Evening star., 1934-11-22
CHEST CAMPAIGN
ENDS NEAR GOAL
$104,800 Balance Expected
to Be Collected in
Cleanup.
Community Chest volunteers bday

Community Chest volunteers today
set about the task of picking up loose
ends" which it was predicted probably
will carry the 1884 Chest drive to its
full quota of s1,675 900, following a
rousing final report meeting last night
at the Willard Hotel which carried
total contributions to $1,570, 1888 and
marked the official close of the most
successful Chest campaign since the
beginning of the depression four years
ago.
While several thousand volunteer
workers cheered and the Army Band
played a triumphal march. figures
were pasted on the big campaign
score board" which showed tnat the
great Governmental Unit had ex-
ceeded its quota to the extent of
645 per cent, and that the full cam
paign committee had attained 93.74
per cent of its quota.
Only $104, 300. .38 remains to be COL
lected to complete the quota, and re-
ports from the campaign chairmen
last night referred to promised pledges
and contributions yet to be realized
which are expected to wipe out most,
If not all, of this deficit" The Spe-
cial Gifts Unit alone reported that it
has definite assurances of more than
$4,000 in new pledges which for one
reason or another have not yet been
formally listed.
Clean States Asked.
In past campaigns there has been
an average Of more than $4,000 re-
ceived after the official close of the
drive in belated pledges and contri-
buttons from absentee contributors, it
was pointed out. Campaign Chairman
H. L. Rust, jr., announced that there
will be no official extension of the
campaign, but called upon all teams
to clean their states"
after tonight" he said, the
books of the Chest will remain open
to receive those contributions which
have not yet been reported. I urge
all of you to complete the assignments
you have undertaken and to leave
clean slate upon which you can write
to your own satisfaction the words,
Well DONE"
Last nights closing figure Of 93.74
per cent of the quota exceeds by more
than 20 per cent the total of H.78 per
cent which was in hand on the closing
night of last years drive An official
extension of the drive last year
served to increase the total to but
77.6 per cent.
Last nights final meeting was an
enthusiastic celebration of a cam
paign which not only was the most
successful in four years, but which
established many all-time Chest rec
ords. The Campaign Committee re-
ceived contributions from 147,704 do
nors, a total which exceeds by about
10000 the largest number ever re-
corded in a previous campaign. The
Governmental Unit reported con-
tributions which established records
for the number of donors and for the
exceeding of quotas in hundreds Of
Federal and District offices. The largest
single regular daily returns in history.
totaling more than s255 900, and the
largest daily unit return ever re-
corded-the S115000 contributions of
Special Gifts last Friday-were other
records entered in the books of the
1884 drive.
Speaker after speaker-and there
were scores of them-testified to the
loyalty and self-sacrifice of the 5000
volunteer workers and their leaders
who during the past two weeks have
carried the drive into more Washing
ton homes and business Offices than
ever have been reached in any similar
campaign in local history.
Chairman Rust, in opening the last
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