Evening star., 1933-12-03

Part 6.
The extended Community Chest cam
paign today enters its fourteenth day.
with belated contributions gradually
bringing the relief fund for 1884 closer
to the goal of $1,945,oOo.
The campaign army Of 5000 vo.un-
teer solicitors continued its efforts un-
til a late hour last night and will re-
sumo activities today, unmindful OF the
day of rest TO which the workers are
entitled.
1t was the eager hope of the cam
paigners that the $751; 900 deficit would
be cut at least in half when returns
are tabulated at q rally Of the canvass
ers tomorrow at noon in the large ball
room of the Willard Hotel.
Gen. John ]. Pershing, who headed
the governmental unit in a previous
Chest campaign. will give cheering
message to the workers al the luncheon
meeting, Campaign Chairman Frank J.
Hogan announced.
Prelate Makes Appeal
The churches again we're to Cooper
ate in the campaign by appealing again
today for generous support of the Chest
Archbishop Michael j. Curley OF Baltl-
more has written another pastoral let
ter asking the Catholic clergy and
laity to Join in the drive by means OF
personal service and monetary gifts.
The letter will be read today In all
Catholic churches. i.
Rev. DR.. Joseph r. Sizoo, pastor OF
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, and Chairman Hogan mace
stirring appeals by radio last night.
Or. Sizoo spoke over WMAL and MI.
Community Chest forum hour over
WRC.
Mr.. Hogan contrasted the happiness
surrounding the people of Washington
in their preparations for Christmas, to
the fate that must befall those unfor-
funates, who. but for the charitable
agencies financed by the Community
Chest, must face life OF hopeless mis-
cry.
IN the midst of all this preparation
for the day Of giving and receiving OF
cheer and cheering Mr.. Hogan said,
st heard whimper in my ear. had
been transported out of the Christmas
brightness back to the Childrens Hos
pital. the Children'S Country Home, to
the Washington Home for Foundlings,
to the Florence Critten1on Home, to
St. Anne's, st. Joseph's, and st. Vim
cents Orphans Home. the Episcopal
Home for Children and to the Jewish
Foster Home.
AT my side, tugging my fingers, there
appeared the little crippled boy whose
only future hope is bound up in a long
course of treatments, which charity
must provide or which he must be de-
MED. And two little foundlings, their
heads hardly reaching above my knees,
1oone eas e0D Hp 70 On me 70 to my play With fhe
yearnlng as only they know now 10
yearn for tenderness and love, and then
a moan came from 3-year-old strapped
to board lest her childish movements
should retard what science, promoted
by charity. is endeavoring to do to cure
her from tuberculosis OF the spine.
Knows Ch.dren's Need.
MY friends, I have seen and talked
with, held and been held. and have
been led around by these little ones. I
know their need. I know, too, the care,
the needed treatment, the tender, eff
Client nursing. the clean, attractive COM
Portable clothes, the warm shelter and
the fresh air grounds il which to play,
the wholesome food. cheerful smiles
and the childish laughter which trifie
from you would insure to serve thou
sands such as these.
"The mist in my eyes blurred the
Christmas wreaths. the cheerfulness of
the hurrying, healthy comfortably
garbed crowds and The activities OF the
shops
THAT mist was not caused again by
by contemplation of the sick little chill
dren who have looked wistfully up at
me from white beds IN hospitals and in
convalescent homes nor by my seeing
again the emaciated. undernourished,
pinchad baby faces thai 1 have gazed
down upon during this past month.
That mist came because amidst all the
bright and hopeful preparations for the
coming of Christmas have been made
to realize that literally thousands of my
fellow residents of this Capital City of
Our Nation have failed to respond to
the Community Chests plea that they.
by their pledges now. provide for the
needy next year
II am appealing to you tonight.
pleading with you tonight. begging of
you tonight, only because after five
months of preparatory work and two
weeks of intensive campaigning this
city of a half million population has
failed by a half million dollars to
guarantee adequate care of Gods un-
fortunateS in 1884
Mr.. Hogan pointed out that the
pledges made now need not be paid
until rext year. He explained that he
was speaking as one whC had been very
poor, pleading for the poor; as one who
was underprivileged. pleading for the
new generation of the underpriVileged.
He told how he mad sold newspapers,
carried telegraphic messages. pounded
the typewriter and studied nights while
working in Government department
and made ringing appeal as a former
Government worker to those fellow
Government workers who have not yet
realized that they are a part of the
community and that the Chest is their
own.
Subject to All Evils"
Stressing the fact that the Govern
nent workers reside here, and obtain
all the benefits Of residents in the Cap
1tal City, Mr.. Hogan pointed out that
such workers are also subject to any
evils which may aff1ict Washington and
Tor which Chest funds provide the only
preventive. He recalled the flu epi-
demic of l918-19 and told how Govern
ment workers fell before its dread germs
which did not differentiate between the
lifetime resident and that of few
years. He held that no one was I'M
n7une nor would be immune from sim
tlar epidemic in the future, while at
lhe l4llt LINZ. ht polhted out That Bart
OF the Community Chest organizations
are working for better sanitation, better
health conditions, better treatment Of
the sick and other activities which are
done to prevent the spread of disease.
The speaker colorfully described the
Chest agencies and their manifold serv-
tces, from the disqualification of the sick