The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-19
ONLY SIX DAYS
LEFT TO MAKE
A CHILD HAPPY
Good Cheer Club Wants
Those Old Toys

IIIOSV viz IVY
There are six days left in which
to give yourself the thrill Of know
ing that you have actually made
Christmas merry one for child.
No-you don't have to think up
an entertainment" - you don't
have to go ONE STEP out Of your
way You don't have to spend any
money! You don't have to go
downtown!"
Your Christmas shopping-ex-
cept for those "last minute
things you forgot-is done! Not
for ANYTHING. would you -~eke
q special trip ANYWHERE! Yes
but how about those OLD toys
the ones your childr;n are not 60
ing to use any more-after Santa
has brought them those lovely new
ones?
FIREMEN ON JOB
OF course, you know about the
Washington Herald,Times Good
Cheer Club-you've heard how all
the firemen in the District have
been spending their odd minutes
menoing toys that wouldn't work
and putting nez Inns on dolls
with only one-and you know, OF
course, that hundreds Of children
In the District Playground Depart
ment program under Miss Sibyl
Bakers direction, have been dress
ing up very threadbare dollies-I
and welding paint brushes, too!
And, certainly, you know how
hard a whole crew Of WPA work
ers-Skilled in demonstrating me-
chanical toys, and trained in
costume design-have been help
ing in the same way out at Ninth
and G Streets Northeast!
But-maybe you've forgotten
that the Premier cab drivers-to
q man-will respond the minute
you call metropolitan 4141, and
come right out and PICK UP what
toys you may have-and deliver
them to the Good Cheer Club for
you? That's THEIR contribution
toward seeing that not one Of the
$4,000 kiddies whose Christmas
would be without q GIFT II YOU
didn't help-will fail to find
SOMETHING from Santa - for
their own-NEXT SUNDAY
MORNING!
CHESTS SHARE
Practical giftsP Why, yes-of
COURSE, they're needed! But
YOUR Community Chest is on
that part of the job. But the
Community Chest did not ask you
to spend your money making
people MERRY! It asked you to-
make them HAPPY! Well-juSt
buttonhole your family doctor and
ask HIM whether it isn't NECES
SARY to be MERRY, too!
You'll be surprised at what hel
can tell you! Food? Certainly,
people need it! But few people
Just Jump up and down with DE
LIGHT, even after q steak and
mushrooms! Don't you see
THAT'S what we're after-we'rel
not a CHARTTY-we're a GOOD
CHEER club! Il
And tiny little minds who can't
philosopnize about Santa-or "a
tionalize him into mere symbol
these are anxiously waiting to see
whether he won't Just leave them
SOMETHING! They don't put
any price on 1t! Sometimes a
little thing that cost only a few
PENNIES can do more to help an
aching heart than A THOUSAND
DOLLARS worth Of food, that
feeds the body, and clothes that
cover it, and shelter that protects
IT! There's VERY little to satisfy
you and me in the spectacle Of a.
full stomach in warm body that
is out Of the cold-WTTH A sad
HEART!
NOT QUITE ENOUGH
So come on, now-just take the
time to add YOUR caSt-off cheer
to the JOY the Good Cheer Club
will spread Saturday night!
Even that BIG pile Of toys that
Loew's Theater got together at its
toy matinee q week ago-even that
great big pile Of toys they got to-
gether only last Saturday-all that
isn't QUITE enough. Besides, we
want YOU to have real thrill OF
Yule spirit yourself this Christ
mas! If you need anything more
than Art Browns story - which
he's telling every morning over
WOL-to convince you Of the
need II then you're a confirmed
skeptic-and the Christmas spirit
Just isn't going to find you this
season!
So, hurry now-before Satur.
day, Ell?
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