Charities Committee Limits Fund Card to Youth Groups

In a major policy change, the Combined Charities Committee has voted to exclude all non-student charities from its 1952-53 funds drive, Chairman Carl M. Sapers '53 announced last night.

The Committee added two new charities, the Experiment in International Living and the Harvard-Indonesian Project, to the five retained from last year.

Removed from the list are CARE, the Boston Community Fund, the Children's Hospital, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, and the American Cancer Society.

Sapers said, "Student charities depend upon students for support. If we don't support them, nobody else will." He added that this year's drive will be from the 10th to the 15th of November. Solicitors will canvas every entry, as in the pat, presenting students with a card on which the list of charities will appear.

Sapers emphasized that there is no compulsion to give money to the charities which appear on the card. The student can designate money for any organization, or can merely leave the designee at the discretion of the Committee.

Aside from the two charities added last night, the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, Phillips Brooks House, the Salzburg Seminar, the World Student Service Fund, and the American Friend's Service are carry-overs from last year's card.

The Committee declined to add a fund for seven German student leaders to the list. The Student Council, which is sponsoring the students at the University--six are here this year--found itself in need of money when the Bonn treaty of June 30, 1952 abolished the High Commissioner's office in Germany. HICOG had been paying for the students.

At the Monday meeting the Council agreed with Saper's comment that his Committee would probably list only pro-student charities. Sapers mentioned at the meeting that the optimum donation would be $10 per man, although there will be no pressuring from the committee solicitors to receive that amount.

The list of officers includes Sapers, Roger Hahn '53, Publicity Director, Charles T. Cole '54, House Captain, Robert C. Terry Jr. '54, Research Director, Peter B. Dunne '55, Yard Captain, Samuel A. Cousins '54, Treasurer, and Kirby von Kessler '54, Secretary.