HELP FOR THE CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY.
rilHOSE who, like the workers of the C.O.S., have spent their time, their energy and their money in helping others most deserve our help. They ought not to be obliged to ask for it, and they have not asked for it, but all the same, or rather all the more, it should be given to them.
At the head of our letters in to-day's issue stands a letter in which Mr. Woollcombe, the able and devoted secretary of the Charity Organization Society, sends to readers of the Spectator .an appeal made to them by a `fellow reader on behalf of the C.O.S. The person in question, who desires to remain anonymous, has read our article, the admirable letter proving the value of the C.O.S. work written by the London Police Magistrate, Mr. Cecil Chapman, and the letter of the chairman of the Society, Lord Charnwood, and moved thereby he has offered to -subscribe £100 to a fund intended to maintain the C.O.S. in full vigour, if we will undertake to make a general appeal to our readers to help on this good work. Most gladly will we do so. It is to us no case of " helping a deserving-institution." It is an honour to do a service to such a body and such a cause. We ask our readers, then, to do what they did when we appealed to them to help us in the cases of the Spectator Experimental Com- pany, the organization of the National Reserve, the Commons Preservation Society, and the Volunteer Central Organization during the War. Those were all important causes, but this is quite as vital. Those who subscribe to the C.O.S. may feel that they are helping a body which will not waste their money, which has indeed no weak spot, no heel of Achilles. It is one which keeps always before it the sacred duty of main- taining the moral strength, the independence and the self- respect of the nation. It has done more to -avert the curse of pauperization—the last and worst injury done by Dives to Lazarus—than any other institution in the country. We must save it, in order to save ourselves, for it and it alone among public bodies tends the sacred but diminishing flame of what we may call Humane Economics.
Surely that flame will not be left to die down from want of support ? If only nine more readers will follow the example of our anonymous Teader we shall be able to forward a most useful donation to the C.O.S. But we want more than that. We ought to be able to -send them at least £4,000. Any subscriptions sent to us, great or small, will be acknowledged in our columns and at once sent on to the C.O.S. Cheques should be made out to" The Spectator" and crossed Barclay and Co., C.O.S. Fund. The letters should be addressed Spectator, 13 York Street, Covent 'Garden, W.C. 2.
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