Garland Globe | 1906-03-03 | Page 6 | Charity Not Well Directed

. CHARITY NOT WELL DIRECTEL ' Something Wrong with System, 8ays the New York Sun. Thcso charity organizations aro so many that sometimes they competo w!lh each other to find people on whom to bestow their bounty. Tim church parishes of tho different denominations, de-nominations, aro engaged In n llko competition. Tho ingenuity of professional profes-sional philanthropists Is nlways Peeking Peek-ing to Invent now methods for tho employment of their charitable activity. activ-ity. A householder's mnll contains nlnmst dally anneals for mnnov for thn support of old or nowly devised schemes of chnrlty and In tho management man-agement of these aro hundreds of men nnd women often of high social standing. stand-ing. Why Is It, then, that wo continue to hear stories of'bltter poverty nnd suffering unrelieved? How can nny such victims escapo tho constant search for them by public, private and Individual charity? Something must bo very wrong with 'tho system. Is It tho development of tho professional philanthropist who makes a living by drumming up contributions for tho poor nnd sick? Is there not n superfluity super-fluity of charitable agencies? New-York New-York Sun.