The San Francisco call. [volume], May 04, 1913, Page 3, Image 3

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The SEMI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE SECTION
A Magazine for your Reading Table
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS' PAGE
Mayor William J. Gaynor
Charity— Its Uses
and Abuses
William J. Gaynor
:•;■;::' Mayor of New York
THIS MATTER of taking care of
the aged, the maimed and the sick
is a large one and is of acute and
growing importance. Ido not think it
ought to be a matter of charity at all.
I think the community is in duty bound
'.o take care of them. It is their right;
syto be taken care of by the community.
And it is my belief that in the fullness
of - time all worthy people now de
pendent on charity will be taken care
of by process of government.
I know of no reason why working
men and workingwomen who are in
jured by machinery or who become sick
and decrepit, or incapable through age,
should be turned out to depend on char-,
ity instead of being taken care of by
the community through some agency of
government. My conviction is that gov
ernment — the community —is bound
in morals: and good conscience to take
care of them. Some think that it would
be too vast a scheme! On the contrary.
It would be easy—far easier to do it
well that way than to do it ill in the
way it is now done; namely, by volun
tary charity.
; The Producer* Should Pay :U
A SMALL tax on production, on
articles produced by manufac
turers, and on railroads, and all indus
trial agencies, would be sufficient to foot
the bill. And such a tax would be a
decimal so small that the public would
hardly be conscious of it. The em
ployers would pay it in the first in
stance, of course; but it would .be one
of their costs of production, and would
be added by them to the price of their
> finished product. In that way, the
whole community would bear it. Such
a tax added to the cost of the hat you
wear, for an instance, would be so small
that you would not know you were pay
ing it. Under such a system, all those
hurt and disabled in industrial employ
ment, or who may grow unable to work
from age, would be taken care of by the
community; that is to say, by govern
' . ment.
Much progress is being made in this
CONTENTS.
COVER DESIGN—THE CLEARING HOUSE OF TREASON P. J. MONAHAN
CHARITY-ITS USES AND ABUSES— Editorial WILLIAM J. GAYNOR Fsft
CHARITY-ITS USES AND ABUSES— Editorial WILLIAM J. GAYNOR 3
THE CLEARING HOUSE OF TREASON . . VANCE THOMPSON 4
Illustrations bp P. J. Monahan -
THE TARDY CANNON BALL .... GEORGE PATTULLO 6
Illustrations bp Edward Borein
THE BORDERLAND OF SLEEP . . . . H. ADDINGTON BRUCE 8
Illustrations bp G. H. Mitchell '
EVES TUTORS . .. ... . . CAROLYN WELLS 9
Illustrations by Elizabeth Ivins Jones
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT NUMBER ......
STEERING CLEAR OF ACCIDENTS . CHARLES B. HAYWARD 19
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believe that inside of fifteen years laws
to carry out this method will have been
passed by every state in the Union.
Several states have such laws already,
and though we passed a statute in New
York which was a mere beginning in
this direction, the courts declared it
void. But 1 think there will be no more
such court decisions. The courts of
other states have held such laws to be
valid, and the Congress of the United
States is now passing one with full as
surance that it will be upheld by the
Supreme Court of the United States.
A Farm Colony for Tramp*
A KIN to this general subject, I may
i say that here,in New York state
has just been established a farm colony
for tramps. The purpose is to teach
the tramp fraternity habits of work.
New Jersey, Georgia and Texas are now
considering a similar plan. In the
same way the city of New York has es
tablished a farm colony- for inebriates,
the .purpose being to cure them of the
liquor habit and also to teach them to
work. Connecticut now has a bill be
fore its legislature for the same pur
pose.
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Through its i Department' of Public
Charities, the City of New York looks
after 13,000 children in the various
public eleemosynary institutions, the
system of public hospitals ) notably af
fording help to thousands of worthy
persons yearly who are unable to pay
for treatment.
The Small Share of the Poor
9 1 4 HE contrast, however, between our
*-._,; public charities and private char
ity associations , presents an unpleasant!
condition. No less an authority than
the Commissioner of Charities for the
City of New York recently said of the
private charitable agencies:
X"I come into close contact with pri
vate philanthropic organizations in this
city, and according to what I see a large
percentage of the money some of them
collect; goes not to ■ the poor but to :■ pay
salaries to the charity workers."
The recent committee on congestion
of:population in New York City re
ported that the 3,500 private charitable
societies of the greater city collect $20,
--000,000 a 'year from ; citizens) and from
charitable society endowments. On the
other hand, an estimate made by a mem
ber of the Charity Organization Society
is that only $600,000 of this huge total
goes to poor people in distress. X. Think
of it! A difference of $19,400,000!
This ought to be looked into as some
thing imperative.
If the Department of Public Chari
ties had such a record, it would ;be
j justly subjected to a storm of criticism.