| Show C Community iri unity Chest Chest 4 I G Great at power Power In Development ent of Salt La Lake 18 Social Service Agencies of Organization Disburse Disburse Dis Dis- Dis- Dis burse By Dy HUGO B. B ANDERSON EJe Executive Secretary of Community Chest Ches Strengthening and making more efficient cf ef- ef- ef the spirit of human helpfulness ulnes is the service and duty assumed by bj bythe bythe the community chest hest It is isa a powerful force for community solidarity anc and soda social well being Perhaps no activity activity ity of similar proportions is today more nore essential to social order and stability of the community To its voluntary leadership the chest organization owes its strength To the technical knowledge and skill I of the workers in its member agencies the chest owes its efficiency The purposes of the community chest are three-fold three Raising funds each cach year to meet the operating expenses ex cx- of or its member agencies budgeting budgeting eting cling and distributing these funds and social research and planning No money or relief is directly distributed ed to individuals through the chest office for that is the work charged to the member agencies The chest of- of lice flee however houses the social service service service ser ser- vice exchange where all applications for relief are cleared and applicants referred to the proper agency for needed service The Thc 18 agencies of oC the community chest disbursed more than in 1930 While public contribution each year ear has been solicited on a basis of income of the agencies from other sources totals more than annually which explains how the expenditure of a quarter of a million each of the past two years ears was pos pos- sible FOUR POUR CLASSIFICATIONS The 18 agencies of the community chest operate under f four Ul general classifications Family service and re relief relief re- re lief including the Family Service society so society society so- so Catholic Ic Women's league Jewish Jewish Jewish Jew Jew- ish Relief society American Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross and Salvation Army child care Childrens Children's Service society Neighborhood Neighborhood Neighborhood Neighbor Neighbor- hood house and St St. Anns Ann's orphanage health and protection Salt Lake Visiting Visiting Vis Vis- lUng Nurse association Utah Assoc Association Association Asso Asso- c for the the- Blind reading room for the blind St St. Marks Mark's Hospital Charity association Sarah Daft home Travelers' Travelers Aid society and Legal Aid society boys boys' and girls' girls work Boy Scouts of America Girl Scout council and the Young Women's Christian as as as- In the 1931 campaign for chest funds there were subscribers Four hundred of the leading lending citizens of ct the community give year round voluntary service on the boards of directors of the agencies Approximately Approximately more gave their services in the huge army of solicitors during the campaign for funds lending many hours from their personal time in addition addition addition ad ad- to financial contributions The 1931 campaign raised approxImately approximately per pcr cent more than was raised the prior year th the amount subscribed as as' of oMay May 1931 having been as compared with for the previous year at the close of the campaign The 1931 fund however however how how- ever has been increased since the close of the campaign until more than has actually been subscribed One-eighth One of the population of Salt Lake belong to the community chest through their contributions The average n subscription was as against in 1930 sU SUBSCRIBE SC mE Large givers of th cit city numbering numbering number number- ing who gave between and subscribed or per percent percent percent cent of the total fund this year Those contributing between n 25 and nd numbered and contributed 23 or per cent of the total Those subscribing less than 25 numbered and contributed or per cent of the total The two classes showing the greatest greatest greatest great great- est percentage of increase in 1931 were those subscribing between and 1000 and those from 5 to 10 which represents the large givers and the laboring class In rn connection with the giving of relief relict it must be borne in mind that the giving of relief in and of itself seldom does docs except in the case of children cure or decrease the problem problem lem of dependency y In the On the contrary unless the re relief re- re J lief ilef ef is given with the highest degree degreef of f skill and sympathetic service it is bound to increase dependency in the community The White House conference on child bild health and protection found that the le five greatest causes of dependency were in their order sickness mental I disturbances accident premature death eath and unemployment nl The mere givIng iving of relief is a a palliative but seldom eldom eliminates any anyone one of these five ive great causes of dependency It Is essential therefore that as a community community community com com- we do not allow ourselves to use the community chest fund or any other ther charitable fund as a sedative to o relieve pains in the social organism without at the same time using every available means of checking the cause ol of f those pains WORK INCREASED In the present emergency organization organization organ- organ much added work has nas necessarily necessarily fallen the community chest in addition to its own greatly increased burden of family relief The he chest has made available to all recognized family relief agencies in inthe inthe the he county a a. a ashare share In tons of coal oal contributed by coal producers of f Utah It has served se as a clearing clearinghouse clearinghouse house louse for all aU charity cases through its s social service exchange It is also the ic servant in clearing the emergency dental service donated b th the by members mem- mem bers ers of the Salt Lake County Dental society An enormous addition to its usual sual clearance work has been added by y the checking of all aU persons receiving reedy reedy- ing ng orders from the central warehouse warehouse ware- ware house ouse and in the distribution of its portion of the supplies through its family amily relief agencies Every person who ho has filed for work through the civic vie employment bureau has been cleared eared through the social service ex- ex change hange and reports have been given I eX the agencies when such applicants have been placed for work With the aid of Salt Lake county funds the Salvation Army chest agency for transient care has enlarged enlarged en en- its quarters and added ties ies for tor giving these homeless men food shelter and clothing Ticket b books were issued by the chest of office office of- of fice lice for the purpose of referring needy men to this haven of support The community chest wishes to take this opportunity of ot thanking all contributors of former years and especially the new ones of the past year Some of the old friends be be- because cause ause of economic reverses found it impossible to continue their support Without the new ones and without I increased contributions from many of the old ones the chest would have suffered materially during the present present pres pres- ent year from a lack lock of funds The increased fund raised however indicates Indicates in indicates in- in a finer appreciation of the the human necessities by the subscriber and a wider knowledge of the work accomplished by the thc agencies The community chest hopes and arid is working hard to that end that the present period of depression may be concluded without lasting injury to those who suffer most in such times times- the children of the community community and and that its efforts to protect project their health and standards of living may develop a stronger a more tolerant and benevolent benevolent community spirit for the future j a hearty response is the j of farm chapters The membership 1 of these organizations varies from a afew few hundred on small reservations to several thousands on others Man Many of these chapter organizations have hav built their own community hous houses a fo for carrying on the various activities o of the chapter Much work is also being donL done don L among oniE young Indians through th the H 4 club organizations 11 APPEALS TO YOUNG This work has an app appeal al to th the Indian boys and fiTle i girls and and each MM year yeas A T several hundred of them compete wIth their white frien for prizes which are arc given at the th various counS county I and st te faIrs The part i about it is that thE Indian boys and girls have b been en winning whining a share good of the prizes The home and extension division still in its formative built stage Is being cing around sanitation an and nutrition However clothing lags and able We equIpment will A r receive e consider Indian attention women As Al are agene S rule the wen well to this extension responding very wo Work |
