The Denver Jewish news., 1924-11-13

tnlthfnl to the Denver Chest since a
local Rabbi was member Of the first
Community Chest committee In the
world In this city in 1883.
with the approach of the campaign
this year scheduled for the week Of
November 1926, local people are re.
calling the former days before this city
had Chest, when scarcely week
passed without one agency campaign or
tag day. There We're the demands for
service On teams-endlcss demands that
repeated themselves too frequently.
And even If they did not get In ON
the teams; there were the visits from
the workers and the resultant subscrip-
ton. Life was just one drive after an
other and campaigns followed each
other in hewildering succession.
Those who took deep interest in
the programs of the agencies served on
several boards in many instances They
were distressed to see overlapping and
overlooking but each agency was out
for itself and there seemed no way to
correct the evil.
And then along came the Community
Chest. Forty-nine drives became only
one. Instead of n new committee com
ing along every week. one came once
n year. People of Denver walked
abroad ~ Sfr "a,
without being approached once to buy
n tag.
But the best part Of it all was that
the great work of these agencies in
Denver was being done better than
ever before. Overlapping and over
looking was less of problem each
day. Instead. of every agency working
for itself, they all started operations
toward a common goal with the civic
program before them, rather than an
individual schedule.
This is what the Community Chest
did in Denver during the past twelve
months:
51,300 persons were aided directly
for better health, better standards of
living, better citizenship; $3.50 desti-
tu'e families were assisted, represent
ing 26,70O individuals; 2,710 small
babies We're examined and cared for
through seven infant welfare stations
and 1874 visits were made in their
behalf: Ill ,395 days care was given
500 different children in the eight
childrens' homes and Orphanages 131
unmarried mothers, together with 10i
little babies were given shelter and
necessary care, 5000 days care was
given children of working mothers in
the four days nurseries; 32,3G0 days
care was given the blind and aged,
81, ,2G0 visits were made by the visiting
nurses In serving 5000 patients; hos
pitals or surgical care was provided for
1852; 5,1G0 days care was furnished
working mothers and their children in
summer camps; 4,200 children in neg.
lected communities were reached thru
Community Center activities; $3.50 eX-
service men were assisted with relief
employment or other needed service
employment was secured for over COCO
men and twelve hundred women. OF
the positions secured for men, 1,i51
were permanent and 1,G72 were tenn
porary 2,145 positions were found for
women.
Sounds like n staggering array of
figures. If you have skipped them and
jumped down to this paragraph, go back
and read them. They will surprise
you.
Work of the Chest is divided into six
groups-health, child welfare, family
welfare and relief, protection and re-
formation, community cCntcrs and
character building. The 1925 budgets
call for. the following expenditures
health, S133,752 or 1887 of the entire
sum needed; Child Welfare, S13l 300
or 1870 of the budget; Family Wei
fare and Relief, Sli0,150 or 1920
Protection and Reformation, Si5.79i or
G3G6 Community Ccnters, $30,316 or
42% and Character Building, 1888
or 1870.
The entire overhead of the Chest
operation, including business and social
service management and campaign, is
only $50. Surveys, emergencies and
shrnkage take up the balance.
Five thousand Denver men and
women are enrolling in the great army
which is TO take the message of the
Chest to every portion of the city. Not
single team worker, from President
IIalstCd l.. Ritter down to the youngest
lieutenant, gets one dime fer his
services In addition to giving his time
every worker pays for his own lunch
cons throughout the entire campaign.
IT is truly labor of love for all. Meet
them with a smile and a contribution;