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THE ATHENEUM 45 THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF ATLANTA The Community Chest is an organization that attempts in an orderly way, to provide funds for the needy. Last year was the first time in the history of this city that it has been used. Because of its great success on the first trial the campaign is being repeated this year. When the drive was launched in 1923 there were thirty-five organizations on the budget. They included such agencies as the Leonard Street Orphan Home, Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A., Travel lers Aid Society, Atlanta Childs Home, and many others. This year, however, there have been four more added making a grand total of thirty nine on this year’s budget. For fear that there are some who may not be familar with the working of this organization I will devote a few sentences to an ex planation of the mechanics of the Community Chest. In order that it may be determined just how much each of the thirty nine organiza tions may need for the incoming year a committee composed of the leading financiers of Atlanta is appointed. This committee with the assistance of an expert auditor investigates each agency on the bud get and accordingly a minimum amount is filed for each. Having, de termined a budget in this manner an executive committee divides the city into zones and places over each of these a general. Under the general are captains, under captains, lieutenants and so on down. Most of the money is gotten by popular subscription obtained from a house to house canvas. Ever since the day man realized that he was unable to combat with nature alone, and began to roam about in groups, we have had a spirit of interdependence developing. This has progressed so far that we are now living in an age of specialization, that is, an age where one group of men does one thing and depend entirely on others to do everything else. This is a marked degree of progress and is true in Science and Religion, as well as in all the other phases of man’s life. If we have seen this specialization work so well in so many phases why not try it with charity? This is what the Community Chest is endeavoring to do. In a word they wish to remove from your hgnds the worry of solicitors and beggars thru-out the year. They are giving you the opportunity to contribute to thirty-nine organizations at one time. Will you help them help you? It is not possible for all of us to actually help in person so let’s give the movement “life” and “pep” in the form of dollars and cents. Remember the golden rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” You will not regret one cent that you spend for this worthy cause. In giving you will enrich life. A spring, as long as it gives, will remain clear, clean, and useful but the moment it ceases to give its waters become stagnant and full of all sorts of poison. Let us take heed and keep giving in order that our lives may be clean, clear of evils, and useful in the uplift of civilization. Let us keep in front of us the words of the Master, “It is more Blessed to Give Than to Receive.’* —A. Hendrickson Peeler, 25.