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...give generously to charitable organizations which enjoy its trust. To date the question whether this trust is justified has not been raised. However, several sources, including two Rockefeller reports published in 1945 and 1960, and two recent articles by John Lear in the Saturday Review, and Dr. Robert Hamlin, an Associate Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, present disturbing evidence of inefficiency and mismanagement among voluntary charitable health agencies...
...first Rockefeller Foundation Report noted a variety of evils among voluntary health agencies, such as lack of coordination between agencies which resulted in a confusing duplication of appeals and failure of agencies to inform contributors how their money was spent. The findings of the second report, written by Dr. Hamlin for the Rockefeller Foundation ad hoc committee on voluntary health and welfare agencies are even more disturbing. He reported that "no strong, central agency" had been created, too much money was going into overhead (as much as 36.2 cents being spent in raising each dollar), the public continued...
...Hamlin has proposed a plan to effectively revamp the present, confused situation. The first step would be the formation of a national committee of voluntary health agencies to establish a code of accounting procedures for all the various agencies...
...national committee would keep a careful eye on the records of the agencies to assure adherence to the code. The second key element in Dr. Hamlin's plan would be the participation of individual donors in committees at the local level to prevent the public from giving to unworthy charities. Acceptance of proper accounting standards, the examination of records by an impartial body and information telling the public how their money is spent would much improve the position of all the agencies concerned...
Soon after the races began, the victory was clinched. Contributing most was captain Mark Mullin, whose 4:15.1 mile disconcerted Manhattan for good. Mullin sliced the Cage record by three seconds, and Ed Hamlin, who took second behind him, also bettered the old figure. A short hour later Mullin racked up another five points by winning the 1000-yard run in 2:17.0. Then, seemingly inexhaustible, he ran a brill-Hant anchor leg, coming from ten yards behind to take the two mile relay with a 2:00.1 split...