Municipal Reference Library Notes Volume 6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ... now endeavoring to carry out the results of that survey. We meet with the different agencies whenever they want it, and keep a hand on all their transactions, hoth hy reason of guidance and the sympathy which must he given them. "The Bureau handles all approvals, and minimizes all campaigns, tag days, charity halls, etc., except in certain cases. In the war campaigns, where there are numerous requests, some of them foolish and unwise, and some of them ahsolutely unnecesary, we created the commission known as the War Solicitation Commission. This Commission sat at regular intervals, passing upon the worthiness of appeals for campaigns for funds. The Commission is still in existence, although its name is now changed to the 'Puhlic Solicitation Commission.' The estimate of approximately 2 million dollars saved to the community since war hegan is the achievement of this commission. Ohviously, only large matters come hefore it. "Des Moines is freer today of the indiscriminate solicitation, the tag day nuisance, and all such affairs, and its social work is on a more constructive hasis, hy reason of this organization, than any other city in the country." Social Welfare Activities in South Africa Bloemfontein, a town of 35,000 population in the Union of South Africa, has heen awakened to the fact of the necessity of child welfare work. The avalanche of the recent epidemic of the "flu" hrought the had conditions so clearly to view that the whole community realizes that better housing, clean milk, care of the feehle minded, medical inspection of schools, tuherculosis clinics and similar activities are necessary for the welfare of the community, and they are attacking their prohlem. A Social Welfare Committee was formed last year, and they ar...