Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
S114,224 PLEDGES
STILL DUE CHEST
Effort Made to Clean Up
Accounts as 1890 Cam
paign Nears.

CHEST n per cent of the amount s,lb.
scrlbed in the last campaign, with col.
lections totaling S1,372 ,399.l3 for the
hrst ii months of the year. against a
total subscription of SI,486. 623.21. il
was announced yesterday by John
Poole. president of the Federal Ameri-
can National Bank, which is corporate
treasurer of the chest.
The chest organization yesterday
mailed statements to those who have
not completed their subscriptions, in
an effort to clean up all accounts be-
fore the second campaign, which will
begin January %.
1t is pointed out by Mr.. Poole that
the chest expenses for the last year
have been S90.471 80, or 6 per cent of
the total subscriptions, against an esti-
mated average cost of from Is to Is
per cent under the old methods of COL
lection and administration of charity
funds.
Praises Washington's Record.
Mr.. Poole said: THE Community
Chest has lived up to its promise to
keep the cost of campaign, collection.
accounting and distribution of funds
in the neighborhood of 6 per cent. We
now expect that contributors will make
good on their promises so that obliga-
tons undertaken on behalf of the Com
people whom they serve may be full
filled. The Community Chest of Wash
ington not only had perhaps the best
campaign record of any large city in
the country, but it also looks as II 1t
might have one of the best records of
payments on subscriptions of any Com
munity Chest in the country. Every
penny which has been subscribed will
be needed and will be applied to the
work of the member organizations Of
the Community Chest"
Rapid progress in the organization OF
the special gifts committee of the chest,
which will have charge of the solicit
tation of contributions Of $500 and more,
was announced yesterday by Newbold
Moves, chairman. Mr.. Noyes said that
D. J. Callahan, william Knowles Cooper,
Robert ". Fleming, Mrs. G. G. Glover,
Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, Arthur Hell
len, Barry Mohun, Mrs. Sydney Talia-
ferro, Mai. Julius I. PeySer, w. w.
Everett and Thomas B. Sweeney have
accepted active vice chairmanships and
will organize subcommittee OF ten each.
In addition to these heads of subcom-
rlittees, Mrs. Frederick Brooke, Clarence
A. Aspinwall and George Hewitt Myers
have agreed to serve as advisory vice
chairmen. They will help In solicita-
ton and will advise on the ALLEGATION Of
prospects.
Active vice chairmen have been ad-
vised that next Friday Is the final day
for completing membership of their
subcommittee. All chairmen and team
members will meet that afternoon and
will spend the balance of the day in
the ALLEGATION of prospects to the vari-
Gus members Of each subcommittee.
Active solicitation by members of the
committee will start at the opening din
ner Friday, January II, at o'clock, at
the Willard Hotel. The dinner is ar
ranged to begin at this hour and to end
promptly at $40 o'clock, SO that men,
bers Of the special gifts committee who
may want to 60 to the regional plan,
ming meeting in Continental Memorial
Hall that evening may be through in
time to attend.
Subcommittee chairmen are already
beginning to turn in the names of their
team members and all, 1t Is declared,
are optimistic over the prospects for
this years Community Chest campaign.
The opening rehearsal for the pag-
cant What q World" to be presented
in the Hotel Mayflower on the evening
of January 20, marking the opening
of the campaign, will be held in the
Franklin School Building Tuesday
night.
VIII Depict Agencies Work.
The pageant, written by Frank Baer,
viii consist of a series of scenes de-
signed to depict the work of the various
member organizations of the Commun-
ity Chest. Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest,
general director Of the pageant, is
working in cooperation with the Com
munity Center Department of the pub
lie schools, with Mrs. Donna Taggart
as her assistant; Mrs. Gertrude Lyons,
director Of chorus, and Miss Caroline
Mckinley, director of dances.
Because of limited space where the
pageant will be. presented only the
5000 or more Community Chest work.
ers have been invited to attend, it is
stated.
The member organizations of the
chest and the persons named for each
group, up to yesterday, were as follows:
American Legion, Mrs. Gertrude
Lyons: National Capital Civic Fund,
Chauncey j. Gentzler; Juvenile Pro-
tective Association, Evelyn Perry; So
cial Hygiene Society, Mrs. William E.
Chamberlin; Y. w. G. A., Mary Eliza
beth Wingfield; Columbia Polytechnic
Institute, Ruth M. Noyes; Children's
Hospital, Alma Stone; Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital, Helen A. Kelly; Flor
ence Crittenton Home. Mrs. George H.
Price; Friendship House, Charles Bur-
ton; Girl Scouts, Mrs. j. Harris Frank
lin: Associated Charities, Rosa Brown;
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hos
pital, Ann E. Loker; Salvation Army,
Ensign Dorothy Guice; Columbia Hos
pital, Mildred Martz; Episcopal Home
Tor Children, Mrs. May Ferns: Girls
Friendly Society, Marian E. Hartley;
Boys Club, George Woods; Jewish
Community Center, Gertrude Feldman;
Council of Social Agencies. Ruth Mar
shall; George Washington Hospital,
Beatrice Cox, and the Society for the
Prevention of tuberculosis and Asso-
ciated Charities, Edwin L. Potter.