Evening star., 1933-12-05
CHEST TREWTA[ZED
BYPERSH|NG'S 'SCALL
Spurs Drive With "Attack
Again" SIogan-Speaks
on Radio Tonight.
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their fellows, old men and women
aghast at what lies ahead Of them TO-
night. Surely you can afford a little
space OF your time to hear their voices
The Chest campaign tonight faces
the fact that despite the whole. hearted
and unfiagging and arduous and conse-
Grated efforts Of 5000 OF your fellow
citizens over a period of two weeks and
more, we are still more than 100000
short Of the goal which the most re-
sponsible group Of h,1siness, financial
and professional leaders In the city have
certified to you as the basic sum neces-
sary to meet the local welfare and
philanthropic needs for 1884.
by virtue of what can pledge
you has been the most ardently prose-
cuted campaign since the Chest was
founded, We have raised upward Of ST.
100000 from something more than
certain Of Its aspects, fine. A move.
in these hard times Of close to one
fifth OF Our city,s population. needs no
you know that although tens Of thou.
could ask Of them. thousands have done
less and thousands have done nothing
at all. 1t Is to these latter two classes
that I am tonight pleading.
"Gravest Crisis in Peace"
DO not shut your ears to the needs
Of your neighbors. pledge you my
word that those needs are real and
tragic and are deserving of your help.
I Deg, ana L am not ashamed to beg
In such a cause, that tonight you search
esna i fair aT to ask ask fs others at to SGo do
more than should be required Of them
In order that you may do less or
nothing' Are you at peace with your
conscience? Isn't there some inconse-
quential extravaganza or luxury that
you can forego to put this thing over?
I beg you to think.
Not all of us appreciate what Is
to me perhaps the most important
ano significant fact In regard to the
community Chest this year. That fact
is thus: Our Nation has for four years
been struggling through the gravest
Crisis II has ever faced In peace time,
Millions Of OUR fellow citizens. thou
have had their patriotism, their beiief
IN the economic, social, and political
structure upon which American de-
mocracy has been reared strained and
shaken and shattered. The possible
consequences of their demoralization
and misery and discomfort are obyiolN
That the most sinister potentialities
OF a situation in which 10000 600 men
and women and their families have seen
All that makes life worth while can put
tne boards and eventuate, I do not
believe. But the reason I do not be-
ileVe It Is that know Of the unremit.
ting forces that are working to serve
the situation. Otherwise, am frank
10 say would not be so sanguine-
ANY thoughtful citizen must face the
fact that from the terrific experiences
through which we have been and are
still passing will come numerous
changes in our economic and social
fabric And I say to you earnestly
and solemnly that the form that these
changes will take Is the degree of our
sanity and reasonableness, the extent to
which they shall comport with the prin-
ciples of democracy itself, and depend
upon the mood In which the masses Of
our people approach them.
Cites Function of Chest.
"Given a public that is able to face
its problems with clear vision and judg-
ment, unclouded by suffering and mis-.
cry. We need have no fear. But given
a public demoraliZed and desperate and
deluded as a result of too-iong-endured