Evening star., 1934-01-23
Chest Officers Predict Need
Of Greater Fund Nest Yea,
President Ne'obold Noyes and Director
Street Point Out Requirements to Gro,o
With City and Rising Living Costs.

tualH ana potentially united votelesS
Warrington In one cause with forget
fulness Of self and unanimity of opin-
ion and sndeavor such - nothing else
does"
Discussing past and present condi-
lions facing the Chest. Director Street
said: 1T u 10 bs hoped that the ad-
verse influences will be overcome by
the favorable Ones. and most OF all by
much concerns Warrington, and by .
revival Of business which Is already
hare In some degree, and which should
steadily increase during the year"
With . larger sum needed for the
Chest in the next campaign, Mr.. Street
said that the 117,000 contributors had
about reached the peak that can be
expected In Washington.
Average Too Small
''The trouble y that the average gift
Is too small" he said. He believed such
gifts can be increased from 10 to Is
per cent In the next campaign.
We must move this year from the
method Of mas production OF subscrip-
tions to the method Of individualized
production" he said. Our campaign
must change from the shotgun method
TO the rife or sharpshooter method. We
must be prepared to 60 ahead on that
basis"
Referring to changing conditions
whereby the Government is more and
more bearing the burden Of relief, Mr..
Street indicated that these policies az
feet the public viewpoint toward pri-
vate aid and contributions. As . re-
suit, he said, private interest has gone
far afield from the mere question of
giving.
Intensive organization Is more need
ed now. he reminded, than ever before.
Possible devaluation of the dollar. he
warned, with its effect upon prices,
must be taken into consideration by
the Chest in planning its next cam
paign- Among other new conditions he
cited the National Recovery Admins
tration, with its codes for industry. fac
tors which. he said, will certainly
modify the possibilities and methods Of
securing . profit from business and
industry" New income ana inheritance
taxes. likewise, will affect the ability
Of people Of means to contribute
Standing votes Of thanks were given
to the three officers who reported at
the meeting Before adjournment. Mr..
Noyes read q letter from Frank j.
Hogan, campaign chairman. who was
unable to attend the meeting owing to
his absence in New Orleans at session
Of the American Bar Association.
Treasurer Father reported that the
Chest entered 1888 with deficit Of ap-
proximately $4,000 1t appropriated
$50, 900 toward reduction and received
$24 900 from prior years in the payment
Of pledges. thereby reducing the deficit
to $4,000.
Up to January I, the Chest had re-
ceived from pledges in the 1888 cam
from the inaugural fund the sum of
$50, 900 and $4,000 from the congress
donal ball game benefit. From those
receipts 1t paid $46.000 in campaign
costs, $50, 900 on the deficit and 81 $685.
900 to Chest agencies.
Every agency, Mr.. Father said, re-
ceived 100 per cent Of its 1888 appro-
priation The deficit Of the hospitals in
November, he said. will be taken care
Of out Of the balance Of the inaugural
fund.
The COST Of operating the Chest for
the entire year was reported as s6l 900
and It cost $46 900 to conduct the 1888
campaign. Consequently, the total cost
Of raising and handling all the money
contributed by 1l7.000 during the fiscal
yCdA "a IAiC SllCot 6NCAdSC0 dPPl OAA.
mately 6 per cent.
OrgAnizations' Representatives
At the annual elections the group
named to the board Of trustees to rep
resent the organizations affiliated with
the Chest. with the names Of the or
gantxationS represented. follows:
American Legion, Gen. Amos A. Fries
Francis F. Miller; Associated Charities
Miss Helen Nicolay. w. S. Ufford: Boy
Scouts, Arthur j. May, Linn c. Drake;
Boys Club Of Washington, Harold A
Brooks, Charles M. Fyfe; Bureau of Re-
habintation, Dwight N. Burnham, j. E.
Dayton; Catholic Charities, DR.. Henry
J. Crosson, Rev. John OGrady; Child
Welfare Society. Mrs Frederick Dec
Faust, Miss Caroline Sweeney; Chill
dren's Country Home. Mrs. Joseph
Hines, Miss Florence @. Abbott; Chill
| dren's Hospital. Thomas Bell Sweeney