"To the Editor of the "Mobrh-Cbixn Dalny News"
Sm—The enclosed printed form letters will acquaint you with the purpose of the -"Good-Will Industries" now being Jauiched in Shanghai.
Relief by means of regular collections, workrooms, and careful placements is a method- that has become well known in the larger American cities; Good-Will Bags and Baskets in the home have become a mark of public-spiritedness. "Good-Will" collection trucks and depots prove a link between the "Haves" and "Have-now"
The wide range of needs presented. by the hundred of thousands of the unemployed and disposed now in Shanghai is being met in part by the many societies operating the 180 or more refugee camps. For the still Jarger number of the unemployed or marginal folk without the camps little help has been found possible. For all of these who will be returning in increasing numbers to their burned or sacked houses of Nantao, Chapel, Yangtzepoo and the suburban districts there is this hitherto untried approach in the field of relief.
Good-Will Industries are beginning on a modest scale but should, in such a year, rapidly attain to independent existence. The Nantao Christian Institute sponsoring the undertaking is known to your journal and the general public as a - long-established Community House or Settlement. Interruption of the varied and extensive programme it has conducted in Nantao has sent the staff of Chinese and foreign men and women workers to various phases of the refugee camp undertaking. The large, modern building with its equipment survived the hostilities almost unscathed though ruins now surround it. It is here and in this needy area that the work of re-conditioning discarded "clothing, shoes, furniture, and the like will be conducted' first, Collaboration with the Clothing Committee of the International Red Cross provides the temporary office space indicated—115 Hankow Rd—and materials collected and sert from abroad, that require repair (as hives) or alteration (parts of garments) afford a first step in such employment, i We trust that you will kindly allow Space in your columns within the next few days for presentation of this call on the public for its cooperation. Intelligent giving has been found very difficult, the wise use of things we no longer need is usually deferred to a to-morrow that never comes. We would relate those that have something to give with those who should receive, Wumor D. Boone. General Secretary Shanghai, Feb, 19.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.