Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-25
CHEST ARMY FACES
DRIVE FOR MILLION.
Solicitors RedoubIe Efforts
as Contributions Lag Far
Behind Last Year.
Continued From First Page.)

Walter Tuckerman, member of a num-
Der Of welfare boards and president OF
the Colonial Danes of Washington;
w w MILAN, president of the District
of Columbia Bar Association, and DR..
w. w. Wynlan, president of the District
of Columbia Dental Society.
Mrs. Harold 1ckes. wife of the Sec
rotary of the Interior, an attorney
and member of the State Legislature of
Illinois, was the principal speaker
yesterday. She said, IN part:
1t Is very inspiring to face such
group as this and realize that every
individual here has put his or her
shoulder to the wheel to help pull our
civic wagon out Of the mlre and hitch
it to a star. And have done this by
facing squarely the duty of the corn
munity as a separate DUTY from that
of the PERSONA, or of the FEDERAL
Government.
There are three kinds of respon-
sibility which We hold to our unfor u
nate neighbors. TIE personal, and
nothing can altogether take the place
Of this: community responsibility and
in recognition of this we are here to-
day; and Government responsibility.
and only as each one Of these is car
rled on without any shifting Of the
g
maximum result be obtained.
Duties Broader To-Day.
"Aforetirne certain responsibilities
were more or less accepted by society
at large, but our world has widened,
and as our lives are no longer bounded
by the four walls of our home, or, in
the case of men. by the four walls of
their Office, so, too. our duties have eX-
banded and our neignbor is any one
who suffers in the length and breadth
of this land. To him our help must
60 and to him this week is dedicated.
The present provisions of our Gov
eminent are taxing many from the
relief rolls and providing for emergency
employment. Mere power to 1t. But
there are fields the Government does
not enter, and should not be called
upon to enter, and its gallant efforts
in noVis take the place of the Com
munity Chest The Chest stands ready
TO aid in those numberlesS cases that,
sadly enough, cannot be classified under
the head of emergency There will
must be accorded and community
agency reach out a helping hand.
Community problems must be comn1,tl
lty responsibilities.
I'VE all realize this obligation, but
It has been a puzzle how to fulfill
it, and this is where the Community
Chest offers its aid to the giver as
well as to the recipient:
The depression will pass. En1er-
gency unemployment relief may be-
come a memory, but the Community
Chest we will always have with us, and
it is good and right that it shall be So"
Mrs. TaIiaferro Honored.
Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro was award
ed the banner for the Special Gifts
Unit, her team having raised 6605 per
cent of its quota.
In the Government Unit the banner
for the highest percentage of quota in
departments of so or less personnel
went to the District of Columbia Court
OF Appeals with 9l.65 per cent.
For departments of so to 500 en-
ployes, United States Tariff Commits
SIGN with 4414 per cent Of its quota.
Fer departments of COOL 500 per
sonnet, Department Of Labor, 1925 Ter
cent.
For departments of more than 1850
personnel, the Department OF Com
merce with $3.50 per cent of quota.
In the Group Solicitation Unit, the
al ca UdIlIiSL 4Ol IllC lIiSllCSG percentage
of 100 per cent firms went to Will
Montgomery, chairman of area 4.
In the Metropolitan Unit, Mrs. John
c. Freeland. chairman of division 2,
area |, received the bsnner for highest
percentage of quota with 62.o8 Per cent
The honor team was that of Mrs. Ira
Shantz, team 3, division 8, area /, with
S5.-1 psr cent CT quota.
Tnits Submit Rerorts
Reports by the four soliciting units
were made as follows:
Metropolitan, Joseph D. Kaufman
chairman. S2l,410.43, frcm 1907 cen
tributors.
Group solicitation. Walter B. Clark
sen, chairman, S19,5S26S, from 1922
contributors.
Governmental, Lieut.. Col. U. S.
Grant. Sd, chairman-533,25573, from
4,615 contributors.
Special Gifts, Corcoran Thorn, chair
man-s41795, from 43 contributors
Among the gifts CT $1,000 or more
announced at the meetings we're:
Peoples Drug Stores, $4,000 addi-
tional, bringing its total to $4,000; Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. $4,000;
Mrs. John G. Boyd, $4,000; Mrs. Will
lard H. BroWnson. $4,000; Mrs. Charles
!. Corby. $4,000; MI. and Mrs. Karl w.
Corby, $1,000: Mr.. and Mrs. w, S.
Daniel b, $4,000; William P. Emo,
$1,000; Mrs. William C. Eustis $1,000
Mrs. Marshall Field, $4,000; Mr.. and
Mrs. Pierre Gaillard. 81 300; Miss Annie
May Hegenan, $4,000; National Saw
ings & Trust Co, $1,000; Mr.. and
Mrs. Luke I. wilson, $1,000, and Capt.
tai Transit Co., S3,5C0.
Colladay Asks Chest Aid.
E. F. Colladay. in a radio address over |
WJSV yesterday, pointed out thai the
Federal relief program now being
pushed by the Civil Works Administra-
ton does not relieve the Community
Chest of its burdens.
1.-THE Federal Government has only !
stepped in to take care of the excess |
destitution and want arising through |
the increase Of unemployment which |
Colladay said The Federal Govern
ment is only relieving this excess un-
employment BY giving employment at
living compensation to those of the un-
employed who are able to work and by |
giving direct money relief to those OF |
the unemployed who are unable to
work The agencies of the Federal
Government do not go beyond this |
point.
Therefore, it is left to us people of
Washington. just as it was ia 1881.
1882 and 1888. to contribute the sum |
of sl,950,00O to do the same work we !
have always done for the relief of the
normal amount of unemployment, pow !
erty, sickness. accident cases, pelma-
nent disability orphanages and l might |
60 on indefinitely describing the va
rious phases of restitution, want. suf- !
fering and need CT relief which al
ways exist in a city of this size"
Among the givers CT 500 or more |
yesterday we're:
s5,0OO-Mrs. william c. Eustis, M. |
and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss.
S4,000-Mrs. Marshall Fled.
S3,O00-Mr and Mrs w. s. Corby, |
Will |