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The Two Relief Funds
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Editorial Department the labor filled days of professional service.
A man’s intellectual avidity
must be more precious than the cost required to maintain it.
To say
he is too busy to read or that he cannot for any reason is self-excom munication from the ranks of professionalism and a similar classifica tion as a mere laborer.
THE T W O RELIEF FUNDS There seems in the minds of certain of our members some confusion regarding the relief funds, and it is our hope at this time to correct any misapprehension, and, if possible, to make clear to all the precise status and purpose of these funds. There are two funds, and this fact should be widely known.
When,
at the Cleveland meeting, President Buckley proposed a raise of dues, and stipulated that a certain part of this raise should go to relief, it was at once assumed by some that this was intended to do away with the previous plan of raising funds for relief by the sale of Christmas seals. Nothing was further from Dr. Buckley’s thought.
He used the argu
ment that the interest alone on the endowment fund, which at that time had not reached $100,000, was wholly inadequate to take care of the cases that were urgently calling for relief, and that provision should be made by a raise of dues to take care of all the emergencies that were constantly arising. No statement has ever gone out from the Secretary’ s office that would lead anyone to infer that the money received from a raise of dues would take the place of the fund secured by the disposal of the seals. A s the magnitude of this problem of relief presented itself to the Association, the idea crystallized in the minds of those most familiar with it that the only feasible plan was to utilize the funds provided by the raise of dues for emergency work in the relief of urgent cases, leav ing intact the endowment fund from the sale of seals till it had reached such proportions that the interest would furnish, a sum that would, in a measure, be adequate to meet the situation. The fund has grown per ceptibly each year, but it is by no means large enough to provide the necessary relief without invading the principal; and this is against the policy of the organization. W hen the time comes that the interest on the fund will care amply for all worthy cases, it is probable that the dues will no longer be used for this purpose. W e bespeak a hearty support on the part of our members when the seals are sent out each Christmas. C. N. J o h n s o n ,
Editorial Department the labor filled days of professional service.
A man’s intellectual avidity
must be more precious than the cost required to maintain it.
To say
he is too busy to read or that he cannot for any reason is self-excom munication from the ranks of professionalism and a similar classifica tion as a mere laborer.
THE T W O RELIEF FUNDS There seems in the minds of certain of our members some confusion regarding the relief funds, and it is our hope at this time to correct any misapprehension, and, if possible, to make clear to all the precise status and purpose of these funds. There are two funds, and this fact should be widely known.
When,
at the Cleveland meeting, President Buckley proposed a raise of dues, and stipulated that a certain part of this raise should go to relief, it was at once assumed by some that this was intended to do away with the previous plan of raising funds for relief by the sale of Christmas seals. Nothing was further from Dr. Buckley’s thought.
He used the argu
ment that the interest alone on the endowment fund, which at that time had not reached $100,000, was wholly inadequate to take care of the cases that were urgently calling for relief, and that provision should be made by a raise of dues to take care of all the emergencies that were constantly arising. No statement has ever gone out from the Secretary’ s office that would lead anyone to infer that the money received from a raise of dues would take the place of the fund secured by the disposal of the seals. A s the magnitude of this problem of relief presented itself to the Association, the idea crystallized in the minds of those most familiar with it that the only feasible plan was to utilize the funds provided by the raise of dues for emergency work in the relief of urgent cases, leav ing intact the endowment fund from the sale of seals till it had reached such proportions that the interest would furnish, a sum that would, in a measure, be adequate to meet the situation. The fund has grown per ceptibly each year, but it is by no means large enough to provide the necessary relief without invading the principal; and this is against the policy of the organization. W hen the time comes that the interest on the fund will care amply for all worthy cases, it is probable that the dues will no longer be used for this purpose. W e bespeak a hearty support on the part of our members when the seals are sent out each Christmas. C. N. J o h n s o n ,