The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-08
LAUNCH fund
DRIVE FRIDAY
AT LUNCHEON
1000 Workers in Army to
Raise $751; 300 for
Community Chest.
81 AGENCIES SERVED
Growth of City Increases
Charity Needs, Says
Marmon.
81 AGENCIES SERVED

An army Of nearly 1000 men and
women Friday will start the ninth
annual Community Fund campaign.
Working in six main divisions, the
privates, captains, colonel and gen.
erals will begin solicitations to raise
$781 300 to finance for another year
the thirty-seventh social service
agencies which are members of the
Community Fund.
First reports will be made at a
luncheon Friday at the Claypool.
Budgets Cut to Minimum
Walter G. Marmon, who served as
general chairman of last years suc-
cessful campaign, will preside, aided
by Mrs. Brandt G. Downey, director
of the women's army and Homer w.
BorSt, executive secretary.
This years fund goal Of $781 800
was set, Marmon announces, after
all budgets for the thirty-seven
agencies had been scrutinized close
ly to avoid waste or duplication.
Indianapolis citizens are being
asked to provide the minimum
amount necessary if the city's So
cial service organizations are to op-
crate during 1929 on the same basis
as they now are operating" Mar
mon said.
Distress, unemployment and
sickness have caused unusually
heavy demands on the Family We'll
fare Society, the Public Health
Nursing Association, the Wheeler
Mission, the Salvation Army, the
Red Cross and several other agen-
cies supported through the Com
munity Fund.
Several Agencies in Debt
Several agencies now are in debt
because of these heavy demands
from worthy families. This years
goal is $55,634 more than was sub
scribed a year ago. Growth in popu-
1ation means growth in charitable
needs. Every member of the Com
munity Fund army is determined to
do his bit in meeting our increased
civic responsibilities" Marmon as
serted.
Each of the six main divisions
Of the campaign workers has been
assigned quotas. Special gifts "a"
division is being asked to raise so
per cent of the entire goal, $463, ,047.
The next largest quota is assigned
to the six employees divisions, which
are to raise $140,385. OF this total
the industrial division has a quota
of $51, 1,727, the mercantile division
$33,425, the commercial division,
$15,6o0, the public employees group
$24,885, utilities employees $9,750, and
railroad employees $4,000.
Mile square division, divided into
eighteen districts, has a quota of
$70,848. Women's army has quota
of $62,377, of which the north di-
vision is to raise $44,149, the east
division 1921, the south division
$5,289 and the west division $5,718.
Women Hold Tea
Special gifts "B" division has a
quota OF $26,984, and the branch
house division a quota of $23,736
East division women workers held
tea at the home of Mrs. William
H. Insley, AS South Audubon road,
this afternoon in final preparation
for the campaign opening. Mrs.
Joseph Ostrander, division chair
man, and Mrs. Walter Montgomery,
co-chairman, assisted.
The Parent Teacher Association
of School rs will be addressed to-
night by Borst, fund secretary.
School 10 children are to give a
Community Fund play tonight. DR..
Clarence Cox spoke at the Caravan
Club luncheon at Murat Temple to-
day in behalf of the fund, and
Claude H. Anderson will speak to
L. Strauss g. Co. employees at 7:45