TRUSTEES
February 22, 1924
My dear Miss Addams:
Father left for California for a few months February 8, so I am sending this report of finances for January. The balance from December contributions, and the larger endowment revenue in January, will, I think, carry us through February with a small cash balance on the month's accounts. The receipts for February have been rather small.
The joint Fair given by over thirty of our clubs has consumed our time those last ten days. [and] Over 900 people paid admission to it on Tuesday night of this week, and probably more tickets were sold to some who did not come. It taxed our capacity and ingenuity to the limit, but was worth while not only in money raised, on which we will report later, but in the cooperation of older and younger, and of all nationalities in the one enterprise.
The National Information Bureau of New York, which [renders] to national agencies the service which the Subscriptions Investigating [Committee] and the Chicago Council of Social Agencies do to local groups, has sent Mr. Allen Burns, its secretary, to Washington to have conferences and see whether it is at all possible to have the adverse rulings in regard to contributions reversed. A number of agencies -- settlements and other groups in different parts of the country -- are affected by it, and we hope that by bringing united pressure to bear, some change may result. If it does not, then the only thing to do is to work for an amendment to the law which cannot be so technically constructed.
Sincerely yours,
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