Evening star., 1932-01-23
'CHEST AGENCIES
WORK VIEWED BY
NOTABLES| IN TOUR
Group Taken on Survey by
Head of "Come.and
Committee.
ONE BRANCH OBTAINS
JOBS FOR OVER 800 MEN
Party Includes Mrs. Gam, Secre-
tary Wilbur, Representative Fish
and Senator Carey.

How Washington's various social
agencies operate to alleviate poverty
and suffering was demonstrated to an
outstanding group of persons yesterday
when they visited headquarters of or
ganizations participating in Community
Chest funds.
The trip was made under the per-
sonal guidance of Gen. Michael j.
Lenihan, chairman of the Come and
See" Committee of the Chest, and the
itinerary included stops at the offices
Of the District of Columbia Committee
on Employment, the municipal wood
yard, the Salvattan Armys emergency
lodge for homeless men, the Holy Fam
lily Day Nursery, the alley dwellings of
Logan and Fenton courts and the He
brew Home for the Aged.
Party Includes Notables.
Included in the party were Mrs.
Dolly Curtis Gam, DR.. Ray Lyman
Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior; SEN
ator Robert D. Carey of Wyoming,
Representative Hamilton Fish of New
York, DR.. Luther H. Reichelderfer and
Mai. Gen. Herbert 3. Crosby, District
Commissioners; DR.. Thomas E. Green
Of the American Red Cross, John Poole,
president of the Community Chest;
Mrs. Frank w. Mondell, Mrs. Benja-
min F. weens, Miss Anna Michelun.
Miss Eleanor Preston, Miss Helen
Strauss, Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith,
Miss Martha Ellis, Miss Betty Tills-
bury, Edward F. Coladay, A. Julian
Brylawski, Joseph D. kaufman, George
J. Adams, Ross Haworth and Gen.
Lehman.
Displaying a lively interest in the
oF 3,,ir fba pf
the various agencies visited, members
of the party questioned both officials
and beneficiaries of the charity enter
prises. The reaction of the group was
epitonlized by John Poole, president of
the Community Chest, when he de-
clared, IF all the thousands who are
asked to contribute to the Chest could
see at first hand, as we are doing, the
manner in which the money Is being
spent they would not only give more
generously, but would be more active
in working for the success Of the Com
munity Chest drive"
Get Jobs for 500 Men.
The District Committee on Employ
ment has placed 300 men at work since
it was reorganized January /, the
group was told by Mss Adelaide Barker,
head of the committees application bu-
reau at its offices at 1000 Pennsylvania
avenue, and this figure will total 1000
next week. Applications numbering
1900 have been received. The per-
centage of women placed has been
smaller, few clerical positions having
been filled and total of 100 women
weekly having been furnished with
sewing provided by the Junior League.
The municipal woodward vas next
visited, where explanation was made OF
the method by which men who wish to
work to pay for their living expenses
may do So The Salvation Army Ener-
gency Lodge, 479 c street, where many
OF these men live, was next on the
schedule, and the cleanliness of the
place and the military efficiency with
which 1t Is conducted evoked favorable
comment.
An intensely human touch was pro-
vided at the Holy Family Day Nursery,
where employed mothers leave their
children during the hours they are at
| work The group was shown through
the nursery by Mother Mary Lourds,
Mother Ann M. Angels, Sister M. Ursula,
Sister Anna and Sister Teresa.
The most lively interested display,
perhaps, was that shown in the "alley
dwellings" of Isc and Fenton courts,
bills to abolish, W.. n are pending In
both branches of Congress. Picturesque
in their squalidness, they evoked as
! tonished comment that such places ex-
| listed in Washington.
The tour concluded with trip to
the Hebrew Home for the Aged, where
the party was received by Charles A.
Goldsmith, president of the Home,
Maurice Maser, its superintendent. and
Saul Lansburgh.
The commission went on record as
favoring the use of part of the funds,
If secured by the proposed additional z
cent tax on gasoline here, for the I'M
provement of park roads.
officials of the Office Of Public Build
ings and Public Parks have complained
that the roads in Rock Creek Park are
too narrow, but funds have been lack
ing for proper widening.
An amendment to the Capper-Cram
ton park purchase act was advocated
by the commission to permit the Fed
eral Government to proceed immediate
ly to buy land for the George Wash
ington Memorial Parkway, on both sides
of the Potomac River southwark from
Great Falls, without waiting for the
States of Maryland or Virginia, or their
political subdivisions, to advance their
share on a $3.50 basis. This would be
cared for, under the measure, by in
suring that the States would purchase
outright an equal amount of land at
the same ratio in price as had the Fed
eral Government.
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