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Goodwill Glimpses
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| 1 | The only solution offered by the Christian church for the present world depression and war mania that your Executive Secretary has found, is that proposed by Stanley Jones in "Christ as an Alternative of Communism" and Kagawa, of Japan, in his "Promotion of the Kingdom of God by the Cooperative Movement", and the Young People's study class on Building a New World through Consumers' Cooperatives. Capitalism, either individualistic or governmentally regulated, has failed. Communism and Fascism crushes out freedom - political, economic and religious. Consumers Cooperatives have succeeded marvelously wherever consistently tried. It is not a political movement. It champions no economic theory. It is not sectarian, and is religious only so far as mutual service is concerned. It maintains production for use and not for profit. It maintains democracy in its management. It promotes goodwill and brotherhood. It aims to provide employment to all who will work for service to others in useful things. It distributes to all according to their needs. Send 25 cts to the Epworth League, 740 Rush Street, Chicago for a packet of these circulars descriptive of this movement. I strongly advise every Goodwill to have a weekly study class this winter on this movement. I will give $10 to the Goodwill worker who will send me the best statement of how the Goodwill Industries can cooperate with the Consumers Cooperative Movement. This statement should reach me before Easter, and if sufficiently short and comprehensive I will have the same published. How could every regular worker in the Goodwill Industries and every customer in our stores become a member of a Goodwill Consumers Cooperative? Wherein would the Goodwill Industries and its workers and purchasers be improved thereby? Would we be able to promote thereby the Kingdom of God as a solution of poverty? | |
| 2 | The Executive Secretary's itinerary, as close as he is able to fix dates, is as follows: | |
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Chicago, Ill - - - Oct. 2 | |
| 4 | The Executive Secretary has received word from Mr. G.W . Hinckley of the Goodwill Home Association, Goodwill Farm, at Hinckley, Maine that there have been certain conflicts arising due to our similarity of names, and that recently a check intended for his organization was sent to a Goodwill Industries and returned to the sender instead of sending directly to his Goodwill Home. I trust that hereafter if any money is sent to any of our Goodwill Industries for the Goodwill Home Association, or the Goodwill Farm, of Hinckley, Maine, that it will be forwarded at once to Mr. Hinckley at Hinckley, Maine. It is unfortunate that our corporate names are so nearly alike, but we will want to do the best we can to deliver such a splendid enterprise as is carried on by Mr. Hinckley from any misunderstanding. | |
| 5 | We regret to announce that Brother S.B. Josephson has passed on to the better world from his home in Cambridge, Wisconsin. A note of condolance to Mrs. Josephson would be a fine thing for each one of our Goodwill men to send. Brother Josephson leaves a wife and three children. | |
| 6 | Munroe H. Hess is getting mail sent to his old address 1027 Howard Street. He desires that all of our Goodwill Industries correct his address to 916 Howard Street. It will be well that all of our Goodwill Industries check any changes in address and govern themselves accordingly. | |
| 7 | E.J. HELMS, Executive Sect'y | |
