What to read after War Work and Other Special Activities of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Inc?

In a talk I had with Mrs. Edward H. Harriman a while ago, she said, When you tell of the need for funds for your work at the meeting held in my home, be sure to say that giving to an efficient and needed organization is not charity, but an invest ment which pays dividends in the form of benefits to mankind, that is, it is constructive philanthropy, not charity.

At the recent meeting, which you honored with your pres ence, I said a great deal about the need for funds for use in developing and maintaining the general work of The National Committee for Mental Hygiene; and I told of the dividends in the form of benefits to mankind that had been secured through its general work. I was not able, however, because of lack of time, to give deserved emphasis to the extra dividends secured by the organization through its ability to administer special gifts for special purposes which have been donated and will, without doubt, continue to be given from time to time if the National Committee can maintain its machinery of opera tion on an effective basis.

Some of the special work carried out under appropriations which are not available for general expenses are: War work in behalf of the soldiers and sailors who are developing nervous or mental disorders while serving the Nation at home or abroad; surveys and special studies relating to the feeble minded and to the insane; demonstration studies in the psycho pathology of crime, such, for instance, as the maintenance and supervision of the mental clinic at Sing Sing Prison, and the clinic connected with the Children's Court in New York City; and special statistical studies, which are already helping to bring about the long-needed adoption of uniform statistics throughout this country with reference to mental diseases.

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