Evening star., 1932-11-09

CHEST WORKERS
TO HEAR ORDERS
"Shock Troops" of Special
Gifts Unit to Meet at
MayfIower Tonight.

"Shock troops" OF the Community
Chest. the Special Gifts Unit, under the
leadership Of Clarence A. AsDinw-c
will get their final orders for the battle
with the welfare and relief problems
OF the Capital at meeting tonight at
the Mayfower Hotel
The meeting, which will be attended
by nearly 800 persons, will be the final
pre- campaign meeting Of the unit, which
is charged with collecting most Of the
larger subscriptions to the Chest in
the coming campaign.
The group, made up for the most
part OF seasoned workers who nave
raised money for the Chest since its
organization, and who are well ac-
quainted with the task to be done in
the campaign which opens on Monday,
will receive special instructions from
the campaign chairman, NeWbold Noyes,
and hear an address on the necessity
for private support Of welfare and re-
lief organizations by DR.. William Mather
Lewis president of Lafayette University
and former president Of George Wash
ington University
Mr. AspinWan chairman. will preside
and Elwood Street and other officials
Of the Chest will attend
Second Meeting of Kind.
The meeting is the second OF those
OF the various units which are taking
part in the Chest campaign beginning
next Monday. The Group Solicitation
Unit. of which Lloyd B. Wilson, of the
Chesapeake g. Potomac Telephone Co.
is chairman, met Monday night at
the Willard, at which time Chest Off
cial outlined TO members the task the
Chest is facing In the campaign for
funds for 1888
Tomorrow night the Metropolitan
Unit, under the leadership OF H L.
Rust, jr, will meet at the Mayfiower,
to receive final instructions and Fri
day night the Governmental Unit will
gather at the Raleigh Hotel to lay
plans for canyaSSlng Government en-
ployes.
The District Government Unit OF the
Chest drive was organized yesterday al
a meeting in the District Building
board room, attended by all department
heads, including Police and Fire Depart
| ment captains and representatives OF
| the school system. The gathering was
| addressed by Commissioner Luther H.
| Reichelderfer, who introduced Mr.
| Noyes ElWood Street, Chest director.
Edwin c. Graham, president OF the
| Chest. Daniel j. Donovan, who will
head the drive in this unit, explained
! the mechanics of the solicitation TO the
| vice chairmen.
Stresses Greater Need.
DR.. Reichelderfer stressed greatly in
| creased needs Of the coming Winter, in
spite Of an expected appropriation by
! Congress for relief work among the IN
| employed He urged department heads
1 to work in the coming drive with as
! much zeal as they displayed in the drive
| earlier this year, when the District
| governments quota was oversubscribed
and 99.5 per cent of the pledges was
| collected
He introduced Mr. Graham, who con-
| graduated the local unit on its work last
year and said he was quite certain that
| work this year would go forward under
Donovan as splendidly as it did last
/ year.
Mr.. Moves said the campaign this year
would be better than the past drive be-
cause OF the greater experience gained
by Chest officials in conducting previous
campaigns.
He urged the workers not TO be salts
fed with routine solicitation but TO
make earnest appeals to those whom
they solicit on the basis Of the greater
need this Winter.
Dollar Buys More.
1T IS true" he said. that some OF
US are poorer this year than We were
last. But the purchasing power OF the
dollars We have now is greater than
that Of the dollars We used TO have
last year. The idea that We are poorer
now is in great many cases largely
psychological. There is still plenty OF
money in Washington being spent on
candy, the movies and cigarettes. Surely
you can make an appeal to those whom
you solicit to put the nickels and dimes
now going in these directions into a
fund which is for hungry children, and
for starving fathers and mothers"
In an address closing the proceed
!, lngs, Mr.. Noyes laid emphasis on the
fact there would be no "Sandbagging'
OF unwilling employees. He said the ap-
peal in each case should be made force
fully and honestly to the conscience
OF those solicited, and that if. after
such an appeal had failed to result in
subscription, the solicitor must be
satisfied that he had done his work
Mr.. Street explained the principle
OF the solicitation on the basis Of l OF
more cents per day, explained workings
Z " liAC PAcu6e CdIu, ana turned tne
meeting over to Donovan, who gave his
vice chairmen their instructions. He
said the quota this year for the Dis
trict government was sll2.869. which
is less than the amount actually COL
lected last year. s123,221
The District vice chairmen not only
will solicit the contributions, but viii
make the collections during the year
and turn them over once a month tc
the Community Chest All Of the COL
lections will be based on the pledge
; cards. There will be no pay rolls made
up in duplicate this year, as in the
nreuinlls drive