The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-21
LUNCHEON TO
SPUR Crews
IN FUND drive
Army of 5000 to Engage in
November Campaign for
Community Chest.
s722,aOo TO BE GOAL
Committees Begin Lining Up
Captains and Teams for
City-Wide Plea.

Following the luncheon meeting
of the entire Community Fund
Woman's Army next Tuesday noon
at the Claypool Hotel, the organiza-
ton of 5000 men and women &C
lively participating in the elghth
annual campaign will be ready TO
swing into action early in November,
Walter G. Marmon, general cam
paign chairman announced today.
Goal for this years campaign has
been set at $722,800. This amount
actually is required, says Marmon,
to meet the vital needs Of the city's
thirty-eight social service and char
table organizations which share in
the fund.
According to statistics gathered
for fourteen cities with comparative
populations, the total fund for In
dianapolis ranks well below the av-
erage. This condition, fund officials
say, is caused largely by efficient
management of the agencies sharing
in the fund and by the extremely
low cost Of collection and disburse-
ment through the central office.
SO Cents for Aid
"Ninety-three cents Of every doll
lar contributed to the Community
Fund reaches the agencies main
tanned in Indianapolis for social
service and relief work." says Mar
mon.
"This fact alone reveals the eff
cheney of organized charity in our
city and makes the Community
Fund worthy of very generous sup
port. Waste and duplication are
eliminated"
Public solicitation for the fund be-
begins Nov. and continues through
Nov. IA. Already, however, special
committees and teams are at work
among downtown business men and
among the larger business firms.
Special gifts "a" division, the
branch house committee, and special
gifts "B" committee began solicit
tations this week and will hold re-
port meetings next week.
Dick Miller is again serving as
chairman of the special "a" COM
rnittee and is being assisted by an
executive committee, Leo M. Kappa
port, Herman P. Lieber and william
j. Mooney.
Team leaders In the "a" division
are Arthur Baxter, Arthur v.
Brown, G. A. Efroymson, Edgar
Evans. w. H. Insley, Herman Lieber,
A. Kiefer Mayer, N. H. Noyes, Rob-
ert Lieber, G. H. Rottger, H. G.
Atkins, John r. WEIGH, Fred Hoke,
A. H. Goldstein, F. H. Holiday, and
F. M. Ayres.
Special gifts, "B" division Is led
by Theodore r. Myers. Among lead
ers and team captains in this divi-
sion are H. M. Glossbrenner, Will
liam H. Harrison, William Henkel,
Perry Lesh, John l.. Fuller, Harry
Orlopp, Joseph Waite, James M.
Swan, M. L. McManus, Frank
Sparks, Frank Holke, H. E. Rasmus-
sen and Norman v. Schaff.
Firms to Be Solicited
Branch house division will solicit
among business firms which HAVE
home offices in other cities. It's
leader for the November campaign
is George Bockstahler.
Twenty men actively are assisting
In the work, and many others are
members Of teams. Among team
captains are Walter Gledhill, who
last year served as chairman Of the
branch house group, j. A. Brook
bank, Lew Cooper, Roy Downs and
George Weaver.
Another part Of the fund organ
ization which has been extensively
organized this year, ACCORDING to
Chairman Marmon, is that embrace
Ing the employees divisions.
This group Is divided into indus-
trial employees, with G.. M. Williams
as director; mercantile employees.
with Dwight Ritter as director:
commercial employees, with Edwin
J: Wuensch as director; public en-
ployes, with Robert Bryson as direc-.
tor; utilities employees, with Frank
Montrose as director; and the steam
railway employees, with Eco Leach
and George P. Terrence as co-di-
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