Evening star., 1938-10-12
CHEST ARRANCES
GO,AND-SEET TOURS
Public to Be Acquainted
With Activities-RaIly
Luncheon Monday.

the Community Chest, rally luncheon
will be held by the newly-formed Com
munity Chest League at the Mayflower
Hotel Monday, when the principal
speaker will be Assistant Secretary of
Commerce Richard c. Patterson, jr.
Formation of the new league of $50
men and women, prominent in philan-
thropic work here, was characterized
today by Coleman Jennings, Chest
president, as the most comprehensive
educational program in its history"
Explaining the purpose of the lunch
con, Mrs. Wilson Lee, chairman of the
Luncheon Committee, said every
board member of every Chest agency,
chairmen and vice chairmen of the
various league committees and others
participating in the whole Chest set-up
will be given a plan of the "Go-and-
See" tours which will be feature of
the open house program of the next
three weeks.
League Plan Explained.
For the first time, in cooperation
with the 2,100 board members of the
various agencies financed by the Com
munity Chest, the league will make 1t
possible for contributors to see first
hand the working of the agencies in
which they are vitallv interested
The plan of the league was explained
briefly today. From October II to No
vember 4, through its go-and-see tours,
individuals and groups will be taken
around to the agencies by members
of Mrs Charles Carroll Glover, jr.'S,
uniformed motor corps. Trips are
scheduled twice daily, at 2:l5 pm.
and at AIS pm, leaving Exhibition
Hall, at 1902 G street NV. Mrs.
William w. Mackall, jr, assisted by
Miss Anne Carter Greene and their
group at the hall will be in charge
of the graphic exhibition of ID OF
the agencies whose work is not adapt
able to the tours.
Mrs Dwight F. Davis, chairman OF
the league, and Mrs. James Clement
Dunn, vice chairman, have enlisted
an enthusiastic group of prominent
women to serve as chairmen and vice
chairmen of the committees func-
tioning under them. Mrs. Harlan
Fiske Stone is chairman of the edu-
cational meetings; Mrs. Glover and
Mrs. Montgomery Blair, jr, motor
corps; Mrs. Lee, chairman, and Mrs.
William j. Flather, jr.. vice chairman,
Rally Luncheon Committee; Mrs. Wal
ter B. Fry, chairman, and Mrs. William
A. Meyer, vice chairman Metropol-
itan area organization; Mrs. G. How
land Chase, chairman, open house"
tours; Miss Elizabeth Houghton, chair
man. Photographic corps, and Mrs.
David Cushman Coyle, chairman
Committee on Educational Institu-
tions.
Handy Reference Book.
Each chairman in turn has select
ed group of women to carry on the
work laid out, and in this way in
terest every citizen in Washington in
the forthcoming campaign.
The new Community Chest cam
paign booklet, From Infancy to Old
Age" provides handy reference book
for visitors on the Go-and-See tours.
If babies are their particular interest
the Child Welfare Society, Florence
Crittenden Home and the st. AIMS
Infant Asylum are among the agencies
they may visit. Neighborhood settle
ment houses In the various sections
of the city-the Georgetown Children's
House, Southwest Community House,
Barney Neighborhood House, Christ
Child Settlement, Friendship House,
Northwest and Southeast Settlement
House--provide picture of the work
being done for children whose moth
ers must work, for whom the alley
or the curb would be their playground
if it were not for the funds provided
by the Community Chest.
Among the homes away from home
where children are cared for are the
Episcopal Home for Children. Jewish
Foster Home, st. Joseph's Home and
School, ST. Roses Technical School,
ST. Vincents Home and School and
the Washington Home for Foundlings.
The Catholic Charities and the
Chidrens Protective Association will
be open to visitors who may see the
work they are doing for children who
must be taken away from their homes
where poverty, illness or serious con-
ditions make the environment real
handicap.
Hospitals to Be Open.
Still another group OF agencies
functions for the benefit of families
facing disaster or other tragedies, such
as Bureau of Rehabilitation, Family
Service Association, Jewish Social
Service Agency, Legal Aid Bureau and
others doing an equally splendid work.
For the aged, the Hebrew Home for
the Aged, ST. Annas Home and the
Stoddard Baptist Home provide peace
full, restful homes for old people who
are too i'll or too feeble to care for
themselves.
Hospitals, too. will be open to all
visitors during the open house three
week go-and-see tours. Convalescent
homes where children recuperating
from serious illnesses are brought back
to health will give visitors an insight
into the great work these agencies are
rendering.
When the Community Chest cam
paign gets underway, contributors will
have had every opportunity of seeing
for themselves how their money is be-
ing spent for the relief of less fortunate
men, women and children.