Evening star., 1934-11-17
CHEST WORKERS
DRIVE TO EXCEED
S1,675,0DO QUOTA
More Than S250,0O0 Added
Yesterday Spurs Cam
paignerS.
so PER CENT OF TOTAL
IS RAISED ON FIFTH DAY
Leaders Call for Continuation of
Speedy Race for Conclusion
Next Week.

Enthusiastic over results of yestcr-
days tremendous drive, which brought
In more than a quarter of a million
dollars and set a record which has
been exceeded but once in Community
Chest campaign history, volunteer
Chest workers today set for them
selves the task of exceeding the 1884
quota of sl,675 900.
Not since the last day of the first
Chest drive has there been anything
to compare with yesterdays smashing
advance, veteran Chest leaders de-
clared. Chest leaders sounded the
warning, however. to all volunteer
workers that they cannot afford to
slacken their efforts during the last
half of the drive. which will be con-
cluded next week.
While the present campaign yeSter-
day reached so 81 per cent OF its quota
on the fifth day, as compared with 43
per cent attained on the same day
last year. Chest leaders pointed out.
it must be remembered that slightly
less than 80 per cent of last years
goal was contributed.
Rate Must Increase"
This means" it was said. that
the present drive must continue at
an even increased rate If the goal
of 100 per cent is to be reached"
For the past three years the Chest
has fallen short of its goal. Last year
on the closing night of the drive only
III per cent of the quota was in
hand and hard post-campaign drive
raised this to only 776 per cent.
AS result of yesterdays driyI.
which poured $255,620.17 into the
Chest Golfers. the Campaign Commit
tee found itself on the fifth day of
this years To-day campaign with 81
014.678.25 raised and 6057 per cent
of its quota in hand.
Miss Katherine Lenroot, assistant
chief of the United States Children's
Bureau. president of the National
Conference of Social Work. and presi-
dent of the Monday Evening Club. is
to be the speaker at today,s report
luncheon, to be held in the Willard
Hotel ball room beginning at 1915
pm. The invocation will be deliv-
cred by Rev Robert NJ Skinner. pastor
of the Georgetown Presbyterian
Church.
Bring Record Reports.
Enthusiasm mounted to the high
pitch OF the campaign at yesterday
afternoons report meeting, as unit
after unit brought in record reports,
swelling the total for the day to $685.
620,17. This is 1926 per cent of the
entire quota and exceeded the returns
for any single day since the close of
the first Chest drive
Yesterdays total exceeded by SAC. SAT
the returns for the first day of the cam
paign, although the first days returns
were compounded of the results Of
nearly week of pre-campaign solicit
ing by ma jority of the teams
The great drive yesterday was led
by Charles Carroll Morgan'S Special
Gifts Unit. which turned in Sis
864.1S. This, according to Campaign
Chairman H. L. Rust, jr.. is the great
est amount turned in during single
day by any unit in the history of the
local Chest
BY virtue of its great work. the
Special Gifts Unit gained a great deal
of ground on the leading Governmental
Unit, headed by Maj. Gen. Frederick
w. Coleman, chief of finance of the
Army, whiting the margin of leader
ship of the Governmental Unit from
1853 percentage TO only about 817
points.
Rivalry Keen.
Governmental, with quota of s570,-
500, and Special Gifts. with s501 900,
are the two largest units in the cam
paign and rivalry between them has
been keen from the start Govern
mental workers yesterday were able
to turn in 2,26957, increasing their
quota standing from 62.33 to 1877 per
cent. Special Gifts went up in its
standing from 1853 to 68.6 per cent.
The Capital Unit. headed by Col.
H. o. Atwood and organized to solicit
among colored residents of the city
who are not reached by other units.
continued in third place, with 6l51
per cent of its quota of $4,299.24 in
hand.
The Metropolitan Unit, headed by
Joseph D. Kaufman, came in yester-
day with s20,27271 in new contribu-
tions, increasing its total to $780, ,41289,
or 1905 per cent of its quota. The
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