Milford chronicle., 1958-12-05
WHY UNITED FUNn?!

WHY UNITED FUnlL1.2
The United Fund Drive, row in progress
in many parts of the nation Isl relatively
new approach to charity in Sn.lny commune
tiles. There are several organizations, some
of them major organizations, which refused
to join in the United Fund effort.
AS result, there are those who ask why
a United Fund campaign is necessary. AS
for our part, we believe the Inauguration of
a United Fund Drive is one of the most sig
nificeht and commendable achievements in
the field of charity which people OF goodwill
in this country have been able to achieve.
We support the United Fund one hundred
percent for many reasons. First it avoids
tremendous waste of time and duplication in
the efforts of the various charities. 1t puts
ones charity on businesslike basis, allows
him to know when and how much he will give
each month, or quarter, ETC., and allows him
to properly plan for his outlay.
The duplication involved in separate
drives for each one of the major charities,
especially in smaller towns and communities,
is almost unbelievable Business men in
towns where there was no United Fund Drive
formerly found themselves making charity
calls, organizing charity drives, and spend
ing much time on some sort of effort every
week or two. Sometimes, almost overwhelm-
led and without time to continue such a
schedule, business men have decided to re-
sfrain from all such work altogether. The
United Fund effort is a solution to this, and
provides for proper organization on per-
manent basis.
In summary we believe in the United
Fund and think that charity organizations
should-with few, if any, exceptions-coop
crate with this. joint charity drive. Those
who do not wish to cooperate, and who seek
to perpetuate their own organizations, re-
gardless of the practical value to be derived
from joining the United Fund, will find more
and more people disinterested in their pleas.
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b FUMES IN THE AIR
The auto industry has been subjected to
much badgering on the grounds that engi-
neering for safety has taken a back seat to
designing for sales There is ample basis for
such criticism, though it can also be well
argued that the public's desire for fashy cars
is ultimately responsible
Now the auto industry is being heckled
by demands that it do something quickly to
curb the exhaust fumes which increasingly
pollute the air in our cities and towns. The
manufacturers have heard such demands
before-and have done little about them.
This time the demand is receiving wide
spread publicity because it has been for
mally stated by the National Conference on
Air Pollution.
The matter is one that can no longer be
treated lightly by manufactm ers of trucks
and automobiles. There is growing evidence
that exhaust gases from millions of vehicles
contribute heavily to dirtying the air we
breathe. There is evidence, too, that such
fumes are not merely smelly nuisance, but
that they may contribute to various respir-
atory troubles. A physician told the air
pollution experts that exhaust fumes may
be as much to blame as cigaret smoking for
the rise in lung cancer.
Pointing the. finger of blame at the auto
mobile industry is in itself a profitless thing.
The public must share the blame, because it
has not heretofore pressed for action. But
from now on the manufacturers will be der
elict in their duty to the public if they ig
more the air pollution conferences demand
that they work at vigorous rate" to de-
velop ways of controlling exhaust fumes.
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