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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: Spare-changing for charity
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 03:31:09 EST
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Following on about not being allowed to ring bells 8 hours on end outside a
store...
> 	At least that's better than what's happened in Cleveland.
> (and a few other places from what I hear.)  Some mall owners are not
> letting the Salvation Army in the mall or on mall property AT ALL!!!
> The reason, they claim, is if they let the S.A. solicit, they would
> have to let any and all organizations solicit on their property, or
> else be sued!  There are, however, several "brave" malls, and you
> can just guess who will get my business if I can help it.

Not to congratulate some of the shopkeepers for hiding behind a somewhat
flaky legalese defense, but this really puts it in perspective:  Just what
IS different among the Salvation Army, any off-the-wall religious cult,
and a bum spare-changing you?  Perhaps only tradition.  There certainly are
some annoying similarities:

	A technique to get your attention by irritation.  (Clang clang
	clang clang...for as long as you can hear it is NOT musical or
	joyous by any common standard.)

	No idea what a contribution is really going for.

	No idea how much of the contribution is actually going to the end
	project, as opposed to administration of the charity.

(Frankly, I find that the bum on the corner at least as reasonable a
recipient by the usual standards that I'm told to apply when judging a
charity...but then I don't follow those standards anyway:-)
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.