Evening star., 1932-11-18
Government Unit Takes Lead
for Day With Total
of $69,895.63.
ONLY 200 DAYS REMAIN
ON DISTRESS CALENDAR
President-elect Roosevelt Adds Plea
to Capital to Meet It's
Charity Budget.

There were Just zoe days left on the
drab calendar of poverty and distress
for 1888 when the army Of more than
5000 workers for the Community Chest
completed their reports at today's meet
ing in the Willard Hotel.
Thirty-three more days had been
wiped out with the total Of $21e,4ls.e3
reported today from 1882 subscribers.
This brought the grand total of sub
scriptions for the campaign to $685.
STATS. pushing the total past the mil
lion mark for the first time
The Government Unit, led by Gov.
Thomas E. Campbell of the Civil Service
Commission, pushed its total subscrip-
tions for the day into the lead for the
first time, reporting $6e,Se5.63, from
1884 subscribers. Added to the pre-
viously reported sl06,650.47 from ss1e
givers, this brought the units grand
total to date to $176,54610 from 1880
subscribers. This represented 242S per
cent Of the units quota, and today's re-
port wiped out 10 days of the Chests
black calendar. with $6,629 needed for
every one Of the 365 days Of 1888 If the
Chests work is to be done properly.
Special Gifts Second.
Next In line was the Special Gifts
Unit, which heretofore has led all other
| units. Clarence A. Aspinwan, chairman,
reported total subscriptions for today
at S60,260.35 from 81 donors which,
added to the $4S6,026.s8 previously re-
ported, brought the units grand total
to $546, ,287.33 from 403 givers.
The Group Solicitation Unit had
reached grand total of $144, ,140.49
| from 14,163 subscribers when today's
added to the previously reported total
Of $9S ,2624s from 9,725 subscriyers.
With the campaign approximately
half over, this unit was ahead Of its
schedule. reporting SAT per cent Of its
| quota.
The metropolitan unit. led by Il. L.
Rust jr., today reported subscriptions
| totaling $3902001 from 1854 sub
scribers, which. added to the previously
reported $127,978.20 from 6,008 sub
scribers, made grand total for the
unit Of s166,s99.2l from 7,a72 sub.
| scribers.
The other unit reporting, the schools
unit, had total today Of S4,36493,
| bringing its grand total for the cam
paign to date to $500 so, which was
32.4 per cent Of this units quota.
20 Per Cent Of Quota.
The first report on the District Gov
| ernment's employees contribution was
made today by District Auditor Daniel
j. Donovan. He reported that out Of q
total Of 9,045 employees in the District
| governments service, workers have OBJ
tanned subscriptions from 2,577, with Q
! total collected to date Of $24, ,792.56,
which is "a per cent Of the quota of
| $1l2,869.
ION to the second million" was the
exhortation Of Campaign Chairman
Newbold Noyes at the close of the
meeting.
President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt
today sent the following message to the
! workers for the Chest:
81 deem 1t privilege to add my ap-
peal to the citizens Of the Nations Cap
| ital to make generous response TO your
| Community Chest drive. The need is
great, and If want, misery and suffering
are to be minimized In your great city,
| which should set an example for the
rest Of the land, there must be loosen
ing Of purse strings and warm-hearted
| IcoEOIloG d1l LIlOoe WIZ dIC dDlS W
give at all. All of the resources of in
dividuals and of the civic, State and
National Governments must be mob
! ilized that none may be without at least
the bare necessities of life. I congrat-
ulate the 1900 governmental key men
who are taking an active part in this
great drive.
"(Signed)
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"
Message From Pershing.
The telegram was addressed to Chair
man Noyes and was read at the meet
| ing.
| Gen. John ]. Pershing, first chairman
| Of the Government group Of the Com
munity Chest, sent Chairman Noyes the
following message from a ship on the
| Atlantic:
Government employees: This Win
ter'S unparalleled unemployment crisis
demands unprecedented generosity. We
cannot maintain the morale Of unem-
| ployed nor our own unless we share
their sacrifices"
The largest single contribution re-
ported today was one of $4,000 from
an anonymous subscriber. Next came
| the $1,000 gift Of John Hays Ham
. mond. There was also reported s., 900
gift Of Mrs. C. C. Glover, ST., and q
! $4,000 contribution by Mrs. Marshall
Field. Among the establishments re-
ported today as having employees sub
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