Evening star., 1932-11-21
Two and 0ne-HaIf Days Re-
main in Which to Collect
$1,044, ,958.
GOVERNMENT UNIT
AGAIN LEADS DONORS
Special Gifts Group Reports SO
subscriptions, Which Bring
Total to $643, ,499.

The Community Chests welfare and
relief program for 1888 was pushed well
past the halfway mark with today's re-
ports made at the meeting at the VIII
lard Hotel this afternoon.
There still remains, however, the
Herculean task of raising more than a
million dollars, with only two and a
half days of the campaign left.
The grim specters Of misery and dis
treSs now have been banished from
Washington Tor just 207 days on the
black calendar, but there remained 158
days for which Washington has done
nothing for the relief of its poverty
stricken men, women and children.
s1,S74,s2s Subscribed.
The army of workers had added
S187 ,557.25, subscribed by 1882 givers
with today's report, bringing the total
subscribed to date to 81, ,374, ,823.35. This
the Chests goal of $2,419,787 is to be
reached.
The Government Unit, led by Gov.
Thomas E. Campbell of the Civil
Service Commission, reported 1856 sub
scriptions, tctaling $86,312.82, and led
all units today. These subscriptions,
added to the previously reported total
of $23l ,70971 from 24,599 subscribers,
brought the units grand total to
$318,022.53 frcm 1885 subscribers.
This is 1896 per cent OF the units
quota.
The Special Gifts Unit, headed by
Clarence A. AspinwaH, reported SO sub
scriptions, totaling $50, ,465 03, which,
od IN he rar1Orfod A6I
subscriptions for $593,034.08. brought
the units grand total to S643,49916
from 554 givers.
Chairman H. L. Rust, jr.'s, Metro
politan Unit reported 1857 Subscriptions
today for $32 2,85997, bringing the pre-
viously reported total of S190, ,729.75 frcm
1922 givers to a grand total OF $223,-
5Sg.72 from 10,889 givers.
The Group Solicitation Unit, led by
Lloyd B. Wilson, added S17,693.06 from
1859 givers to the previously reported
| $164, ,809.53 from 16529 giveTs, for a
grand total of $182, ,502.59 from 19088
of the units quota.
School Unit Adds Gifts.
The Schools Unit reported additions
gifts of S226.22, bringing its total to
date to $7,21435 from SO schools. This
was 40 per cent of the units quota,
Among the larger gifts reported to-
day was $4,000 contribution from Mrs.
Duncan Phillips, another from Secre-
tary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills,
$4,000 gift from Mrs. Daniel Devore,
James Parmalee. Mrs. Beale R. How
ard, it was announced, added $1,000 to
a previously reported subscription OF
$4,000, bringing her total to $4,000.
Campaign Chairman Newbold Noyes
again eXhorted the workers 10 put o.
pressure II the campaign is to be Euc-
cess, saying:
I'VE have crossed of 2o7 days on
Washington's black calendar Of 1888.
Nothing can say can bring the situa-
ton more clearly home to you. There
are two days left in which to get 158
days of that calendar. If you don't
work from the time that you leave this
room until we meet the day after to-
morrow night at Wardman Park Hotel.
the campaign viii fail. If you do work,
with every nerve strained, and with the
special assistance of publicity that we
are going to give, you can, and will, do
it. Don't leave it to any. one else 70
do this job. You have undertaken II
and you owe it to Washington to do it
yourself. Get this money in and put
us over"
Among firms 100 per cent of whose
employees have subscribed, reported to-
day, were the Washington Coca Cola
Co., the B. F. Saul Co., Armour & Co,
Demonet's, Mahoney Concrete Co.,
Lansburgh & Bro, the Institute of
Musical Art, National Capital Press,
George A. Simmonds & Co. and the
Washington Tobacco Co.
Mrs. Herbert Hoover was among the
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