Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site ahuta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ahuta!ecl From: ecl@ahuta.UUCP (ecl) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Who gives to charity Message-ID: <374@ahuta.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 15:33:09 EST Article-I.D.: ahuta.374 Posted: Wed Jan 16 15:33:09 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 04:35:42 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 18 Read in U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT (1/21/85, pg. 13): "From New Jersey's posh Saddle River Day School, where an 'awful, awful sneakers' contest raised $77.50, to skid row in Los Angeles, where derelicts donated $171 in coins and crumpled bills, people opened their hearts and pockets to help starving Africans." So derelicts can raise 2-1/2 times as much as children in a "posh" suburb? How inspiring that those who have the least can still find something to give, but how depressing that those who have the most seem to give the least. (No, I don't know how many children or how many derelicts were involved, but the implication certainly made one stop and think.) Evelyn C. Leeper ...{ihnp4, houxm, hocsj}!ahuta!ecl