Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18
SPECIAL GIFT GROUP
WORKS FOR MILLION
1880 Community Chest Group
Seeks to Exceed Quota
of $993,368.

mum of $125,000 each week day, the
special gifts committee of Washing
toms Community Chest, under the
leadership of Chairman Newbold Noyes,
started an intensive drive today to
raise half the amount of the 1880
budget before the opening of the city
wide campaign on January %.
The quota allotted to the special
gifts committee is actually $893,36
but Chairman Moves, in giving final in
structions to his band of campaigners,
set 100000 as a possible objective.
Daily reports will be made by the 10
vice chairmen and the executive COM
mittee at meetings next week, except
Sunday and Saturday.
The actual work of the special gifts
committee started as its members left
the Willard last night after an en-
thusiastic meeting.
"Cant Set Washington Down"
whether tough or not this job has
got to be DONE" Mr.. Noyes told his
committee. I'VE can't let Washing
ton down. This is the crucial year Of
the Community Chest. Last year the
Chest was a novelty and the campaign
went over with superb success.
at don't know the meaning of the
word failure so far as the Community
Chest is concerned. We have in our
own minds nominal goal Of 81, 000,-
600 for this unit, which means the rails
ing Of approximately $150,000 day.
This is a job for each member to fly
at the moment the gun goes of. The
moment we leave this room We start on
special gifts campaign"
The amount assigned as a quota to
each vice chairman's team and the
executive committee is as follows:
Barry Mohun, $74,239 SO; Mrs. G. G.
Glover, jr, $50, 780.97: Mrs. Charles A.
Cooper, $73,137.5S; William J. Eynon,
$129,012; Arthur HELEN, sos, 1866; w.
w. Everett, $32, 085.75; Mrs. Sidney F.
Taliaferro, $122,547.25; Thomas B.
Sweeney, $50, $685.; Robert v. Fleming,
$56,068.97; executive committee, $780,
1878.
Budget Chairman Tells Needs.
Corcoran Thorn, chairman of the 1880
budget committee, in explaining why
the Chest needs $1,786, 1901" said the
addition of Is more agencies to the list
of last year and increased work on
the part of those already in the Chest
neceSsitated corresponding increase in
the 1880 budget.
THE sum Is as nearly correct as
hours of intensive study can make it."
he Salu. oo uot Acci tIAdG WAou
Washington realizes the actual need
embodied in this sum there will be
any difficulty in raising it,"
Whiting Williams, former executive
secretary of the Cleveland Federation
for Charity and Philanthropy, the first
community chest in the country, was
introduced to the enthusiastic workers
by Mr.. Moves as "the pioneer in the
community chest movement" and the
Hne AsYfI ftxy on fhn nj
have in America today"
Addressing himself to the problems of
the Washington Community Chest, Mr..
williams declared that in time the task
Of financing the Chest would be only
incidental to its operation He stressed
particularly the tremendous possibilities
the Chest holds for future social service
work in Washington, with a corps Of
trained workers and mentioned also the
educational value of the Chest.
John Poole, 1890 campaign chairman,
and Elwood Street, director of the
Chest, also spoke of the work that lies
ahead and the methods that will assure
the accomplishment of the new budget.
While the special gifts committee is
going after contributions of $500 or
more, the group solicitation unit, Of
which Frank r. Jelleff is chairman. is
intruSted with the task OF enlisting all
firms in the city employing IS or WAoEW
workers. While last year there %ere
only 200 such firms on the list of the
Chest campaigners, he said this year
the number has increased to about 500.
The personnel of the special gifts
committee consists of Newbold Noyes. |
chairman; Clarence A. Aspinwall and
Mrs. Frederick Brooke, vice chairmen;
Mrs. James F. Curtis, advisory vice
chairman, and Elwood Street, secretary. |
Active vice chairmen, with their teams |
of workers, are as follows: Barry |
Mohun, vice chairman; d. j. Callahan, |
Levi Cooke. Myer Cohen Walter G.. |
Dunlop, William v. Freeman, Mrs. |
Frank B. Freyer, George E. Hamilton, |
Joseph H. Hines. Mrs. r. M. Kauff- !
mann, Miss Julia r. Maths, Mrs. Barry |
Mohun. Arthur @. Nichols. jr; Mrs. !
Mary Grant Rafter. Joseph p. Tumulty |
Mai. Gen. Anton Stephan, John Walsh |
and Capt Chester Wells.
Mrs. Charles C. Glover. jr., vice chair ,
man; James r. Ellerson. Rowland |
Chase, John W. Davidge, Franklin H. |
erick Faust, Mrs. Herbert Howard. |
Charles Stone, Mrs. Theodore Wilkinson, |
Richard H. Wilmer and Mrs. Clarence |
r. Wilson.
Mrs Charles A. Goldsmith, vice chair
man; Leo Baum, r. B. Behrend, Morris !
Cafritz, Joshua Evans, jr.; Mrs. Adolph |
Kahn, Joseph d. kaufman. Harry King, |
Arthur c. Moses, Gerson Nordlinger.
Allen Pope. Rabbi William F. Rosen-
blum and Harry Sherry.
William Knowles Cooper, vice chair
man: Henry P. Blair, Charles T. Clagett,
Wilson Compton. Mrs. Wilson Compton,
Fernando Cuniberti Mrs. Fernando
Cuniberti, Harold H. Marsh, A. J. May,
william ROntPomerV Lawrence M