Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-11-12

lea In the battle against poverty, disease
and crime today.
I'm that earlier era" Gov. Campbell
said, FOUR sense of patriotic exaltation
opened our purse strings to the appeal
of war charities, of relief campaigns, OF
organizations striving desperately to
nourish and sustain the morale of the
millions of men at the front. VIII a
corresponding sense Of patriotic and
humanitarian exaltation today open our
purse strings to the appeal-more uni
versal more haunting, more humanity
compelling than ever before-'Give US
this day our daily bread?
That simple. age-old prayer is today
the appeal Of the Community Chest. It
Is plea, not so much by convenient
corporate organization known as the
Community Chest, not so much by So
cially conscious men and women who
have seen this need and are striving to
| fill 1t, but plea by the humblest among
us. by the SCARED victims of this bruis-
ing peace-time conflict. by those whose
morale is desperately in need Of susie
nance If, it is to last out this dreary
| Winter.
People Are Starving.
Food? Yes. People are starving in
Washington today Clothing? Yes.
| Children are shivering in Washington
| today. Shelter? Yes. Families in
Washington today have as their home
only the spot where their goods have
been placed on the street. Yes. all
| those things, but more, too, Food for
the mind and spirit, to keep one strong
| and the other resolute. Hope-hope
| of better days, to avoid that stark
hopelessness which is at the bottom OF
| the precipice Of restitution. That Is
! the plea made to you and to me today.
when we hear of the family OF a
widow and five children, one baby,
having lived for weeks on mush, just
mllsh, because a stubborn spirit would
not yield to an appeal for charity, our
instant instinct is to pack a basket OF
wholesome, nouriShing food and place
it on that lowly doorstep. When We
see the pitiful sticks of furniture Of a
destitute family placed on the curb on
a rainy day, all for lack of a months
So rent, our impulse Is to throw our
coins. with contempt in an exacting
landlords face. When OR daughter
tells us of the little boy who tainted
at school because his last breakfast had
been two days before, what does money
mean IL it Is not to purchase hospital
cot and careful nursing back to vigor
for that victim Of our economic conflict?
When we hear of the most recent suicide
counseled by hopelessness and friend
leSsness, what would we not give to
place another chair at our own fireside
to instill in friendly talk the courage
that says: Garry on'
Simpler Days Gone.
"Those are our impulses. Those are
cur instincts. When. We lived in simpler
times, when we knew the other people
on our street and something about their
circumstances, those were our acts,
silent, natural evidences OF neigh
borlmess. Bus those simpler days have
gone. We have our being IN what in
those simple respects, is different
world.
I'm this new world of more highly
organized society, our impulses and in
stincts are the same. Human kind does
not change in one generation or in
many generations. But in this new
world, the baskets of food, the giving
Of clothing, the preservation of shelter,
the giving Of kindly word or inspira-
ton are symbolized in the Community
Chest. 1t is the means by which our
natural desire to meet our share of
this comm ity problem takes express
sion We have it because it does these
things better and more efficiently, to be
sure, but primarily because 1t does them
more surely. With 1t the chances of
missing family, or overlooking pasty-
faced, undernourished youngster. OF not
being on the spot when the family is
about to be evicted, are reduced to
negligible proportions. We have the
Community Chest because 1t does these
things better than we, acting as in
dividuals without plan or central pur-
nose can do them !"
Additional members of the Metropoli-
tan Unit announced today are:
Added to Unit.
Area Frank A. Birgfeld, area
chairman; Page NICK. Etchison. area
secretary. Mrs. j.. v. Brownell, William
G.. Hanson, E. E. Berney, F.. E. Rogers,
division chairinen; Mrs. L. Olree, Mrs.
Allen S. Wolfe, Ernest H. Pullman, Miss
A. Payne, Mai. Harry L. Gessford. Sam
Melnicote. Wilmer F. Sickle, Milton L.
Arnold, Raymond z. Gable, Worth E.
Shcults, Frank Fenwick, Mrs. Gertrude
Smith, Miss Nancy Lake Maurice
Mase=, Arthur O'Dwyer. James H.
Lawson, Charles Krey. r. M. Mayhem.
Mrs. Del, Gilbert Sale. w. F. Studio
ford, DR.. Raymond B. Hutchinson. team
captains, and the following team work.
ers; Gordon Bonnette, Mrs. E. T.
Boylan, Miss A. H. Carleton, Mrs.
Esther Carrico. Mrs. 7. c. Childress,
Mrs. Stephan S. Colladay. Mrs. M. K.
FRITZ, Mrs. Paul Garrett, Mrs Charles
F. Gocdchild. Mrs. David Griffith. Mrs.
Robert A. Hale, Mrs. Thomas Hum
phrey, Miss Ethel Lamond, Mrs. Mable
c. Lindsay. Mis- He'en lie Feore Lyon,
Mrs Grace Marshall Mrs. Adelaide w.
Plat, Mrs. r. c. Ray, Mrs. Thomas j.
RYDER, Mrs. c. L. Snyder, Mrs. Mildred
| sutherland, Mrs. Walter WYATT, c. C.
| Daley Roger Gallagher, Mrs. Roger
Gallagher George Gooch. Mrs. Vernon
| Green, Mrs. J. H. Gundsheimer, Mrs.
| H. Kneesi, Mrs H K. Livingston, Mrs.
| Wilson Marin, Mrs. r. G. RirEardsOn,
Mrs. Cleveland Skinker, H. H. Beltz.
Herbert W. Berry, J. D.. Brice. Miss
Frederick F. Carlton z. w. Engleman,
A. L. Greer. Harry johnson. Mrs. D. c.
! Leiz-ar, Mrs. F. B. Pullman, Miss Mil
well SomervilIe jr: Mrs Dee Co7h~an.
Mrs. S. B. Cogswell. Mrs. Jennie Haigh,
Mrs. Ida Louder. x. D.. McRae Miss
Rosalie Meltcn. Mrs. Frank j. Mersch,
Clarence T. Milne. T. e. Mulligan, Mrs.
Mureen Owen. Miss Irene Payne, w.
H. Sseaouiet. Mis- w. Sch'ckler, George
H. Beuchert, Leonard L. Bowen, George
C. Coorer. Lewis H. Craven. J. w.
Halves. Ralph E. Lawrence. Ruth D.
Iawren~e, Oscar Leaman, F. X. Mohler,
Mrs. Claude w. Owen. Allen Pope,
Henry Howard Surface, Dr.. E. J. Brit
ton. Mrs. A. ]. Davidson. Mrs, H. H"rtZ-
beg. Mrs. Melvin Lionel Kraft. Mrs.
7. L. Krurs'w. Mitchsll Quick. Daniel
Ring, Cabot Stevens. J. Danov. j.
Rcp-r. John Russell. GcorPe West. Mrs
Ia Verne Beales, Jesse A. Burks. Lyster
H Dewey, Mrs. T. Gallagher. Mrs
Charles c. Gedulding, F. Fl. Goode-
nough; Albert K. Johnson. Morris Kraisel
Mrs D ". Mccallam. Mrs; J. Pitcher
Fred L. Shipp. H. S.. Smith. Mrs. Walter
Smith. Mrs. Edward S. White, Ernest
Admire. Floyd E. Barrow. Mrs. A. Bier
j. c. Brennan. Robert T. Donovan. Mrs
Grace w. McHugh, S. j. Murphy, Cath
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