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 settlement or neighborhood houses, in consumers' leagues, in district nursing, in the child-labor movement, in public playgrounds, in summer schools for the poor, in free clinics for mothers who need to be taught how to care for their children, in country homes for convalescents and children, and in the anti-tuberculosis movement. The Russell Sage Foundation and similar benefactions give the preference to trained workers, and especially to investigators.

The charity organizations in large cities experience great difficulty in retaining the services of their trained workers, because from smaller cities just organizing charity associations, or from some private institutions being reorganized on practical, up-to-date lines, come better offers for the trained worker of city experience.

A man who stands close to the head of his profession, philanthropy, told me recently that he knew of not less than six societies or organizations ready to pay from eighteen hundred to three thousand dollars a year that were searching for the right men and women. And the right man or woman is not the untrained, however earnest, one.

The salaries paid in philanthropy or social service are about the same as those which prevail in schools and colleges, though for executive ability, especially among men, a little more