Eureka Reporter | 1906-03-02 | Page 5 | Charity Not Well Directed

CHARITY NOT WELL DIRECTED something wrong w th system says the new york sun these charity organizations are so I 1 many that sometimes they compete with each other to find people on whom to bentov their bounty the church parishes of the different de nominations are engaged in a like competition the ingenuity 0 prates philanthropists Is always seek ing to invent new method for the employment of their charitable actie ity A householder s mail contains almost dally appeals tor money for the support of old or newly devised schemes of charity and in the man argement of these are hundreds of men and women often of high social stand ing why Is it then that we continue to hear stories of bitter poverty and suffering unrelieved how can any such victims escape the constant search for them by public private and individual charity something must be very wrong with the system Is it the development of the professional philanthropist who makes a living by drumming up contributions tor the poor and Is there not a super faulty of charitable agencies new york sun