Evening star., 1933-10-08
FIRST LADY TO AID
COMMUNITY FUND
DRIVE IN DISTRICT
Promises to Speak at Mass
Meeting of Women Next
Month.
SAYS THAT CRUSADERS
FORM EDUCATION UNIT
Committee Members Call at White
House and Describe Straits of
Poor in Capital.

A personal message in behalf Of the
Community Chest will be delivered to
the women of Washington by Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt at a mass meet
ing which probably will be called a
short time prior to the opening OF the
Chests annual campaign next month.
Mrs. Roosevelt pledged this assistance
to the local drive for funds yesterday
at request Of the Executive Committee
Of the Women,s Crusade. an organiza-
ton formed to enlist the women Of
Washington as workers in the cam
paign.
The First Lady, who is national
chairman of the Women's Crusade, told
members of the committee who called
at the White House yesterday that we
must make life worth living for every
body in the Nation, or the Nation Will
go down That's the truth" she added,
and we may as well face it.
Cites States Method.
"You are the education unit of the
Chest campaign. I think the State OF
Washington had an effective plan for
that Their organizat ton made lists OF
all charity organizations, showing Just
what each did Then the money need
ed in the past and present was stated
and the last years income OF the or
ganiZation.
One thing you will have difficulty
with is taxes. Everybody settles on the
amount of taxes he is paying and thinks
the Government should pay for every
p,,t ha 9 n
can't provide more than the bare ne
cessities, and even then the food supply
will be inadequate for children, and
there will be other problems.
But remember. the more we don't
do. the more the Government will be
forced to do and the higher taxes go.
Once taxes go up. it's terribly difhcult
to bring them down again.
That may be a selfish and me-ce-
nary point. but then we often are moved
by selfish motives, and we might as We'll
face it
"Another thing you should emphasize
is how little goes into overhead and how
much straight to charity. straight TO
people whom only organized charity can
reach"
Mrs. Roosevelt declared the present
method of moving families into homes
by eviction may have an appalling ef-
feet"
The invitation to address the local
gathering was delivered by Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson. chairman of the Crusade
here. who SAID Mrs Charles Goldsmith,
one of the vice chairmen, had sug-
gested it.
Mrs Boyle Also Speaks.
Another vice chairman. Mrs. John
Boyle, jr.. spoke Of Unemployment as
related to children. She said:
Here in Washington Thousands OF
children GO hungry to school every day.
Hundreds are unable to attend school
at all for lack of shoes and clothing.
| The morals and morale Of our chill
dren have been lowered as the result
Of undertaking, insufficient clothing,
being dispoSsesed with their parents
from their homes, and being forced to
double up so that in scores of cases en-
tire families are living in a single room.
This we have allowed to happen to
our children We have worked other
and scarcely less serious injuries upon
them. Last Summer, because We failed
to reach the goal of the Community
Chest, the usual services of the Sum
mer camps were denied the children at
| time when they most needed the re-
lief they afford. Except for the mag
OF the Council of Social Agencies they
would have been almost entirely closed
to the children"
Other speakers were Mrs Whitman
Cross, who described conditions in the
District health agencies, and Mrs Will
| liam Adams Slade. who told how Y. w.
c. A. secretaries, their pay cut % per
cent, volunteered their services after
hours to assist the underprivileged.
Mrs. Clara Neigh of the Neighbor-
hood House described the relations OF
her settlement house with families
broken by lack of employment.
We have tried to keep mother and
| father together" Mrs. Neigh said I'VE
have opened our house "a hours a day.
But we have been cut. We have to seek
voluntary services. I don't believe we
can go on. I don't believe WASHINGTON
wants us to go on like this. Much of
our work is with children and our Ma
tion depends on its children"
List of Those Present.
The following members of the Exec
utive Committee of the local crusade
were presnt at the conference:
Miss Grace Abbott, Mrs Mary Rob-
erts Rinehart. Miss Rose Schneider
man, Mrs. Blair Banister, Miss Nora
Huffman, Mrs. Wade Ellis, Mrs. Charles
Cary Rumsey Mrs. Cross, Mrs. Wilson
Compton, Mrs. Charles P Neill. repre-
senting Miss Mary " Merrick; Mrs.
Lyman Swormstedt. Mrs Catherine
Dunlop. Miss Florence Ward. Mrs.
Elizabeth Draper. Miss Fay Bentley,
Mrs. Mark Bristol, Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, Mrs. j. Fred Essary. Mrs
Charles A. Goldsmith. Mrs. Cary T.
Grayson, Mrs. Gilbert Hahn, Mrs. D. F.
Hewett. Miss Genevieve Hendricks,
Mrs. George Barnett. Mrs. Genevieve
Herrick, Mrs. Frank w. Mondell. Mrs.
James Dudley Morgan, Mrs. John j.
O'Connor, Miss Bertha Pabst. Mrs.
Ernest Parkinson, Miss Elizabeth Poe,
Miss Eta Taggart, Mrs. Sydney Tallia-
ferro, Mrs Walter Tuckerman. Mrs.
Harvey Wiley, Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt. Mrs. Mark Lansburgh,
Mrs Harry S. Bernton. Mrs. Boyle, Mrs.
Patterson, Miss Burchard. Miss Dent,
Mrs Charles Goldsmith, Mrs. Elizabeth
Draper, Mrs. John B. Williams, Mrs.
Frank w. Ballou and Mrs. Slade.