Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
PERSH|NG TO HEAD
CHEST FUND GROUP
Takes Craftsmanship of Unit
to Get Contributions in
Government Offices.

Gen. John J. Pershing Is to act as
chairman of the governmental unit In
the Community Chest campaign and
John c. Rooms, former Assistant POST
master General and now vice president
of the Chesapeake 81 Potomac Tele-
phone Co., will serve as executive
director of this unit.
These announcements were made by
Edward F. Colladay, Chest campaign
chairman in connection with the forma-
ton of the governmental group. The
executive secretary of the unit Is Her
bert L. Willett, jr, formerly with the
Near East Relief and the GorgaS Memo
rial Foundation.
I'VE of the various Government
services, drawing our subsistence from
Washington and living either IN the
city or nearby, have as much right to
participate in this great movement as
any other residents of the Capital" said
Gen. Pershing, in accepting the chair
manship. Il am glad that the Presi-
dent, through his ecUluH, has made 1t
possible for all the Government workers
to demonstrate, as body, their right
to have part in any activity affecting
the welfare of the city we all love SO
well. I am sure that every Government
worker, knowing that his position is
Safeguarded and secure, Will want 70
do his part toward relieving the distress
brought about by the unemployment
crisis which is now confronting Wash
ington, as we'll as other parts of the
country, and that. like the American
Army in France, they will realize that
there Is a task to do and will go and
do it."
First Such Opening Given.
This will mark the first time in his
tory that the Government departments
have been thrown open to organization
and solicitation for any charitable pur-
pose, and is due to the direct action OF
President Hoover.
Under the direction of Mr.. Rooms, the
various departments and independent
bureaus are being organized from the
top down, so that every employe viii be
given an opportunity to subscribe to the
Community Chest.
Among the prominent division chair
men appointed to date are: Wilbur j.
Carr. Assistant Secretary of State; G.
z. Stewart, Assistant to the Attorney
General, for the Department of jus
tice; Robe Carl White. Assistant Sec
rotary, Department of Labor; Ogden L.
Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury;
r. w. Dunlap, Assistant Secretary, De-
partment of Agriculture; Ernest L.
Jahncke. Assistant Secretary of the
Navy; Harold N. Graves, executive as
sistant, Post once Department; Fred
erick H. Payne, Assistant Secretary,
War Department.: Maj. John B. Cutter,
assistant director, Veterans Admins
tration; Miss Mary A. Tate, assistant
to the Public Printer, Bureau of Print
ing and Engraving; Lieut.. Col. q. S.
Grant, Sd, director, Office of public
buildings and grounds: George B. Nc
Ginty, secretary, Interstate Commerce
Commission; Gen. G. M Saltzman,
chairman, Federal Radio Commission;
A. L. Flint, general purchasing agent,
the Panama Canal; James H. Van
Wagenen, chairman, International
Boundary Commission; Capt. D. B.
Wainwright, jr., co-ordinator, Federal
Co-ordinating Service; Capt. N. B. Far
rel, navy yard: Mai. P. w. West, Unit
States Marshal Edgar G. Snyder, the
judiciary. Marshal Snyder will appoint
vice chairman for each of the courts.
Large Fund Needed.
The Chest this year faces the task
Of raising from 100000 to $3.50, 900
more than was raised last year, ac-
cordine to figures obtained from Cor
coran Thorn, chairman of the Budget
Committee.
'Washington's Welfare in 1881" viii
be the general topic of discussion at
an inspirational dinner to be given
Thursday night at the Willard Hotel by
the Special Gifts Committee of the
Chest. Speakers viii include DR.. Will
liam Mather Lewis, president of Lafa-
yette College and former president of
George Washington University; Allen T.
Burns of New York, director of the As
ISOLATION Of Community Chests and
Councils; Mr.. Colladay, campaign
chairman; Senator James Couzens of
Michigan; Mrs. James F. Curtis, vice
president of the Community Chest;
Frederic A. Delano, former president of
the Community Chest; John Hays
Hammond, Newbold Noyes, chairman
Of the Special Gifts Committee, and
Others Are Invited.
In addition to the members Of the
Special Gifts Committee, Chairman
Noyes has sent invitations to all those
who contributed through the Special
Gifts Committee last year, asking them
to be present and to obtain frst-hand
knowledge of the situation in WASH
1ngton today. The invitation carried the
assurance that no solicitation of funds
will be made, the object of the meeting
being to acquaint those present more
clearly with the plans and detectives
Of the Community Chest
The meeting will start at o'clock
The Little Symphony Orchestra will
furnish music during the dinner hour
Guests will be asked to pay for their
dinners.
The invitation is signed by the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Special Gifts
Committee, consisting of Clarence A.
Aspinwsll. Mrs Frederick Brooke, Mrs.
Curtis, Mr. Delano, William j. Father,
jr.; Joseph P. Tumulty, Mrs. Charles
G. Glover, jr.; Mrs. Charles A. Gold
smith, Coleman Jennings, E. j. Murphy,
Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro and Mr..