Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Workers Poised
1o0pen Drive
For Chest
Great Mass Meeting
Launches Campaign
Tomorrow Night

Full of determined and earnest
enthusiasm, volunteer army OF
several thousand is poised to throw
its strength this week into the
Eleventh Community Chest Cam
paign to raise $2,127 1000.
Organization has been completed
preliminary events are scheduled
for tomorrow and Tuesday. Workers
will launch into the field, and by
1890 pm. Wednesday at the Willard
Hotel, zero hour for the first report
meeting, chest leaders fully expect
that a flying start will have been
made toward this years goal.
The goal has been fixed as the
minimum need for welfare, health
and character building work in
Washington and nearby suburban
areas. Rallying cry of the campaign
this year is Give a Hand-Up, Not
Hand-Out."
Additional reports will be made as
the campaign progresses. There will
be one more report meeting this
week, on Thursday: on each day
next week from Monday through
Friday, and on Monday and Tues
day Of the following week.
Workers Mass Meeting.
Opening event of the campaign
Will be a mass meeting of workers
and interested citizens at Consti-
tuition Hall at pm. tomorrow.
Miss Dorothy Thompson, newspaper
columnist and commentator, will be
the principal speaker.
At this meeting, Coleman Jen-
nings, president of the Community
Chest, will bring message from
Chest officials to the workers and
William j. Flather, jr., general cam
paign chairman. will speak briefly.
Newbold Noyes, volunteer worker.
will give the charge to his fellow
workers.
AS Herbert L. Willett. jr.. director
OF the Chest, calls the roll, color
bearers of 81 agencies associated in
the campaign will pass in review.
During this parade and much of the
time during the evening, the Marine
Band orchestra. under direction
OF Capt. Taylor Branson. will play.
The finale of the program will be
presentation by IS Girl Reserves of
the Y. w. C. A. of the campaign
slogan, Give a Hand-Up, Not a
Hand-Out. Give Through Your
Community Chest"
Tickets Are Free.
General admission tickets are now
available to the public for this
meeting, as well as to volunteer
workers who haye.-not yet received
them. They may be obtained with
out charge at the Social Welfare
Exhibit Hall. 618 Twelfth street
NV, and in the lobby of the Willard
Hotel. Mrs. H. Chotard Eustis,
ticket chairman. has announced that
no reserved seats will be held after
7:30 pm. tomorrow.
AS final preparations are made
for the campaign, Mr.. Willett will
continue a series of addresses he
has made before Government work.
ers. He will speak tomorrow at 80
pm. at a meeting at the Securities
and Exchange Commission. and at
pm. will address group of volun-
teer workers in the Veterans Ad-
ministration. Previously he has
spoken to groups in the Home Own
ers Loan Corp. and the Depart
ment of Agriculture, emphasizing
that a combined annual appeal
through the Community Chest is
the best method yet evolved for
raising funds for numerous welfare
agencies
Has 10000 Contributors.
"The Chest is made up of 10000
contributors, among whom every
one of our 81 agencies has an en-
thusiastic and sympathetic follow
ing" Mr.. Willett said yesterday.
The designation plan of rout-
ing their contributions to the well
fare services and types of people
whom they wish to receive the
money is the most democratic and
Just plan We could devise. Every
giver is on equality with every other
giver because he has the same right
to say how and where his money
shall be used"
Ross Garrett, administrator of the
Health Security Administration. has
added his appeal to that of William
C. Kirkpatrick, president of the
Group Health Association, for all
Group Health members to support
the Chest campaign as generously
as they can. In a letter addressed
to so key persons in Government
circles who are active in the Chest,
Mr.. Garrett said:
Did you know that during the
past eight months, of the 62,34s
days spent in hospital beds with
the assistance of the Community
Chest disqualification Fund, 1870
were for widows. 1851 days were
for newborn infants, 1924 days
were for children from l to 9,
and 521 days were for persons over
80 years of age?
What type of person is it who
advocates, through open or less
honest means, that no money be
given to the Chest to buy hospital
lzation for these widows, children
and helpless aged and infirm?"
Last week, an anonymous circular
brought the G. H. A.-hospital con-
troversy into the Chest campaign.
This circular urged G. H. A. men,
bers to stipulate that their Chest
pledges were valid only if the Chest
forced the hospitals to receive
patients with G. H. A. physicians.
This was done without knowledge
Of G. III. A. and the circular has