Evening star., 1938-11-05
Head Of Gill; 4,
Urges Chest
Support
DONE Hondieop Wo,k
Because Of Dispute
Kirkpatrick Pleads

Members Of the Group Health As
ISOLATION will be urged to supper
the Community Chest campaign.
according to william c. Kirkpatrick,
president Of the G. H. A.
Chest leaders have, been informed
the hospital-G. H. A. controvers"
will not be brought into the Chest
drive. The anonymous circular
which brought the controversy to
the fore by advising G. H. A. mem
bers to stipulate that their Chest
contributions were valid only II the
Chest forced the hospitals to acceDL
patients with their G. H. A. doctors
was done without the knowledge OF
G. H. A. ofncials and Is deplored by
them.
Mr.. kirkpatrick made these state
ments yesterday at a meeting of
more than 1000 employees of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
where the G. II. A. was founded.
Would Not Penalize Chest.
Speaking briefly after an address
by Herbert L. Willett, jr.. Chest di-
rector, Mr.. Kirkpatrick said: Don't
bit OF your nose to spite your face.
The major part of Community
Chest activity is not with hospitals.
There are other ways of getting at
the hospitals besides penalizing the
Community Chest to do it."
According to John w. Childress,
department chairman for the drive,
who presided at the meeting, Mr..
Willett and Mr.. kirkpatrick were
asked to address the group to clarity
the question of the Chests relation
to the G. H. A.-hospital controversy.
This is our first opportunity
Mr.. Childress said, Ito explain to
Group Health members not only
here but In the % other agencies
that the G. H. A.-hospital fight
doesn't enter into the Chest
campaign"
After brief explanation of where
the Chest dollar is spent, Mr.. Will
lett discussed the hospital issue.
The 186, 900 people who make up
the Community Chest through Their
contributions" he declared, don't
agree on social, racial. religious,
economic or any other issues. They
agree only that the Chest is the
most convenient and economical way
to make contributions to the agen-
c1eS in which they are interested.
Repeating his comment Of last
year, he declared that to the best
OF his knowledge the hospitals never
have refused to take in sick people.
He asked members of his audience
to report to him any time that this
policy is violated, although he
granted that the hospitals have re-
fused to allow G.. H. A. doctors to
treat their patients.
He explained that the hospitals
had resigned as Chest agencies not
because of any scheme to get larger
contributions, but because by the
very nature of their services they
did not fit into the Chest budget
picture of agencies.
Through the designation system.
he pointed out, it is now possible
for contributors to select the agen-
cies to which they would like to
give. The Chest, he said, does not
decide how the money is to be spent.
1t is simply a channel through
which the money is given.
Chest Posters Go Up.
A reminder that the Chest cam.
paign is only four days away was
provided today when l,50O posters
were put up in downtown and out
lying store windows. OF this num-
Der, IS were specially designed by
the Display Mems Club for key
windows throughout the District.
The special posters will be larger,
measuring so by 40 inches, to the
smaller 22-by-1 -14-inch official post
ers put up in most of the store WIN
dows. In the large posters, pictures
will surround the official cards,
which bear the slogan, Give
HandUp, Not a Hand-Out! Give
Through Your Community Chest
Ninety Boy Scouts were scheduled
to spend the day putting up posters
on lamp posts.
Constitution Hall Monday evening,
when the Community Chest cam
paign will be launched officially,
were still available at Exhibition
Hall, 618 Twelfth street NV, Room
207, at the Willard Hotel, and Com
munity Chest Headquarters, 110l M
street, today, and will continue to lie
given out tomorrow, Randolph G.
Bishop. assistant Chest director, an
nounced.
He emphasized the fact that there
Is no charge for the tickets and that
the mass meeting is open to all
those interested in the Chest and
its various agencies.