Protest Solicitation

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

In a recent article of the 13th of November concerning the revitalized Service Fund Drive, I feel insufficient emphasis was placed upon the effect of the Cambridge Tubercular Commission's plan to distribute the Christmas seals by mail throughout the Houses. The Student Council's position on any type of solicitation by mail is one of disapproval, even though these solicitations are for worthy causes, such as the Tubercular Association. We have told the Tubercular Commission that any such action would mean that their allotment of the money received from the Service Fund Drive would automatically be cut off. They replied that the publicity gained through the mailing of the Christmas Seals would be worth more than the loss of money from the general Fund.

The Council decided some time ago that students in residence were to be protected from such solicitations and have made that one of the strong selling points of the Service Fund Drive. The Council has felt for a number of years that more money can be raised for individual charities through an efficient Service Fund Drive than through ten or twelve individual campaigns. In return for this, the student body should be protected from further solicitations. However, the Council has no power to forbid any group to use the mails; this is a case in point. Ray A. Goldberg,   Harvard Student   Council.