My assistants, quite distinct from any board, have an organization of sufficient size to investigate the many requests that come to us.
This is done from the office of our committee in New York.

For an individual to attempt to keep any close watch of single cases would be impossible.

I am called upon to explain this fact many times.

To read the hundreds of letters daily received at our office would be beyond the power of any one man, and surely, if the many good people who write would only reflect a little, they must realize that it is impossible for me personally to consider their applications.
The plan that we have worked out, and I hope improved upon year after year, has been the result of experience, and I refer to it now only as one contribution to a general subject which is of such great moment to earnest people; and this must be my excuse for speaking so frankly.
THE APPEALS THAT COME The reading, assorting, and investigating of the hundreds of letters of appeal which are received daily at my office are attended to by a department organized for this purpose.

The task is not so difficult as at first it might seem.