Evening star., 1932-01-28
Donations Reported Today
Only S8O,935 Instead of
S150,OO0 Needed.
WORKERS ARE SC0LDED
FOR DRIVES SLOWNESS
Must Get More Pledges if Cam
paign to Relieve Suffering Is
Not to Be Failure.

With daily contributions of sl50000
needed to assure success for the Com
munity Chest drive, gifts of only s8O,-
935.49 were reported today at lunch
con in the Willard Hotel. The grand
total was increased to 81 l,9O3,523.33.
Arthur HELEN, acting campaign
chairman, gently but firmly scolded the
workers. He said they would have to
do better or the drive would prove a
failure. He said they should call on
every conceivable prospect, returning
again if they were unable to obtain
pledge on the first trip.
Number of Gifts Small.
I'VE don't have to be discouraged over
our failure to get big increases this
year over the individual donations last
year." Mr.. HELEN said, but the number
Of contributions is distreSsingly small
We need, and must have, more pledges"
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the
wartime President, and Mrs Frederic A
Delano, wife of the first president of
the Community Chest, were the guests
of honor introduced by Mr. HELEN
plauSe as the solicitors arose out of re-
spect.
The metropolitan unit today reported
receipts of S42, ,521.55, the group solici-
tation unit S28895.85, the special gifts
unit $4,000 and the schools unit ST.
2l8O9.
Mr.. HELEN squelched the cheering
which began when the grand total vas
announced with the comment that the
metropolitan unit still has 100000 to
raise the group solicitation unit needs
S257,000 to complete its quota and the
special gifts unit is behind 100000.
Washington will have to awake to
the seriousness of the situation" warned
chairman, this morning. we must
realize that unless we reach this
goal, our proud boast that no
person need go hungry in Wash
ington' may become a mere group
of idle words. We must awaken to the
fact that unemployment has caused an
increase of more than 40 per cent in
the demands for aid and that every
penny of the one-third more than was
pledged last year and which is asked
for this years budget IS needed to re-
lieve acute distress.
Must Give More.
More Washingtonians must give
more. Our average pledge must be in
creased. The number OF pledges must
be increased. The eyes of the Nation
are upon us and unless we get these in
creases the Nation will learn that
persons are allowed to go hungry and
unsheltered in the Nations Capital.
We are facing the greatest peace
time emergency in the history of Wash
ington. Our city, while better favored
than most, is confronted with the
greatest number of jobless breadwinners
it has ever known. The time has come
when those of us who have an income
or a job must share with those who
ha :e nothing. l want to appeal to every
WaShingtonian to arise TO this emer-
gency. I want them to remember that
these volunteer, unpaid workers who
come to give them the privilege of con-
tributing to the Chest are not only
volunteer workers, but generous givers
as well and then I want to appeal to
every loyal resident of our city, the most
beautiful in the land, to remember the
hungry. the i'll, the aged and infirm, the
helpless little children who are de-
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