The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-13
1853 PERSONS PAY
$32091.15 TO CITYS
COMMUNITY CHEST

Subscriptions amounting to a total
of $32.091.15 were received for the
Welfare community chest fund from
1888 persons as the result of the com
bined drive for funds put on blythe
organization last spring. Figures show
ing the amount paid in to the fund and
the disposal Of the money have recent
ly been compiled by the budget com
mfttee.
OF the 1889 contributors, 416 desig,
mated the organization to which all or
part of their money was to go. They
contributed $19.130 in all and desig-
mated where $13,021.24 OF this amount
was to be spent.
Reports on the receipts and dis
bursements will be made at the annu-
al meeting Of the league to be held in
a few days. The date Of the meeting
will be announced later.
Collections Not All In
Collections, to date, amount to $17,-
1888. Organizations have been paid
total of $14,304.31 by the league. All
the collections are not yet in as the
final installment falls due in Deem
Der.
Participating organizations and the
amounts paid to them are: Y. M. G. A.
$7,513.36; Social Service Bureau $2456.-
%; Red Cross. $1444.89; Salvation Ar
my, $722.44; Community Service,
$1444.89; Townsend Branch, Commune
ty Service, $722.44.
In distributing the money among
the organizations, the plan followed
was to pay all bills, incurred in the
campaign, pay the designated amounts
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the relative budgets decided upon at
the start OF the year. The waste In
postage, office help and time which
would have resulted through the car
rying of six separate campaigns was
largely eliminated through the united
campaign.
Designated Use.
Although a total of $32,091.15 was
subscribed in the joint campaign, the
entire amount was not left to the dis
erection of the welfare league for dis
tribution. Designated subscriptions
that is, subscriptions made with the
understanding that they should go to
certain organizations, comprised 3d.
OIL of which $8,08513 had been paid
before the campaign was put on.
This left $4,S36.11 which was des'
ignated to the different organizations
from the funds paid during or after
the campaign. This amount was divid-
ed among the different agencies as fol
lows: Y. M. C. A.. 141 contributors.
$1.182; Social Service Bureau, 277 con
tributors. $1,56912; Community Serv'
ice, n contributors, $56175; Red Cross
so contributors, $53407; Salvation
Army, 106 contributors, $578.67; Town.
send Branch, community service, 81
contributors, S510.50. These amounts
were all paid to the designated or
CARNATIONS and enough in addition to
make the totals given above.
465 Pledges Unpaid
The average amount subscribed in
the campaign was $20.85. Four hun
bred and sixty-five pledges remain un-
paid. Their total is $5,311.66. The
cash value of the campaign, exclusive
Of the money which had already been
turned over to organizations by indi-
viduals before the campaign started
was 24,006.02. This includes subscrip-
tions in both the designated and un-
designated classes,
Summing up, campaign and collec-
ton expenses amounted to 1,508.10;
the amount paid to organizations was
$14,80431 and a balance now on hand
amounts to $1,50122, a total of SIT
1883 receipts.
Sums pledged with the understand