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'SOIlIlllucu rTOIIl ClISI 1dScJ
Moves declared it was more econom-
ical to spend an average of $40 to
put family back on its feet than
to spend 10 times that much for
relief after the family is broken up.
Government reaches people at
the dead end, when they're licked
and broken" he said. The Family
Service Association and other such
agencies salvage families before they
are lost
The average family's problems are
solved within three months, he said,
and the agency is then able to go on
to other families, building up their
self-respect and bringing them back
to a sound relationship with the
community. The Family Service AS
sociation alone, he added, could use
three times the amount in its budget.
The presentation of flowers, a
regular part of each meeting, was
made by Daniel Partridge. III.
chairman of a Northwest area in
the Metropolitan Unit, to John B.
Cleland, jr., a team captain in that
unit.
Large gifts reported at the meet
ing included $4,000 from former
Ambassador and Mrs. Robert Woods
Bliss, $4,500 from Mrs. Emile Ber-
liner. $1,000 from the Hecht Co. and
$4,000 from the Sanitary Grocery Co..
exclusive of employe pledges in the
last-named.
Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, a
committee chairman in the Special
Assignments Unit, reported 373
pledges. amounting to 1854, ,405, or
6086 per cent of the quota. The unit
is scheduled to raise S582 ,34l.
The Metropolitan Unit, for which
Mr.. Partridge reported, had collect
ed pledges for s89223O5 from SLOT
contributors, 44.4 per cent of its
s2ol, 1923 quota.
Three teams were saluted by the
unit for going over their quotas
They included those captained by
Mrs. Harold Marsh, whose team has
pledges amounting to ia per cent
of the quota; Bert Sheldon, 100 per
cent, and Mrs. David Gross, 118 per
cent.
Harold A. Brooks, chairman of
Group Solicitation, reported his
unit had pledges for $132, ,16072
from $500 contributors toward its
$469 ,953 goal.
Some Firms 100 Percenters.
Firms and other organizations
solicited by the unit that have
reached their hundred per cent
mark include Charles Schwartz &
Son, which sent in % pledges
amounting to s965 for an average
pledge of $3328; Edgar Morris
Sales Co.. National Institute of
Public Affairs, American Broad
casting Co., Heurich Building,
American Nature Association, Co.
lumbia Planograph; Suburban
Club Ginger Ale Co., and Sidney
Hechinger Co.
Community Chest agencies in
cluded among the hundred per
centers were Barney Neighborhood
House, Washington Institute of
Mental Hygiene, Southwest Com
munity House, Washington Heart
Association and the Social Service
Exchange.
The Governmental Unit, Col.
Robert H. Fletcher, vice-chairman,
reported it had reached 1858 per
cent Of its quota of $795,634. Col.
Fletcher said 34,037 pledges had
come in, amounting to s267 1872 80.
Sixteen teams in the Government
al Unit have gone over their quota,
it was reported. These include Pack
ers and Stockyard Act, Department
Of Agriculture, captained by Viola
Reece, 100.65 per cent; Regional
Agricultural Credit Farm Credit
Administration, j. c. Kit, 1O3.O2
per cent; Regional Agricultural
Credit Corp, Farm Credit Admin
istration, R.C. Malone, 100 per cent:
Women's Bureau, Department of
Labor, Anne Larrabee, 114.29 per
cent; Smithsonian Building and AS
trophysical Observatory, Smithson-
ian, j. U. Perkins, 1867 per cent:
Accounts and ADULTS, Social Sc
curity Board, D. o. Throgmorton,