Evening star., 1934-11-08
Metropolitan Group Organized
With 1000 Members-Ad
Club Presents Pledge.

holding the community anu IIlc IVA
ton together, in an address by Rev.
DR.. Joseph r. Sizoo, pastor Of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
at the mobilization meeting Of the
Metropolitan Unit Of the Chest Cam
paign Committe last night in the Will
lard Hotel.
1t is not sufficient that people be
given something to live on, DR.. Sizoo
said-they must be given something
to live with and something to live for.
If this is not done, he said, society
must crumble. in spite Of every effort
of government.
Neighborliness Lacking in Cities.
City life, the speaker said, has done
away with the neighborly spirit thai
prevailed in the open country OF
small villages, and this blessing OF
individual neighborliness must be
taken by "that expression Of organ
lied good will called the Community
Chest"
1T Is ever essential to bear In
mind" DR.. Sizoo said, the vast diff
ference that exists between relief and
welfare. We have in this city an
emergency relief organization that L
both effective and efficient, minister
ing this month to $4,000 units-one-
third of whom are detached persons
I'VE may well be proud of the relief
brought in this cruel crisis to these
perplexed people, but at best that Ii
not an adequate provision for those
who are both shelterless and un-
employed, giving a person a mere
subsistence and enough shelter to
keep him from freezing. Emergency
relief deals with physical needs only
but leaves untouched human needs
1t may supply a bare subsistence, but
what of those provisions needed for
care and sickness and morale?
"The emergency relief Is never
enough. These persons must be re-
constructed and need to take their
places in the life of the community
That Is the mission of the Community
Chest, and there is no other agency
set aside to Geal with that problem"
DR.. Sizoo said it is "a well known
fact of economics" that a family OF
four needs a minimum Of $50 a month
for adequate provision.
when you realize that the maxi
mum provision available for such
homes in the District is less than $50,
and that the average allotment is
s22. then you see at once that other
agencies must be called into being to
make available an adequate subsis-
tence. 1t Is necessary to keep In mind
that emergency relief is not enough
without the cooperation OF the Com
munity Chest enterprise"
DR.. Sizoo declared that living to-
gether in a city is mot only privi-
lege, but responsibility"
Defines Citizenship.
citizenship" he said, "is not simply
the demanding of rights and the
standing on ones own dignity, but
also the sharing of life with those
about you. Citizenship in itself Is
hollow and unreal and soon exhausts
itself. for it lacks vitality. Democracy
may begin with the issue Of freedom,
but it can never end there. Democracy
is something more than demanding
ones rights-it means sharing respon-
sibilities. We need today the recov-
ering of that lost sense of citizenship" "
Last nights meeting, at which Jo-
seph D. Kaufman, chairman of the
unit, presided, was opened with an
invocation by Maj. James Asher OF
the Salvation Army. Messages Of greet
-. l. &ko mn uorEorc nf tho unit
were delivered by Clarence Phelps
Dodge, president Of the Chest. and H.
L. Rust, jr., campaign chairman.
Herbert L. Willett, jr., director of
the Chest, explained the purpose Of the
Chest and the great task confronting
the 64 member agencies during the
coming year, despite the relief given
by the Government.
A playlet, 1T Happened One Night,
written by w. w. Wheeler, chairman
of the Speakers Unit, and produced
under the direction of Harold Allen
Long. chairman of the Dramatic Com
mittee of the Arts Club, was given.
The PLAYERS were w. F. Studdiford,
william E. Mitchell, Estelle Ormand,
Joan Pefiey and Betty Bliss. The
playlet represented the efforts of a
Community Chest solicitor to obtain
a contribution from a man and his
wife.
The Advertising Club Of Washington
became the first civic organization to
contribute to the 1884 Community
Chest fund yesterday when Norman
Kal, president of the club, presented
to Allen De Ford, subchairman OF the
Metropolitan Unit, pledge for 500,
voted at a meeting of the club Tues
day.
The pledge was made payable on q
10-payment plan, in accordance with
the plan urged upon contributors by
solicitors and keymen to meet the
pocketbooks of persons who find II
easier to give q stipulated amount
over a period of months than to make
a cash donation at the time OF the
campaign.
Junior Teams Appointed.
The newly formed washington
Junior Board of Commerce yesterday
enrolled in the Community Chest drive
appointing seven teams to seek FUNDS
The teams are under the Leadership
Of Morton wilmer, Joseph Trew, OLvei
Gasch. James Owens, Albert Con-