Evening star., 1938-11-23
Chest Gifts
Are $1,807,177
As Drive Ends
Campaign So 1892
Under Quote at
Formal Close

The formal Community Chest
campaign ended at noon today when
workers reported total OF $1,8O7,-
177.64 from 175,248 contributors.
This is 84.49 per cent of the goal
of $2,127 900, the campaign falling
$319, 1922. .36 short of its goal.
William j. Flather. jr., general
chairman, announced that the cam
paign was officially ended but that
credit would be given on any money
coming in up to midnight of No.
vember 30. Final results will be
announced on December 2.
The leading unit at the close OF
the campaign was the Metropolitan,
whose chairman, w. w. Wheeler,
announced that the unit had raised
81 OF per cent of its quota. Runner
up was the Governmental, Alvin w.
Hall chairman, which reported 1908
per cent of its quota.
In dramatic appeals to contribu-
tors last night, Herbert j. Willett. jr.
Chest director, and Mr.. Flather
urged Washingtonians to aid the
poor, the sick and the aged by giving
generously to the campaign.
Bring in. send in, mail or tele-
graph your pledges" Mr.. Willett be-
sought contributors.
IF you expect one of the volun-
teer solicitors to call upon you, have
your pledge ready, and make 1t gen.
erous, please" he said. If you have
not been asked for a pledge. do not
hesitate, but bring or mail in your
gift to the Community Chest cam
paign headquarters in the Willard
Hotel"
Appeals to Workers.
Addressing his message to the vol
unteers, Mr.. Flather said IF you
have canvassed your own neighbor-
hood, if you have met your goal for
the human needs of your city, don't
let down now, but telephone your
campaign chairman and offer your
services in some other district, or
with some other unit"
In broadcast over Station WJSV.
Earl Nash, vice chairman Of volun-
teer publicity, declared, When a
disaster of great force strikes
large number of our people at one
time, we rise to great heights in pro-
viding money and clothing and aids
of all kinds. Isn't it bit ironical,
bit unfair, that we have to have
Public slaughter on q mass basis
before We can stir so many of our
citizens out of their lethargy?"
In the coming year, he said. hun
dreds of people in Washington and
nearby Virginia and Maryland will
face crises and disasters in their
lives no less real and no less tragic
than floods, fires and earthquakes.
Outstanding campaign work on
the part of individual solicitors and
a growing list of organizations, Gov
ernment departments and business
firms that had passed their quotas
were reported at the report meeting
at the Willard Hotel yesterday.
-Four Government departments
were over the top, the Governmental
Unit announced, with two others on
the verge of meeting their quotas.
The former classification includes
War Department. 101.96 per cent;
Reconstruction Finance Corp, 1O2. 10
per cent; the Civil Service Commits
sion, 100.48 per cent, and the State
Department., 105.38 per cent. The
Post Office Department, with 1904
per cent, and the Treasury, with 997
per cent, were ready to announce the
fulflllment of their quotas at any
moment.
Mrs. Bryant Exceeds Quota.
Individual credit in Government
department went to Mrs. Harriet F.
Bryant, who, it was said, has ex-
ceeded her quota every year as
division chairman in the Office of
the chief of engineers in the War
Department. Still turning in pledges,
Mrs. Bryant has already raised 100
per cent of her quota.
Alvin w. Hall, chairman of the
Governmental Unit, issued a last
minute plea to volunteers in his
unit to push it over the quota. Total
pledges, he reported, stood at 101, ,O20.
representing $671 ,520.18, or 84.40 of
the quota.
Departments and divisions in the
Governmental Unit reported over
their quotas yesterday include Agri-
cultural Economics, Department of
Agriculture, Claude L. Snow, cap
tain, 105.13 per cent; Cafeteria, De-
partment of Agriculture, Mary
Reamer, 113.4O per cent; Entomol-
ogy and Plant Quarantine, Depart
ment of Agriculture, H. L. Elmslie,
(See CHEST, Page A-30