Evening star., 1939-10-17
60 and See Tours
Launched by Chest
To Reveal Benefits
Advance Gifts Unit
Meeting Called for
:: Immediate Work

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scheduled to get under way and
Thomas P. Morgan, jr., chairman
Of the Advance Gifts Unit, called
4 meeting of his unit leaders to
send that sector Of the campaign
into immediate action so a number
OF special givers might be reached
before the drive opens on Novem-
Der 8.
One hundred and twenty-five Ad-
vance Gifts leaders have been called
for the meeting, to be held today
at the Willard Hotel with Brig. Gen.
Frank T. Hines, chairman Of the
Government unit, as principal
speaker.
Mr.. Morgan planned to review the
new setup OF the Advance Gifts Unit,
emphasizing "individualized" solici-
tation. At the same time, the unit
leaders were to receive additional
names Of prospective contributors.
Tours Continue for two Weeks.
Four member agencies of the
Chest were to hold open house today
for visitors taking advantage of the
"Go-and-See" tours sponsored by
the Community Chest League to
acquaint Washingtonians with the
services Of the Chest. Each day
for two weeks the tours will con-
tinue. Arrangements for free trans
portation for groups of four or more
visitors are being made through
Chest headquarters.
Members of the leagues motor
corps. who are donating their serv-
ices and their automobiles for the
tours, include:
Mrs. Lawrence A. Baker, Mrs.
Paul Banfield, Mrs. Randolph G..
Bishop, Mrs. Walter Chappell. Mrs.
Hugh s. Cummings, jr.; Mrs.
Fernando Cuniberti, Mrs. Howard
@. Davidson, Miss Helen Davis, Mrs.
Spencer Gordon, Mrs. George Ham
ilton, IT,; Mrs. Reeve Hoover, Mrs.
James L. Karrick, jr; Mrs. Harold
w. Krogh, Mrs. Rose Saul Mont
gomery, Mrs. Charles Carroll Nor
gan, Mrs. Chauncey G. Parker, jr.;
Mrs. Milo r. Perkins, Mrs. Fred
erick G.. Richards, Mrs. Andrew
Saul, Mrs. Don G. Shingler, Mrs.
William Snow. Mrs. Mark Sullivan,
jr.; Mrs. Corcoran Thorn, jr.: Mrs.
Frank Thorp. jr.; Mrs. Robert L.
Walsh and Mrs. Arnold A. Wilcox.
Exhibits on Display.
Stimulating interest in flrst-hand
knowledge Of the Chest agencies
were the exhibits In the Mayflower
Hotel promenade yesterday. Some
500 guests attending the Community
Chest League luncheon arrived
ahead OF time to view exhibits by
SO OF the 81 Chest agencies.
Many Of the exhibits were ami
mated by children taken care of
by the agencies. Two be-aproned
young girls stood behind counter
flled with biscuits, baked potatoes,
cream puffs and pot pies made by
the girls Of st. Vincent's Home and
School.
The Holiday House exhibit fea-
tured . miniature camp scene COM
plete with a furnished tent and
cook pot set to boil over a camp
IRE.
A youngster from Barney Neigh
borhood House worked at a hand
loom while st. AIMS Infant Asylum
was represented by a kindergarten
class industriously drawing humpty-
dumpty.
Shoes Tell Story.
A boy and girl from Georgetown
Children's House modelled clay fig-
ures on a table full Of handicraft
tools. Ragged shoes told the story
for the shoe and rubber fund of
the District Of Columbia Congress
Of Parents and Teachers, while the
Florence Crittenton Home had two
screens covered with dainty baby
clothes, q complete layette from
bonnets to booties.
High light of the leagues lunch
con was the vigorous address made
by Robert Cutler, veteran cam
paigner In Boston's community
fund.
Stressing the benefits the busi-
ness world derives from Chest
services. he pointed out that where
people are not given medical care
and allowed to live in crowded
areas, epidemics break out causing
lay-of1s from business; where young
people are not given an outlet for
their energies, vandalism is COM
mon and where the welfare needs
OF a community are not met, there
Is q tendency toward strikes and
social maladj djustments.
The same factors, he declared,
apply to individuals. The agencies,
he said, protect them by stabilizing
their community.
From the spiritual point of view,
he said, the Community Chest is
"the Christian principle applied to
everyday life"
Would Use Democratic Processes"
With war abroad, he went on,
people are asking what they can do
to help and yet remain neutral. The
answer, he asserted, is to preserve
and strengthen the democratic proc
esses at home, which can only be
done by using them.
"The Community Chest is the
democratic process" he declared.
This u the way a free people do
the job. This couldn't succeed In
totalitarian state"
Urging his audience to ''take the
challenge of relationships that de-
mocracies are all through and throw
1t in their teeth" he warned, that If a
Chest campaign can't succeed then
we. too, have lost our liberty"
Mrs. Stanley F. Reed, wife of the
Supreme Court justice and chair
man Of the league, told the group
not to be ostrich contributors" but
go and see" the Chest agencies.
Mrs. Wilson Lee, luncheon chair
man, declared that "a paper board
member is nothing but q liability"
Special Guests.
Guests at the speakers table in
eluded Coleman Jennings, Chest
president: Mrs. James Clement
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