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Show The "Charity" Racket While some states have legislation legisla-tion to control fraudulent charities chari-ties and to regulate professional ..eggars, many of the common-.v'eaiths common-.v'eaiths of this country have failed to pass legislation design- j jd to protect the generous public ! rom becoming the victims of charity racketeers. While this detestable fraud is more prevalent in the metropolitan metropolit-an cities, it is not entirely unknown un-known here. Many schemes are engineered, under the cloak of a charitable or worthwhile object, out when the funds are divided jet ween solicitors and others, the so-called object of the drive nets ...radically nothing. i The average c.izen has a kind icdft and us..: . . : .jj ds tnjer-:.y tnjer-:.y to wha; . . o lLts a real o d. Trading upon this trait of .uman nature, pioessional beggars beg-gars manage to collect targe sums and even greedy parents some-j times coach their children to solicit funds from the public. It is not always wise to give a coin to every one who asks for assistance. |