The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1915. HELPING IN THE RIGHT WAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 63, 14 July 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1915. HELPING IN THE RIGHT WAY.

Recently no less than a hundred anil fifty professedly charitable organisations in Paris were being subjected to a strict inquiry. They J ia( f sprung into existence owing to the war. So far a s investigations hud gone when the mail left, it had been found that about one-half of them were being conducted by persons who in the past had been prosecuted ior fraud, in one iustaiiace eleven times. Two women were making. £4O a clay out of a spurious agency for tracing missing soldiers, and some organisations are actually providing fat incomes for Austrians and Germans mysteriously escaped from concentration camps. In Britain, just as in France, funds, organisations, collections have sprung up in the tracks of war like rank vegetation in the tropics after ruin. -Many ol these concerns are of course authentic; many, though honest, are probably badly managed; some are almost certainly private ventures for private profit. We have not yet got down to that sort of thing, but nevertheless caution is needed. One cannot, however. go wrong in transmitting donations to responsible officials with a fixed location in any town, who are acting on behalf of the Belgian Relief Fund or the Sick and Wounded Soldiers Fund—and we might take the opportunity of again reminding our friends that both these funds are still very much in need of support. Many of our readers have already given liberally and their effort is appreciated, but they may with perhaps a little sacrifice bo able to do even more. If they do so they will ho helping in the right way.