Evening star., 1938-01-25
CHEST OFFICIALS
SUBMIT REPORTS
Dodge Defends Character
and Health Programs.
Trustees Elected.

ices, care OF children and other spe-
cial1zed activities conducted by social
welfare organizations of the Com
munity Chest cannot be discarded or
curtailed because of the pressure Of
unemployment and resulting poverty,
Clarence Phelps Dodge, president of
the Community Chest, declared last
night in his annual report.
Mr.. Dodge and the Chest director,
Herbert l.. Willett. jr., delivered their
reports before several hundred Chest
workers, contributors and civic leaders
assembled in the Hall of Flags at the
United States Chamber Of Commerce
Building for the annual meeting Of the
Chest.
The Chests message and its daily
work were driven home to the audience
f1rst by Mr.. Dodge and Mr. Willett and
again by series of short skits drama
tizing poverty and want. benefits Of
Chest services and presenting some of
the benef1ciaries themselves.
Trustees Elected.
The annual election of trustees also
vas held, with 1913 members selected
by Chest agencies and the other 1913
from the ranks Of contributors.
The past year has given many Of
us pause as We have followed the in
creasing lack of understanding In the
public mind of the relationship be-
tween public relief and the programs
of family welfare and rehabilitation
carried on by the private agencies"
said Mr.. Dodge. General relief is
burden so great that If all the funds
now raised by all the private agencies
we're used for relief they would meet
only about per cent Of the need. This
is true not only of Washington. but
Of the whole country.
"Manifestly health services. care of
children and other activities of the
Community Chest cannot be discarded
or curtailed on account of unemploy-
nent and resultant poverty. In days
OF stress they are needed more than
ever Yet contributors are criticizlng
the Chest and some of its member
agencies because of hungry families
they are unable to feed or of families
facing eviction for whom they cannot
pay rent.
1T is with sincere feeling of regret
that this is my last annual meeting of
the Community Chest as your presid-
ing officer Mr.. Dodge said.
Willett Tells of Campaign.
MIR. Wlllett reviewed the aims and
objects of the Community Chest. told
how its member organizations and con-
trlbutors' committees function and
how the 1897 campaign was con-
Quoted.
Miss Rita Beuchert, director of the
Blackfriars' Guild. was director of the
series of skits presented to the Chest
group Whlle Dennis Connell. actor and
stage director. acted as narrator.
The program included the appeal
Tor aid OF "down-and-out PLAYED
by John Victory, chairman of the
Chest unit for the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics; stunts by
boys of st. Joseph's Home and School :.
demonstration of occupational ther-
apy by Miss Lena Hitchcock, Chill
dren's Hospital nurse and a 1o-year-
old patient. Dolores Bethel; scenes
showing drunkenness and crime. with
out public help, and the benefits of
clean recreation in leisure time, acted
by Hugh Smythe, Mrs Roy Harbin,
MISS Eva Smythe. Robert Wills. Hugh
Smythe. jr., and Betty Smythe: a
Gay COS skit by Estelle Tabb and
Sylvia Blum from the Jewish Com
munity Center: songs by the Glee Club
OF the colored Twelfth Street Y. M. C..
A.: Miss Margaret Davis. Emergency
Hospital nurse. in short scene with
Two children; Zoe Weinberg and Jaw
Hlrshf1eld, and concluding song,
America" by Boy and Girl Scouts.
Directors Elected.
Elected to represent the contribu.
tors were Mrs. Frederick Altemus,
Clarence A. Aspinwall, Mrs. Albert W.
Atwood, Albert W. Atwood, Bruce
Baird. DR.. Frank w. Ballou, Mrs. H.
Clifford Bangs, Judge Fay L. Bentley.
Mrs. Harry S. Bernton. Frank A. Birr-
field, Robert Woods Bliss. Fred M.
Bradley, Maj. Ernest w. Brown. DR..
Homer K. Butler, Morris Cafritz, John
q. Cannon, l.. A. Carruthers. John
w. Chlldress. H. Lawrence Choate,
George j. Cleary. Judge James A..
Cobb. Maj. Gen. F. w. Coleman. Rear
Admiral Charles Conard, 1t. Comdr.
Harley F. Cope, Mrs. William Lee Cor
bin. the Rev. w. L. Darby, Mrs.
Dwight F. Davis, Orrin J. Davy, Clar-
ence Phelps Dodge, Maj. D. J. Dono-
van.
Ernest G. Draper, Charles B. Dull
can. James c. Dulin. jr.; Mrs. James
Clement Dunn, Grover c. Emerson,
Joshua Evans, jr.; William w. Everett,
Harold D. Fangboner Mrs. Karl Fen
ming, DR.. Dorothy B. Ferebee. william
j. Flather, jr.; Robert v. Fleming. Col.
Robert H. Fletcher, Maj. Thomas J..
Frailey the Right Rev j. E. Freeman.
Mrs. James Fritz, w. P. Gaumnitz, ],
Louis Gelbman, A. E. Giegengack, Mrs.
Charles A. Goldsmith, j. S. Gorrell.
E. G. Graham, Mrs. John w. Guider,
Alvin w. Hall, Claude E. Hamilton.
jr.; Col. West A. Hamilton, John H.
Hanna, Arthur HELEN, Frank M.
Hoadley, Albert F. E Horn.
H. H. Howell, Richard w. Hynson,
John Ihlder, Frank r. Jelleff, Cole
man Jennings, D. j. Kaufman, Joseph
D. kaufman, o. A. Keen, Mark
Lansburgh, j. Austin Latimer, Mrs.
Cazenove Lee, Frank Lee, Randolph
Leigh, Edward w. Libbey, Thomas
Ellis Lodge, Frederick G. Macarow,
Mrs. William w. Mackall, jr.; Reed F.
Martin, Judge Annabel Matthews, Ar
thur May. DR.. William Mcclellan,
John L. McGrew, the Right Rev. John
M. Mcnamara, Frederick w. McReyn-
olds, Harry c. Meem, Eugene Meyer,
w. L. Mitchell, William MONTGOMERY
Charles Carroll Morgan, Thomas Nor
gan, jr.
DR.. William Gerry Morgan, Earl A.
Nash, Newbold Noyes. Thornton w
Owen, Chauncey G. Parker, jr.: Mrs
Eleanor Patterson DR.. Frederic w
Perkins, John r. Pinkett. w. E. Reyn-
olds, Herbert j. Rich. Miss Edith Rock
wood, DR.. George c. Rutland, H. L.