Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
DINNER TO LAUNCH
LARGE:-G|F IS DRIVE
FOR CAPITAL CHEST
Community Effort to Begin
With Work of Chief Unit
Friday Night.
CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY
OFFICIALLY BY JAN. 20
Number of Organizations Receiv-
ing Benefits Has Been Increased
From 81 to rs.


Although the 1880 Community Chest
campaign does not get officially under
way until the night of January %, the
campaign for larger gifts, conducted by
the special gifts committee, of which
NeWbold Moves Is chairman, will be
launched Friday night with dinner
for the entire unit at the Willard. MI.
Moves expects to have the personnel
of his committee, including 10 workers
for each vice chairman, complete by
the time of this meeting.
John Poole, campaign chairman,
stressed the importance of the work
of the special gifts committee, at
meeting of the executive committee the
past week, explaining that the larger
number of organizations in the chest
this year, combined with the need for
increased service. due to the city's
growth greater demands upon organiza"
lions now in the chest, and exhaustion
of cash balances which we're on hand
at the beginning of the 1929 campaign
would necessitate the raising OF larger
fund this year, with need for conse-
uuent increase in the size and number
of special gifts, which constitute ap-
proximately so per cent of the cam
paign total.
The campaign this year will be con-
Quoted in the interest of IS AFFILIATED
organizations. connected with the chest.
this including the 10 appeals combined
in the one appeal of the National Capt.
tai Civic Fund, all of which have OBJ
tanned money for each separate enter
prise in preceding years. The amount
to be raised has not been definitely
stated, although Frederic A. Delano,
president of the chest, stated recently
st a meeting that the possibilities are
that the chest will have to raise In the
neighborhood of $1,750,o00."
Leaders Of Campaign.
Organization this year will be along
the same general lines as that OF last.
John Poole again is the campaign
Chairman. Merritt o. Chance, a
regional chairman in the metropolt-
tan unit last year, is chairman of the
unit for the 1880 campaign. William C.
Sullivan again heads the speakers
bureau: Mr. Noyes is a newcomer in
the post of chairman of the special gifts
committee; Mrs. John Jay O'Connor
again holds her post as chairman OF
the information unit; and Corcoran
Thorn has succeeded the late Charles
j. Bell as chairman OF the budget COM
mittee.
An increased number of workers in
the metropolitan unit Is expected to be
necessary in order to make thorough
canvass of the city, the executive COM
mittee having decided to solicit Govern
ment workers at their homes, instead
of using mail solicitations, as was done
last year. 1t is probable that close to
1000 workers will be enlisted in the
drive. The special gift committee will
also be enlarged.
This years campaign, according to
Elwood Street, director of the Com
munity Chest, will be based upon the
record of the chest during 1929. Last
year, while the chest was making its
first appeal for funds, the people Of
Washington were promised that 81 ap-
peals for funds would be eliminated
by the chest. This, Mr.. Street says,
has been done. The people were prom
ised that the cost of collecting and dis
bursting the funds, which had been
approximately IS to IS per cent under
the old system of separate appeals,
would be reduced to per cent. This.
the figures of the chest auditor. Andrew
Landrus, show, has been done. The
cost may be reduced still lower this
year, Mr.. Street says.
Better Results.
The people were promised that more
relief per dollar expended would be
obtained under the chest system, and
the reports of the chest organizations
show that this has been done. Much
of this is due to the reorganization OF
the social service exchange, which has
been placed with the Council of Social
Agencies and which keeps confidential
record of all cases handled, preventing
duplication of effort among the various
organizations.
The people were promised that the
chest would be instrumental in weld
ing all races and creedS into one great
community and the manner in which
everybody connected with the chest
campaign co-operated to make 1t a
success shows that this has been done,
the director points out.
THE Chest Is no longer an expert
ment," President Delano said. THE peo-
pie of Washington have witnessed its
work for the past year. They know
that 1t is productive of more service
than ever was possible under the old
plan of money raising. They know
that its record entities it to their sup
port in a larger measure this year,
because of greater needs engendered by
the afiliation of rs organizations, in
stead of the 81 Of last year. Knowing
all these things the people Of Wash
the support of the Chest this year, and
will subscribe the necessary amount TO
put it over the top once more"
Business Bureau Aid.
Assurance that the Better Business
Bureau will give its utmost support
to the Chest campaign is contained in
a letter received yesterday by Mr.. De-
lano from Louis Rothschild, director
of the bureau.
With a cast gathered largely from
among the workers In the various
organizations off1liated with the Chest,
Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, director of
drama and pageantry in the Commu-
nifty Center Department of the Public
Schools. is making rapid progress in
perfecting the pageant which is to be
given on the occasion of the opening
of the campaign.
Rehearsals are to be held Tuesday
and Wednesday nights in the Frank
lin School Administration Building,
Thirteenth and K streets, starting at
7:45 O'Clock. The chorus of workers
from the pageant is rehearsing on
! Thursday afternoons at o'clock at
Mrs. Gertrude Lyons studio, 1925 G.
street, and the witches will be re-
hearsed by Miss Judith Lyeth at the
Caroline Mckinley studios, at 1885 I