New Britain herald., 1922-03-27
COMMUNITY DRIVE
 HAS FORMAL START
Speaker Says Result Will Indicate
 City's Degree of Civilization

This is a drive to show how civiliz- ed New Britain is, said Rev. Henry | ". Maier at the first luncheon of the workers and committees of the United Community Corporation drive at the Elks club today. All the team cap | tains and committee members wefe present and received instructions in conducting the drive.
 Opened With Prayer
 Following a prayer by Rev. J. Leo Sullivan. E. w. Pelton, chairman of | the corporation, opesed the program | by explaining the financial situation of the corporation. He said the money has not been coming is as rapidly as it might have been during the past year. The committee went out for | s3s,00o and received $32,000, consid- erabe of which still remains to be collected. The deficit due upon s32,- 900 has been added to this years budget, which makes it necessary to ask for s40,oo0. He introduced Leon A. sprague as director of the drive.
 Sprague as Syncronizcr Mir. Sprague began by saying that ! his work was not to act as generator of inspiration, as that was not need ed, but to be a syncronizer and keep the workers in step. He cited three good reasons why the United Com munity drive should go across big and why everyone in the city should back the drive:
 | Reasons For Drive.
 Because if is of community interest and affects each one in the commun- ity. because it is a personal appeal to the humanitarian side of every in- dividual, and because it is an econ- omical drive, inasmuch as each or ganization. if compelled to conduct an independent drive, would find it ne- cessary to ask for a great deal more because of the additional expense. Bible Glass Reports $500.
 He reported that Everyman's Bible class yesterday had subscribed $1,- 33750, with two-thirds of the mem- bers still to he heard from. | Walter o. Cook, scout executive. at l this time, introduced Irving Parker, of Troop 4. Center church, who an nounced that his troop had raised s5 to help start the drive.
 MT. Pelton quoted figures showing that the city of Cleveland had gone over the top in a similar drive for all most $S,000.oO0.
 Mark of Civilization. Contributing and soliciting for this drive is more than a duty, it Is a privilege, according to Rev. Henry w.. Maier, Rev. Mir. Maier said the drive is comprehensive because it is community problem, it is co-opera- tive because of the manner in which the problem was solved, and 1t is ef- fective because of the efficient man ner in which the work is done.
 The Big Difference
 The difference between the un- civilized and the civilized he said is shown in the fact that the uncivilized do nothing for the weak, unfortunate, ignorant, illiterate, backward and criminal people, while the civilized people show their civilization by the manner in which they care for these same people.
 "Civlization", he said, lis not going to let the crippled, diseased or un- l fortunate ones lack anything that will help them. This is a drive to show how civilized New Britain is." He said he would like to see the names of contributors published. He con- cluded by advising the workers to be 'too lazy to stop working until you can walk the streets and say, New l -I. fN,. Is fortunates.
 Welfare Work Vs. Eskimo Pic. Phelps Brown, of Springfield, is the man who put across drive for $30o,- GOO in that city. He said the re- uuired amount needed in New Britain would be greatly oversubscribed if the people could be persuaded to show one small part of the enthusiasm and interest shown in the purchase of Eskimo pies He said figures in Springfield during the Eskimo pie fad showed that 10 times as much was spent for the ice cream novelties as was subscribed for the Community drive.
 ''The progress of community welfare work is the progress of the Kingdom of God on earth" said MT Brown.
 Cheap Investment.
 "The greSter investment in welfare work is in. preventive work" he said. You can support the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts. girls club, boys clubs and other organizations this way lot cheaper than you can support them in taxes for jails, hospitals, poor | houses. etc"
 | He suggested the competitive sys- tenn among teams to stimulate inter- est
 Window Exhibits.
 The eight different organizations represented in the drive have window displays in some of the leading busi- ness places today. These displays will be continued all week. The displays are so arranged as to give an exhaus- tive idea of the work done. The large banner, upon which daily totals will be displayed, was suspend ,,,,.l ttr