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Report For 1942, Goodwill Industries
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| 46 | Loss of E. J. Helms, Our Founder | |
| 47 | E. J. HELMS, scholar, teacher, preacher, social worker, friend of the poor and Founder of Goodwill Industries, passed on to that Home not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens, on December 23, 1942. He lived to see his idea and a bag of old clothes grow to more than $35,000,000 paid in wages to the handicapped and unfortunate. Under his leadership the organization developed in nearly 100 large cities of the United States and several foreign lands. Annual operating budgets are nearly $7,000,000. The value of fixed assets which help to assure the continuity of service to the handicapped exceed $7,500,000. An average of six to seven thousand persons are employed daily in these enterprises. | |
| 48 | Though he is dead, he lives in the hearts and lives of untold thousands of persons who received opportunities for self-help in times of distress because of his devotion to the service of helping them to help themselves. | |
| 49 | Dr. Helms had faith in his fellowmen. He believed that the foundation of all service was the ministry to spiritual needs. Recognizing the importance of sound financial management and a scientifically correct program of social service, he knew that a primary purpose of the Goodwill Industries was the development of the spiritual life of its workers. | |
| 50 | Our founder has bequeathed to us a great heritage -- the idea that the best help for handicapped and disadvantaged persons is self-help; and only the best in quality of work and service is good enough. He left us the challenge to establish Goodwill Industries in every community where they are needed, so every person of limited ability might have opportunity to attain his fullest usefulness. Dr. Helms, in spite of his great accomplishment, would be the first to apply to the Goodwill Industries movement an inscription on the Archives Building in our national capitol: "The past is the prologue." | |
| 51 | Increase in the Number of the Handicapped | |
| 52 | THERE are more than 23,000,000 handicapped persons in the United States. More than 2,000,000 employable or partly employable handicapped persons are not working. | |
| 53 | The number of persons being disabled permanently in military service and civilian industry is increasing. When victory is achieved many handicapped persons now working will lose their positions. The last to be employed, they will be the first to be laid off. The period of their unemployment will exceed that of the able-bodied. | |
| 54 | The Government will develop services to give people freedom from want -- but the handicapped want more than freedom from material want. They desire an opportunity to work, to earn and learn, so that they can be self-reliant. | |
| 55 | The greatest need in all the world is the need to be needed. It is the business of the Goodwill Industries to develop their activities so that every handicapped person will realize he is needed and have the opportunity to serve to his fullest capacity. Goodwill Industries must bridge the many gaps confronting disadvantaged persons, so that they may assume their rightful positions in community life. | |
| 56 | Problems and Opportunities of the Future | |
| 57 | THE past is indeed the prologue. The future is here. The responsibilities are great. All of us must prepare for the tremendous post-war program even as we exert every possible effort to help achieve an early military victory. With the coming of peace our civilization must develop the greatest project in human engineering the world has ever known. Goodwill Industries will be expected to play their part in the development of that project to the end that they may help the handicapped and disadvantaged to have their needs supplied -- not for bread alone, but for roses, for self-expression, for the opportunity to work and earn and learn and love and live. | |
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OLIVER A. FRIEDMAN, | |
| 59 | DIRECTORY OF GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | |
| 60 | This directory contains latest information on file in the office of the Executive Secretary of the National Goodwill Industries Organizations. | |
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
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Frank M. Baker... ... Cleveland | |