Evening star., 1923-01-13
HOSPITAL DRIVE
GIVEN BIG START
Success Seen Certain for
Garfield Fund at EnthusiaS-
tic Dinner.
CALLED AN INVESTMENT
Clarence A. Aspinwall, Chairman,
and Four Vice Chairmen, Ad-
dress Campaign Workers.
CALLED AN INVESTMENT

The Garfield Hospital enlargement
campaign is under way today, having
been enthusiastically launched at the
opening dinner held last night at the
City Club. The spirit shown by the
campaign workers who gathered for
the dinner promises complete victory,
in the opinion of Clarence A. Aspin-
wall, chairman of the executive com
mittee. who presided last night.
The after-dinner program opened
with spirited singing under the lead
ership OF Robert Lawrence, followed
by speeches from the four vice chair
men, who analysed the hospital ap-
peal from different viewpoints for
the benefit OF the campaign workers.
"I was under the impression that
a hospital is simply a charity" said
Vice Chairman John i. Weaver, but
when I came into this work 1 soon
learned that charity is only a. part of
the hospitals work, and that the
not charity at all. When you ask
any one for subscription you are
simply offering him a splendid oppor-
tunity to invest in a form of insur-
ance by which he is able to provide
hospital facilities that he himself
may need at any time"
Important Undertaking.
Vice Chairman Newbold Noyes said:
'T believe in this campaign with all
my heart. 1t is as important an un-
dertaking as any in which we have
ever engaged. 1 feel sure that we
can put 1t through to complete sue
cess by continuing the confidence and
enthusiasm that we are showing to-
night" Mr.. Noyes said that he looked
- L. Iz.z H.. 81,
total in the campaign and offered a
wager of memorial to that effect,
which was shortly taken up by Mr..
Weaver on behalf of his division.
Lively competition is therefore ex-
peeted between these, two divisions
gave an unusually clear analysis of
the obligation Of the individual
toward the hospital. when we go
to the hospital" he said, "those Of
US who are able to do so, OF course,
pay our way and we then feel that
But we are paying only for the
actual service given us and have
contributed nothing toward building
or enlarging the structure in which
that service is given and without
which 1t could not be given.
'If we were rendered a bill for
what it actually costs to give us
hospital service we should have to
pay a great deal more than we do.
The reason is that part of our bill is
ordinarily paid through the gener-
osity of those who have established
the hospital and enlarged 1t from
time to time. When we understand
this, our natural desire is to help
provide the facilities that we may
need later on"
Nurses Home Plan.
Laughter and instruction were COM
man of the women'S division, spoke
briefly with especial enthusiasm over
the plans for the new nurses home,
which will provide sorely needed ac-
commodationS for Garfields faithful
nurses.
Laughter mad instruction were COM
bined in a two-act skit, in which the
first act was named How not to do
it," and the second act How to do it,"
1t was given under the direction of
Stanton G. PeelIe. Mr.. Howter Lose'm
showed how not to ask for a. sub
scription, and Mr.. Howter Winaam
illustrated the effsctive way of do
ing it.
The program was closed by William
Mather Lewis of the United States
speaker of the evening. He described
the gathering Of campaign workers as
probably the greatest group of sales
men that has ever been brought together
in Washington" and said that they are
well able to put through this 100000
undertaking for the good OF Washing
ton. Discussing the hospital in a unique
way, he said:
There are more patients treated in
a year at Garfield that there are au-
tomobiles stolen or houses burned in
Washington yet most of US feel it wise
to insure our car and our home. but
fail to realize that we are more likely
to have need or the hospital than OF
these other forms of insurance. For the
hospital is a form of health insurance,
and when we think of it that way we
shall be no more willing to let others
pay for 1t than to let them pay for our
fire insurance"