Evening star., 1933-11-12
CHEST PLEA MADE
TO i. S. WORKERS
Col. Grant Takes Cognizance
of Wage Cut-Sets Up
Speakers Unit.

Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, chairman
o. the Government unit of the Com
munity Chest campaign, which will
open a week from tomorrow has taken
two steps to carry out the plea for as
sistance directly to all Government en-
ployes in Washington.
Col. Grant has written a pamphlet
especially for Federal workers and has
set up a special Speakers Committee
within the Government unit. This
committee will be assisted by trained
speakers from the central organization
OF the campaign.
Wallace B. Robinson Of the United
States Railroad Administration has
been named chairman of the commit
tee. and associated with him are Maj.
Sidney Morgan, Miss Irene Grant, John
r. Victory, DR.. M. G. Merrill, Warren
z. Emley, Miss Mary Anderson, E.
Claude Babcoc' and Edgar Gerlach.
Workers to Meet.
Members of the committee will ar
range meetings of Government workers
in all departments. They also will OBJ
tain special speakers for the assemblies,
some of whom are now being trained
for the task These will be assisted by
the following from the regular Chest
speakers unit: Francis Miller. AdJt.
Gilbert S. Decker, Norman Fregger,
Theodore Johnson, Isadore Herschheid,
Martin O'Phelan, J. A. Nolan. Mlss
Gertrude Bowling, Linn c. Drake. Al
bert Grobstein, Clement A. Ducy. Earle
A. Nash. Thomas carey, Joseph T
Casey. Thomas J. Faryley. Rev. w.
Joyce Russell, Mrs Leonard SchlosS,
Albert Vault. James De Force, Harold
Fitz, A. -. Calvert. William N. Free
man, Raymond Walter, Ray H. Everett,
Miss Elizabeth Beatty and Mrs. MARX
Lansburgh.
In his pamphlet, Col. Grant takes
eopniyance Of the effect Of enforced
furloughs and wage cuts, and points out
requests for help for the Community
Chest this year are reduced in accord
arce with those cuts.
Text of Chest Appeal.
The text of the appeal, 10000 copies
OF which are TO be distributed, loiioWS'
'eDuring the past two years you PROB
ably have been harassed and distressed
by uncertainty-not only as to how you
could carry on with your reduced m
come. but even as to holding your loo
at all However, you are still RECEIVING
a salary every month; you still have
your Job, and you are sure OF your
daily bread and of shelter and clothing
In the midst of these worries, have you
stopped to think of what would be your
plight If you had been retired or dis
charged without any pay at all? FOR
how many weeks could you have carried
on without help?
"It is just the sort of help you and
your family would have needed in such
an eventuality which the Community
Chest must provide. The thought OF
your own needs in such an eventuality
must make you want to make what con-
tribution you can for the needs OF others
whom misfortune has overtaken.
Immediate relief-a minimum OF
food and shelter to sustain life-is being
provided from public funds. The avail
able appropriations are only sufficient to
provide this minimum, and that only
for the abnormal super-burden result
ing from the unemployment situation.
The Community Chests budget has been
reduced By elimination Of the work
taken over by the Government relief
agency, but it stin has its normal well
fare activities to carry on.
The President has said those people
who do not feel any duty this year to
subscribe TO local relief or local charity
mental basis Of our American civiliza-
ton. They deny the civic responsibility
Of the individual, and would seek to
toss every problem into the lap OF
Government. They are buck passers.
Work Held Essential.
1.-THE Community Chests work is still
the helping hand essential to keep thou
sands of our neighbors from utter
desolation, from finally giving up hope.
The aid the Government can give does
not solve the problem; it only preserves
life while a solution is being sought.
The agencies that are members of the
Community Chest are engaged in keep
ing individuals and families from this
last resort and in solving the problems
of those not able to stand on their own
feet without help. Clinics. home nurs-
ing and hospital care for the sick; homes
for destitute children, baby clinics,
homes for underfed and sickly children,
temporary relief to destitute families,
with investigation Of their condition
and help in securing work; training
and aid to the blind, trained advice and
help to those on the verge of despera-
ton and unable to find the way out of
their troubles alone, opportunities for
wise and profitable use of leisure time,
especially for children and young
people, SO that they may remain or
become safe and sane citizens; homes
for the aged, and hundred other ways
Of helping to relieve human needs-such
are the activities for which ! now ask
you to contribute.
THE budget of the Community Chest
has been ruthlessly pared down. Sal
aries have been reduced throughout,
more economical methods of admins
tration have been discovered, less ur-
gent activities have been reduced or en-
tirely abandoned, the campaign costs
have been cut more than per cent,
although the job before us is harder;
everything has been done to apply
every possible penny of every dollar you
give directly to helping the needy.
II you have any question, inquire Of
your department chairman or of the
unit secretary, Mr.. Willett.
THE amount which the governmental
unit is expected TO raise has been re-
drced by your committee to correspond
to the aggregate reduction in the Gov
eminent pay rolls, and this includes
all the reductions and losses you have
suffered. Am 1 wrong in expecting
that you will give proportionately fully
as much as in the past, and in view
OF tae urgency of the need, even more?
SO, because you are one of those still
fortunate enough to have a regular in
come, because you are one OF the self
supporting and responsible citizens OF
realize your own personal stake in the
we1-being of the city in which you
live, and because I am sure you will
not wish to evade your duty co your
less fortunate neighbors, l now appeal
TO you to contribute all you can to the
Community Chest"