Evening star., 1927-04-28
UNIFORMED FORCES
TO AID MEMORIAL
Police and Firemen to Lend
Assistance In Raising
$4,000 Fund.

Police and firemen will take part
in the campaign beginning next Mon
day and continuing for one week to
secure by public subscription the $780,
600 necessary to secure the erection in
West Potomac Park Of the District
Of Columbia War Memorial.
With the Commissioners approval,
Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent
of police, and p. w. Nicholson, deputy
fire chief, have ordered that precinct
stations and fire houses-14 of the
former and 40 of the latter-be suit
ably marked to advertise the purposes
of the campaign and have been desig-
mated as receiving stations for SUBJ
scriptions to the memorial during the
weeks effort. In addition, the Traffic
Bureau, detective headquarters and
the Women's Bureau will be equipped
to receive contributions.
In order to stimulate interest in the
campaign among the police and fire.
men, two cups have been donated by
Newbold Noyes, chairman Of the cam
paign, to be awarded to the police
precinct and the fire station turning
in the largest contributions to the
memorial fund. The cups, appropriate
ly marked, will be presented following
the campaign.
Many Are Former Service Men.
There are 1,347 uniformed police in
the Police Department, in addition to
the 70 civilians and plain clothes men.
In the Fire Department there are S63
uniformed firemen and II civilians.
Among this number there are scores
of former service men, comrades of
those for whom the memorial is to
be erected. Each of these men will be
a. campaign worker and will call at
tention to the campaign whenever OPP
portunity presents itself. Each man is
to be supplied with contribution cards
which he may distribute among his
friends.
While Tuesday of next week has
been officially designated Scout day"
of the memorial campaign, every day
next week will find the 5000 Boy
Scouts of the District and the 1000
Girl Scouts actively doing their part
to acQuaint the people Of Washington
with the purposes Of the effort to
raise the funds necessary to build the
District War Memorial.
During the week uniformed Boy and
Girl Scouts, supplied with buttons con-
tanning the number 1885" and a small
sketch of the proposed memorial in
West Potomac Park, will distribute
thousands Of subscription blanks and
present the buttons to those who re.
ceive them. The regulations of the
Boy and Girl Scout organizations pro-
hibits the actual solicitation Of money
by either and NO money will be handled
by the Scouts.
To Give Information.
At the same time the young man
and women members of the Scout
organization will play prominent
part in circulating information con-
cerning the memorial and distributing
the buttons, ~wearers of which will be
known as contributors to the cam
paign.
A feature of the participation of
the Scouts has been the fact that the
orders calling the participation of the
troops to the attention Of troop mem
bers point out that by handing out
the cards and buttons the Scouts are
doing their traditional good turn"
which will apply to the troop efficiency
contests.
Naturally, the larger the number
of troop members participating, the
higher will be the efficiency rating
of that troop, and Scout executives
believe that this will result in creating
among the Scouts much interest in the
campaign.