Show coming season of mixed emotions Following the ever-busy ever November and December holiday seasons comes the early part of new 1961 a several-month several season when things in general are arc pretty calm Calm that is except in the field of fund raising For in that first three-month three season drives of every description will make themselves felt in this community and many others othern Without belittling the objectives of the many drive organizations or the efforts of the hundreds of volunteers volun volun- vol volunteers un who will be enlisted in their ranks many lC residents look with mixed emotions on the growing ever-growing number of needy national raising fund-raising groups Toward the end of each drive year faint cries of help begin to be heard among members of the lace One drive scarcely ends another even more intense drive begins Many communities eliminate this problem through the organization of a community fund group which sponsors spon upon sors on one big drive and allocates funds to individual or or- Not only does docs this end the constant rivalry between groups group for a bigger share of the ens en's cash but takes considerable pressure from the community in question Community funds of course have their faults We would like Jike to see an organization that didn't But this seems at present like the only method at hand to halt th the growing list of needy fund Rising arising organizations I |