Evening star., 1917-09-23
HEADQUARTERS OPENED
FOR CHOCOLATE FUND
National Organization Has Sent ou1
More Than 5000 Letters
to Merchants.

Members of the Washington branch
of the chocolate fund, organized 1or tne
distribution of chocolate and cahoE "
United states soldiers in foreign iahos
and in cantonments and training camps
in this country. met yesterday ailer-
moon 70 dedicate formally their new
rooms in the Union Savings Bank build
ing The organization, of which MIS-
I r Coates is the national secretary,
recentIy sent out more than 5000 let
tors TO prominent merchants and busi-
ness men of the country asking their
assistance in the raising of fund suf-
fcient to send Il representative gift OF
chocolate to the soldiers now in ser
vice in France From these clrcuiar
letters many encouraging replies anu
donations OF money We're received. On
teen young women are permanent en- ~
Gated in the offices in the mon SaN
inCs Bank building with corp OF
twists on hand to transact the already
voluminous business of the fund-
Plans for Chocolate Day"
The plan was sponsored by Mrs Low
ry Lincoln Morrill,, regent OF Adrlenhe
IIe LAFAYETTE CHAPTER. d. A. r.. and has
received enthusiastic support from TINS
body 1t is planned to have 'choco-
late soldier" fund day during the MID.
die of next month when profineht
business houses of Washington Will be
placarded by the officials of the fund
and fifty canvassers will be at work a
over the city receiving donations TO
buy chocolate for the soldiers.
That the attention of soldiers has al
ready been drawn to the activities OF
the fund is indicated by letter recent
Jy received at headquarters from an
officer in the District guard stationed
at one of the training camps. He says:
IT tremble to think how momentous
will be the effect of your campaigning
on the receipts from the post exchange.
which now turns over to US our snare
In its profits on sweets, including choc-
olate. but perhaps later will find Its
profits reduced materially.
your organization will surely populariZe
the use of sweet chocolate and perhaps
reduce the cost to the consumer. Choco-
late forms the staple food of all outdoor
Adventures, according TO all leading ma
ture takers. If DR.. Cook had followed
of gumdrops, we would have been spared
the horrible agony of two versions of the
same Arctic night. The cure for i'm
moderate drinking lies in the. soothing
palm of some fair daughter of the Red
Cross. who. with consummate tact. now
extends the chocolate-coated cure to the
soldier"
Contributors to Fund.
Recent contributors to the chocolate
fund follow: Lowry Lincoln Morrill,. 50:
S. Hanlien. 81. James 3. HorTisan. 25
cents: Mrs. C o. Mckay. 25 cents; a
friend, 10 cents; Miss Gwendolin Will
liams so cents; Miss Margaret Collision.
so cents; w ]. Thomas. 25 cents; Miss
Dorothy Rock. $40; LieS. Elmer Stew
art, 81; Albert NJ Rivero. 2: Austin Har-
veycutter. 81: J. NJ Burrell. 81; Lewis J.
Cohen. 50: Mrs. John A. Alexander. so
cents; Mrs. A. G. Batchelder, 81: Mrs.
Arthur B. Gilkes, so cents: George c.
Shaner. 81; George Oppenheimer. 81: G.
+. Greene, 55 cents: William Hahn &
Co.. 81: DR.. Rosalind Moore Bain, 81: Or
1ando H. Smith. 81: Mrs. William Butter
worth. S25; H. E. Dunno, 81: C. r.
Crammer, 81; Frank Lucky, ST, and
George NJ Brassfeld, 81.