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Canadian Jewish communities are not alone in the possession of a thousand and one independent charity organizations. The Chicago "Daily Courier," a Yiddish paper, bewails their increase in Chicago, where Federation is not a new idea. It claims that most of these organizations are run by women who threaten business men and politicians with loss of trade and lack of support if they don't hand over suitable contributions. No one has more than a vague idea of the work these organizations are doing nor what is done with the money. There is little confidence vouchsafed the public by the treasury and certainly no one outside the organizations holds them to account. It is these same women who are always maligning the United Jewish Charities because it does nothing much for the poor. All of this has a familiar ring. In Canada, as in Chicago, there is the independent charitable organization spreading itself like a leafy tree in its native soil. Well-meaning housewives are its workers, inexperienced in modern ways of dispensing constructive charity and probably uninterested in such ways. Their mit&ahs could be just as great if they were affiliated with Federation at whose foundation stones they now dig away. What to do with the independent charitable organization? Refuse to support it.
- A gift of $20,000 in cash to the Associated Jewish Charities of Chicago was refused by that organization last week because the money came from a confessed bootlegger. The donor claimed he is no longer engaged in that lively, if illegal, activity, but it didn't do any good. The Charities officials have refused to touch any of the tainted monev, so there! This is hard to account for unless the boot-
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legger stated his profession too loudly and after that there was nothing left for the charity organization to do except to be ethical and high-minded and refuse to contaminate themselves or the poor. By now the bootlegger, even though he sold good whiskey, must feel like a pariah, a mean, old, low-down thing among all those^hotsy-tot$y, upstage officials. Some kind, struggling Federation in Canada should wire him where to leave the money and no questions asked. Meantime, in the interest of keeping the poor in their undefiled place, where they belong, the Chicago Charities should be consistent in their examination of all the money they get. There are donors who over-sweat and underpay their help, who live by usury, who are guilty of sharp practices in business, who have money in houses of assignation and gambling dens, who trade on the gullibility of widows and who, as a regular thing, cheat the government out of proper income tax, a pastime most illegal. Is their money any cleaner than the bootlegger's;1 Perhaps the Chicago charities should have left well enough alone, after all.
Every Monday and Thursday during the feverish joining season a new organization comes to life in Jewish Canada. About once in a blue moon an organization disbands. The last one-to achieve this heroic effort is the Achnuses Kaloh Society of Montreal, which has closed its books, heard final reports and given away its remaining $161.32. The reason given was that "there are other societies in Montreal doing similar work.'.' This statement is so unique in the annals of societies that medals should be struck or home-coming Week declared. The reason for disbanding is the best in the world and it must apply to many other organizations with four vice-presidents hanging on to their rnitzvahs and offices even if their work is being duplicated many times over and pvpn ll|^hfv ^� stanc^ *n ^e waY of modern charity giving. The Achnugpfljjpoh Society evidently was from the heart out. ha last treasury^went to the bride-elects, a gas bill for a poor family, a consumptive, to the old, to the sick. By disbanding the members reljriquished, some satisfaction and some joy for the larger good. It maf be another decade before another charity society succumbs to the arguments of organized charity, but the example set by this one is worthy enough to be followed right now,
M.C.
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