The Washington herald., 1921-05-27
MAY RENEW DRIVE
CHEVY CHASE
FOR CHURCH FUND
Committee Asks Business
Men to Subscribe to
Their $4,000 Quota.


Chase for $4,000 more IL the down.
town business men fail to meet
their S25.oOO quota of the s125.o0o
building fund for the Chevy Chase
Presbyterian church was reached at
a conference yesterday of the vol
unteer workers in the campaign.
The conference, held at the Uni
Versity club. was attended by Ed
ward F. Colladay. Charles ]. Waters,
r. H Simpson. the Rev. DR.. H. R.
johnson, Lee D. Latimer, d. p. VOL
haupter. Frank A. Gunther. r. Bull
lard. r. S. Mcbride, Grant Lest.
Harry II. Helwig. Louis Brehm, NJ.
A. Tyndall, Conrad H. Young, Eu-
gene Merritt. c. B. Lingamfelter,
Mrs. Daniel c. Chace, Mrs. George
Winchester Stone. Mrs. Susie =.
Rhodes. William Y. Brady and DR..
W. Blum.
A City-wide Movement.
Mr.. ColIaday, as chairman of the
citizens committee, said that an
aggressive campaign in the next
two OF three days is imperative TO
the success of the movement in the
city. He pointed out thai the cam
paign being waged dOwntow n Is u
church, with the ideals # the civic
organizations of Washington for the
city's future. and that to accom-
phSh this ideal the campaign for
funds must have the support of
washington as a whole.
The people of Chevy Chase, with
a contribution totaling more han
$4,000. have done their Part" he
said We are asking pubI!c-spir-
tied Washingtonians to contribute
$4,000. One-fifth of this was rails
ed promptly. The appeal to the
country at large awaits fulliimeu,
by Washington, which. it is hoped.
may be accomplished b. Monday,
May 80.
The local need Of the Chevy
Chase church is very great" de-
clared Mr.. Cofladay. There are
only $50 seats in the churches of
Chevy Chase. There are UPWARDS
OF 5000 people, most Of them ex-
ciuded from the churches by this
condition. People who themselves
DO not go to church send their chill
dren to Sunday school. The sun
DAY school space in Chevy chase
VIII scarcely take care Of one-thjrd
of the children"
Church of n Distinctive Character.
Rev. DIR. johnson told the work
ers that the real church ideal ~
the new building is to be embodied
IN ahe auditorium, and other
actfNitles OF social or community
character will be carried on in other
parts OF the building. so that the
sanctity of the church will be pre-
served in the midst of the com
munity-wide character Of the serv-
Ice that is to give the new church
a distinctive character.
W nile no effort has been made to
canvass the personnel of the large
commercial organizations as a
whole. contributions are being re-
ceived from many of the members
OF the board of trade and similar or
ganizatfons. 1t was announced that
the campaign would be extended
among SO constituent lodges of Aca-
cia lodge IS. F. a. A. NJ. which al
ready have made a substantial con-
tribution.
Chairman ColIaday announced
that there has been a grand total
of Isl subscribers to the fund. with
total Of SS2.2O7 in cash. subscrip-
tiOns and pledges This includes
Chevy Chase's quota.
F. d. Hathaway. chairman of the
campaign committee, was in New
York yesterday organizing the work
there in behalf Of the Chevy Chase
church. eli is taking up with a
few representative men the prob
lem of bringing the need of the
s125.000 fund for the community
church to the attention of all in
New York concerned in such an in
stitution.