The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-03
CHEST WORKERS TO' BE DINNER GUESTS.
Cleveland Organizer Is Prin- >cipaI Speaker At TutWiler
 Monday Night

F. W. Ramsey. one of the organ izers and directors of the Cleveland, O.. community fund, who is sched uled to deliver the principal address at the Birmingham community chest campaign dinner at the Hotel Tut wiler ballroom at 6:S0 D. m, Monday, will arrive in the city at $40 Mon day afternoon.
 MT. Ramsey is an orator of dis tinction and successful business man, who retired from direction of a large metal products company in Cleveland to devote his entire time to inc community fund which cares for practically all the philanthropies of the Ohio city. He has also person. ally investigated the community chest movements in a score of diff ferent cities. and is recognized as a national authority on chest organi- zation work. In spite of the fact that he had just concluded an arduous campaign in Cleveland, which re- suited in fund of s4.210,oo0, for 1694. MT. Ramsey consented to come to Birmingham and help launch the first community chest effort in this city.
 Prepare For 450.
 Seating arrangements are being made for approximately 450 persons at the Tutwiler hotel ballroom and balcony Monday evening on the occa- sion of the big campaign dinner, which will formerly inaugurate the movement in Birmingham. Crawford Johnson, president of the community chest, will preside.
 City-wide canvass begins Tuesday morning. The goal is S450,000, which represents the maintenance needs of 31 charitable agencies and philan thropies doing every kind of social service work, during the year 1924. Contributors are asked to bear in designed to replace the 31 indepen- dent moves which have been con ducted independently by these 31 in- stitutions in the past. All institu- tions which have joined the chest have pledged themselves to the direc- tors not to make any appeal to the public for maintenance funds during the year in which they receive an ap- propriation from the chest. The com munity chest plan in Birmingham in wolves no change in the method of dispensing these funds, the amount needed by each member institution being turned over to 1t to be spent as heretofore under the supervision of it's own board of control. In order to maintain contact with the member institutions, and to insure subscrib- CTS that the funds appropriated to them are being wisely administered, the community chest directors have requested all participating agencies to adopt standard form of book keeping and to submit their finances to an annual audit.
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 Great Interest shown.
 Never in the history of Birming- ham, with the possible exception of the wartime drives, has a larger or more representative body of citizens supported any philanthropic appeal. One thousand men and women will participate in the actual canvass. Every home in Birmingham will be visited, and every office and firm solicited. In other cities where the chest has supplanted the old hap hazard method of dispensing charity the community fund plan has re- suited in more than tenfold in- crease in the number of contributors to charity. Where the burden of this community responsibility had rested in these cities before the chest plan was adopted on the shoulders of but few citizens, under the city wide