Evening star., 1924-11-14
500 women ENLIST
TO AID NURSE FUND
Active Campaigning for Bud
get of $4,000 Will Begin
on Monday.

The Instructive Visiting Nurse So
ciety's campaign for a two-year bud
get of $4,000 will open officially
Monday morning, and at that time
about 500 women will begin work on
the most intensive drive ever con-
Quoted by the organization. OF this
number about 800 are solicitors, who
are divided into 35 teams.
The captains OF these teams are
meeting their workers daily for the
purpose of selecting and assigning
names from the list of 5000 persons
who are to be solicited. book of
instructions has been prepared for
the workers. as well as several
pamphlets giving information re-
garding the work of the Visiting
Nurse Society. The public is eau
toned not to give money to any So
licitor who does not wear the badge
OF the society-a white ribbon with the
emblem printed upon it.
These teams will report daily at
noon meetings in the Willard Hotel,
the first of which is to be held Tues
day. Campaign headquarters have
been established at 1910 Connecticut
avenue, where contributions will be
received.
Throughout the campaign various
entertainments and meetings will be
staged for the benefit of the budget.
The first OF these will be a motion pic
ture entertainment to be given at
Rauscher's Tuesday afternoon at 80
o'clock. The picture will be "Revela-
tion." dramatization Of 1.-The Rosebud
of g. Thousand Years starring Viola
Dana. Miss Natalie Hammond is chair
man of the committee, other members
being Mrs. Walter Chappell, Miss Eliza
beth Sutherland. Miss Helen Carusi.
Miss Claudea Read and Miss Ellen
Blair. Mr.. Fulton Lewis will be at the
piano Tickets will be sold for 81 cents,
and they may be purchased only by
those under % years Of age.
Two parlor meetings will be held this
week in the interest of the campaign-
tho first on Tuesday in the home of
Mrs. Adolph Miller $500 street. and
The second on Friday IN the home of
Mrs DIR. w. T. Wilmer, 2l01 r street.
Miss Gertrude II. Bowling. director of
nurses of the society, will speak at both
meetings. No contributions will he
solicited, the object of the meeting
being to better inform those who have
oeen invited with regard to the scope
Of the socetys work
Cake Sale SATURDAY..
Posters advertising the campaign
have been placed in about 500 down
town shop windows. the poster show
ing "Bucky" Harris. chairman of the
mems committee. in characteristic
base ball pose. His request, on the
poster, addressed to the Washington
public, is as follows: Help Me Put
Washington at the Top in Nursing
Service as We Did in Base Ball" On
the opposite side of the poster
visiting nurse is shown making
visit in a typical Washington home.
The committee in charge of distribut-
ing the posters are Miss Alice Mann
chairman Miss Barbara Stanfield,
Miss Mary Louise Johnson. Miss
Louise Claytor, Miss Ellen Blair. Miss
Natalie Hammond, Miss Claudea
Read, Miss Janet Moffett, Miss Helen
Strauss. Miss Elizabeth Sutherland,
Miss Laura Bryn. Miss Lilita Daw-
son. Mrs. John Magruder, jr Miss
Helen Carusi, Mrs. Walter Chappen
Miss Helen Griffin. Mrs. Dwight Dick
erson. jr.. Miss Mary Hellep. Miss
Dorothy Mondell, Miss Elizabeth Parker,
Miss Elizabeth Ives.
A cake sale will be held on Saturday
morning, from 10 to l o'clock, at 1905
Connecticut avenue, under the direction
OF Mrs. Benjamin Rush Logic and Mrs
Minnigerode Andrews.
A series OF card parties will be given
at the studio of Mrs. Andrews, 1882
Sixteenth street. for the benefit of the
society. The first will take place Tues
day evening, at o'clock, with Mrs. John
Walker Holcombe and Mrs David Meade
Lea as hostesses.
The speakers committee, under the
direction of Mrs. Whitman Cross
chairman, has already presented the
work of the nurses TO the following
organizations: Citizens associations
--Piney Branch, Northeast Washing
ton. Park View, Mount Pleasant and
Sixteenth Street Heights. Women's
cluhs-Petworth Woman's Club. Park
View WomanS Club, Twentieth Cen
tury Club. Business Women's Council.
college Women's Club and League of
Women Voters; also the Newcomers
club. Lions Club and the Board of
Trade. and the women's auxiliaries of
the following churches: All Souls