Bismarck
children were sent to st. Johns Or
phanage at Fargo alone last year,
and ID girls from Bismarck and vi
cinity were admitted to the Florence
Crittenden home.
No Longer Solicit
Another factor bearing on this
phase of the work is that these in
situations no longer make solicita-
tions and collections in Bismarck as
they used to do and as they would do
again were the support of the Com
munity Chest withdrawn from them.
This freedom from solicitation, not
only by out-of- town charities but by
local organizations is one of the prin-
cipal arguments in favor of the COM
munity chest idea.
Before the first community chest
campaign was staged here in 1927,
from IL to 20 solicitations were made
by different groups each year. Each
organization spent what it could COL
lect, frequently without reporting for
what it spent its funds. Some worth
while activities received ample sup
port; others were given too little.
I Under the present system each &C.
tivity Is made to show how the money
allotted 1t Is spent and the benefits
which accrue to the community from
its work. The merit of each line Of
work is weighed against the other and
it is upon this basis that funds are
allotted.
Although community chests are
common In America, that Of Bismarck
is unique in at least one respect. It Is
the only one In America, so far as is
known here, which is examined an
nually by the state bank examiners
department. In addition, every local
organization getting money from it
Is checked by the same authority and
a report made to the public.
Kitchen ID Example
One illustration Of the benefit Of
fered by the Community Chest IS the
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