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 their benefactions on similar lines. The Russell Sage Foundation is as well organized as any life-insurance office or great department store. The Carnegie benefactions are handled by directors, committees and paid investigators; so are most of the charities in which John D. Rockefeller is interested. The churches have fallen into line, establishing schools where missionaries, deaconesses, neighborhood workers, etc., are trained.

Just as it takes capable men and women to conduct great enterprises, so does it require high-grade workers, men and women of executive ability and special training, to manage the great charity movements of the hour, to dispense the magnificent philanthropies of the American multi-millionaire. There must be stenographers to handle correspondence, investigators to relieve the poor and encourage the wretched, studious workers to dig below the surface indications of squalor and filth and reach the cause, and head workers of peculiar executive ability to sift the reports brought in by investigators, and outline a more vigorous campaign as the world's needs are indicated by the reports.

I have emphasized the need for trained workers, not untrained enthusiasts, at the very beginning of this chapter, because I do not want to deceive any girl who feels that she must have