New Uses for Wealth as Endowment

T HIS article proposes to discuss some new points of view, which since the war have come to the front, regarding the possible uses for endowments in the child welfare field. Resisting the impulses either to with alarm or to with pride, we may approach the subject by a brief statement of certain underlying conceptions in the minds of the public concerning the free use of endowments and the new foundations which in the last few years have been built up. It is reasonable to resort to the law as a source of information, because there lie the crystallized judgments of the community, and there the most interesting phases of the struggle to build up a new point of view are now observable. It should not be assumed that the advances recorded are solely children of the postwar period. Their most obvious evidences, however, have appeared within the last ten years and so are logically included

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