Medicine: High Cost of Giving

The voluntary health and welfare agencies that rattle the cup and jangle the telephone to the accompaniment of such slogans as "Fight Cancer!" or "Stop the Killers!" were rattled themselves last week by some searching criticism. According to a study sponsored and paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation, there is a disturbingly solid basis for the doubts that come to every giver as he shells out—where does the money really go? Aren't there too many hand's out? Is this the best way to collect and spend the public's money?

The underlying facts of voluntary agencies, as the study found them, are:

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