Evening star., 1934-11-18
S5S,ODO OF CHEST
FUND TOBE RAISED
Workers Must Collect Aver.
age of $4,000 Daily to
Realize Goal.
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cent of its quota, left it almost ex-
actly at par" for this years drive
At the same point in the campaign
last year exactly so per cent of the
quota had been raised.
For yesterdays report luncheon,
after the magnificent showing of
Friday, the Campaign Committee
sent its first string team" to the
entirely by the second team" COM
posed of vice chairmen and sub
chairmen of the various units.
Wyckoff Wields GaveI.
Campaign Chairman H. L. Rust,
jr, turned over his gavel to Bernard
Wyckoff, vice chairman of the COM
mittee. The campaign unit chairmen
for the first time went down from
the head table to sit with members
of their units at the lower tables,
and in their places sat Laurence E..
Rubel. chairman of the Publicity
Committee; Mrs. Leonard B. Schloss
of the Speakers Unit, w. w. Wheeler,
vice chairman Of the Publicity Com
mittee, in charge of the Speakers
Unit; Herluf Provensen, in charge Of
the radio campaign; Wallace Robin
son, in charge of the Governmental
Speakers Unit, and James A. Coun-
cilor. chairman of the Audit Unit.
The Chest volunteers heard another
caution against overconfidence from
the days speaker, Miss Katherine
Lenroot, assistant chief of the United
States Children's Bureau, president
of the National Conference Of So
cial Work and president Of the Mon
day Evening Club
This has been great week for
the Community Chest and for Wash
| ington," Miss Lenroot said. You
have made splendid progress. but I
know you all realize that the next
week will be harder than the days
which have passed, in respect to the
demands which will be made upon
your enthusiasm and loyalty.
1T is always when We get to the
| end of the campaign that we have TO
hold our lines and be sure that the
message the Chest has to give has
been given to every single person.
Appeals for Children.
"Of course, when we think Of the
| Chest goal on one side and the human
need on the other, we realize the vast
gap between the two and the ever
increasing measure Of the human
need in Washington as the problems
of unemployment and relief mount
and multiply. The needs Of the chill
dren of this city are very great. Let
tiers come to me every day from
parents, young people and children
! lust out of high school. and they ex-
press the feeling of the increasing
difficulties in meeting economic needs
| These things are true all over the
country and SO they are true in Wash
ington"
Miss Lenroot declared that she is
! certain Community Chest officials and
workers and the city as whole Will
not be content with static program
which is just little better than the
year before" She indicated her be-
| lief that the usefulness of the Chest
! will increase as time goes on anc
| that the demands made upon it and
| through it, upon the people OF Wash
| ington will increase.
| Washington and the Tennessee VAL
| ley, Miss Lenroot said, "are the two
| real pioneer places in the country
today, because we are trying in these
places to build up new social order
which will give greater security tc
our children and our families"
| Never Greater Challenge.
There never was a greater chal'
lenge presented to our forefathers
than we have here today" she said
This Chest and the organizations oi
which it is composed form a majol
part of the program of social security
| without which we would not be able
| now to go on into the next stage o1
the planning.
I'VE must have renewed determine
ton; renewed effort and renewed
courage and the feeling that until al
| the people in Washington who possibl!
| can give have given to make oul
| Capital city a safer and more secur,
| place for our boys and girls who arr
| to be the citizens of tomorrow. W.
| have not successfully completed oul
| task.
I'VE can't be satisfied" she said
until all who can possibly Civ
through the Community Chest to NEE
the human needs in Washington havC
been brought into this great enter
| prise"
Mr.. Wyckoff told the workers tina
they must not be content to accept S
| or even IS contributions during th'
final days of the drive unless they ar
absolutely certain that the prospective
contributor cannot afford to give more
Five-dollar contributions should b'
pushed up to pledges of at least 81 {
month for the coming year, he said.
Even then" he said, I'VE still viii
have to see a great many people i
we are to put this drive over. We hav,
raised more than $1,100000, but W,
/ must remember that in the four day
which remain we still have to rails,
two-thirdS as much as we already have
raised in six days. We cannot affort
to relax our efforts for a moment. bu
must drive on as hard as we can g
to the very end"
The invocation at yesterday
luncheon was delivered by Rev. Rober
M. Skinner, pastor of the Georgetown
Presbyterian Church.
Divisions Go Over Top.
The following additional Govern
ment divisions yesterday reported th