The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
CHEST QUARTERS TO REMAIN OPEN FOR FULL QUOTA
New System Of Solicita- ton To Be Used
 Next Week

Determined to go lover the top" in ,he second annual appeal for Greater Birmincham's Community Chest, head mlaters at 2O20 Fourth avenue. north, will continue open and busy through out tris week. or until the quota of S475 GOO is raised, according to an nnouncement of w. Carson Adams. president. and Alfred M. Shook, Jr., chairman of the appeal activities.
 A new system of solicitation will be- come effective Monday morning, when special committees from the various clubs will 20 out and see certain in- dividuals. list of whom will be furnished them and the committees will during the remainder of the week con- fine their activities to individuals in- stead of territories.
 It is known that many who con- tributed last year nave not yet been heard from for various reasons and many who have ben called on are now giving this as the reason their names do not appear on the lists of subscribers.
 eve can not expect these hundreds of busy men and women who have been coing this volunteer soliciting to give any more of their time to us, as they must return to their own affairs" said President Adams Saturday night.
 Up To Citizens
 "Jt is now up to the citizenship to .ny whether they want these 30 agencies of relief and social welfare to be main- tained this year. If they do let them come in with their subscriptions. And let me say that no man or woman with any kind of a fair income and enjoying the blessings of this life has the right to give such small amounts as many have given in this appeal, unless there are unusual circumstances. No man in good health, and earning the money many uf these employees do and holding rood positions, has the right to ease his conscience ana perform his duty to- wards his fellow men, by putting down $1 on a list, to meet his obligation to- wards 35 agencies of relief for a whole year.
 "We at headquarters have had much to discourage us, but we still are confi- dent that the good people of Birming- ham will respond, and we want every one to bear in mind that his or her | contribu tion is not for one agency of relief, but for every recognized agency in Birmingham taking care of all our blind, Ealt, lame, orphans, girls in dis tress, crippled and all others in need and to make the amount of their con tribution accordingly"
 Climbing Slowly Upward Approximately $325, 900 had been of ficially received at headquarters and audited up to Saturday afternoon, with number of good sized contributions reported in sight, nni it was confidently hoped by those in charge that the early part of the week would see some good additional results coming from the work of the special committee.
 Among the employees organizations heard from during Saturday were those of the city offices and power house of the Birmingham Electric compaily, with subscription of $1,410.30, and still going, and other departments Of the company still to be heard from. : The Southern Bell Telephone com pany subscribed $l POO being a 20 per- cent increase over last years subscrip- tion, and there also came q contribution of $1S25, from children and attaches of Tuggles Institute
 aEer-s2 ahvlr i.hi.r shrl ct S et1o Mir. Thompson Telegraphs Fred I 'rhompson, publisher of The Birmin yham Age-Herald, sent a tele- gram to Louis l'izitz from Washlngton, D. C., in which he stated that ne had been in the hospital for two weeks re covering from an operation, ana sup scribed $500 for himself and Mrs' Thompson and $10O each for thelr daughters, Katherine and Adian. Mrs. G. NJ. Lathem, in winding up the business of the women's division, Saturday expressed her thanks to the women of Birmingham whc have work ed so hard and faithfully and in the face of many Announcements.
 "Nobody. but the faithful workers themselves will ever know how much ef- fort the $40.0O0 collected by the women cost to carry the women's division over the top" said Mrs. Lathem. 'The chief work of the women was to edn- cate the community to the need of the Community Chest and the efficient way of financing our citys social program that has resulted from the Community Chest idea" The women made it q real Community Chest in which the whole city Wns interested. even the poor doing their share for those less fortunate than themselves.
 .I trust that every one of the women workers who has not yet done so will turn in her final report without delay, md I also want to take this occasion to thank the press for thei wonderful publicity that helped us somuch in this campaign"
 CHEST PERFORMANCE
 A benefit performance for the Com munity Chest will he given by the All Star African Blossom Minstrels' at the 1 Nx.nn al. ,,,r citv hnll MnnlaY night un-