The Confidential Exchange: A Form of Social Co-Operation (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Confidential Exchange: A Form of Social Co-OperationInquiries are difficult and unsatisfactory, of course, when agencies have no telephone connection or have inadequate records. But the following up of every possible clue, even in apparently simple cases, should be strongly urged'. If inquiries are frequent, agencies will be stimulated to make investigations and to keep records that will save them the humiliation of having to admit their ignorance. This is one reason for urging certain societies to join the Exchange, even if their work is so poor that their use of it will be neither constant nor intelligent, and their help to those already co-operating very slight. One society had always kept the records of families whose names began with the same letter of the alphabet in one drawer in the hap hazard order in which they chanced to come. After they had looked over fifty records early in the morning because the city charities wanted information about Mrs. Mary Brown, and looked through the same fifty the next hour to tell the children's aid society what theyknew of Mrs. Bailey, they began to understand the value of correct filing.With all newly interested societies and those having elementary systems of record-keeping, the workers in the Exchange must be very patient. These new recruits will come to appreciate its service gradually, and to realize that they too have knowledge to contribute that can be of distinct value to other societies. Each inquiry which brings worth-while knowledge will increase in geometrical ratio their willingness to make use of the Exchange, even at some expense of time and effort.It is the same old story in this beginning as in all others that have social welfare for their goal, we must be ready to catch the other person's point of view, must be patient in trying to change it, ready to accept any advance, never assuming that hesitancy to inquire means antagonism to the plan.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.