Evening star., 1937-06-07
P:-T. A. LAUNCHES
DRIVE FOR $4,000
"a Teams Begin Campaign
to Sell Tickets for Bene-
fit Magic Shows.

FOurteen team captains and their
workers, representing the $4,000 men,
bers OF the District Parent-Teacher
Association, began today their cam
pAign to sell tickets for a series of
magic performances to be presented
all next week at the National Theater.
The ticket drive, designed to raise
upward Of $4,000 to help the PIT. A.
Student Aid Committee next year in
its work Of helping to clothe and
otherwise assist Washington's needy
school children, is headed by Mrs.
w. A. Meyer, chairman of the PIT. A..
Ways and Means Committee, and Mrs.
Walter Fry, president.
In their efforts to reach the goal
and at the same time make a big
success of the entertaining perform
ances Of magic and legerdemain
planned for the Washington public,
the school mothers followed in the
wake of a group Of Boy Scouts, who
Saturday delivered to the Capitals
business men letters asking their aid
Team Captains.
The appeal to executives of stores
agencies. ofhceS. factories, markets
and other establishments, called on
them to take in the name OF their
own organization blocks Of tickets
for the shows.
The team captains are Mrs. Mover
Mrs. Fry. Mrs. ]. W. Anderson, Mrs.
w. r. McManes, Mrs G. S. Fraser,
Mrs, L, L. Bailey. Mrs E. Graves, Mrs
M. L. Novak, Mrs c. D. Lowe, Mrs.
c. F. Au. Mrs B. G. Kirjasson, Mrs.
L. s. Brooks, Mrs. L. J. Raebach and
Mrs. N. E. Embrey
Mrs. Edwin J. Dowling. chairman
OF the Student Aid Committee for
II years, meanwhile presented three
letters from school teachers and
principals rs an illustration of the
many appeals and the many express
sions OF gratitude received by the
committee for its work. The letters
also illustrate a demand that the
committee often is unable to cope
with an account Of lack of funds.
Work Is Praised.
Principal B. E. Taylor OF Henry
School, Seventh and P streets, said
in letter to Mrs. Dowling:
1T gives me great pleasure to ex-
tend to you and your associates in the
Student Aid Committee the
sincere thanks and appreciation Of
the teachers and parents - for
the generous aid and assistance you
have always given to the pupils OF
our school. You have provided our
needy children with clothing and
shoes, making it possible for many Of
them to come to school when lack OF
proper clothing would have prevented
them.
Il feel that 1t is great work you
are doing for child welfare and that
under your leadership it has become
= most important part of the PIT. A.
work in the District"
sAnother letter, from Gertrude Rine-
hart, at the S. J. Bowen Nursery
School, thanked Mrs. Bowling for
committee aid and inquired, Would
it be asking too much, If you can
spare more, to give some more clothes
to the children? We can use any,
thing for children from 2 to years
OF age, and babies. too, and even
things for the mothers, who can
make them over. a. We have q moth
er's club here and do . great deal
Of sewing"
Principal Mary Lackey Of Denni-
son Vocational School wrote:
Thank you for the box OF shoes
We were able to fit all Of the girls
except the two named above, and they
need shoes very much. Have you
the money for two shoe orders?"